Jackson: Just one thing can halt the Germans

Jun 30 2008 By Lorne Jackson

WORKING for a newspaper can be great fun.

Especially when the news editor isn't digging his talons into your neck after you've typed a semi-colon instead of a plain old colon.

Best of all, you get loads of freebies.

Only last week, the female hack who sits opposite me, received a huge cardboard box in the post.

It was the size of a small family car - or David Cameron's forehead. Yet when she ripped it open, all she found inside was a measly can of Red Bull.

What a disappointment.

A bit like Euro 2008.

The early matches were the giant cardboard box - very impressive.

But by the tournament's concluding games, all we had discovered lurking inside was international football's equivalent of a rubbish fizzy drink - the German footy team.

Who have managed to reach the final... again.

Can they be beaten? Probably. But it would have to involve a speech from Winston Churchill, Spitfire planes and a belated intervention from the USA.