Not singing any more

HAVING won the women’s European football championship eight times since 1989, the Germans clearly seem to think it should now be theirs by right.

How else to explain the graceless reaction of their media (and manager) to England’s glorious and well- deserved victory in Sunday’s final.

Because Germany had a first-half penalty claim turned down – hardly a rare phenomenon at any level of the game – they claim to have been ‘cheated’.

One paper even harked back to England’s disputed third goal in the 1966 World Cup final as proof that referees are against them – conveniently forgetting we won that game 4-2. Talk about sore losers. Whoever knew the Germans were such cry babies?

As it’s usually England having to make excuses for falling short, it’s hard not to take some satisfaction at their bellyaching. One might almost call it schadenfreude.