Mertesacker Emptiness

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I watch the World Cup purely through Arsenal eyes. For me, club football trumps international football every time.

So I loved watching Germany, whose squad contains my three favourite Arsenal players Per Mertesacker, Mesut Ozil and Lukas Podolski, tear apart Brazil last night.

And I absolutely love this video, made by writer Simon Price, in which he replaces the lyrics to the Manic Street Preachers song Motorcycle Emptiness with the names of German footballers, all leading to the chorus ‘Mertesacker Emptiness’. It’s a stroke of genius.

I tipped Germany from the start to win the World Cup, and this video is a fine soundtrack to their march to the final.

Have you been watching the World Cup? Who has been your star of the tournament thus far?