The third "goal"...


On July 30, 1966, the English national team in the London Wembley Stadium defeated German Elf...



... and becomes world champion in their own country...:





The Regular Game Ends After 90 Minutes 2: 2 Through Goals by Helmut Haller (12th minute) ...



... Geoff Hurst, (18th minute)...



... Martin Peters (78th minute)...



...and Wolfgang Weber (90th minute)...:



The extension must decide!

This ends 4: 2 for the English, whereby the third English goal by Geoff Hurst in the 101st minute still has controversies to this day, whether it was really a goal ...



The Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst ...



...didn't see a goal and initially decided to take a goal kick...



...but was replaced by his Soviet linesman Tofiq Bəhramov...



...corrected who had seen a goal.

Both of them could hardly understand each other because the linesman only spoke Russian and Azerbaijani...





The line judge later admitted not to have seen exactly whether the ball was in the goal; However, from the reaction of the participants (jubilation of the English, restraint of the Germans), he concluded that a goal must have been.

However, this does not match his memoirs: there he wrote that he was completely convinced that the ball was behind the line because he touched the network. He did not see the hit on the floor because he concentrated on the cheering English.

But the ball has never touched the network, as television pictures and photos show!





Einer der wenigen Deutschen, die den Ball im Tor gesehen hatten, war Bundespräsident Heinrich Lübke...:



When Lübke awarded the German team after their return, he said:"It was a goal. I saw it exactly, gentlemen. I saw the ball fidgeting on the net."



It was not a goal for me - the ball never got over the line, except for this video animation from 2018 ...:



But decide yourself ...:



The fourth and last goal of the English - again by Geoff Hurst (120th minute) - only has statistical value...:

Bravo England! Congrats!!!