In 1966

[Jemisa]

Can anyone here remember where they were on the day we WON the World Cup in 1966?
Or were they not even a twinkle in their dads eye??

jem.

[ttfn]

Yes please bez - I am down to my last packet here and the night is still young (wish I was)

[ttfn]

puff - heave - puff - heave I am so glad it is not in vain bez !

[hollie1586]

hmmmm......i was -20yrs !

[tamborine]

Follow that :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW-zR5LtaGs

[flobadob]

Get over it. That's why no one wants to see england win it cos they never shut up about it.

[tamborine]

shove off flobadob.....why shouldn't we relish our successes ?

Are you this generation who are satisfied with 'doing your best' rather than winning?

[flobadob]

It just sounds really sad constantly going on about 1966 until the next time. By the way it was offside.

[Tizzi24]

It was my wedding day and although neither of us like football, we watched the game in a hotel in Bournemouth. Its the only world cup game I've ever watched!

[lslowry]

We were watching the match on our black and white telly. I proposed to my girlfriend after the match. We were married in the October of that year. We're still married. 2 kids and 3 grandkids.

[Jemisa]

It was an afternoon match, I remember my dad giving my mum a £1 to take us kids shopping, While we were out we knew when all Englands goals were scored there was a huge roar echoing around the shops.as people listened to their radio's.

[dothawkes31]

I watched it with my family, I was nearly 11, we were really into football, Dad was the manager of a local team and my brother was a player, every weekend was footie mad and so it was a huge event for us, I've been kean on the World Cup ever since, in 1970 it was brilliant but one year England didn;t qualify which was dire.

[boxtops]

I remember it well, my younger brother was/is a huge footie fan, and we sat in the living room and watched it on the TV. I was old enough to have left school and be at work (unlike all you young things) and a couple of weeks later, I made sure I was in the queue in the Post Office to buy a couple of the rationed England Winners postage stamps. They'd issued a series of 3 stamps to mark our hosting of the world cup that year, then overprinted the 4d one with the words "England Winners". Have a look here http://www.stamp-shop...england-winners.html. I've still got them somewhere...
(If a shilling converted into a 5p in 1971, and there were 12 pennies in a shilling, that means that in 1966 it cost about 1.5p to post a letter !)