Germans have since been insisting that the goal Geoff Hurst scored during extra time giving the Three Lions team their 3-2 win against Germany shouldn’t have stood because the ball didn’t fully cross the line.
Now it looks like Bild is ready to forgive the Brits for the pain they caused the Germans fifty years back.
Apparently speaking on behalf of all Germans, the magazine also promised to stop making jokes about Prince Charles’ ears, to go without their goaltender during the next penalty shootout, to attend the Queen Elizabeth’s 100th birthday party and a list of other equally self-effacing things.
Meanwhile, EA Sports, a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games and, used by Sky in their analysis of the '66 final, has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the 1966 goal was rightfully counted.
