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
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There's no winger.
What are you doing?
similar role to Alan Ball in covering both the wing and the midfield centre areas yeah I mean he's young he's only 22 Martin Peters at this point he's very versatile he obviously plays with Geoff Hurst at West Ham and he's used to hitting crosses to him not that I think there's any guarantees that Hurst is going to play at this point it's still Greaves and Hunt it would appear to be the first choice pair and in this game in Hortsov it is Greaves and Hunt and
But I think for Ramsey, he is the final piece of a jigsaw.
He's better on the ball.
He's more tact-minded than Norman Hunter, who would be an option for midfield.
But he's also more tactically aware, more prepared to tuck in, let Roy Wilson go outside him, than Bobby Charlton or George Easton would be.
And in this system, in this 4-1-3-2, as Nobby Stiles describes it, and I think as he's right to describe it,
not the journals for time describers.
They still seem to see it as a 4-3-3.
England play really well.
They only win 1-0, but that's a very Ramsey way of doing things.
Control the game.
You only need to score one to win it.
Bobby Charlton lays in Roger Hunt for the only goal, but they control that midfield, and that's the key thing.
So this is the World Cup winning side, apart from it's Greaves, not Geoff Hurst.
Yeah, and the fact they have Ball can get forward, Charlton can get forward, Peters can get forward, but they're coming from slightly deeper.
Ray Wilson gets forward.
They've got people coming from deep and defences at this point find that really difficult to deal with.
So Geoffrey Green carries on and says, a fluid tactical plan, had England flowing back and forth like a red tide in their unfamiliar red shirts.
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