Going Deutsch gets into the Christmas spirit before embarking on a winter break: Freiburg beat Wolfsburg 4-3, Bayer Leverkusen don't score controversially to beat Leipzig, no matter what the hosts said, and Mainz and St. Pauli bring little festive cheer in a 0-0 draw. In the Zweite: Paderborn and Darmstadt draw 2-2, Magdeburg continue their revival with a 3-2 win over Kaiserslautern, and the ghosts of Christmas past haunt Schalke as they lost 2-1 to Braunschweig. Also on the pod: what Sportschau think "dragging themselves" means, carbon neutral football, popular toys, the best Christmas jumper ever, and what you can buy for just over €1900 in the Köln store.

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