Newspaper has got it wrong

A Munich daily led on Wednesday with the news that Claudio Pizarro was stopped by police while driving home on Saturday night. The report went on to claim the Peruvian was found to have a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal maximum.

"The report is wrong, it was a much lower reading," Pizarro stated on Wednesday. The striker is likely to pay a fine, but will be handed nowhere near the nine-month ban mooted by the newspaper.

Bayern coach Felix Magath had been informed that the players planned to go out on the Saturday evening before a day off on Sunday, when Olli Kahn and company made their annual pre-Christmas visits to selected fan clubs