“‘I’m not in right now… If you want to reach me you can find me down my local pub from five in the evening to five in the morning – Beeeeeeeeeeep.’ It’s not an answer phone message you would want your mum to hear. And it’s certainly not a message you would expect from a professional footballer. But then Ansgar Brinkmann was never a professional footballer in the true sense of the word. He drank, he fought and he womanized. He had run-in’s with the police. And he had a reputation for arguing with his teammates and managers. With Ansgar, you never knew what to expect. And therein lay his appeal, both on and off the pitch.” Bundesliga Fanatic – Part 1, Part 2