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

I'm willing to bet that a team which plays this rubbish will not survive the quarterfinals.

Well, of course, the previous year, the 65 FA Cup final, which if you watch it now, it's a perfectly decent game, which is 1-2-1 by Liverpool against Leeds.

And it's Peter Wilson in the mirror.

And every time thinks it's a desperately boring game.

As I say, it looks totally normal to our eyes now.

It's just both teams aren't going hell for leather in attack.

They're sort of...

They're considered.

They're passing the ball sideways at times.

They're taking the pace out of the game on occasions.

But to a footballing public who see maybe half a dozen games a year, if that, this looks much slower than the Matthews final or the great games of the 50s, the great FA Cup finals of myth.

And Peter Wilson says...

Yeah, I'm told that if we are to survive the rigours of the World Cup, this system of football is how we're going to have to play.

If that is true, I want no part of it.

Shall we say that by the final of this World Cup, Peter Wilson's tone has changed quite significantly?

Yeah, and it occurs to me this is actually quite like Argentina in 2022.

I mean, England obviously drew rather than losing the opening game.

And then it's the second game when, which was against Mexico for Argentina, I think, wasn't it?

I think so, yeah.

Yeah, that suddenly there's a moment of magic and the thing opens up and everybody relaxes.

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