World Cup victory confirms Germany supremacy on almost every measure

After so many years of commanding respect the nation should rejoice that its football is finally recognised as beautiful It cannot surely be long before Angela Merkel is pictured placing a consolatory arm around David Cameron, after being overheard lecturing Vladimir Putin on the trouble with 4-4-2, and brochures extolling Germany will become popular in high-street travel agencies as the world wakes up to a much-underrated destination. Who needs Barcelona when youve got Bavaria? In boardrooms ar...