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7 days ago

Imran Sherwani, Great Britain Olympic hockey hero, dies aged 63 ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

  • He scored twice in 1988 final against West Germany

  • Olympic star was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2019

Imran Sherwani, who starred in the Great Britain hockey team that won Olympic gold in 1988, has di…

British Olympic hero dead at 63: Tributes pour in for hockey gold medallist Imran Sherwani - who was subject of Barry Davies' iconic commentary against Germans in final - after Alzheimer's battle

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Sherwani scored twice in the final as Great Britain beat West Germany 3-1 in which BBC commentator Davies famously said: 'Where were the Germans? But frankly, who cares!'

20 days ago

Albania v England: World Cup 2026 qualifying – live ⊕

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Thomas Tuchel is hoping nobody does a Wayne Rooney today (or indeed a Cristiano Rona…

33 days ago

Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war ⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east

A creek so shallow you barely got your ankles wet divided a…

79 days ago

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang | Jason Burke

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence

In the summ…

4 months ago

Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics | Carolin Würfel

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight

In February 1990, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran the headline…

Is Possession about a harrowing divorce or a woman with an octopus kink? Why not both?

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Sam Neill barely made it out alive. Isabelle Adjani was left ‘bruised, inside out’. It might be puzzling, it might be brilliant, and it will never leave you

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5 months ago

Germany urgently needs to attract migrant workers – it just doesn’t want them to feel welcome | Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Friedrich Merz is unwisely trying to revive the discredited postwar ‘guest worker’ programme

Friedrich Merz’s government has sent a clear message to anyone thinking about coming to live in Germany: do…

6 months ago

FIFA chief urges England to bid to host the World Cup in 2038 for the first time since 1966 after last effort fell flat on its face

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

1966 - which is now 59 years ago - represents the nation's only success in a tournament which saw them beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley courtesy of a Sir Geoff Hurst hat-trick.

7 months ago

Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment …

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