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Sumner stuns Berliners with 1966 taunt
By Dale Johnson
Bernard Sumner shocked fans at a concert in Berlin this week when he dedicated a song to David Beckham and taunted them about the 1966 World Cup final.
Sumner, lead singer of New Order, was greeted by cheers when he welcomed Germany's qualification for next year's finals - they beat Ukraine in a play-off on Wednesday.
But those cheers soon turned to boos when he reminded the German crowd how England had beaten them 4-2 in the 1966 final.
'You didn't win in 1966,' quipped Sumner, an avowed Manchester United fan, before bassist Peter Hook intervened to assure the outraged audience that Sumner was only joking.
But memories of their one-sided, 5-1 defeat by England in a World Cup qualifying match in Munich in September were clearly still raw for many in the audience.
Introducing the band's hit song 'Touched by the hand of God', Bernard Sumner said: 'This song is dedicated to David Beckham - touched by the foot of God'.
Happily for Anglo-German relations, New Order did not play 'World in Motion', the song they wrote with Keith Allen for England's World Cup soccer campaign in 1990.
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Sumner stuns Berliners with 1966 taunt
By Dale Johnson
Bernard Sumner shocked fans at a concert in Berlin this week when he dedicated a song to David Beckham and taunted them about the 1966 World Cup final.
Sumner, lead singer of New Order, was greeted by cheers when he welcomed Germany's qualification for next year's finals - they beat Ukraine in a play-off on Wednesday.
But those cheers soon turned to boos when he reminded the German crowd how England had beaten them 4-2 in the 1966 final.
'You didn't win in 1966,' quipped Sumner, an avowed Manchester United fan, before bassist Peter Hook intervened to assure the outraged audience that Sumner was only joking.
But memories of their one-sided, 5-1 defeat by England in a World Cup qualifying match in Munich in September were clearly still raw for many in the audience.
Introducing the band's hit song 'Touched by the hand of God', Bernard Sumner said: 'This song is dedicated to David Beckham - touched by the foot of God'.
Happily for Anglo-German relations, New Order did not play 'World in Motion', the song they wrote with Keith Allen for England's World Cup soccer campaign in 1990.
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