30 Oct 2020 16:44:55
So Nobby Stiles has passed away, RIP.
It is so sad to see all these losses of our 1966 World Cup Winners. There are not many left now.
I was 16 at the time and can still remember the game well and the excitement at the time. I was on holidays in Spain with mom and dad for the early rounds and remember the locals all piled around the only tv in their street watching it and they welcomed us as 'future' cup winners.
Those were good days for football.

1.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 18:10:55
Nice story Aka, and RIP Nobby. They would never have pulled it off without him. Not one of the glamour players but he kept Eusébio quiet in the semis and that was no mean feat. Will always remember the scene after the match, World Cup in one hand and the false teeth in the other.
I was 6 at the time Aka, but still remember it well, would be nice if England could do it again in our lifetimes.

2.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 18:46:20
I always felt sorry for Jimmy Greaves our number 1 goal scorer at the time and virtually guaranteed of his place. He got injured in an earlier match, was replaced by Geoff Hurst who went on to an historical hat trick in the final.
What a team that was which included the Charlton Brothers, Captain Bobby Moore and arguably one of the greatest goalkeepers ever Gordon Banks.

3.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 19:13:46
Yeah great memories lads, I was 16 as well Aka, a bit older with more stupid habits than you Mark at 6 yrs, like creeping of for a fag 😁
I was on Holiday in Great Yarmouth with a mate of mine, his parents chaperoned us, well they thought they did, 😂😂
But great times for the nation, I think the closest we had to an England player then was big Tony Hateley.

4.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 19:23:47
I wonder if Gerry Hitchens would have had a chance if he hadn’t gone to Italy a few years earlier? Though probably not as he may have been to old.
I remember him and Peter McParland having a good partnership with Villa several years before the World Cup and he was my boyhood favourite at one time.
Memories.

5.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 19:37:08
Probably a bit too old in 1966, but did play 8 times for England Aka, he was a good payer though.

6.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 19:57:07
Good memories VD. We used To go to the same old caravan site in Wales every summer for our holidays in the 60’s. Tony Hately and his family used to come down too for at least a couple of weeks - obviously in a much better caravan - the ‘ lads and dads’ footie Match was a foregone conclusion even with Mark being 9 like me. I think Tony was earning just a bit more than my Dad then who was an engineer. Different times 😕.

7.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 20:36:16
Another nice story MD, Its great to reminisce about the old times, it gets a hold of me a bit, and it can stir the emotions.

8.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 20:57:38
The matches I always loved Dave were the midweek ones against Spurs under floodlights with a full house. I used to stand behind the goal at the Holte end in those days.
I can’t remember winning many of them but the matches always seemed so much more exciting when you were young.
I can still remember my dad buying a player badge for me at each match we went to and the good old fashioned rattle that I used to use.
Those were the days.

9.) 30 Oct 2020
30 Oct 2020 22:27:12
you stood pretty close to where I used to stand Aka, sometimes on my dads shoulders, and sometimes round the cinder track round the edge of the pitch so we could see.
Fantastic with a cup of Bovril, and a huge wooden rattle swinging round your head, brilliant mate.