Blimey, we are so close in age. My earliest recollection is the 1966 World Cup. 1970 was the same for me as it was for you. I didn't think those days would be the high watermark for England.
Is it just me that thinks Barkley is over rated? All I've seen of him is someone that runs at defenders and loses the ball when a pass would have Ben the better option.
What the **** was Phil Neville watching? "We have played well, we have kept possession well, we have been the better team but two lapses in concentration have cost us."
Do you remember the issue about Bobby Moore and the theft of some jewellery before the tournament - never proved but seen as a hype to single out him? I can never forget that? 1966 - my father went to the final and I remember that day because I went to St Denys to spend the day with a great aunt I did not know that well but, coming up to 6 I knew something was happening that day - I felt the expectation even if I did not know what was going on... I have so many memento's of that day that my father brought home - still have the match day programme and a copy of the evening standard that night which my father got on the way home via Waterloo
I was 9 when I watched the '66 world cup. When we olduns die out there will be no one alive who saw England win a world cup, and it will NEVER happen again. Welcome to mediocrity fellas
Only referred to it earlier today. You might have to scroll down the page: http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/266709-Colombia-v-Ivory-Coast-1700-BST?p=6646432#post6646432
I thought of another storey when I saw your 'name' - I moved away from Hampshire in 1984 and returned to live in Romsey in 2007 and one day shortly thereafter I went to the site of the old ground (where I first went at the age of 5) - down the Milton Road end and saw the housing development that has taken up the old ground. What was sadly ironic was a sign on the wall stating "No balls games to be played on this estate" - am serious - the wording maybe slightly wrong - but its substance was there for all the read.
That game was all too typical England; not all bad but when were behind and running out of time everyone's a pot shot hero. 2 from Henderson in 2 games on the trot, is this why people think he's good?
No, I don't think he's overrated, but he certainly wasn't the answer to England's question this evening.
How bizarre that we connected this way! I remember the photo's of Bobby Moore on an escalator (B&W of course) in the news paper after the incident. World football was so scared of England at that time - I think we lost one game in four years after 1966 and that was 1-0 to Scotland just before the tournament.
