On 10 March 1998, Giovanni Trapattoni, the Italian coach of Bayern Munich, gave a press conference in broken German. He criticized the performance of his own players in public and by name, among them Mehmet Scholl and Mario Basler. Was erlauben Strunz? How dare Strunz? A player who did not perform was schwach wie eine Flasche leer, weak like a bottle empty. He ended with Ich habe fertig, I have finished. That last sentence became a German saying. When Helmut Kohl was voted out of office, the SPD quoted it on a poster.