July 31, 2022, was the day football finally came home.After 56 long years of hurt, England's women finally brought an end to the nation's trophy drought by beating Germany in the final of Euro 2022.The two old foes did battle in front of a record-breaking crowd at Wembley Stadium and it was the host nation who prevailed 2-1.Manchester City forward Chloe Kelly scored a dramatic extra-time winner after Lina Magull had cancelled out Ella Toone's marvellous opening goal.Overall, England were deserving winners. Sarina Wiegman's side had five more shots on target than their opponent and had 52% of the possession.But despite those facts, the German media have absolutely slammed the historic victory by the Lionesses, labelling the triumph as the "new Wembley fraud" - which of course is a reference to Geoff Hurst's controversial goal in the 1966 World Cup final.

'The new Wembley fraud'

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 01: Georgia Stanway, Leah Williamson and Ella Toone of England celebrate with their medals during the England Women's Team Celebration at Trafalgar Square on August 01, 2022 in London, England. The England Women's Football team beat Germany 2-1 in the Final of The UEFA European Women's Championship last night at Wembley Stadium. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Bild, a popular sports outlet in Germany, wrote: "Wembley fraud again! Even with video evidence, we are being scammed. This mustn’t be true! This simply cannot be true!”

"56 years after the wrongly given Wembley goal in the 1966 Wembley final, our women are again suffering a fraud in a final against England."

They went on to add: "This time despite video footage! The 1-2 after extra time has a nasty, rotten smell.

"You lost. But those who lose through fraud are in fact the winners."

The word 'salty' springs to mind...

Their obvious anger stems from a slightly controversial decision which was made while the score at Wembley was 0-0.

England captain Leah Williamson appeared to handle the ball inside the penalty area, but VAR didn't intervene and ask referee Kateryna Monzul of Ukraine to take a second look.

Take a look at the incident...

Video: Should Germany have had a penalty?

Yeah, England may have gotten away with one there, although the ball did appear to hit Williamson's shoulder first and was struck at her from point-blank range.

But despite that, Germany manager Martina Voss-Tecklenburg has still criticised the decision to not award her side a penalty.

Speaking at a press conference after defeat to England, she said: "Let’s differentiate between football and feelings and let’s start with the footballing things. In the first half the ball possession was a bit more on the English side.

"We managed to have some attacks, but what I’m thinking about now is there was a situation at 0-0 where there was a clear handball in the box and VAR looked at it and didn’t award the penalty.

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 31: Players of England fight to clear the ball as Germany attack during the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final match between England and Germany at Wembley Stadium on July 31, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)

"In such a big game, it’s difficult to cope with that. I’m asking, why didn’t the referee look at it? That would have given us more safety if we’d scored."