Jonathan Wilson

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?

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.