At 2-1 down in the first half of their last 16 match against Germany, Lampard's shot clearly went over the line, but it wasn't given. Germany went on to win 4-1 against an England team desperately pushing for an equaliser they should already have scored.
Chelsea had rotten luck in their 2009 Champions League semi-final defeat against Barcelona – aka the Battle of the Bridge – and they were raging. Chelsea had four penalty appeals turned down in a match they were leading 1-0 and then Andres Iniesta’s strike deep in injury-time sealed the visitors’ place in the final on away goals.