Darn that (West) Germany!

April 23rd, 2006 | By: Os Davis | 5 Comments »

Doubtlessly a response to this blog’s recent trips down memory lane, Team Poland footballers recently spoke a bit about their past history against host and groupmate Germany in a nice article from the Reuters wire.

Polska lost to West Germany in a heartbreaking 1-0 loss in 1974 in a soggy hard-fought game media played up as another round of the plucky underdog German vs. the commies. (cf. the Hungary-West Germany final in 1954.)

In fact, the Reuters piece hits high hilarity when summarizing the, ahem, relationship between Poland and Germany the nations. The sports stuff, you guys can read. But this really should be posted here. It’s the funniest thing you’ll see in this blog, i’m sure:

Poland’s post-war generation grew up deeply suspicious of their western neighbours, whose World War Two occupation left one-fifth of its 30 million population dead, millions more homeless or exiled and the capital Warsaw razed to the ground.

The animosity faded in recent years, however, as thousands went to Germany to work or study and Berlin backed Poland’s European Union (EU) membership ambitions.

Now that’s succinct journalism. And in a sports article! Next, Reuters will summarize the history of the Hapsburg Empire and the effects of its dissolution on pre-World War II Europe in sixty words or less, and stick in a wire story about the Austrian national ski team…

Oops. Got off on a rant there. Good piece, really (at least the stuff about the team).




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Username By World Cup 2006 News » Poland to beat Germany? | April 24th, 2006 at 4:30 am
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[...] A few days back I introduced the World Cup Poll here at World Cup 2006 News. Since then quite a few people have been participating (thank you). But that´s not the actual point of this post. I just read an interesting article on Poland´s chance to win over Germany this summer. I encourage you to do so as well (I just saw those Fans over at the World Cup Blog did so, too). There are a few facts that I didn´t know so far. Or did you even know that: In a golden era that yielded two World Cup third places, the Poles beat Johann Cruyff’s Netherlands, Michel Platini’s France, Alf Ramsey’s England and Brazil. [...]

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Username By Knut Karnapp | April 24th, 2006 at 5:42 am
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Sorry, but you won´t win this summer ;-)

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Username By PETER JOSEPHS | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:26 am
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ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT THE WORLD CUP…….POLAND MIGHT JUST WIN AGAINST GERMANY. WITH A LITTLE LUCK SOMETIMES DREAMS DO COME TRUE. ANYWAY, GO POLAND !!!

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Username By Harvey | May 22nd, 2006 at 10:48 am
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You are right that anything can happen. Remember Germany-Algeria in ‘82?

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