British press condemns defeat

British newspapers were unsparing in their condemnation of the England soccer team after it was defeated 4-1 by Germany in the second round of the World Cup in Bloemfontein on Sunday.

"By the bedraggled and humiliating finish here, even the old standbys, the cry of injustice and the desperate grasp for the moral victory had been torn into ruins," wrote John Dillon in the Daily Express. "The Golden Generation were in their final meltdown. The World Cup campaign had finished, as it started, as a calamity."

Matt Lawton in the Daily Mail said a disallowed England goal had not been the reason for the defeat.