It'll certainly raise eyebrows for the Soviets. ITTL, you'd definitely have a Soviet manned mission to the moon as well, and a spiral where space becomes increasingly weaponized by both sides of the iron curtain.
How about 1) Flood the Islas Malvinas with Argentinian immigrants (impromptu penal colony?), and force all of the Falklanders off the islands ASAP, by force if necessary (massacring them would work better, but suggesting that they do so would be in poor taste). Argentina still loses the war, but...
China still seems to be doing alright- far better than IOTL. Brazil's now the richest, most powerful nation in the Western Hemisphere, followed closely by Argentina and Mexico- and really, who else do the British have left to get war loans from? Also worth mentioning, if they do manage to break...
He's issuing an AHC to create a TL where every single state in the USA is named after a former US President. And every single former US President, through from George Washington to George W. Bush (Jr as well as Snr? Or can you have a single state for both, given that they have the same name?)...
If this was an ASB scenario, then sure, that'd happen. But here in the real world? Don't think so. Even so, the bandwagon of England hype just got the mother of all superchargers.
And seems to have a problem with raising his work-rate and performing in competitive internationals. But hey, him scoring twice against Costa Rica isn't that much of a stretch.
There's still a decent chance of them not bottling it though, isn't there? Comparable to rolling the right number on a dice, or at the very worst picking the right card out of a pack. It could have happened.
And if they'd already been forced to use up their last substitution earlier in the match due to someone picking up an injury (easy enough over the course of 120 minutes), Tim Krul wouldn't have been able to come on for the penalty shootout.