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A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023
A Daily Express Book of the Year 2023
''Magnificent, moving, often funny and deeply researched account . . . Is this just a book for those who know football? Far from it: this is a story of glory and the impermanence of fame'' Sunday Times (Book of the Week)
''Like Alf Ramsey''s 1966 team, this book has depth, it has riches and it''s a winner - the finest piece of sports writing I have read in ages and a superb piece of contemporary history'' Peter Hennessy
England. 1966. The World Cup.
Duncan Hamilton watched England beat West Germany as an eight-year-old boy in the company of his father and grandfather. He recalls ''Wembley, spread out in the sun; the waving flags; the delirious, joy-of-all-joys moment of the final whistle; the trophy sparkling in the late afternoon light''.
But, seeing the whole game again during the misery of the first Covid lockdown, f
