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WORLD CUP’66 IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON

RICH LLOYD-ABLITT suggests that England need to focus more on the future than what happened half a century ago…

ON A July afternoon 50 years ago, something magical happened. With an entire country willing them on, Alf Ramsey’s England ran out onto the Wembley pitch against West Germany with determination in their eyes.
When Geoff Hurst scored in the 120th minute, he sent a nation into wild celebration. England had done it; they had won the World Cup.
From that moment societal problems of immigration and housing didn’t matter, nor did the fact that if it hadn’t...

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