Proof England's Goal DID NOT CROSS THE LINE against Germany

The cries of referee incompetence and the need for goal-line technology are now making vuvuzelas sound like an inaudible whisper as England have been denied a triumphant equalizer in their round of 16 match against Germany. After the Germans broke from the tentative opening to score a pair of devastating goals 12 minutes apart, the English showed tremendous resilience and scored off a Matthew Upson header just five minutes later. A mere minute after that, English midfielder Frank Lampard blasted a long-range effort off the crossbar that clearly bounced well inside the goal, but as England celebrated, the referees failed to signal the score and amazingly allowed play to continue.
And we thought the U.S.'s disallowed winner against Slovenia was bad.
[Photos: More images from Germany's 4-1 win over England]
In a World Cup marred by a number of stupefying referee decisions, this one clearly trumps all (so far) and will only intensify the desperate pleas that reached fever pitch after Thierry Henry's handball during qualifying for stubborn FIFA to start using goal-line technology to make sure blatant mistakes like this don't continue to happen.
Of course, this will also be called some kind of karmic justice a nauseatingly infinite number of times in reference to England's extra time winner in their 4-2 1966 World Cup final victory over Germany that benefitted from a generous goal-line call by the ref. This time, however, the ball was so far over the line that it really shouldn't be a question of judgment or technology. A computer would laugh if asked if that was a goal. Yet, the officials missed it and that will be a point of discussion for many tedious years to come.
UPDATE: Germany pile on the pain and finish with a 4-1 win, but the question is whether those last two goals would've still come had the score been level at 2-2 and England hadn't been pushing men forward to try and get their second goal for the second time. Four years is a long time to chew on that. Still, the young Germans played extremely well and look to be a danger to all comers going forward.
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[st33trac3r]

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[balistix0z]

Lmfao this is funny as fuck, why are you people whinin

[rustyhughes]

huh?

[cbbatista]

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[ThegORg2008]

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[Nooblet68]

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[cpfcfly1]

Americans.

[yunuss58]

I am german and I say it was a goal.

[LukeeMason]

lmao im english and this is funny! england would of lost anyway because we are shit at football!

[PhillyII]

@BlackopsBoi100 wee? no im fine i went the loo before, and btw im talking about every world cup, you suck so much cock ur too tired to play properly, i mean have Scotland ever got into the knockout stages? or do all them deep fried mars bars really fuck you up?

[Franksy8]

@msvorgel regardless they're shite!