We need to protect the basic way the game is played.". That's not much of a challenge. England take a short corner on the right. Germany outplayed England to advance to the quarter-finals, Fabio Capello has said he will not resign as England manager but will be seeking a meeting with the FA about his future. 8 min: A fresh, open feel to the early exchanges in this game. Everything since is either not quite right, or a whole world of wrong. Don't England get a turn? Milner whips a low cross in from the right. They looked dangerous every time they came forward for the majority of the first half; now, nothing. The corner's wasted. Blatter said the issue will now form part of the agenda at next month's meeting of the International FA Board (IFAB), the body that decides the laws of the game. Jingoism's Guy Mowbray, on the BBC, is arguing that the laughable decision not to award Lampard's goal was more wrong than the one which allowed Hurst's goal all those years ago. 49 min: Gerrard cuts inside from the left, across the face of the German box, and drags a low, hard shot wide left. Oh, well, here we go again. All rights reserved. What both teams will have on: The battle fever. ", And we're off, again! Gerrard swings a cross in towards Upson, who is always getting there ahead of Neuer, and heads home. Boateng is across to block, defensive brilliance. James saves brilliantly, low at Klose's feet. Germany meanwhile have reached a World Cup final, a European Championship final, and a World Cup semi. Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana, your boys took... hold on, someone's already gone with that riff, haven't they. "England will complain long and hard about the bitter injustice of Frank Lampard's disallowed goal, with justification, but no amount of controversy should disguise how embarrassing they have been in parts of this game. asks Mike Murphy. Lampard takes another swipe, a decent one from 30 yards towards the top right, but the keeper claims well. How can England combat (a Blitzy type word) such organization? 83 min: The wonderful Ozil is replaced by Kiessling. "I certainly don't feel in any way at all that additional assistance will undermine my position. - the defence is nowhere to be seen. He doesn't bother engaging James, looping the ball to the left of the area, where Podolski is free in acres. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. The FA decide not to cancel a friendly at White Hart Lane in 1935, despite the TUC calling for it to be ditched with a view to not giving advertising space to the increasingly ubiqutous Hitler brand, then order the team to throw Nazi shapes before a return game in Berlin in 1938. The next couple of games are played out in the shadow cast by impending conflict. Best left all round, this period. "I'm not sure. While we're on a discipline tip, here are the players on one yellow card and risking a day off come quarter-final time: Johnson, Gerrard and Milner for England; Lahm, Khedira, Schweinsteiger, Ozil, Muller and Cobbleigh for Germany. wonders Nick Knight. 26 min: Klose knocks last man Upson in the back, sending him spinning like a teenager full of Special Brew. Barwick told BBC Sport. Milner and Barry have been working away down the right, too. Tempting Fate Or An Elaborate Double Bluff To Bodyswerve It? Lampard was denied a goal in Sunday's 4-1 second-round loss, even though his shot clearly crossed the line. Or are we feeling mischevious? ", • Mauricio Espinosa admits he was caught out by speed of shot, Frank Lampard of England scores the goal that never was past Germany's Manuel Neuer. Let's start again, as the Germans seem to have done.". The ball loops up, and is eventually sliced clear by Friedrich. Lampard stands over it. Is that Scot trying to test fate in the Germans' favour?" What a frown on him! If eyesight is not going to work, why not help the guys who are on the field and on the touchline? "We will start with a new concept of how to improve match control. ', especially since lots of teams play in white away. Probably. Four people didn't, and those are the men in the middle. Anyway, the English papers have been embarrassing themselves today, as you'd expect. It turned out to be the last game Espinosa was involved in during the finals as Fifa did not include him on their retained list for the last eight and beyond. "As wrong as the decision was, it can't disguise the lack of basic skills. The Uruguayan official Mauricio Espinosa failed to spot that Lampard's long-range drive had bounced over the line after crashing down off the underside of the bar during England's 4-1 defeat in Bloemfontein on 27 June. 85 min: Still, look on the bright side, at least Rooney didn't melt down and get himself sent off. "Perhaps the ref thought that the 'if it goes in it must stay in' rules of pool, basketball, golf apply to football too. "Personally I deplore it when you see evident referee mistakes but it's not the end of a competition or the end of football, this can happen," added Blatter. Fifa president Sepp Blatter has apologised to the Football Association over Frank Lampard's disallowed goal in England's World Cup defeat by Germany. Ozil and Podolski have taken turns to run straight at the England back line, understandably having concluded that the players in it might bugger off for a cigarette at any given moment. Heskey replaces Defoe. James plucks the cross from the air. dept. Had the goal been given, England would have drawn level at 2-2. "Sorry England," writes Hartmut Hirt. So it's far from lost for them. First Germany's. Why not, Barbara, why not. Especially after witnessing this defensive display, never mind that Lampard goal. James gets a hand to the shot, but it was hit hard as you like and flies into the bottom-right corner. Muller wins a corner on the right. Germany 2-0 England. A series of England match reports written by "biased but fair" jingoistic Boer War veteran The Wing Commander, it gives both the Fourth Estate and the players they overhype a right old shoeing, and is pretty much the funniest book about football ever written. The Tevez goal - the first in Argentina's win on Sunday - was replayed on the screens in the stadium, sparking angry clashes between officials and the Mexican players and coaches. 61 min: I have a feeling this is going to get exceptionally frenetic. The sole benefit of England's white kit: "A friend of mine has been championing England changing their home kit to red for years, ever since the infamous grey Euro 96 strip, and it doesn't seem to have become any more likely," writes Eddie Robson. 89 min: Rooney tries to cause some bother from the byline, to the right of goal. 38 min: ENGLAND GET THEIR GAMEFACES ON!!! These guys needs help. Neuer hoofs a long ball upfield, straight down the middle. English World Cup referee Howard Webb, who officiated in last month's Champions League final, said he would be in favour of technological aids if they helped referees make the right call. The decision was reached after watching presentations of two systems - Cairos, a microchip inserted in a ball, and Hawk-Eye, which is used in tennis and cricket. 51 min: England are enjoying a lot of the ball since the restart. Lampard can't believe it. A terrible show, an embarrassment, and an especially pathetic defensive performance. I cannot disclose more of what we are doing but something has to be changed.". Actually, this isn't really much of a muchness, is it. From it, Schweinsteiger and Lahm fanny around for ages before the latter finally gets a cross in. As an aside, here are the only players to have scored more goals in the final stages of the World Cup than Miroslav Klose, who has scored 11 at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 tournaments: Ronaldo (15 at 1998, 2002 and 2006), Gerd Muller (14 at 1970 and 1974), Just Fontaine (13 at 1958) and Pele (12 at 1958, 1962, 1966 and 1970).

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