2000: England 0-1 Germany
The final-ever match to be staged at the ‘old’ Wembley Stadium, but typically the Germans had not read the script, with Liverpool midfield player Dietmar Hamann scoring the only goal of the game with a free kick that somehow managed to squirm under the body of goalkeeper David Seamen.
And then after the match, England boss Kevin Keegan resigned from his post in the Wembley toilets, claiming that he was just not up to the task of managing his country.
2001: Germany 1-5 England
Only the host’s second-ever loss on home soil in a World Cup qualifier, although this was not just any old defeat, it was an utter humiliation for Rudi Voeller and Co, and all this after Germany had actually taken an early lead through giant front man Carsten Jancker.
However, the soon-to-be crowned European Footballer of the Year Michael Owen responded with a typically clinical hat-trick, although in the end it was the Germans, and not Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England, who would go on to make it through to the following year’s World Cup final in Japan.