We’re On Our Way!
Mexican knowledge Stanley Lewis: I didn’t know a thing… Didn’t do any research. Jasper Cook: I really didn’t know much about that part of the world – only through Geography at school. I think the only thing I knew about …
Author: jGranger
The Plan to go to Mexico
The Decision to Go Stanley Lewis: The beauty of it was that as World Cup holders, we didn’t have to qualify. We knew we was going. There was no “Are we going to go, or ain’t we.” Peter Logan: My …
1966 and All That
Alan Mullery: … I was included in Alf’s World Cup ‘get-togethers’. These gave him a chance to assess the top forty players in the country. I always felt on the fringe of these events and didn’t play in any of …
Me, Football and England
The Formative Years… Jasper Cook: Although I went to a rugby-playing school, I was brought up in a football environment. Stanley Lewis: My Dad never took me to a football match. I used to play with my mates as a …
Being There
Alan Mullery: … I was inspired by the belief we were fireproof. We were going all the way. England were going to win the World Cup again. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ⇒ Patrick Burke: If you asked me what …
World Cup 1970 Timeline
Thursday October 8th 1964 In Tokyo – Mexico wins the bid to hold the FIFA World Cup in 1970. They beat Argentina by 56 votes to 32. Thursday May 18th 1967 Schoolteacher Lucio Cabanas begins a guerrilla campaign in Atoyac …
Mexico in 1970
COLIN McGLASHAN reports on the explosively changing country where the World Cup fiesta opens today. Published in the Observer on Sunday May 31st 1970. The Aztecs called it Tenochtitlan, a lake of floating gardens and a million charred sacrificial hearts. …
Introduction
Here’s a tricky question… Can you remember, in detail, a trip you took forty nine years ago? Regardless of how momentous the trip was, for a lot of us the answer would be a simple ‘no’. For a lot of …
Jasper Cook
Born in Cheltenham in 1934, Jasper Cook (Phillip Gordon Cook) has served football, and particularly football in Gloucestershire, as a coach and administrator for over fifty years. He has lived in the town all his life apart from a period …
Patrick Burke
A retired civil servant with HM Customs, Patrick Burke was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1942. His father was in the RAF and the family moved to England in 1949. Although not brought up in a football environment, Patrick became …