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Yeah, no doubt!
Germany has become a lot more relaxed about nationalism and football in the last few years, but there's still (rightly!) a fair bit of anxiety about thousands of people marching down the street chanting "Deutschland! Deutschland!"
And maybe the Germans themselves only get really passionate about beating the Dutch, but, believe me, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Czechs, the Hungarians, the French (and probably a few I've left out) want to beat the Germans above anyone else.
Still, I was back in the U.K. last weekend and had to endure the commentary by Terry Venables and Clive Tyldesley (sp.?) on the England-Algeria game. It started off with such huge nationalistic bias that denied the slightest ability to these weird foreigners from a joke country that it wasn't surprising that, as soon as it became clear that England weren't going to brush them aside 5-0, they switched to calling the coach a plonker.
I'd (to quote) "absolutely love it" if Capello would show Venables what was what.