Oh yeah, of course, the old "pin it to the dressing room door" plan.
Maybe, just maybe he wants to get us all wound up, and wait for the chance to beat 10 men.
He's captained his country to win the world cup in 1974. He's then gone on to manage his country to win the world cup in 1990. He's then gone on to organise a hugely-successful world cup held in his own country in 2006. Anyone with such paltry achievements behind him clearly has no brain whatsoever and struggles to locate his sausage-, beer-, and sauerkraut-farting arse with a torch in a dark room.
(It's probably wasted on, erm, some specials on here but, to be fair he, like other elder statesmen at Bayern, is a passionate, heated bloke, he gets paid handsomely by Bild for saying just this kind of stuff and yes, he does have a pretty big gob on him. You get given them at birth in Bavaria so you can drink more wheat beer when you're older.)
Whats he said then ?
Er guys, Beckenbauer was massivly misquoted. He said: "Dummerweise haben die Engländer ein bissel gepatzt" which correctly translateed is, "Unfortunately, England messed up a little".
Things like this always get a little lost in translation. Then the Sun picks up on it and tells everybody stupid enough to read it that Beckenbaur is calling every man woman and child in England a retard.