My favourite game: Germany v Italy, 2006 World Cup semi-final My favourite game Football An intense, relentless, brilliant encounter that exhausted those playing, watching and commentating Nicky Bandini Wed 22 Apr 2020 11.00 BST Last modified on Wed 22 Apr 2020 15.51 BST Germany’s keeper Jens Lehmann dives in vain as Fabio Grosso’s shot flies past him and Italy go 1-0 ahead in extra time of their 2006 World Cup semi-final. Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP F alse memories are a known psychological phenomenon. Sometimes, when we think back on past events, we remember incorrect details with certainty, our brains blending truth and untruth: things we witnessed first-hand with stories we have been told since. Is it still right to call the memory false, though, if we have deliberately allowed it to be distorted in this way? I know I watched Italy’s 2006 World Cup semi-final win over Germany on ITV, on a s...