the farce the game ended at 10 to the germans which meant that west germany austria and algeria all finished on 4 points and the germans and the austrians went through to the next round on goal difference west germany had a gd of 3 austria of 2 and algeria had a gd of 0 the commentators were disgusted by what they witnessed so were the fans in the stadium local newspaper el comercio ran the match report in its crime section according to some reports austrias national broadcasters told viewers in austria to switch off their tv sets it appeared to be an on the spot decision by the teams to play in this fashion and not really prematch fixing but the match went down in the history books as one of the most infamous games of football ever played and is still remembered as the disgrace of gijonthe algerian federation of course protested against this but since no rules were broken fifa or any other body couldnt punish anybodywhat fifa did do though after this was revise its world cup match schedule such that the final matches of all groups from the next edition in 1986 would have simultaneous kickoffs this was done to maintain the sanctity of the games and the tournament as a whole so that no teamteams can plan results in advance based on previous results it helps to maintain a level playing field for all teams ensuring that no team gets the short end of the stick in the 1982 edition west germany made its way to the final where they lost to eventual champions italy austria meanwhile were knocked out in the second round played at that time before the knockouts which began with the semifinals after a 01 loss to france and a 22 draw with northern irelandthe practice of simultaneous kickoffs for the last two games of a group serves another purpose that of ensuring that no matchfixing of any kind propelled by bets on a teamteams can be engineered