One German commentator dubbed it, half in jest, the "ultimate euro stress test". Despite attempts by the German government to play down the broader significance of the Euro 2012 clash with Greece, football historians predicted it would go down as one of the most politically loaded sporting events on record. It has earned comparisons with the 1969 Olympic ice hockey match between Czechslovakia and the USSR, when the Czechs sought sporting revenge for the Soviet invasion of Prague the previous year; the so-called Blood on the Water match between the USSR and Hungary water polo teams at the 1956 Olympics, against ... (full story)