Rules knowledge, grade five: long-time manager Peter Pander’s career ended after an embarrassing mistake. In 2004 Wolfsburg fielded Marian Hristov in a cup match at Cologne’s reserves even though he was still suspended from the 2003 final with Kaiserslautern. The DFB claimed it had informed the club by form letter.
Coach Erik Gerets said he never saw it, Pander took the blame, and the green-table defeat cost him his job.