A look at the world back then shows how long ago it really existed. One thing upfront: Back to the Future star Marty McFly would have needed to take a quantum leap in his DeLorean DMC-12 to witness it live once again.
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At the time, Manchester City were deeply involved in a relegation battle and ended up suffering painful relegation to England’s second division at the end of the season.
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A Portuguese legend held the transfer record back then and won the World Player of the Year award that same year.
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Schalke 04 finished a Bundesliga season with more goals scored and fewer conceded than Bayern Munich
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In the winter transfer market of that season, BVB paid 14.5 million euros for a certain Tomas Rosicky
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Already then Manuel Neuer was driving rival attackers into despair, although in the Schalke 04 under-17 team
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The Bundesliga teams that were relegated that season were VfL Bochum, Eintracht Frankfurt and SpVgg Unterhaching.
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Sergej Barbarez and Ebbe Sand shared the Bundesliga top scorer award with 22 goals each
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Lothar Matthäus appeared on the cover of EA Sports’ latest FIFA hit
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BMW launched the new MINI as a retro-inspired model
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Wikipedia online encyclopedia launched
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the box office hit of the year
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The big topic in the schoolyards was the gold and silver editions of Pokémon
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Popstars’ first band No Angels brought us the light of day with their biggest chart hit
📸 Martín Rosa – Bongarts
If you are still in the dark, we will put you out of your misery. It was the 2000/2001 season. At the beginning of May 2001, Bayern Munich celebrated a hard-fought victory in Madrid thanks to a goal from Giovane Elber, and three weeks later they even won the Champions League against Valencia CF. Perhaps history will repeat itself 25 years after Bayern’s last triumph at the Bernabéu.
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