Hoeness's patience rewarded as the great Luca show continues

Alan McInally has many amusing anecdotes from his time at Bayern Munich (1989-92), most of which pertain to group-outings in the town's infamous P1 night-club and are not quite fit to print. But one remarkable memory that can be shared tells of a unique obsession of Uli Hoeness, the general manager. Hoeness would approach the Scottish striker before Bundesliga matches and offer him a couple of hundred Deutschmarks, cash - if he scored goals with headers. McInally was very surprised by that illicit proposal but accepted Hoeness's explanation that he simply liked headed goals very much.

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