Well here I am in my very own Bayerische Groundhog Day adventure, for the third time in Regensburg ostensibly learning to speak German. Füssball fever has really hit the town with the Weltmeisterschaft only a few days away, and the black, gold and red German flags are springing up everywhere, hanging from windows or adorning cars and even bicycles and perambulators. However the big question on everybody's lips is 'ob Deutschland gewinnen wird' - whether Germany will win... The Regensburgers are curiously apprehensively confident about Germany's chances, a little doubtful initially, but then exuding an unwavering certainty that the team will do well. When they quickly discover you are an Auslander - usually as soon as you say something to them - they anxiously ask your opinion, and then look most downcast if you say you
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