MICHAEL BALLACK “ELTON JOHN SANG AT MY WEDDING BUT DIDN’T LURE ME TO WATFORD. HE KNEW I LOVED CHELSEA!”
You won the title with Kaiserslautern in 1998. Was that one of the biggest shocks in Bundesliga history?
It was certainly a positive shock. It was a fantastic achievement that no team had managed before – winning the league in the first season after being promoted to the Bundesliga. The record will stay for a long, long time.
After we beat Bayern Munich in the first game of the season, we said, “We have something here.”
Our manager, Otto Rehhagel, did a similar job to what Jurgen Klopp has recently done at Liverpool –
