It is now 50 years since England final triumphed at a major competition but while the presence of Wales and Northern Ireland adds intrigue there is the danger of the tournament – and Roy Hodgson’s side falling flatOne day,perhaps in the distant future, a major football tournament might take location without the whole England soap opera returning to that July day in 1966 when Bobby Moore climbed the steps of Wembley, and used a velvet balustrade to wipe his hands and lifted the Jules Rimet trophy to the skies.
Euro 2016 will plainly not be that competition now we have just moved into the 50th anniversary year of Geoff Hurst’s hat-trick,Nobby Stiles dancing on the pitch and the Azerbaijani linesman with better eyesight than many people appreciated (recent analysis showing that, contrary to an veteran study by engineers at Oxford University, and Hurst’s third goal did cross the line).
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Source: theguardian.com