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TheRonRaffertyFanClub
July 30, 2016, 7:36pm
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At this time on 30th July 1966 we were more then well on the way to being paralytic after an afternoon of leaping up and down in front of the telly.

We didn't care how it happened but there it was. Even my mother cried about football for the first and only time when Bobby Moore went up to collect the Jules Remi. The sight of the players as they carried the trophy around Wembley will stay with me forever. Sadly all but one of the friends and relations who gathered round our telly that afternoon have now gone .... such is life. Before long we shall lose more of the 1966 heroes too. Will they ever be replaced?


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I remember watching Alan Ball at BP when he was playing for Southampton, best player on the pitch ( 66 final ) according to some.


When Leeds trainer Les Cocker was once told Norman Hunter had broken a leg, he asked: “Whose is it?”
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I was 6 years old and can remember my older brothers going ape in the living room before heading off to Meggies and coming back plastered later that night. They went to Taddy's i think.
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I was just shy of 9th birthday.
The odd thing is the only thing I remember from that day was playing England v W.Germany with my mates on the street outside St.Augustine's church just off Farebrother Street where there wasn't much traffic in those days. England won (unsurprisingly) but that was enough for me to believe it was an omen and we would win in the afternoon! 😊
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I watched the game in 1966 in Cambridge St in Cleethorpes, we were so poor my dad hired the TV for the weekend from Huxfords in Grimsby, as it happened in 1963 my grandmother lived in Suggitts lane and i was in her back garden and i heard a roar, i went out to investigate aged 9 and made my way to Blundell Park, a nice man in a white coat opened a gate & let me in, there i was a 9 year old boy on my own watching this football team called Grimsby Town, i have been hooked ever since, & tomorrow on open day i take my 2 year old Grandson wearing his Town shirt on to his first ever visit to Blundell Park, to me Grimsby Town FC & England are my teams, i better not mention my other team down the road, Chelsea.
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Just too young to remember it (sadly). I doubt it'll happen again in my lifetime due to the shameful waste of resources.

I still haven't found out who E.I. Allio is either, but we were keen to tell him we'd won the Cup.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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I was also 6 at the time ginny, just moved over from Hull and living in my grandparents guest house on Grant Street Cleethorpes. I vaguely remember dancing in the street afterwards.

Just noticed tonight 21:00 ITV 3           New: 1966 - A Nation Remembers


When Leeds trainer Les Cocker was once told Norman Hunter had broken a leg, he asked: “Whose is it?”
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We will never win the World Cup Again.  
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Worst thing that ever happened to English football, , , ever since then we've  thought we're good at football!!


Stand Up For The Mariners!!!!!
Stand Up For The Mariners!!!!!
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Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub
At this time on 30th July 1966 we were more then well on the way to being paralytic after an afternoon of leaping up and down in front of the telly.

We didn't care how it happened but there it was. Even my mother cried about football for the first and only time when Bobby Moore went up to collect the Jules Remi. The sight of the players as they carried the trophy around Wembley will stay with me forever. Sadly all but one of the friends and relations who gathered round our telly that afternoon have now gone .... such is life. Before long we shall lose more of the 1966 heroes too. Will they ever be replaced?
Poignant post and well said Ron



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