Italy defeated Australia with 10 seconds to go in regular time. Horrible!

Italy now defeated Germany 1.5 minutes before the penatly shoot out in the semi-final of the World Cup!!!! DEVASTATING!!!!!

Being German this hurts! Credit must go to Italy on reaching the final - well done.
But what a small disaster.

The Italian coach Lippi played with basically 4 strikers at the end. It was quite clear that Italy didn’t want to have a penatly shoot out against Germany (who have never lost a penatly shoot out).

I must admit that I along with millions of other football fans was shell shocked for atleast 15 minutes after the game. How could that happen? A whole nation was quite certain that Germany would be in the final. Throughout the tournament the german fan taunt was “Berlin, Berlin, we’re all going to Berlin!” Well that won’t happen. We’re going to Stuttgart to play for third place at the World Cup. Not bad either, but really, no one cares about thrid place.

So the dream is over. Next is the European Championships, which Germany will win…….

As to the World Cup Final, I am hoping that our neighbours France win, mainly because of Zinedine Zidane and because the French, believe it or not, aren’t as arrogant as the Italians.