BAYERN KILLING THE BUNDESLIGA

DER KLASSIKER ended with a 6-0 win for Bayern Munich over supposed rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. The aggregate scoreline in the Bundesliga between the teams this season is 9-1 and Dortmund’s last three visits to Munich in the league have ended 6-0, 4-1 and 5-1. That Robert Lewandowski (right), once a Dortmund player in the days when the gap between Munich and the rest was not insurmountable, scored a hat-trick merely adds insult to injury. Munich are very bitter about the financial strength and influence of the Premier League, but will not accept the harm their rampant economic growth and domination have done to the Bundesliga. Munich’s rise has come at the expense of the domestic competition, and wider interest in it. There is nothing classic about a predictable league and, as the years go by, fewer reasons to watch it.