For Spurs fans dreading tomorrow's Hobson's choice - supporting a German team winning the Champions League in order to ensure the Lillywhites qualify for next season's competition - there is unexpected relief.
As we report this week, in pre-Nazi Germany Bayern Munich was a club of Jewish visionaries. That history was hidden until Bayern's president, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, took it upon himself to reclaim it for the club. Even if Spurs' hopes did not rest on it, Herr Rummenigge's behaviour would be reason enough to hope for a Bayern win.