Source: FOOTYMAD
Krauts Have A Field Day - FIFA Won't Listen!
The Germans are having a field day ... claiming an old an old score has been settled. And FIFA will not listen to calls for changes. While uncertainty over the validity of Sir Geoff Hurst's strike in the 1966 World Cup final has riled the Germans ever since, disallowing Lampard's clear goal yesterday with the score at 2-1 was their revenge. "Now we are quits," said the Westdeutsche Allgemeine and Welt newspapers. "Thank you, football God," added the popular Bild newspaper. Such has been Germany's reluctance to forget about Hurst's goal, any strike which bounces down on or over the goalline is known as a "Wembley goal" - but, according to the Suddeutsche Zeitung: "Wembley is now called Bloemfontein." "Everything would have been different had the referee allowed the goal which would have made it 2-2 in the 38th minute," recognised the Suddeutsche conversely. "It is a game which made history, but will not be consigned to the history books yet: this story is going to be told differently in Germany and in England - there is going to be an eternal 'what would have happened if' scenario. "This game recounted the entire history of all duels between these two teams, from the Wembley defeat to the 1-5 in Munich, with dramatic shots against the crossbar and wonderful goals on the counter - only all of that is not going to mean anything thanks to this refereeing error." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung instead preferred to focus on Germany's merits in a "fairytale 4-1 win over England". "This was the national team's first major international maturity test, and they passed it with distinction," wrote the FAZ. "It is Low's merit and he should carry on his job." FIFA will reject calls for goal-line technology to be introduced despite the controversy over Frank Lampard's disallowed strike. FIFA refused to comment after the match, saying: "FIFA will not make any comment on the decisions of the referee on the field of play." However FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said on the eve of the England-Germany game: "We can talk about refereeing decisions which, when you looked at them after the game, you could say were perhaps not good decisions. We didn't say you could have a zero-fault system in the World Cup. "Additional assistants [behind each goal-line] could happen in 2014 to make sure these kind of things are not happening in refereeing. "It doesn't mean the use of video, that is definitely not on the table today, but one thing we are discussing is two additional assistants to support referees to make decision-making easier and to have more eyes helping him to make such decisions. "We knew this is where criticism would come."
