Bobby Moore, a tribute.
West Ham United is an English Premier League football team based in East London. It is a family club attracting 57,000 people on matchdays, but having many more fans across the world. There are 700,000 fans on the club’s database and over 2,300,000 likes on Facebook.
I am a lifelong fan. I have a season ticket and go to all home games and most aways. West Ham have won nothing since 1980, but that’s really not the point.
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In July 1966 England won the World Cup by beating West Germany at Wembley by 4 goals to 2. That was a great day for England but also it was a superb day for West Ham United because the England Captain that day was Bobby Moore, the masterful Captain of West Ham, and the 4 goals in the final were scored by players who also played for West Ham; Martin Peters scoring one and Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-trick leading to a boast ever since by West Ham fans that West Ham won the 1966 World Cup.
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In the late 60’s I played squash at a local club and one day I was in the changing room getting dressed after a game, and a bloke next to me began a conversation with me about the difficulty of cocking the wrist in the backhand. I turned to talk to this bloke to discover it was Bobby Moore.
Bobby Moore was my ultimate hero, and I don’t say that lightly, I never had a hero…
