Maybe it’s the German air, who knows. And for the locals, the older ones at least, there may be a feeling of déjà vu, if they don’t change the channel when they come across a match of the Blues. Because this team exudes a robustness that the FRG of the 1980s would not deny – minus the brutality, plus the imperfectly exploited offensive potential – with this way of giving almost nothing to the opponent.
The quiet force
This principle, from which Gary Lineker’s famous maxim is taken
had presided over all German conquests with two coronations (Euro 1980, World Cup 1990). It was the French,…
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