England 1966 World Cup fixed

The 1966 World Cup in England has gone down in history for the shameful pictures of a final that was clearly prepared for the British won. A phantom goal clearly was not, and a goal when the field was literally invaded by fans, embarrassed the whole world.

But for a long England was smarting from not having won to date no World, especially when one considered the inventors of football. And he took the chairmanship of an Englishman at the head of FIFA, Sir Stanley Rous, to grant the organization this country.

From the beginning we saw that things were preparing to ease the way to the British until the final, since the first draw of the group, which happened to England he played in London and a calendar that rested match up to 5 days and party, when the schedule of other teams (especially those considered most potent) was much tighter and much less quality fields. On the subject of arbitration for the first time, each participating country was required to provide two referees, and so did everybody. Interestingly, the relationship was finally presented arbitrators appear 4 English referees, 1 Irish and one Scottish.

On the other hand, was great team to beat Brazil, which had won the last two world: that of Sweden 58 and the Chile 62. In Brazil it was the considered "group of death" with Portugal (which came with Eusebio in the lead), Hungary (which was still considered one of the best teams on the continent, although in decline) and Bulgaria. Also by coincidence, the three matches so they are refereed ... yes indeed ... an Englishman.

There's more ... match between England and Argentina at Wembley. The day before the game, the Argentines asked permission to use the field and train. They were denied the permit because it seems that day had been organized in the same stadium a dog race. In that encounter, drove the 36 minutes to an Argentine player, the report said arbitration "because it looked bad intentions ..."

Apart from those events that led to England could be a champion, there are other data that are worth highlighting.

For this World Cup England 66 instribieron 74 countries, but three were eliminated because of errors in your registration: Congo had not submitted the written request, the Philippines failed to pay registration, and Guatemala did later. Finally, sixteen teams played the final round, ten of which were European, five from South America, and the other was North Korea, the great revelation.