A disputed goal four minutes from the end robbed England of a deserved draw against the World Cup holders. England had led from late in the first-half when Stuart Pearson beat goalkeeper Sepp Maier with a looping header from a Steve Coppell cross. Hamburg-based Kevin Keegan ran himself to the edge of exhaustion in his attempts to make the game safe, and had to be replaced by Trevor Francis. It was Germany's substitute, Ronnie Worm, who equalised shortly after coming on in the seventy-fifth minute. The previous evening he had scored after being sent on as a substitute in the 'B' international against England. In the closing moments Dave Watson was adjudged to have fouled Burgsmuller, and while England were still forming their defensive wall Rainer Bonhof smacked a free-kick low into the net.  It was Ron Greenwood's first match as official manager, and with a little luck it would have been a winning start. 'We have the nucleus of an excellent team,' he said. 'If we had not lost our concentration when the free-kick was being taken we would have come away with a deserved draw. That's not bad considering we were playing on the home patch of the world champions.'

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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