English fans played an impromptu football game in the Old Market Square in Dortmund on Tuesday - and they went ballistic when one of them scored a goal.
Former Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp is looking increasingly like the frontrunner to take over at the English Premier League's FC Liverpool after the troubled club fired trainer Brendan Rogers.
Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest reigning British monarch on Wednesday evening. Buckingham Palace has released a new portrait to commemorate the occasion - and there's something more German about it than meets the eye.
Defying national stereotypes, it is British footballers who will be braving the freezing cold to take to the pitch on Boxing Day, whilst Germany's players are already sunning themselves on their winter break until the end of January.
The Germans are celebrating 38 years since they last lost a game at the home of English football after their second-string side beat England 1-0 on Tuesday night.
The football World Cup qualifiers are reaching their climax and once again England is leaving it until the last minute, while Germany has breezed through its group. The Local looks at why the countries have such different records.
If anyone could unite arch-enemies on the football pitch, it was legendary goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, a German who played for Manchester City and helped win the 1956 FA Cup with a broken neck. He died on Friday aged 89.
The new jersey for England’s national football team has sparked the ire of English fans for looking too much like the kit archrivals Germany wore when they won the World Cup in 1974.
After beating Norway 3-1 in the semi-final in Helsinki, the German women’s football team faces England in the final of the Euro 2009 tournament in Finland on Thursday night.
A double by Sandro Wagner rounded off a stunning 4-0 success for Germany over England in the European Under-21 championship final to give them their first success in the tournament on Monday night.
England captain John Terry's header six minutes from time sealed a 2-1 win over Germany in Wednesday's friendly at Berlin's Olympic Stadium as Fabio Capello's weakened team beat the Euro 2008 runners-up.
Thousands of football fans are expected in Berlin on Wednesday to watch Germany take on England in a friendly. But with some 700 hooligans expected in the German capital, police will be out in full force to insure the match stays peaceful.
With both teams top of their World Cup qualifying groups, respective coaches Joachim Löw and Fabio Capello believe Wednesday night's Germany-England friendly here is a chance to put some new talent in the spotlight.
Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney are out of England’s friendly with Germany in Berlin next week after missing Manchester United’s win over Stoke on Saturday.
