Brazil take another battering — from the media this time

The reaction was as ferocious as it was predictable but this is only the beginning.

The morning after the night before, and as tear gas cleared around Brazilian cities, locals walked like zombies past the newsstands.

In the centre of Belo Horizonte which shall now forever be known as the scene of their greatest humiliation and a night that threw a sharp exclamation mark into their national history, the front pages hit you almost as hard as the pummelling of German goals in the first half.