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Alf Ramsey

August 2023

  • 1966 World Cup Winner Nobby Stiles Dies Aged 78 World Cup Win<br>(FILE PHOTO) 1966 World Cup Winner Nobby Stiles Dies Aged 78 announced on October 30,2020 England Manager Alf Ramsey (left) celebrates his team's 4-2 victory in extra time over West Germany in the World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. With him is captain Bobby Moore (1941 - 1993), holding the Jules Rimet Trophy, and team mate Nobby Stiles, 30th July 1966. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup review – agonising and absorbing

    Alf Ramsey – still the only manager of any England side to lead the country to World Cup glory – is the complex central figure in Duncan Hamilton’s elegiac account of the shadow that fell across the coach and his players after 1966

July 2022

  • Ipswich Town Division 1 champions 1961-62

    When Saturday Comes
    When Ipswich won the title as a newly promoted club under Alf Ramsey

    Before he won the World Cup with England, Ramsey achieved something with Ipswich that may never be repeated

October 2018

  • Alf Ramsey queues for a Friday night film in Liverpool.

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Alf Ramsey, 28 October 1962

    Following Ramsey’s appointment as England football manager, John Arlott explained why it was the ideal appointment, Arthur Hopcraft reported on Everton vs Ramsey’s Ipswich Town, and Ray Green photographed the man and the match

June 2018

  • FIFA World Cup Final - England v West Germany 1966

    Dreaming of England: nationhood, football and the World Cup

    With the tournament almost upon us, England fans expect – but the game has changed over the decades, and the country with it

September 2016

  • England managers since Sir Alf Ramsey

    From Alf Ramsey to Roy Hodgson: how England’s managers fared on debut

    Sir Alf Ramsey is the only England manager to have won a major tournament but he also suffered the worst first game in charge of the team

September 2014

  • Roy of the Rovers through the ages.

    Roy of the Rovers celebrates 60 years – football’s comic-book role model

    Launched in Tiger magazine in 1954, the Melchester Rovers striker’s career captured the imagination of youngsters and adults alike – and even former England manager Alf Ramsey

June 2014

  • John Barnes celebrates scoring against Brazil

    Guardian World Cup 2014 guide
    World Cup 2014: England's South American love affair still aflame

    From Argentina's rowdies to John Barnes's Maracanã magic, English football has always had a fascination for the latin way

November 2009

  • Fabio Capello

    Fabio Capello admits World Cup dreams at unveiling of Alf Ramsey bust

    Fabio Capello said he dreamed of emulating Alf Ramsey by winning the World Cup for England as he unveiled a bust of his predecessor today

June 2009

  • jimmy greaves

    Pride of England: 1966 World Cup heroes receive medals

    Members of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad were presented with their winners' medals at a reception in Downing Street today.

May 2009

  • Bobby Moore passes the World Cup trophy to manager Alf Ramsey

    Foul play: seven deadly sins of football
    Hero cast aside - Sir Alf Ramsey, 1970s

  • Foul play: seven deadly sins of football
    Marsh and Sir Alf

October 2008

  • Fabio Capello

    Sportblog
    Capello is echoing style of a master if not his voice

    Fabio Capello shares many similarities with England's most famous manager - Sir Alf Ramsey

October 2005

  • Heroes and villains: Sir Alf Ramsey

    The World-Cup winning England manager is widely revered. But, says eminent historian Frank McLynn he was a humourless bore and stifling tactician whose reputation rests on a single undeserved triumph.

May 2002

  • Interview: Nobby Stiles

    England's 1966 midfield enforcer recalls how Sir Alf Ramsey's loyalty kept his World Cup alive and tells Jim White why he is desperate to see the achievements of that squad equalled.

May 1999

  • Wembley statue for Ramsey and Moore

  • Sir Alf Ramsey

  • The players' manager who brought England the World Cup in that glorious summer of '66

  • A man with no equal

April 1999

  • Sir Alf Ramsey

  • World Cup-winning Sir Alf dies

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