Euro 2012: The Semi-Finals – Germany 1-2 Italy
On the seventeenth of June 1970, Italy and West Germany played out a World Cup semi-final at The Azteca Stadium in Mexico City so epic that earned itself the soubriquet...
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Euro 2012: The Quarter-Finals – Germany 4-2 Greece
This evening, as we have been reliably, repeatedly and at great length informed over the last few days, is more than a football match. This evening, apparently, is all about...
Euro 2012: Germany 2-1 Netherlands
There are some football matches which transcend mere rivalry and tap into something more deep-seated, as if they tickle a synapse that we may even think that we have evolved...
Euro 2012: Germany 1-0 Portugal
It is a reflection of the curve ball that was thrown into Group B of this summers European Championships that, whilst Portugal may have left the pitch at the end...
Euro Moments: Germany
This mornings cartoon for the run-up to the European Championships from Dotmund features Germany, and the highly hirsute Gerd Muller. Don’t forget, you can see plenty more Dotmund artwork here,...
Euro 2012: The Runners & Riders – Germany
It is now sixteen years since Germany last won a major international tournament. This (perhaps surprisingly long) period of time hasn’t been without its fair share of pain, but to...
European Championship Stories: 1972 – West Germany’s Spring Of Absolute Contentment
At the Heysel Stadium in Brussels on the eighteenth of June 1972, West Germany lifted their first major tournament trophy since the 1954 World Cup. Two years later, at the...
The Twohundredpercent Vault: When The Two Germanies Collided, 1974
The Cold War spread insiduously into every aspect of life between the end of the second world war and the end of the 1980s, and sport was no exception to...
The 2011 Women’s World Cup: Group A Preview
It’s now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women’s World Cup starts in Germany, and over the next couple of weeks or so we’ll be taking the time to...
Video Of The Week: Football & Fascism
As some of you may have noticed, we’ve restarted the “Video Of The Week” section on the site, and this week we have a particular treat for you in the...
World Cup 2010: Germany 3-2 Uruguay
“Let’s make this a celebration,” intones ITV commentator Peter Drury, before kick-off, and millions of people, all at once, think, “yeah, lose your voice.” Uruguay’s national anthem is what Billy...
World Cup 2010: Germany 0-1 Spain
Two years is not a long time in football, especially when you consider that national sides evolve, certainly more than club sides. In that respect, you would have expected quite...
Argentina Flounder Before German Unity
Out of the chaos of the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup has come some degree of consensus. If today’s newspapers have one theme running through them, that theme is...
World Cup 2010: Argentina 0-4 Germany
Some games need no introduction, and they fall into two camps. One camp is the poor games that are best left forgotten (which can only be known after the event)....
World Cup 2010: Germany 4-1 England
There have been times over the previous four or five days or so that this afternoon’s match between Germany and England has threatened to collapse under the weight of its...
Trying To Make Some Sense Of Germany vs England
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Being English during the World Cup finals really does feel like being “stuck in the middle with you”, to labour...
World Cup 2010: Ghana 0-1 Germany
If England supporters had reason to be concerned that their run of not having been knocked out at the opening stages of the World Cup finals since 1958 mind come...
World Cup 2010: Germany 0-1 Serbia
The German side who sparked this World Cup into life with their 4-0 win over Australia, a German side so effortlessly impressive that they brought all the very best paranoid...
World Cup 2010: Germany 4-0 Australia
It’s a conundrum for English national team fans, who to support out of the football and cricket arch-enemies. But it’s not a problem for long as the game is over...
World Cup Tales: Reflections Upon England In Italy, 1990
The concept of England having a high level of expectation at the time of a World Cup finals is a comparatively recent one. As recently as 1990, most adults could...