Some people are on the pitch,they think it,s all over.

[Leekbrookgull]

Wonderful historic words. Well done lads.

 

[Triggaaar]

How depressing

 

[fat old seagull]

How depressing

Not really..... but hardly profound, or thread worthy either!

 

[pishhead]

Depressing indeed that our high water mark as a European footballing nation was 50 years ago.

 

[smudge]

I was 5, I remember wearing my World Cup Willie badge & everyone being happy.

 

[clippedgull]

Wonderful historic words. Well done lads.

How prophetic that commentator was! He may have been referring to our chances of ever lifting another International Trophy. If so he's been correct for fifty years.

 

[rocker959]

I was 8 years old camping in the New Forest with Mum , Dad and Sis having travelled down in Dad's Austin Ruby Seven that had cost him a fiver and listened to the match on a transistor radio . Happy Days.

 

[Aveacarlin']

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It's not it,s

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[ExmouthExile]

I wonder if Brazil will be celebrating their 1970 World Cup win in four years time.

 

[Soulman]

I wonder if Brazil will be celebrating their 1970 World Cup win in four years time.

Not as long to wait 60 years in two years time.

 

[pasty]

Celebrating 50 years of being shit. Whoop-de-do

 

[Quinney]

Clearly if I was alive at the time I would probably love re watching it, however I do find 1966 rather tedious.

 

[ManOfSussex]

My Dad went to the final. He got his ticket through a work colleague who had a spare, as the work colleagues brother, who was going, couldn't get out of playing cricket.

I know someone else who went with his mates up from Bexhill on the morning of the final and managed to buy a ticket from a tout for £5.

 

[whitelion]

I was a 12 year old delivering the Evening Argus on the Knoll Estate. There was not a soul about and getting back home I watched extra time with my dad.

It still amazes me that we have not managed to win a major trophy since then so at least I'm glad to have been alive to witness it.

 

[Eeyore]

I find the current celebrations of this event a source of great embarrassment rather than pride. Fond memories for those from the time, yes, but the media really must stop making such a big deal of it now.

 

[GT49er]

Some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over.

Disgraceful. Match should have been abandoned ...............................

 

[wallyback]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...if-england-hadnt-won-the-1966-world-cup-video

 

[ManOfSussex]

Anyone who watched it on TV at the time and remembers or knows - would I be right in thinking that Grandstand shared the world cup final in 1966 alongside coverage from The West Indies tour match at Glamorgan that day?

 

[Gwylan]

Anyone who watched it on TV at the time and remembers or knows - would I be right in thinking that Grandstand shared the world cup final in 1966 alongside coverage from The West Indies tour match at Glamorgan that day?

Maybe so but the match (and presentation) was shown in full so if there was, there wasn't much cricket on.

I couldn't understand why people were making such a big deal of it: I just took it for granted that England would win - I thought it was the natural order of things - how little I knew

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

I find it rather depressing. It highlights our mediocrity during my lifetime