Next up for Germany: old rival England. Both teams needed a win in their final match of group play to qualify for the knockout round. "Do we have to fear our friends from the island?" German football legend Franz Beckenbauer asked in a column in the German tabloid Bild. "Respect, yes; fear, certainly not!" Here, about 200,000 people turned out to the "Fan Mile" public view in Berlin's Tiergarten on Wednesday.