For a chap brought up on 1966, but then 1970, Euro 96 and every other disaster to have befallen the England team at the hands of the Germans, that is quite a confession.
Thursday night saw them warm the hearts of Auntie and Uncle Neutral all over Europe with their flowing football and flair at Euro '08.
Portugal became the churlish, childish outfit with their petty fouls and falling over.
German fans belted out their national anthem alongside Franz Ferdinand numbers and it all seemed right to be backing them.
Now that Ronaldo wants to leave these shores there's not much in Portugal for the English neutral to cheer – or boo.
Holland might be playing the best football but once they come face to face with the Germans history kicks in and it's a whole different scenario.
n Nice to see the Germans included a player by the name of Fritz just to raise a chuckle from us lads who remember the comics of the 1960s and '70s.

Has summer started yet?
SUMMER Solstice already.
We've hardly had a hot day yet and already the year is on the turn.
Its the anniversary of the Great Flood next week and we'll all be watching the skies for any sign of a repeat – unlikely though that may be.
Like kids brought up with England as World Cup winners, anyone who remembers the summers of 1974 and 1976 can't enjoy the summer season properly because we know what it CAN be like.
We're spoiled for ever.
By this time of year in those far off, glorious summers we had dried grass everywhere, water shortages, melting roads, factory closures, salt tablets at work, heat-stroke, sunburn, forest fires and drought.
They were even thinking about running a water pipeline down the central reservation of the M1 so we could get fresh water to these poor souls in the south.
Aah those were the days.

Give thanks to the Yanks
LOOKS like this great and glorious city of ours missed a bit of a trick the other night.
Re-Inventing The City, an international business and economic summit held at the City Hall on Thursday was a showcase for Sheffield to put its name around the world and bring in investment and extra business.
In the day apparently it went well and Sheffield got its message over to the foreign delegates.
Not every speaker was inspired but all did their bit and I'm told that new council leader Paul Scriven gave as good an account of himself as Nick Clegg did bad.
Apparently the American duo from Philadelphia were brilliant, slick and professional.
Not so some of the speakers in the evening session when Sheffielders were trying to infuse other Sheffielders with entrepreneurial zeal for the battles ahead.
Apparently it was lacklustre and without real focus and we could have learned a lot from the yanks who know how to sell a city or two.

Emma puts her money to use
GOOD to see someone putting their money where their mouth is and coming up with something worth shouting about.
Emma Harrison, millionaire entrepreneur, co-owner of Thornbridge Hall in Derbyshire and all-round nice lady, is to bankroll a Through Unity project in London to help battle knife crime.
With every day seeming to bring fresh tragedy to families whose sons and daughters are stabbed this looks like something worth investing £100,000 in. Although we have our own knife crime problems let's hope that we don't ever need such investment quite so badly around here.