Gary Lineaker said 'football is a game played for 90 minutes and then the Germans win'Yesterday the Germans had won it as soon as Klose scored that frankly embarrassing goal on 20 minutes. But then, as I choked back the rising anger, a strange thing began to happen as I watched the rest of the football horrorfest. I began to admire the eleven men in white.
I shrugged off a lifetime of prejudice and anger at the way the Germans can always net a penalty and beat us, yesterday you could only marvel at the way they played the game as it should be played.
Pace, skill and confidence, if only we could. I say, after decades of casting them as our footballing nemesis, we need to embrace our Teutonic brothers and find out what their secret is!
