Many people enjoy harking back to a golden period in their lives; a time when the birds seemed to sing a little sweeter. But few would be as precise as Klaus Toppmoller. For the 70-year-old, April 27, 2002 would be the moment that his DeLorean landed.
“We were so close to achieving something that nobody thought was possible,” Bayer Leverkusen’s former manager tells FFT, two decades on. “We could almost touch it.”
With just five games to go of an incredible season, Toppmoller awoke with his team two points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and facing the prospect of competing in not one but two major cup finals.
