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    Keeping the faith

    By Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger

    Tuesday, August 25, 2009

    One of the more honourable aims of journalism is to speak for the weak, the disenfranchised, those forgotten on the fringes. Which, I guess, means for a Bayern Munich player. As Mainz midfielder Andreas Ivanschitz sent his left-footed strike into the net, just inside the post and somehow beneath the outstretched arm of Bayern keeper Michael Rensing, Steffen Simon said: "This is the club of ..." - at this point he reeled off a list of names that began with Sepp Maier, ended with Oliver Kahn an ...

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