Defeat

I found a reference to this in one of Uli Hesse's Bundesliga columns: it's officially the greatest German sports photograph of the century, taken by a bloke who called himself (though it famously wasn't his real name) Sven Simon.



That, in case you're wondering, is West German soccer player Uwe Seeler reacting to his team's defeat to England in the 1966 World Cup Final. I still reckon (but will never admit it) that the Germans were robbed in that game. But I don't have much sympathy for them: Hungary were by far the better team in the 1954 World Cup Final, and the Netherlands were by far the better team in 1974... and the Germans won both those titles.

What's the German for "what you lose on the swings you make up on the roundabouts"?