Germany Continues Stacking European Trophies

September 11th, 2009 | by: chris | View Comments

England must loathe coming up against Germany in European finals these days. For the second time in two months, a UEFA final was won by Germany over England by a rather not close four goal margin. Four to nil was the score in the U21 final in June, and six to two was the final in yesterday’s title game for the Weuros (that’s Women’s Euros in Offsidespeak).

Having perused the highlights, I’ve decided this was an Eredivisie game: some nice attacking and technical abilities on show, but defense off on holiday somewhere. The scoreline even matches up nicely with the typical weekend Dutch encounter.

I’ve also, unfortunately, decided this would be an entirely different game if Rachel Brown, England’s keeper were able to stand on phone books: she’s 170cm and damn did it show. I can’t pretend to know if that’s reasonable for a female keeper (Germany’s keeper wasn’t much taller at 175cm), but with the same sized goalmouths that’s an incredible disadvantage – her bruised fingertips will be evidence enough.

And if you can only do one highlight, make it Melanie Behringer’s goal at 1:10. Eat your heart out, Cristiano.