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Answered Prayers : England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton

Answered Prayers : England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton

Answered Prayers : England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton

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Magnificent, moving, often funny and deeply researched account . . . Is this just a book for those who know football? Far from it: this is a story of glory and the impermanence of fame’ Sunday Times (Book of the Week)’Like Alf Ramsey’s 1966 team, this book has depth, it has riches and it’s a winner – the finest piece of sports writing I have read in ages and a superb piece of contemporary history’ Peter Hennessy England. 1966. The World Cup. Duncan Hamilton watched England beat West Germany as an eight-year-old boy in the company of his father and grandfather. He recalls ‘Wembley, spread out in the sun; the waving flags; the delirious, joy-of-all-joys moment of the final whistle; the trophy sparkling in the late afternoon light’. But, seeing the whole game again during the misery of the first Covid lockdown, finally made him realise what Alf Ramsey and his players had no inkling of, which was what came next for them. How, for many of those boys o

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