English Tabloids Have Champions League Credentials Pulled For 'Offensive' Reporting

Bayern Munich "will not accredit reporters of English tabloid newspapers The Sun and Daily Mirror" for a Champions League return leg next week against ManU over what it calls "offensive reporting after their 1-1 draw this week," according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. The Germans are favorites to advance despite midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger missing the second leg after being red-carded at Old Trafford. Bayern said in a statement, "After the first leg both English media reported about our player Bastian Schweinsteiger in a discriminatory and personally insulting manner." The two newspapers had run similar headlines following the last-minute sending off of Schweinsteiger for a foul on Wayne Rooney using the German word for pig, which is ''Schwein." The Mirror's headline read, "You dirty Schwein," with "a picture of Schweinsteiger." The Sun's headline read "You Schwein" (REUTERS, 4/3).