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 …
Category: Down Mexico Way
The main starting page of the ‘book’
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 …
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 …