Rob Draper

So Brian James writes, is that an express?

I think Brian James would have been?

Mail.

Mail.

Sorry, in the mail.

Tonight, I saw the shape of England's soccer to come.

But you say that most people haven't quite clocked on to at this point.

But there is a there's a dramatic friendly now where they go to Poland.

It's just before the World Cup, isn't it?

It's in the spring of 66.

And there's this amazing, I mean, Ramsey's not a man for rhetorical flourishes, but he announces the whole team and goes through all banks, the usual back four, Cohen, Moore, Jack Charlton and Wilson, Stiles, Charlton and Ball in midfield, Greaves and Hunt up front.

And then he pauses.

Which just shows, I mean, we said this in part one, didn't we, that the revolutionary nature of Ramsey is this very sort of repressed, formal Englishman who in many respects conforms to the stereotype, does very interesting things.

Martin Pieters is a really industrious midfielder, a good technical player, but a bit like Ball is a young midfielder who's going to give you a lot of energy.

And I suppose the idea is that he's going to reprise

Martin Peters, I met towards the end of his life and interviewed him.

He was a lovely man and he's one of the many members of this World Cup squad who sadly ended up with dementia, isn't he?

Because it was obvious when I was interviewing him, it was obvious to me that he was heading in that direction.

So it was a very poignant story.

time to meet this great player because it really such a good player and such a key part of this side and you quote jeffrey green in the time saying that peters was an outstanding success in this game so often when a player was in trouble tonight he looked for help and peters was never very far away he came close to adding to his goal in finland he's that player who i don't know so we should say this is only a second cap yeah so finland's his first this is his second