After a game between West Germany and Brazil in Stuttgart in May 1981, Hansi Müller invited the squad to his house to celebrate his birthday. The only player who did not attend the party was Schuster, who immediately boarded a flight back to Barcelona. Asked why, he said: ‘I don’t like Hansi Müller.’ He could have said that he had to get back to Spain to prepare for a match, and that would have been equally true. But Schuster was like that. He

