Legendary sports commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme thought it was “all over” when his plane came under attack from the Germans.
Wolstenholme is best remembered for his immortal phrase: “They think it’s all over – it is now” as Geoff Hurst sealed England’s 1966 World Cup win. But he was also a heroic Second World War RAF pilot who was nearly killed during a bombing raid on Heligoland, a small German archipelago in the North Sea, in 1941.
One of his crew, Sergeant John ‘Polly’ Wilson, died when their Blenheim bomber came under attack. And Wolstenholme wrote about incident in his logbook, which is now up for sale.
