[Riley]

Looking forward to England-Germany tomorrow.

I'm sorry I couldn't find a more faithful rendition of the quote but:

When Germany was due to travel to England for a World Cup qualifier, I think it was The Sun that that declared: “The Germans think they can come over here and beat us at our national game. That’s alright, we’ve beaten them twice at theirs”.

[wolf78]

When Germany was due to travel to England for a World Cup qualifier, I think it was The Sun that that declared: “The Germans think they can come over here and beat us at our national game. That’s alright, we’ve beaten them twice at theirs”.

The irony is of course, that the English, in essence are Germans. If it weren't for centuries of French occupation English would sound a lot like Dutch or German today. Speaking of tribal genetics there's a huge difference between an Austro-Bavarian and a Lower Saxon, but virtually none between a Lower Saxon and and an Anglo-Saxon. Prince Charles is the result of a marriage between the houses of Battenberg ("Mountbatten") and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ("Windsor").

And if by national game you mean war, yeah, Germany f*cked things up with WWII. But as to WWI, you can hardly say the the British empire after centuries of colonial exploits was much better, let alone morally superior, than the German Empire. But that's the fun of it: You don't feel competitive pressure from someone very different, but from someone very similar to yourself.