Jonathan Wilson

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The Overlap · 2: Football's Coming Home: How England Won The 1966 World Cup | Part Two · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

So Jose Villalonga, the Spain coach, says England were phenomenal.

Ramsey doesn't bother really to speak to the players after the game because he knows how good they've been.

And Ramsey's fear now, this is a very Ramsey thing to think is, oh no, we've been too good too early.

What if the players get overconfident?

And what he then does, because he's such a secretive, repressed man, whereas other people might be tempted to sort of go on this victory tour before the World Cup.

He thinks, no, I'm going to put this away now.

We've done that.

I know how we're going to play in the World Cup.

I've worked that out.

And the key thing now is not to let anybody else see it.

So there's a handful of other friendlies in the beginning of 66, but it's this game in Chodzow, in Silesia, in southwestern Poland, when he finally brings out again, just one more look at it just before the World Cup.

Yeah.

Bear in mind, England have played seven games after the Spain match and not played this wingless formation since.

He says, at number 11, there's a pause.

He starts to stand up because he wants to get out before anybody can ask him a question.

Martin Peters.

And the journalists are so stunned, there's silence.

And then Ramsey's gone from a room and there's uproar.

What?

Where's the winger?

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