He was supposed to be joining the players on a pleasure boat ride up the Rhine, but by the team their bus got there, he was more than elegantly wasted, so had to stay onshore like a tipsy land lubber.

"I celebrated before we got there and wasn't able to make in on the ship, I had more than one too many," a woozy Magath admitted the morning after.

Bayern's Uli Hoeness, who can hold his beer, revealed that Magath had previously been teetotal, and suffered the consequences:

"Because Felix has not had a drop of alcohol for more than half a year, he did not feel capable of celebrating any more after the bus ride to Cologne," he said.

"The three glasses of champagne and the beer had a devastating effect. He had quite a bit to drink."