Originally Posted by Del Boy

Well - Germany have a big following here - respect. Yes they did play well - so did Spain today. Here's a funny thing. Last Saturday, the day the tournament kicked off, I was at a football function with (Sir) Geoff Hurst - the striker who scored a hat-trick to beat Germany in the 1966 world cup final; the only hat-trick ever scored in that event. He is backing Germany to win and he jokes that they play football like us but without the humour!