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Sixty years on: Was England's 1966 winning XI destiny, fate, or a chance affair?

It's a team ingrained in memory, but was it always destined to be that way? Sixty years on from that Wembley triumph, Paul Simpson explains how chance moulded Sir Alf Ramsey's legends of '66

FourFourTwo · Jul 30

The dark and difficult legacy of England’s 2003 World Cup triumph

Two decades on from their triumph in Sydney, many of Clive Woodward’s World Cup-winning squad are struggling

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2024

The best British defenders ever

Picking out the finest full-backs and centre-halves ever to emerge from Britain

FourFourTwo · Dec 1, 2024

Marco Silva dedicates Fulham’s win at Palace to George Cohen after ‘sad week’

The team came out in warm-up tops with ‘Cohen 2’ on the back, and then put on a display that would have filled their former great with pride.

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2022

George Cohen tributes and Sam Curran makes history – Friday’s sporting social

Harry Kane was also back at Tottenham.

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2022

George Cohen: World Cup hero, England's greatest ever right-back and a thoroughly good man

The 1966 England World Cup winning star was a hero on and off the pitch as George Cohen spent his latter days campaigning for research into dementia and even volunteered to donate his brain to medical science

Daily Mirror · Dec 23, 2022

George Cohen: Remembering the gentleman of Fulham feared by George Best

I can still see George Cohen now, elbows out, galloping up the wing, a truly positive right-back in first our domestic game for Fulham – and then for England.

Evening Standard · Dec 23, 2022

Sir Geoff Hurst leads tributes as World Cup winner George Cohen dies aged 83

Cohen’s death leaves just two survivors from the team which beat West Germany 4-2 on July 30, 1966.

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2022

George Cohen: Sir Geoff Hurst and Gary Lineker pay tribute to England’s 1966 World Cup ‘footballing immortal’

Tributes continue to pour in for George Cohen following his death at the age of 83.

Evening Standard · Dec 23, 2022

‘Footballing immortality’: Gary Lineker leads tributes to England World Cup hero George Cohen

The Fulham great was one of only three surviving members from the 1966 World Cup-winning squad

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2022