Bestowing new nicknames upon the German double winners has become something of a cottage industry.
Throughout last season's unprecedented unbeaten domestic campaign, Bayer Leverkusen time and again summoned the kind of mental willpower late in games with which illusionist Uri Geller in his spoon-bending days was synonymous. Sixteen stoppage-time goals in all competitions resulted in "Laterkusen," which would lead to "Meisterkusen" and "Doublekusen."
This season there's a new, less flattering word I'm going to introduce, and I'll warn you, it's a bit of a mouthful: "Luckypunchgegentorkusen."
Let me explain.