A story of infinite sadness from Germany reveals something significant about the way football can give something back to those who have enriched it and given it a history.
Gerd Muller, ‘Der Bomber’, the man who scored nearly 400 goals for the club, is in the advanced stages of dementia but for as long as it was practical, Bayern Munich, the club to which he gave the best years of his life, did what they could to help. For ten years, they saw to it that the old striker would be collected up from his home and taken to their Sabener Strasse training ground, where he would go through the old routines.