WITH the temperature sizzling in the nineties in the sun, Dutch referee Peter Martens amazed the players by trying to stop this Under-23 international here today. Five minutes before the end he went over to Maurice Setters, the West Bromwich right-half, captaining Young England for the first time, and said:
   "It's too hot to play on. How about calling it off?"
   Setters replied: "We'll keep going. We want to win if we can."
Later the England team boss Ron Greenwood told me: "I think the lads did well in view of the extreme heat. It must have been murder out there." The England youngsters had the ability to whip the pants off this German team, but in the conditions neither side ever gave one hundred percent effort all through. When they did, England delighted the 4,000 British troops, who came here to cheer them on. Waving Union Jacks sounding hooters and chanting "Who do we appreciate?" they almost turned it into a home game. It blazed into life in the thirteenth minute. Outside left Albert Scanlon went through to lay on a great pass for red-headed Tony Kay, Sheffield Wednesday left-half to take on and hit home. But a minute later German outside-left Dieter Backhaus equalised, cracking the past Tony Macedo as the Fulham goalkeeper advanced. Backhaus, a local boy from Bochum's own club, was the German star. It was he who put them ahead in the seventy-ninth minute, when big John Angus, the Burnley right back, helped the ball into the net trying to clear.
   Urged on anxiously and ardently by every Britisher here, England saved the match with just nine minutes left.
Tony Allen, the Stoke full back, broke up an attack; came through with the ball and placed a perfect pass for Burnley's Jimmy Robson to run on to and score. Then these English lads fought desperately. In the last few minutes, Peter Brabrook, Chelsea's right-winger, was brought down for what seemed an obvious penalty, but it wasn't allowed. In the last sixty seconds they forced two corners, but it was too late—AND TOO HOT.
  

Once again the Under-23 team played well to draw with Germany in a match played in a fierce battle in Bochum. Several changes had to be made from the side that beat Italy, owing to injury and to calls to the full team, but England took the lead early on with a goal from Kay. A minute later Backhaus equalised, and in the second half Germany took the lead when Setters deflected a Backhaus shot into his own goal. In the closing stages England fought back strongly, and Robson deservedly made the scores level. Macedo played well in goal, and Allen, Setters, Kay, and Robson could scarcely be faulted.