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not a huge soccer fan and possibly a bit older than I thought 🙁
jambalaya.......
60'th anniversary hence the specials.
I was at primary school and having a World Cup Willy (Willie?) was the source of much playground amusement
Think it also a longing for better times "we'd never had it so good" the players played the game and not the fans for money
Rusty Spanner - Member
...'Just popping out the shops love.
Hope I don't meet any football fans.'
That could be quite a valid statement in parts of Scotland...
How do you know if someone doesn't like football?
Breathing with their mouths closed?
Walking without knuckles on floor?
Football. They think it's all over...but it never is.
Mainly the media isn't it, what with it being cheap copy. I know plenty of English fans who get in a rage at the mention of 66.
I wonder if Uruguay still go on about their wins?
Football. They think it's all over...but it never is.
As a pretty unimportant event it gives you the excuse to go back 50 years and look at the other things of daily life without being over consumed by your original reason for doing do so .... thats the reason I believe the Beeb are doing this.
So lets have a quick look
UK inflation rate 3.8%
A top league footballer earned £5,200
A GP earned £2,964
Average annual pay for men was £1,220
Average house price £3,840
Gallon of petrol 5 shillings (25p)
Pint of beer 2s (10p)
Off-the-peg Burtons suit £15
And in Worlds News
This happened earlier in the year 😯 .... I'd near heard of this before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
Uk based news .... of which parallels could be drawn on for 2016
30 January – Action Man toy action figure launched.
1 March – Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan announces the decision to embrace decimalisation of the pound (which will be effected on 15 February 1971).[4]
31 March – The Labour Party under Harold Wilson win the general election with a majority of 96 seats.
30 April
Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000 due to competition with the Channel Tunnel.)
18 May – Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces that the number of police forces in England and Wales will be cut to 68.
15 September – Britain's first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, launched at Barrow-in-Furness
27 September – BMC makes 7,000 workers redundant.
25 October – Spain closes its Gibraltar border against vehicular traffic.
30 November – Barbados achieves independence.[30]
And to bring it back to Football ... Eric Cantona was born two months before the final on May 28th
As a pretty unimportant event it gives you the excuse to go back 60 years
Jambas maths facts are spreading....
🙂 ... thank you nobeer ... got in before the edit timed out