# Soccer fans ..

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-fans/519019>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 26, 2009, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-fans/519019 "2009-11-26T10:32:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-fans/519019/21 "2009-11-27T15:50:23Z")

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> [@Chez\_Guevara](#):
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> In fact, thinking about the House of Hanover, it might be the other way round.

Yep, the British royal family is all a bunch of Germans. Queen Victoria was better at German than English, and Mountbatten is just the anglicized name for Battenberg.

The Oranjes are much the same: Willem I was born in Dillenburg and raised in Mainz, Beatrix’s husband, father and grandfather were all German.

I guess you can say that two of the remaining royal families in Europe are more German than anything else. 😃

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-fans/519019/22 "2009-11-27T15:56:30Z")

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> [@Mycroft\_Holmes](#):
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> Yep, the British royal family is all a bunch of Germans. Queen Victoria was better at German than English, and Mountbatten is just the anglicized name for Battenberg.

How dare you imply that HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and consort to the British Queen, is German.  
Everybody knows he’s Greek.

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**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-fans/519019/23 "2009-11-27T15:57:38Z")

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> [@indian](#):
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> Also, are the Brits and their former subjects , only people interested in Soccer here ?😃

Nope, us Krauts are interested in football too. It’s one of the things we are very good at. In the immortal words of Gary Lineker:

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> Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Also, I’m pretty sure **footballisplayedwithyourfeet** (de groeten!) is Dutch, and they were never been subject to British rule either. In fact, that was also the other way around. See [William of Orange](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England).

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**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-fans/519019/24 "2009-11-27T16:00:51Z")

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> [@Ximenean](#):
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> Everybody knows he’s Greek.

Yeah, from the famous Greek noble families of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (on his father’s side) and Battenberg-Hessen (on his mother’s side). Heck, he’s more Greek than Anthony Quinn! 😃

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