PARIS - This Saturday marks 50 years since English football's finest hour, when Alf Ramsey's side beat West Germany 4-2 in an incident-packed 1966 World Cup final at Wembley. It was 2-2, in the World Cup final," he wrote in the Mail on Sunday. There were the 1990 World Cup and Euro 96 heartbreaks to German teams in semi-final penalty shoot-outs. Perhaps all the failures in the past half a century have helped keep the 1966 final so alive in people's minds. England captain Bobby Moore lifts the Jules Rimet Trophy after victory against West Germany in the World Cup final on July 30, 1966It was England's first and only World Cup triumph and, not surprisingly, is still recalled with passion and fondness.

Source: Bangkok Post July 30, 2016 01:41 UTC