But why do all these newspaper writers insist on calling the German men-of-war flag carried in front of the German detachment the "imperial flag"? One of the morning papers even made reference to ...

You have to rewind all the way to the 1800s to understand why their kit is predominantly white - to a time when the Prussian flag was flown. Prussia was a German state on the southeast coast of ...

Instead, they wear the colour because the flag of Prussia - the state that once stretched from the border of Russia to the western edge of France - was white. Prussia formed the German empire in ...

All of those victories were celebrated in the colour that has become emblematic of German football, despite the fact that white doesn't feature on the country's red, black and yellow flag.