ANSWERED PRAYERS: ENGLAND AND THE 1966 WORLD CUP (PB)

Duncan Hamilton watched England beat West Germany as an eight-year-old boy in the company of his father and grandfather. This is a full account of English football's greatest achievement and the failures that followed it. We see the institutional inability to appreciate Ramsey and his players, who were taken for granted; the political machinations of the blazered fools who ran the Football Association; the short-sighted blunderers of the Football League. Hamilton tells history afresh and shows us the scale of what was won and what was lost.