It feels like an eternity now, but I vividly remember what I was doing on Feb. 9 of this year. As the final part of a frantic two-week spell broadcasting matches up and down Germany, I found myself on very familiar terrain at the spaceship-like Allianz Arena to the north of Munich.
The planets had aligned in a way that made the Bayern Munich vs. RB Leipzig's Sunday night showdown carry extra weight in the Bundesliga title race. The Bavarian establishment were taking on the upstarts with lofty aspirations from the East and just a solitary point between the sides in a true top-of-the-table Spitzenspiel.