Under these circumstances, the footballers who had been prohibited from turning professional for so long suddenly made a living out of playing the game in a very literal sense. The bigger teams with better known players went on tour, meeting small clubs in return for meat and vegetables. Max Morlock’s legendary 1. FC Nürnberg travelled to tiny Altötting because they had been promised a butchered sow. The pig made the bus journey back to Nuremberg packed in towels and lying between the feet of the players, who later carved it up themselves. The result, says the writer Hans Dieter Baroth,
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