00:00There was one, there was, one has to admit, some element of truth in the famous description of football as a game where 11 people play 11 people, and then, in the end, the Germans win.
00:15And with our German friends, as with all of the closest relationships, we celebrate not only our shared characteristics, but also our differences.
00:34It can have escaped no one's attention that Germans are considered by many in my country to have a somewhat different sense of humor.
00:43But let me assure you, Herr Bundespräsident, British humor is no laughing matter.
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