On April 30, 1978 Borussia Dortmund had relieved me of my duties after a 12:0 defeat at Borussia Moenchengladbach on the last day of the season. The media, with whom I had often clashed and whom I had often blamed for the speed with which the football business burned through people, were naturally anything but gentle. Otto Torhagel was the mildest label attached to the biggest disaster any team had ever suffered in Germany's top division, and one for which I bore responsibility.\n\nSome especially clever journalists even suggested I had intentionally lost by that margin so that Gladbach could still become champions.
Bribery and all the rest. Nonsense, of course.