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SIR GEOFF HURST - one of survivors of the 66 team - sends a message to inspire post-Covid nation

SIR GEOFF HURST - one of survivors of the 66 team - sends a message to inspire post-Covid nation
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A look at the 1966 World Cup team Gareth Southgate s England look to emulate

Goalkeeper Banks won 73 England caps and made 628 club appearances in a 15-year career, winning the League Cup with both Leicester and Stoke. Banks is also remembered for his stunning save from Pele’s header in England’s 1970 World Cup clash with Brazil. After helping Stoke to the 1972 League Cup, Banks lost the sight in one eye in a car crash in October later that same year, which ultimately ended his professional career. He had a brief managerial stint with Telford. In 2016, Banks revealed he was battling kidney cancer for the second time. Banks, who had been Stoke president since 2000, died aged 81 in February 2019.

A lot s changed during those 55 years of hurt

Advertisement A fraction of a second after pushing his spot kick too close to the outstretched Danish keeper, Harry Kane fired the rebound seen around the world into the net, propelling England past Denmark into the final of Euro 2020.  As one, almost 60,000 supporters in Wembley stadium, and a nation watching in their homes, leapt to their feet and cried to the skies. Nerves jangled, full-time came and went. England have been propelled into their first final since the 1966 World Cup.  Fans had chanted football s coming home outside the stadium on Wednesday, hoping to relive the glory days of half a century ago, when a very different kind of England tasted ultimate victory.    

1966 when pints, a pipe and trips to the flicks won it for England

1966 when pints, a pipe and trips to the flicks won it for England
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Southgate lightening the heavy shirt helped England s stars be themselves - and the public love them for it

12 Harry Kane talks a lot. But, to be frank, he often doesn’t say much. The England captain always seems willing to make himself available to the media, but more often than not answers questions in what we’ll kindly call a “straightforward” manner. A less kind description would be that 90 per cent of his public speech is in platitudes or cliches, a sort of automated bland quotes machine, rarely betraying emotion, usually remaining calm and straight down the line. It was different after England beat Germany in their second round game of Euro 2020. “Yeah…” he said at the start of his post-match interview, before trailing off, looking around Wembley, taking in the atmosphere and seeming almost on the verge of tears. “I’m speechless I don’t know what to say,” he continued, before pausing. Then you could spot the moment when the Kanebot circuit in his brain reconnected and he conducted the rest of the interview as nor

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