The English media reacts to the eight-digit final between Germany and England with a mixture of anticipation and fear, and they have reserved advice.
Recently at the Munich stadium on Wednesday night. It is minute 68 of the game. Havertz had just matched the DFB-Elf against Hungary achieved, which is why the author of these lines quickly set out to rewrite his game report when one András Schäfer fired to lead the Magyars again. Time for the audience, but also for the reporter, who is usually asked to travel too emotionally, to be a little outraged at the deficit.
The man next to me in the press box had previously introduced himself as English and documented this scene with a photo. With a crooked smile, the Anglo-Saxon showed me the resulting image – and a little later said goodbye to the stands, saying that in the home country of football they would have liked to play against the German team.
Gary Lineker knew it: in the end, the Germans always win
The English colleague did not seem to have known that soccer is a game that – as a great English thinker named Gary Lineker has already warned – lasts 90 minutes and in which the Germans always win in the end (or at least get a dirty draw). When the DFB-Elf managed to equalize, they were probably already bent over a bag of fish and chips (or whatever the English do).
The reaction of the English press, which is not known for being cautious, reads like a mixture of joyous reunion and fear. During the Telegraph he bravely demanded: “Bring in the Germans!” Daily mail with the main line “Oh no! Not Germans again” a little more cautious. Of the Daily mirror expects coach Gareth Southgate to “return the favor for the anguish of Euro 96” when he missed the crucial penalty.
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The Sun advises the English team: “Take penalties, guys!”
And the SunTabloid, the central organ of the tabloid style, had, as always, good advice for the English team in store: “Train penalties, boys!” And the popular “Herr we go again” (a modification of “here we go again”, in German “start again”) could be read several times.
However, the most accurate analysis came once again from Gary Lineker. After the end of the game, the former England striker simply wrote: “As we know, the Germans …” That really should be known by all those sports journalists who dare to leave their post prematurely in a DFB-Elf match. . . Without companions of offense.
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