Mad Jens Lehmann Strikes Again and Is Now Stealing Shoes

Is Jens Lehmann a kleptomaniac, a raving loon, both, or neither?

Last week i brought you footage from Stuttgart’s UEFA Cup match at Zenit St. Petersburg showing the 39-year-old keeper losing the plot with his teammate, Khalid Boulahrouz.

Lehmann ripped off the defender’s headband and threw it angrily behind his goal after the Dutch defender messed up a header. (Read here.)

And just three days later, Lehmanns’ thieving was once again on full view. Mad Jens stole Hoffenheim’s Sejad Salihovic’s boot after it fell off the forward’s foot with two minutes to go in their thrilling six-goal encounter.

The footage of this incident starts with the camera focused on Salihovic, shoulders shrugged, as he told to the referee that he had no idea where his boot had disappeared to.

After the TV editor then showed how the boot fell off in the first place, the shot caught up with the referee ordering a one-booted Salihovic off the field of play as he failed to have the correct uniform. Miffed, Salihovic did as he was told.

All this time, Mad Jens (who was later outed as the perpetrator of the theft) was seen coolly barking orders at his defense who were readying themselves to face a Hoffenheim set-play. This was so Salihovic could find his misplaced boot on the roof of Lehmann’s net where he quickly slipped it on and got on with the match.

Sadly we are missing the complete footage capturing Lehmann’s theft red-handed, but the event was confirmed by a comment on Bleacher Report by the name of “101er Wouter.” 1

01er Wouter wrote, “Some Hoffenheim guy looses a boot, Lehmann goes all the way out to get it, and tosses it away, on top of his on goal! Took ages for the Hoffenheim player to find the boot. Lehmann is such a nutter, but what else is new!”

The footage of the incident can be seen here.