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Bayern Radio Pranks Mesut Özil - With (Unintentionally?) Hilarious Results!

When listening to this recording of Antenne Bayern's Johannes Ott calling up Mesut pretending to be National Team coach Jogi Löw, all I could think of was Jan Delay's comment on meeting Mesut that he was such "a nicely brought up fellow."



It begins with "Jogi" fooling the receptionist - who is thrilled to hear his voice on the other end and puts him through. Plainly he would have been happy to prank Sami Khedira as well ("one or the other will do just fine!" he tells the receptionist) but Mesut happened to be available...

(Translation from 0:40)

( "Just a bit of fun..." )

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Hopefully we'll have a few gifs of the game against CSKA Moscow - but there are many beautiful still photographs and some lovely reviews of Mesut's game that have appeared in the press. So here are the best still-photographs and a look at Mesut's performance as it was reviewed in the press, an examination of the Champions League Draw and a look at Mesut's new cleats!

( Mesuty stills and press-reviews... )

I would like to begin this post with a directive to our darling members. READ THE POST BEFORE THIS ONE FIRST. It's from sashatwen and it is bloody brilliant.

Please and Thank you.

I would also like to note that a large number of the photographs you are about to see are quite original and are not (yet) to be seen elsewhere. This is because of andriy_7's ingenuity and resourcefulness. He has Russian sources for photographs. I'd tell you how he got them, but then we'd have to kill you ;)

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Aside from the obvious and distressing lack of beer, yesterday afternoon looked like immense fun for the lads!

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Unless you have a subscription, Mourinho's interview with SportBild is unavailable for the moment. Parts of it have been reproduced in other newspapers though. Here is Zeit.de's  version of his comments on Mesut this week, which is translated by me, jenny_jenkins just beneath.

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