World Cup Football: The Man in Black ; the Saturday Feature: One World Cup Final, Two Penalties and a Host of Memories From a Day to Treasure Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad On Jack Taylor's Two Big Decisions That Stunned the Organised Germans

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For a few minutes on that overcast Sunday afternoon on July 7, 1974, the most famous man in the world was a butcher from

Wolverhampton. He was too busy doing his job, his extra- curricula job, to realise that about a billion people were watching him.

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World Cup Football: The Man in Black ; the Saturday Feature: One World Cup Final, Two Penalties and a Host of Memories From a Day to Treasure Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad On Jack Taylor's Two Big Decisions That Stunned the Organised Germans

For Jack Taylor, it was merely the team in orange against the team in white, and he was the man in black. The pressure was minimal because the decision was an easy one. He was the referee. He had a job to do.

"A guy from the team in white fouled a guy from the team in orange, which meant I had to award a penalty," he says. "I was too preoccupied with putting the ball on the penalty spot to consider that a quarter of the world's population were watching me. I realised it afterwards, of course."

The 1974 World Cup final, between Holland and West Germany in Munich, was a classic sto...

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