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This Sunday's clash between England and Germany looks set to be an exciting and gripping contest, snd another chapter in a sporting rivavlry that has produced a number of dramatic and iconic moments.
If only, we could concentrate on the football, but you just knew that certain elements of the English press would have to turn this into the usual rubbish. Not that I should be surprised anymore about anything that comes out of the Daily Mail, but this might be their finest piece of work yet:
Great, thanks for that. It's useful we've got the Mail to point out Germany's cheating ways by daring to be a multi-cultural society - how dare they! The fact that the first several players they pick up on as 'not being German' reads 'born in Germany' is a great argument. That Germany now have a young, dynamic team, representative of the different ethnic backgrounds that make up the country's population should be something to be looked at positively, although not I guess if you're the Mail. You almost get the feeling that when they are talking about old citizenship laws that were there under the Kaiser that they want to say "well it was better in our day".
It's hard to understand exactly what the point of this article is, until you start to think this is a smokescreen to attack what the Mail clearly feels are problems that affect our own country, in terms of the way we define nationality and citizenship etc. It's also harder to bring in some ridiculous racial stereotyping about teutonic cyborgs with blonde mullets who listen to David Hasselhoff and eat Schnitzel if some of the players have Turkish or Ghanaian heritage, and we know that can't make the press happy - "what?! we can't just write articles made up of lazy sterotypes, generalisations and lies?! What's the world coming to!"
I guess the one positive is that Richard Littlejohn didn't write it.
So just enjoy the game on Sunday and support your team, regardless of whether they qualified to play for your country under the citizenship laws of 1913. That has nothing to do with football. Enjoy what should be a terrific clash between two of world football's star attarctions, two former world champions and two great countries. Oh yeah, and come on England!
Frightening stuff, yet sadly not that surprising from the Mail. They might have overlooked the current status of our cricket team as well...
ReplyDeleteHopefully most fans will be able to brush aside this type of rubbish and concentrate on the game. I, for one, would prefer to focus on getting behind England!