Heynckes has a crisis on his hands at Bayern Munich
James Horncastle
Posted on March 21st, 2012
Jupp Heynckes shuffled in his seat. He shrugged and sighed, looked away then turned back to his interlocutors, fingering his chin for a moment before pulling his hand away in an instinctive gesture of baffled resignation. It doesn’t take much for the 66-year-old coach of Bayern Munich to look flustered, not with his reddish complexion and windswept grey hair. But now he looked particularly uncomfortable. Heynckes was trying to explain Saturday’s 2-0 capitulation to Bayer Leverkusen. He sought to give a reason why his team had once again relinquished the initiative following an “outstanding” first half when Bayern had created chance after glorious chance only to fail to win a game they really should have won. Unable to find one, he pleaded…