All you need is Low, apparently. And who can argue? Germany fans lined the streets of a sun-kissed Berlin in their thousands to welcome home the World Cup champions ahead of the largest gathering the city has seen since 1990. Perhaps even a year previous when the wall came down.
There they waited at the tip of Brandenburg Gate – the scene of seven parties over the past month to celebrate the hexagon of wins, and that draw against Ghana, over in Brazil – for one final send off.
That take on the Beatles’ All You Need is Love was supplemented with ‘we take a bow’. This achievement – decimating all in sight – cannot be overestimated and is down in no small part to the meticulous planning and continued progression of their head coach, Joachim, over the last eight years
