NPR: When Landon Donovan scored his last minute goal against Algeria, he didn't merely put the U.S. through to the Round of 16, he inadvertently set up one of sports great rivalries.
Fueled by two World Wars, and the adolescent jingoistic inventiveness of the British tabloids, no game looms larger in the English psyche than England vs. Germany.
Great Article, i agree as off now Germany's team is looking great.
I could see why Germany didn't really consider it much of a rivalry, England wasn't playing well enough for Germany to really consider them equal and Germany has mostly been shown as the better of the two for a long time