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That was a big win though. It was before I was born but I'm fully aware of the importance of that game - it was a massive turning point in German history, the time when they could finally put the war behind them a look to the future. I bet there were plenty of retrospectives in Germany for it

I didn't even know football existed until 1966. It sounds completely crazy now but I'd reached 9 years old with no knowledge of it whatsoever. My primary school didn't play it all and my family's sports were rugby and cricket. In January 1966, I moved schools to Bevendean and football was...

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