I'm stuck in a loop of beautiful Netzer / Müller / Breitner / Beckenbauer clips now, and god damn was that group something else...I don't think I'll ever forgive the DFB for pushing Netzer out of the squad for his move to Real, or for forcing Gerd out. There's no doubt in my mind that we would not have lost to Czechoslovakia in the 76 final...and thereby achieved the 3-peat that spain 2008-12 did, 36 years later...if Müller was still starting for the NT.
I don't think I've seen a player to this day who had as supernatural of instincts for where to go to score or who could swivel on a dime in a split second, like "the fat little Müller". I know I often speak about how it's forgotten that he was almost a false-9 at times with the way he was cycled out wide, or into the midfield for both Bayern & the NT, but then I watch the goals he scored and I remember why it's so often forgotten that he was anything more than the greatest poacher of all time.