Last Boy of ’66
My story of England’s World Cup winning team
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Narrated by:
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Rupert Farley
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Sir Geoff Hurst
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By:
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Sir Geoff Hurst
About this listen
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FOUR FOR ENGLAND. THREE FOR HURST.
'Images of us celebrating have taken their place in the nation’s photo album. Trophy aloft, smiling into our future.
Banksy, George, Jack, Mooro, Ray, Nobby, Bally, Bobby, Martin, Roger. My ten teammates. My old friends. They’ve now all gone. Heroes from an era that is slipping into sepia.'
But it isn't all over. Not yet. One of them is still here, and before he goes, Geoff wanted to get down his final thoughts about 1966. He talks about Alf Ramsay - his vision, his drive, his loyalty. Also his shyness, even awkwardness. About his teammates, about Jimmy Greaves - hard workers, cool heads, dedicated pros. Geoff tells their collective story, digging below the surface, reflecting on their victory, its impact on their lives.
It was a bittersweet onward journey for the Boys of '66. Their legacy was squandered and their team uncelebrated. But the eleven of them shared something that no other Englishman has ever experienced. Here Geoff brings them all together, one last time, to see them make history.
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- Derek
- 19-04-25
How it used to be Legends
Excellent read Takes you back in time when football was played with passion these players forever legends and we had world class players through out the team but no prima donnas unlike today where Money rules the game and mediocre players are made super stars overnight unlike 1966 well the 60s where players connected with the real fans and delivered on pitches in conditions todays players would of refused to play in with a football that got heavier if it rained and if it snowed the lines were cleared and an orange ball used no drama unlike the manicured perfect pitches the beach balls played with today and the constant holding of the head and feigning injuries they were proper players proper men but we also
had a English manager who had a plan and believed in it he told us we would win the World Cup and we did.Up to today we still Havant won another World Cup yet a manager gets knighted for reaching finals and losing about sums up the game today.The players who won the World Cup as Geoff says did there job won the World Cup no big deal in fact did what they were expected to do then Geoff cut his lawns at home and era lost forever players that we will never see the ilk of again World Class players and in all truth we know we have no world class players well any English Players that are any where as good as the 1966 players as well they have never won a World Cup says it all.
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