Robert Lewandowski's five-goals-in-nine-minutes exploits against Wolfsburg had supporters and journalists asking a 40-year-old question: Will the Polish striker, who currently has eight Bundesliga goals after six games, break Gerd Muller's historic record of 40 league goals, set in 1971-72?
No one has come close the feat of "the man to whom Bayern Munich owe all of their success," as Franz Beckenbauer once said. Even more remarkable, however, is the fact that, over the space of the last four decades, Germany's leading club has not produced many centre-forwards who could even begin to trouble Der Bomber's legacy.