- Oliver Kahn: an unlikely voice of reason
It takes a lot of insanity to make Oliver Kahn look composed and rational, and it appears that Jens Lehmann’s latest stultifying acts of self-sabotage have done the trick. We laughed yesterday about Lehmann’s idiotic sending-off and glasses-thieving altercation with a fan en route to an early shower, but the ex-goalie Kahn isn’t chuckling.
In fact, his advice is much the same as that we offered yesterday: just call it quits already, Jens!
Quoth King Kahn himself: “Maybe it would be better for him to retire now. Who knows where things might yet lead. Jens is a good goalkeeper, but what should the management [at Stuttgart] think? There is no point to it anymore. Stuttgart’s management have got to work out whether Lehmann is helping or damaging the team.”
Though the retired shot-stopper was prone to madness during his playing days, he’s shooting straight on this one. Lehmann noted that this season would be his last, and his moronic antics are only hurting his team and whatever’s left of his dwindling reputation.
Stuttgart are flirting with relegation, and with just one game before the Winter Break, one in which Lehmann can’t even play thanks to a suspension, it makes sense for all parties to just end the relationship quietly while the people of Germany are huddling around their tannenbaums.
Current manager Christian Gross still thinks Lehmann has a role to play in staving off a drop to the 2. Bundesliga (“I am convinced that Jens will be fully motivated”), but the goalie has yet to meet with the club’s director of sport (and former National Team hero) Horst Heldt to discuss payment for that 40,000 Euro fine dropped on Jens for his Champions League bathroom break and has already indicated that he refuses to pay his punishment.
If that meeting doesn’t go particularly smoothly, expect to see Lehmann beginning his retirement six months ahead of schedule, whether he likes it or not.
He’s got some good birthing hips on him.
KAAAHHHHHNNNNNN!
Looks like he bought into the Cristiano Ronaldo collection without trying stuff on at the store.
u75: based on his size and what we know about his temper, are you gonna be the one to go up to him and make that observation?
Also, anyone else think he looks like Dexter in this picture?
Even Perez Hilton thinks that outfit is too fey.
I was thinking more like Kato Kaelin, or the Blond German henchmen in Die Hard
Yeah I would have gone Die Hard but I already made the “are you pissed you died at the end of Die Hard” joke about this story earlier today and I’ve gotta keep it fresh.
Whoa there are EPL games today? Fuck me I love the holidays!
My god you people are pansies.
He didnt kill anyone or even hurt someone.
He took a piss. Big effing deal.
Id rather he empty the bladder if he has to, then get hit in the nads on a scramble with a full bladder.
It might not please sponsors when they get pissed on but it was either that or do like most of us who play, lie face down.
You twits act like the need to piss is always under control.
As for the red card, he acted like every macho alpha dog athlete does to pump himself by stepping up his chest in the face of an opponent when he went up to that ball playing vagina who promptly dove.
That was a dive. The card he received was unwarranted and the other player should be suspended. If I Lehmann, Id be pissed off at the ref, the vagina on the floor and the FA..
And I dont know about european stadiums but you usually have security for players going to the team bus after the game so you dont have any attacks (this works both ways).
That scene at the end could have easily resulted in someone getting their nose broken so glasses? Pfft….
(i dare you to get that close to an NFL, NBA, NHL player after a game)
Lehmann is a egomaniac nutjob, so what? Many of them are, its part of the temperament I guess to cope with the extreme pressure keepers are in. So keep it in and let it fester, some release that pressure and vent.
As long as you vent in non-violent ways…. be my guest.
It makes football more interesting.
” Who knows where things might yet lead. ”
Are you kidding me? You ask a bias and certified nutjob for advice and the first thing he goes for is the “we dont want another Enke” thing to happen.
Weak.
The pissing thing is a non-issue.
The card was brought on by ego (no, really? Imagine that in football) but that red, fake and PK were an absolute joke and any fan who gets that in your face after such a finish deserved to be skulled by either player or security.
This is nothing more than tabloid fodder.
And this post was the cat droppings on top.
@ feefeye fofum – tl;dr
@ Georger- I stopped by to say the same Dexter comment…I think Dexter has been known to rock the pink shirt as well
why so angry, feefye?
First, take another look at the video – yes, it was an overreaction, but Lehmann clearly (and intentionally) stepped on the player’s foot.
Two, you can bet that if Mad Jens had been scored on because one of his defenders was off the pitch taking a leak that Lehmann would have exploded.
Oh Feefeye: no-one’s called in the PC brigade to rid the game of his antics. It’s really a case of ego vs. club. His actions, while whimsical and amusing, are directly hurting his club that’s already in enough trouble. One fired manager already in 2009/10, flirtations with relegation, etc. He should quit so his team can prepare properly for the rest of the season and avoiding relegation, and considering he’s retiring at the end of the season anyway, why not leave now?
@JT-Given his German-ness and my mumbled brand of English, I’m pretty sure I could get away with it if I had a smile on my face.
Also, feefye, two things:
1) Reports say that Lehmann was asked by the fan something along the lines of “why can’t you just be normal?” when the glasses were snatched and walked away with.
2) Jens being among the crowd was by his own volition. He left the player car/bus area to go find a taxi.
All that said, I still take the foot-stomper that is Jens (used to do the same thing regularly with Arsenal) in a personality competition between him and Ollie. I fucking hate Oliver Kahn.
Dexter, the guy from Die Hard…you guys are crazy. That is fat, not caring too much to put on a dress, but still stylish with the louis vitton hand bag, Eddie Izzard. I’d wager he’s wearing heels with those white pants (is it Labour Day already!?!)
Ha ha… Georger that was my exact first thought (about the hips).
He’s not gay, he’s European.