1966 World Cup Final

You've beaten them once this afternoon. Now go out and do it again! With these words Alf Ramsey sent out his weary players for a gruelling half hour extra time. They had already played 90 minutes of superbly entertaining football against a West German team determined to play their part in a thrilling final. For 12 long minutes it had seemed Martin Peters' goal had won the cup for England. Then in the last minute of normal time, Wolfgang Weber had desperately stretched for a bobbling ball and stabbed it past the despairing Gordon Banks. The capacity crowd fell silent. The England players looked shattered., The subsequent thirty minutes proved even ,ore dramatic. Millions witnessed the most controversial moment in World Cup history, the first ever hat trick in the final and an outburst of relief and celebration when the final whistle signalled England's greatest ever sporting triumph.

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