adminLONDON. — Bayern Munich will not accredit reporters of English tabloid newspapers The Sun and Daily Mirror for a Champions League return leg against Manchester United over what the treble winners call offensive reporting after their 1-1 draw this week.Bayern host United next week in the return leg of the Champions League quarter-final with the Germans favourites to advance despite midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger missing the second leg after being red-carded at Old Trafford.
“After the first leg both English media reported about our player Bastian Schweinsteiger in a discriminatory and personally insulting manner,” Bayern said in a statement yesterday. “Bayern Munich does not accept this kind of reporting and condemns it sharply.”
The two newspapers had run similar headlines following the last-minute sending off of Schweinsteiger for a foul on Wayne Rooney using the German word for pig which is ‘Schwein’.
“You dirty Schwein,” read the Mirror’s headline with a picture of Schweinsteiger. The Sun’s headline read “You Schwein.”
The headlines caused a stir in Germany this week. “Bayern Munich will not give representatives of the Daily Mirror and The Sun accreditations for the return leg on April 9,” said Bayern.
Marouane Fellaini has come under siege from all quarters during a dismal first season at Manchester United, but Wednesday morning may prove to be the lowest moment yet.
The Belgian was so abject — yet again at Old Trafford — that Spanish newspaper AS refused to give him a rating.
It’s hardly surprising. Fellaini stands at six feet and four inches, yet somehow lost 83 per cent of his aerial battles against Bayern Munich. He is a big, imposing central midfielder but lost 76 per cent of his tackles.
They are damning statistics for a man who cost Manchester United a staggering — at the time, and definitely now – £27.5million from Everton in the summer.
Bill Kenwright must have been laughing all the way to the bank, particularly as the Toffees replaced him effortlessly.
Fellaini has steadily has got worse as the season has gone on and was the figure of fun across the continent as national newspapers laid into him after a gutless display in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
AS were so incensed by his effort on Tuesday night that they didn’t even give the 26-year-old a rating. They weren’t the only ones to slate him either.
German paper Bild were spitting at Fellaini afterwards. They mark players on a scale of 1-6, with five being the worst.
Typically, the flop was handed a 5.
Sport, a publication in Spain, gave him a 5 in their normal ratings system.
Fellaini’s performances have come under question for the entirety of what has been a turbulent season for United. — Mailonline/Supersport.
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