The 1972 European Championship quarter-final was the resumption of a great football rivalry between England and West Germany ©Getty Images The West Germans had never won at the stadium where ...

How West Germany won Euro 1972: ... West Germany defeated England in the quarter-finals over two legs to reach the four-team final tournament, ... West Germany’s best player was Gunter Netzer, ...

Not perhaps a man to buy a used car from, Günter Netzer's dazzling skills helped West Germany shred all-comers at EURO 1972 and he was charismatic off the pitch too.

Not until Euro 2000 did England again beat (west) Germany in a competitive fixture. Netzer himself, the architect of the victory at Wembley, soon faded from the international stage, but for ...

They made no such errors in 1972. They topped qualifying Group Eight before then seeing off England 3-1 on aggregate in a quarter-final in which playmaker Gunter Netzer shone at Wembley.

West Germany of the cold-war 1970s, with long-haired Gerd Mueller, lank-haired Gunter Netzer and afro-haired Paul Breitner, won almost everything under the command of "Der Kaizer", Franz Beckenbauer.

FIFA recounts the fascinating battle between Gunter Netzer and Wolfgang Overath for a place in West Germany's XI at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.