The German Federal Press Council has given tabloid Bild a right telling off after ruling that the paper broke Section 12 of the country's press code (which forbids discrimination on national grounds, amongst others) in its response to England's 5-1 win in Munich in September. They were particularly upset with columnist Franz Joseph Wagner's reaction to the Daily Mirror's front page picture of Oliver Kahn's gloves burning.

Take it away Franz: "That is how the English are. Stale beer, stale brains. He who has ever experienced the bloated, red-roasted Tommy sods on Majorca, can imagine how they dance around the bonfire with their BSE pot bellies. One can only turn up one's nose (this kind of English person stinks like a dead sheep too) and say, he who has bad taste does not know that his taste is bad." What exactly was the press council's problem?