The Germans power on, but the English become the third of Europe's big five soccer nations to depart the World Cup woefully short of living up to their billing. Germany thrashed England, 4-1 We know what the proper and sporting thing to say here is. Great game, Germany. You really stuck it to England in Sunday's World Cup match, you clearly had the fitter team, you dominated the pitch and deserved to win. Bravo, Deutschland. Fantastic hair, too. Eh, yawn. This is no fun at all. Sorry, Deutschland. Let's talk about The Outrageously Blown Goal of the Century. Did you see this madness? You have to have seen it by now! It's going to be replayed so often for the next four years they might as well print it on the £5 note. It's made England so mad that it has stopped insisting that its torpid and underachieving national team walk home from South Africa. England's World Cup ended in a mixture of humiliation and controversy as they were thrashed 4-1 by Germany in Bloemfontein. Ask any German old enough to remember Wembley Stadium, 1966, and they will tell you that England beat West Germany in the World Cup final with a goal that should never have been allowed. Franz Beckenbauer, perhaps the most accomplished German player of all time, never tires of saying to any Englishman who shakes his hand that maybe England deserved the Cup that day — but the ball shot by Geoff Hurst against the crossbar bounced down without crossing the line. History repeats itself, or rather history wipes ...
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