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Old Firm star teaches how to talk fussball

It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but school leaders striving to teach children the finer points of language and international relations have recruited an unlikely role model: an Old Firm footballer.

Celtic star Andreas Hinkel has been chosen to front a new programme that will teach pupils German culture and language by stealth, using PE classes to help them pick up vocabulary and confidence without the turn-off of classroom learning.