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A One Year No Beer member taking the 90-day challenge AT the start of the year, and with hopes of emerging from the coronavirus pandemic on the horizon, I embarked on Dry January. Like many Brits, I reckon I drank more during 2020. With the pubs and restaurants shut, drinking at home became the norm for many – and I definitely felt it. Although I actually lost weight last year – about a stone between March and December thanks to eating less junk food – my alcohol intake increased. Cold beers in the garden during those lockdown summer months, a few cans every time the football was on (and it was on a lot), a glass of wine or three with dinner, a “well-earned” drink after a stressful day working from home with the kids running around my feet.
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How German Otto Rehhagel led Greece to Euro 2004 glory
The sporting field may be a substitute for the battlefields of the past but it’s one of the few arenas where nationalistic fervour can find a positive outlet.
Otto Rehhagel, the German coach who turned the Greek national football team into champions.
John McDonald
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We live in a deeply divided world, but when was it any different? One of Europe’s most ingrained divisions has been between the so-called Teutonic spirit and the Mediterranean spirit. It was a contrast that exercised the mind and the pen of artist Emil Nolde, who saw the Germans as the embodiment of all things good, brave and true, and the southerners as a group of shiftless, lazy ne’er-do-wells.