Ten German Bombers

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Yes, the song is about the old rivalries between Germany and England in  
soccer. The British mass press often uses comparisons with WW 2 to describe  the 
German soccer team. These are old clichés and stereotypes, but no one really  
takes it for serious. Even in times when the German soccer was more or less 
good  (not at the moment, but f. e. in the seventies or at the beginning of the  
nineties), these clichés were used. In the video there are scenes of three  
football games: final soccer world championships in Bern/Switzerland:  
Germany-Hungary 3:2 (1954), the famous "Wembley goal" from 1966 (England-Germany  4:2), 
and from the last "great" victory of England, 5:1 in Munich (?) some years  
ago.
And, of course, RAF is more associated in Germany with "Red Army  Fraction" 
than "Royal Air Force".
 
kwp
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