Quite literally speaking, PSG’s grounds staff went big in their efforts to lay on a special surprise for Thomas Tuchel on the occasion of the head coach’s 45th birthday on Wednesday.
Having come into work early at the club’s Camp des Loges training centre, Jonathan Calderwood and his team set about preparing a vast welcome for Tuchel in the only medium they truly understand: turf.
“Alles gute zum geburtstag,” read the enormo-message, which translates as ‘Happy Birthday’ for those of you who didn’t make it past the first week of GCSE German.
Pretty nifty, though not even in the same league as some of Leicester City’s finest work.