On July 16th, England won their second Group One match in the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley, against Mexico. Goals came from Bobby Charlton and Roger Hunt. England won 2-0. Over 92,000 saw this win which began with Bobby Charlton scoring after 37 minutes, just when the English crowd was beginning to lose their faith. The referee? Concetto Lo Bello of....you guessed it, from Italy. Mexico came third in the group and did not progress.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=verILGdy1PI
Previously, on the 11th, there had been a rather unpleasant meeting with Uruguay, it was boring, negative and the South Americans came with a nine man defence and went away with a 0-0 draw. A crowd of over 87,000 saw the Uruguayan goalkeeper, Mazurkiewicz become the first foreign goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet against England at Wembley...that is a remarkable fact! The England team: Banks, Cohen, Wilson, Stiles, J Charlton, Moore, Ball, Greaves, R Charlton, Hunt, Connelly. The ref: Istvan Zsolt of Hungary. Uruguay ended up runners up in Group One.
In the final group game, on July 20th, England beat France 2-0, with Roger Hunt bagging twice. The Peruvian referee, Arturo Yamsaki Maldonado, apparently allowed a disputed "offside goal" when Jackie Charlton's header came off the cross bar and Hunt poached the rebound in. Hunt scored a second when the French goalie let the ball slip out of his hands and he was there again to tap in. Jimmy Greaves was injured and didn't appear in Ramsey's selection again. Nobby Stiles was criticised by press and others for his rough tacking and the FA put Ramsey under pressure to drop him....Ramsey did not and the matter, not Nobby, was dropped.
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