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| Trivia on the 1966 World Cup | |
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| Simon | Jan 9 2010, 01:50 PM Post #31 |
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But at 7:36 it does? If there are still differing opinions 44 years after the event, I think we can sympathise with the officials who had to make an instant decision on the day. Of course in real time it happened in a flash. Roger Hunt must have been convinced, rightly or wrongly, that it had gone in because he didn't even attack the ball as it bounced back up. This is a bloke who'd top-scored that season with 30 goals in 37 matches - his instinct would have been to attack the ball if he'd had even one iota of doubt. I do think that Hunt's reaction in particular would have helped sway the linesman, even if subconsciously. One of Blatter's reasons for rejecting the use of video technology is that fans wouldn't have anything to talk about any more if such incidents were definitively resolved by sensors. I've always thought that was ludicrous, but on the basis of this thread, who knows? I don't think Schon should have beaten himself up too badly over those tactical decisions. Hindsight is 20-20 as they say, and I reckon there was every reason to pick Emmerich, even if it didn't work out. If Schon later conceded that he'd been wrong to ask Beckenbauer to shadow Bobby Charlton then surely it must have been much later, as he detailed Beckenbauer to do precisely the same thing when England met Germany in the 1970 WC quarters. England were famously 2-0 up and controlling the game, but it's widely thought that Alf Ramsey's removal of Charlton played a part in England's eventual extra time defeat as it freed Beckenbauer to play a more positive game. Again, hindsight is 20-20. Taking off Charlton, by then a veteran, must have seemed a good idea when England were 2-0 up in the Mexican heat. Schon played his part, his replacement of Libuda with Grabowski has often been thought decisive. As were the goalkeeping errors of Peter Bonetti, only in the side bacause Gordon Banks was suffering a bout of 'Montezuma's Revenge'. There are various conspiracy theories about that as well, but what would a World Cup be without controversy and conspiracy theories?! And no, I've got no idea who the second linesman was... |
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| raconteur | Jan 9 2010, 03:59 PM Post #32 |
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The 2nd linesman is like a character at the start of a movie who quickly gets killed off. He's insignificant to the storyline! ![]() But for the record it was Karol Galba from Czechoslovakia. |
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| Manzanares | Jan 16 2010, 03:23 PM Post #33 |
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Good analogy raconteur! I looked it up and you are right about the identity of the third man in the scenario, it was Karol Galba. An obscure figure from history if ever there was one! |
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| Martin | Jan 16 2010, 10:45 PM Post #34 |
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The third man? What does Harry Lime have to do with the 1966 World Cup Final? ![]() Apart from all the other topics we have discussed relating to 1966, that World Cup also remains the Soviet Union/Russia's best ever finish as they made the semifinals. 1954 was the USSR's first World Cup and in that and the following 2 World Cups they advanced to the quarterfinals and made it to the semifinals in 1966 so it looked like they were progressing but such a large and football mad country has never even made it that close since then, 1970's quarterfinal and 1982's second round group stage (equivalent to the quarterfinals) being the farthest they have advanced since then. They've done better in the European Nations Cup, winning it in 1960, runner up in 1964 and 1988 and semifinalists in 2008 but World Cup success has escaped them. They thought Guus Hiddink's current team could change that but Slovenia had other ideas. |
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| Iceman778 | Apr 12 2010, 08:07 AM Post #35 |
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your words speak so much and i really agree with you |
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