Great match and given Spain's manager getting the heave-ho, they played some confident quick-touch-short-pass football.
Just to keep the balance right, Scottish reflections on the World Cup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966–67_British_Home_Championship
Equal terms on representing the country then, both Pele and Beckenbauer described him as "the best DEFENDER they had ever played against! Manchester United Bobby Charlton Football League First Division (3): 1956–57, 1964–65, 1966–67 FA Cup: 1962–63 Charity Shield (4): 1956, 1957, 1965, 1967 European Cup: 1967–68 FA Youth Cup (3): 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56 International[edit] Source:[45] England FIFA World Cup: 1966 British Home Championship (10): 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 UEFA European Football Championship: 1968 (Bronze Medalist) Individual[edit] Source:[45] FWA Footballer of the Year: 1965–66 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1966 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team (2): 1966, 1970 Ballon d'Or: 1966 PFA Merit Award: 1974 FWA Tribute Award: 1989 FIFA World Cup All-Time Team: 1994 Football League 100 Legends: 1998 English Football Hall of Fame: 2002 FIFA 100: 2004 UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll: #14th PFA England League Team of the Century (1907 to 2007): Team of the Century 1907-1976[46] Overall Team of the Century[47] BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award: 2008 UEFA President's Award: 2008[48] Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award: 2012 FIFA Player of the Century: FIFA internet vote: #16 IFFHS vote: #10 IFFHS Legends[49] Orders and special awards[edit] Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE): 1969 Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE): 1974 Knight Bachelor: 1994 Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class: 2012[50] Player[edit] Club[edit] West Ham United Bobby Moore FA Cup (1): 1963–64 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1964–65 International[edit] England FIFA World Cup (1): 1966 UEFA Euro 1968 (Bronze Medalist) Individual[edit] Ballon d'Or Runner-Up (1): 1970 FWA Footballer of the Year (1): 1964 West Ham Player Of The Year (4): 1961, 1963, 1968, 1970 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team (1): 1966 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year (1): 1966 Officer of the Order of the British Empire: 1967 UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament (1): 1968 World Soccer World XI (2): 1968, 1969[42] Inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame: 2002 UEFA Jubilee Awards – Greatest English Footballer of the last 50 Years (Golden Player): 2003 FIFA World Cup All-Time Team: 1994 World Team of the 20th Century: 1998 Number 6 retired by West Ham: 2008 (posthumous) [43] PFA Player of the Century: 2007[44] PFA Team of the Century (1907 to 2007): Team of the Century 1907–1976[45] Overall Team of the Century[46] World Soccer Greatest XI of all time: 2013 100 Greatest Britons: 2002 Football League 100 Legends
Bobby Charlton was also a great player. I am a great admirer of his. But you for some reason want to denigrate Bobby Moore, which you have done. And what about your repeated calls for sticking to the thread. Just when it suits I think.
I noticed some poor TV coverage (technical) on BBC after the France / Australia game. Perhaps that is the Russians at it already.
Do I? Where have I denigrated him? Yes I have made a couple of assertions to go back to the thread title but in essence I am responding to some of your edits after your original posts have been or are in mid reply.
Please yourself. I am not going to continue along these lines. I have tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but can now see no point.
Another under achiever No slip ups!! yeah right. I note you didnt respond to my questions !!!!!!!!!!! But I will leave it there You are the weakest link Goodbye
You should follow up on your hobby, chasing ice cream vendors. I thought I could establish a rapport with you through the topic of football. Obviously a waste of time. It’s a pointless exercise.
I know. But there was a chance you might have done. Quite funny though. I often got that one thrown at me at work.
My wife uses this shot for her Facebook wallpaper picture (for some reason). The concourse in front of the Theatre of Dreams. Taken a few years ago, with our little one in the foreground. And a few years earlier from then , we did the stadium tour. A few years earlier from that point I lived within a 20 minute walk from there for about 22 years, frequently driving past the stadium when going from A to B and going to some of the games. I used to also occasionally visit the cricket ground in the distant background and bought my last car just off camera at the dealership on the corner. In 1996 I watched all the games played there at Euro 96. My wife and I have also done the stadium tour at Liverpool and the Nou Camp Barcelona. The Nou Camp stadium was the best stadium but the Man U tour was the best tour. She has pictures of all the statues including Bill Shankly. The last Man Utd game I watched here was in 2011 against Sunderland, with my son, just a few months before meeting my wife. My wife has no interest real in football, but she loves a good Facebook photo opportunity. She thoroughly enjoyed the stadium tours and has loads of photos of the prestigious trophy rooms etc etc. Back to Euro 96 and World Cup 2018, the last time England had some success at a major tournament, Venables was the manager and Southgate was one of the centrebacks. Throughout the tournament Venables used a system of 3 centrebacks very effectively, of which Southgate was one, switching to a back four as and when needed.
Boxing Day 2016 About to watch United vs Sunderland 3-0 A couple of weeks ago a walk around Stanley Park then to Anfield
Ha. Yes. We have shots of the Shankly statue. I haven’t been to an actual game with the Mrs yet. We will wait till the little one is a bit older and go as a family. That shot of the Stretford End is taken from a part of the stadium I have not been in, except perhaps the tour but I have watched games from every other part including the top of the North Stand and the lower tiers. Having been to Anfield and Trafford I was amazed how much a difference there was between the two stadiums. Liverpool really did get left behind in their ground developement.
I never saw the painting of course. Shankly shaking hands with Klopp. My most vivid recollection was the This is Anfield sign at the top of the stairs as the players proceed to the pitch.
