Germany sprung a rapidcounter attackaftertenminutes but just as Lukas Podolski pulled thetrigger to shoot, John Terry made a superb block to snuff out the danger.
Germany helped trigger the Balkan wars with its speedy recognition of the seceding Yugoslavian territories without any protection for Serbian minorities.
The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.