Disclaimer: Despite my complete respect and admiration of “the so few” who scrambled from their airfields at Biggin Hill, Hawkinge, Kenley, Manston, Hornchurch and so many other locations around England to defend the skies during the aerial Blitz from Hermann Görings vaunted Luftwaffe, this post won’t divulge into a history lesson – the title however, I assure you, is valid.
With Germany now currently being at the forefront of football talent in Europe alongside the likes of Spain, the Netherlands, France and Italy, it’s easy to look at the Bundesliga and tell yourself that these are players we’d love to have in our first-team as we look to build from season to season.
The sheer amount of talented German footballers that are gracing the pitches in the nation that’s home to the Rhineland and the Black Forrest, as well as in Spain and England is rather commendable. Coming off their World Cup triumph in Brazil, being touted as having arguably the best youth pipeline on the continent at current, and with the top clubs in the Premier League having the money to burn as they look to compete year on year, I am here to tell you that we are one club that should resist a German invasion as staunchly as possible…just as if it were 1940 all over again.
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