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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

No Oktoberfest For Bayern Munich Players

Every year, Bayern make their traditional visit to their city's world famous beer festival, Oktoberfest. Not this year though. Bayern have had their worst start in the club's history and the club has punished their players by not having a pint of beer.

After one of their worst ever starts to a season, German giants Bayern Munich will not be making their traditional visit to their home city's world-famous beer festival, the club said Monday.

The club released a statement saying:

"Due to the sporting situation, coach Louis van Gaal has decided there will be training at 11:30am instead," the club said in a terse statement.

Visiting the beer festival "would not make any sense now", Bayern's sporting director Christian Nerlinger told the regional tabloid TZ, after seeing his team slump to a second straight league defeat at Dortmund on Sunday.