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    By Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger

    Tuesday, September 16, 2008

    Being a football writer is not the glamorous job it's made out to be. Most of the time we just sit at a desk rather morosely, drink way too much coffee and surf the internet to find something useful. Just like everyone else, really. But sometimes you do exactly that - sitting and surfing, I mean - and suddenly there's glamour by association, so to speak. Take this past June. I was drafting the piece on the rise of Hoffenheim for a UK newspaper I have mentioned in passing in an earlier column ...

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