Mardy
08-19-2005, 01:16 PM
"After 12 minutes Helmut Haller had put West Germany ahead, but the score was levelled by Geoff Hurst four minutes later. Martin Peters put England in the lead in the 78th minute; England looked set to claim the title when the referee awarded a free kick to West Germany. The ball was launched goalward and Wolfgang Weber managed to poke it across the line, with England appealing in vain for handball as the ball came through the crowded penalty area.
With the score level at 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, the game went to extra-time. In the 98th minute Hurst found himself on the score sheet again, when his shot hit the crossbar and was controversially deemed to have crossed the line by the referee. It didn't matter however as Hurst netted his third in the 120th minute, just as the gathered crowd invaded the pitch to celebrate with the team. Geoff Hurst is the only player ever to have scored three times in a World Cup Final.
BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme's description of the match's closing moments has gone down in history: "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over." (Hurst scores) "It is now!"
England received the recovered Jules Rimet trophy from Her Majesty the Queen and were crowned World Cup winners."
Another one:
"England's decisive third goal has remained controversial ever since the match. According to the Laws of the Game the definition of a goal is that the whole of the ball has to be over the whole of the line. The ball was clearly very close to the line and no conclusive answer is ever likely.
In England, it is commonly believed that the decision was correct and England supporters cite the good position of the linesman and the statement of Roger Hunt, the nearest England player to the ball, who claimed it was a goal and that was why he wheeled away in celebration rather than tapping the rebounding ball in.
However, in Germany it is commonly believed that the goal was given incorrectly and German supporters cite the possible bias of the 'Russian linesman'..."
from wikipedia.com (Cut for the reason of getting a discussion out of this)
In the magnificent world of soccer, few matches, if any, have been so discussed as the final of the 1966 World Cup. England won their first and only World Cup final, and (West) Germany could have been the closest one to Brazil today with 4 wins.
It was 2-2 and the game went into overtime, when Geoff Hurst 'created' the most controversial towards-goal kick ever in the world of soccer. The ball hit the crossbar, and hit somewhere between/at the outside, on or inside the line.
Did he or did he not score? It doesn't matter now, as England won the final, but imagine... how could it have ended? What if Germany goaled just after that? Did Hurst end the game at that point?
What do you think?
With the score level at 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, the game went to extra-time. In the 98th minute Hurst found himself on the score sheet again, when his shot hit the crossbar and was controversially deemed to have crossed the line by the referee. It didn't matter however as Hurst netted his third in the 120th minute, just as the gathered crowd invaded the pitch to celebrate with the team. Geoff Hurst is the only player ever to have scored three times in a World Cup Final.
BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme's description of the match's closing moments has gone down in history: "Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over." (Hurst scores) "It is now!"
England received the recovered Jules Rimet trophy from Her Majesty the Queen and were crowned World Cup winners."
Another one:
"England's decisive third goal has remained controversial ever since the match. According to the Laws of the Game the definition of a goal is that the whole of the ball has to be over the whole of the line. The ball was clearly very close to the line and no conclusive answer is ever likely.
In England, it is commonly believed that the decision was correct and England supporters cite the good position of the linesman and the statement of Roger Hunt, the nearest England player to the ball, who claimed it was a goal and that was why he wheeled away in celebration rather than tapping the rebounding ball in.
However, in Germany it is commonly believed that the goal was given incorrectly and German supporters cite the possible bias of the 'Russian linesman'..."
from wikipedia.com (Cut for the reason of getting a discussion out of this)
In the magnificent world of soccer, few matches, if any, have been so discussed as the final of the 1966 World Cup. England won their first and only World Cup final, and (West) Germany could have been the closest one to Brazil today with 4 wins.
It was 2-2 and the game went into overtime, when Geoff Hurst 'created' the most controversial towards-goal kick ever in the world of soccer. The ball hit the crossbar, and hit somewhere between/at the outside, on or inside the line.
Did he or did he not score? It doesn't matter now, as England won the final, but imagine... how could it have ended? What if Germany goaled just after that? Did Hurst end the game at that point?
What do you think?