Editing 1966 FIFA World Cup final (section)

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[[File:England germany entering pitch.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Both teams entering the pitch in front of 96,924 fans]]
England, managed by [[Alf Ramsey]] and captained by [[Bobby Moore]], won the toss and elected to kick off. After 12 minutes, [[Sigfried Held]] sent a cross into the English penalty area which [[Ray Wilson (English footballer)|Ray Wilson]] misheaded to [[Helmut Haller]], who got his shot on target. [[Jack Charlton]] and goalkeeper [[Gordon Banks]] failed to deal with the shot which went in, making it 1–0 to West Germany.

[[File:Wembley_Stadium_Twin_Towers.jpg|thumb|left|The original Wembley Stadium with its famous twin towers]]
In the 18th minute, [[Wolfgang Overath]] conceded a free kick, which Moore took immediately, floating a cross into the West German area, where [[Geoff Hurst]] rose unchallenged; his downward glancing header went into the net and levelled the scores at 1-1. The teams were level at half-time, and after 77&nbsp;minutes England won a corner. [[Alan Ball Jr.|Alan Ball]] delivered the ball to Geoff Hurst whose deflected shot from the edge of the area found [[Martin Peters]]. He produced the final shot, beating the West German keeper from eight yards to make the score 2–1 to England.<ref name="guardian_live">{{cite web |first1=Rob |last1=Smyth |first2=Scott |last2=Murray |title=World Cup final 1966: England v West Germany – live! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/may/30/world-cup-final-1966-england-west-germany-live |work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|date=30 May 2014}}</ref>

Germany pressed for an equaliser in the closing moments, and in the 89th minute [[Jack Charlton]] conceded a free kick for climbing on [[Uwe Seeler]] as they both went up for a header.<ref name="guardian_live"/> The kick was taken by [[Lothar Emmerich]], who struck it into [[George Cohen]] in the wall; the rebound fell to Held, who shot across the face of goal and into the body of [[Karl-Heinz Schnellinger]]. The ball deflected across the England six-yard box, wrong-footing the England defence and allowing [[Wolfgang Weber]] to level the score at 2–2 and force the match into extra time. Banks protested that the ball had struck Schnellinger on the arm, and reiterated the claim in his 2002 autobiography,<ref>{{cite book |last=Banks |first=Gordon |title=Banksy |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7181-4582-8 |page=136 }}</ref> but replays showed that it actually struck Schnellinger on the back.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Glanville |first1=Brian |title=The Story of the World Cup |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London |year=2010 |orig-year=1973 |isbn=978-0-571-23605-3 |page=154 }}</ref>