Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
The writing was on the wall for Germany though in their results from qualifying onwards - I was surprised to see them fail to get out of the group stage, but never had them down to go too far in the competition.
I'd call that hindsight. Qualifying performance and tournament performance are different. You can't read much into it and I don't recall anyone saying that for the Germans before the world cup started.

Germany were the biggest let down, easily. They are the masters of tournament football.