During a practice-field tantrum last week, VfB Stuttgart’s Dutch coach Huub Stevens called his players a bunch of monkeys. So when the relegation-threatened team won a key game,2-1, against last-place Hamburg SV, the VfB players celebrated like monkeys after Martin Harnik scored the team’s second goal.

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