Germany’s defeat over Brazil is now the most tweeted sports game

If you’re England and you go crashing out of the World Cup at the semi-finals stage on your home ground, then it would be considered as an unprecedented success. However, in the spiritual home of football, the Seleção are supposed to win the World Cup for a record sixth time with home ground support, and anything else would be deemed to be a failure. As fate would have it, another aberration of a match happened, except that it was worse than the hiding that Netherlands dished out to Spain, with the German machine crushing Brazil by a margin of 7 to 1.