Friedrich and Voronin celebrate

Flicking through the papers you might be forgiven for thinking it’s April Fools Day: Michael Jackson is doing a concert comeback series and Hertha BSC Berlin are four points clear at the top of the Bundesliga. If you had made either prediction at the beginning of the season you’d have been a good candidate for a tight-fitting white jacket. Yet whereas the King of Pop topped the charts less than two decades ago and an avoiding bankruptcy comeback attempt was actually imaginable – Berlin topping and even winning the league never even entered the realms of consciousness.