ROBERT J WILSON LOOKS BACK AT THE LIFE OF THE LEGENDARY GERMAN STRIKER...

Defining moment: Gerd Muller nets West Germany’s winner in the 1974 World Cup final against Holland

GERD Muller was the ultimate penalty box poacher – fellow German legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge dubbing him ‘the Muhammad Ali of the penalty box’.
The German forward, born just after the Second World War in Allied-Occupied Nordlingen, achieved incredible numbers in terms of goals to games well before Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi came onto the scene.
He amassed the medals to match as well. With dominant Bayer...