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

He just sort of had this euphoria.

Just joy at playing.

Bobby Charlton was not a particularly joyful man.

Has this joy at playing and being part of this occasion.

And he admits he's absolutely exhausted by the end of a celebration.

But I think you can see the release that he feels and the whole team feels in that.

Michael Owen against Argentina in 98.

Sheringham against the Dutch in 96.

I'm sorry, Shearer against the Dutch in 96.

The Brooklyn goal in Budapest against Hungary in 81.

Yeah, I mean, Bobby Charlton says it was the loveliest, most exhilarating feeling I ever had as a footballer, which given what he achieved in his career is something.

um so France is an easy game I think it might actually be part four I don't know if you looked at the script going forward part three you spent quite a lot of time talking about Argentina but anyway that's something to look forward to okay and later on in the series England are in control but they finally get the second uh 15 minutes from time it's yeah really nice pass from Bobby Charlton to Greaves on the left side of the box he's shot saved but Roger Hunt knocks in the rebound um

And I think you see the importance of Bobby Charlton there, not scoring goals, but also setting goals up.

It means they've got three points from the two games, a win and a draw.

Uruguay, who I think are pretty clearly the second best team in the group, they only draw in Mexico in their last game.

And what that means is that England only need to draw against France to guarantee qualification of the group and a quarterfinal at Wembley, which is key.

And that will be against the runners up from the group that features West Germany, Argentina and Spain.

Yeah, and we should say as well that Terry Payne played on the wing in the second group game, in the game against Mexico, and Ian Callaghan plays on the wing in the game against France.

Yes, and England play a different winger in each of the three games, but they do play a winger.

And sometimes it's Ball who sits out, sometimes it's Peters who sits out, but it's still basically this asymmetrical 4-3-3, which people think is the orthodoxy.

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