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

It's the perfect place to do it.

And with that thought, should we go into the break and then we will start the World Cup after the break in the second half where we absolutely will not be hiding away Ramsey's genius?

Well, that does seem to be what people think.

which really is not justified at all.

I mean, Uruguay have won the World Cup twice at this point.

They've hammered England last time they played them.

They've hammered Scotland in the 54 World Cup as well, beat them 7-1.

So this is not as good a Uruguay side as the sides of the early 50s and certainly not as good as the side of the 20s and 1930.

But still, there's absolutely no reason for anybody to think England will have an easy game here.

So this is Ramsey.

So he's worked out how he's going to win the World Cup.

And so the start of the World Cup, he doesn't do it.

He's going to hide it away a little bit longer.

Yeah, you've got Greaves and Hunt together up front, and John Connolly from Burnley comes in on the left side.

So, some people say, oh, Ramsey was just sort of feeling his way through the tournament, and he didn't quite know how he was going to play.

It's like Bobby Robson in 1986 and 1990, sort of changing formation mid-tournament.

No, I'm certain he knows what he's doing.

This is such a... Why would he hide it away, bring it out in Hortsov, and then...

it's been so effective playing that 4-1-3-2 the twice he's done it.

If he wanted to play here, he'd have played it.

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