The 11 Biggest World Cup Controversies. It all started in the seventh minute when Josip Šimunić pushed Aussie captain Mark Viduka away from the ball, which raised appeals for a penalty that were denied by Poll. And with that, Ukrainian referee Miroslav Stupar decided to disallow the goal, marking the first (and only time) a person from the stands changed the result of an official. In the match, Italy went down to ten men in the 50th minute when Marco Materazzi was red carded for a tackle that probably only deserved a yellow card. On that play, England's Geoff Hurst hit his shot off the crossbar, which ricochet down onto the goal line and went out.On the play, Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst was undecided if the play was a goal or not, but Soviet referee Tofik Bakhramov signaled to Dienst that the ball crossed the line. "Some say we should have stopped attacking but we had come to the World Cup to show the Algerian style and we weren't about to start playing defensively. But in the final group fixture, the games were played at different times, which allowed West Germany and Austria to learn that a 1-0 West German victory over Austria would be enough to advance onto the next round.And within ten minutes, West Germany were able to get that goal before the entire game came to a screeching halt as West Germany and Austria did nothing else of major significance for the rest of the match.And as a result of that, Austria and West Germany advanced over Algeria in a moment that West German manager Jupp Derwall,argued "we wanted to progress, not play football. And the Englishman (who had dreams of officiating the final) left his mark in a way that he has wanted to forget. The World Cup has seen some of the greatest moments in football history take place, but it has never been immune to controversial moments either. But if 10,000 'sons of the desert' here in the stadium want to trigger a scandal because of this it just goes to show that they have too few schools. We were determined to uphold the dignity of our people. "And of course, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Ivanov "should have given himself a yellow card for his poor performance during the match. Regardless of that, the match was 0-0 when Fabio Grosso went into the penalty box with the ball, and a missed tackle by Australian Lucas Neill gave Italy a last second penalty. "At the final whistle there were raucous celebrations in Gijón's El Molinón stadium and all over Algeria. From the restart a nine-pass Algeria move ended with Belloumi arriving unmarked to slam the ball in from close range.