The uselessness of England's footballers at penalties became a little less fathomable today with news of research which says that, basically, we are all German.
The research suggests that Anglo-Saxons - people from what is now modern Germany - came to quickly dominate the gene pool of early Medieval England and supplant Ancient Britons (or Celts) because of a kind of racism, not dissimilar to South-African apartheid.
"We're all Germans!" gasps today's Daily Mail, "and we have been for 1,600 years". "[The research] would send Basil Fawlty spinning in his grave", adds the Daily Express, with its trademark lightness of touch on matters multi-cultural.
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