Christoph Daum provoked coaching icon Jupp Heynckes in the 1980s in a manner Uli Hoeneß could not forgive. A sample: The weather forecast is more interesting than a conversation with him.
Legendary was the showdown on the Aktuelles Sportstudio TV show before the decisive match in May 1989, when Daum and Hoeneß tore into each other before a multi-million audience. According to a BILD readers' poll, Daum won the TV duel (47%) far ahead of Hoeneß (8%).
But Bayern became champions.
The feud reignited twelve years later when Hoeneß set about preventing Daum from becoming national team coach. With his interview — If it's possible to write about the sniffling Daum without contradiction, he must not become national coach — he triggered an avalanche. Hoeneß received death threats.
Daum was the good guy — until his own hair sample proved exorbitant cocaine use.
