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England,, England, England,

England!

Cohen, Bali, banks, Wilson,

Hurst. Chamon, Bobby Charlton, Peters. Stiles. Jackie Charlton.

Bobby Moore, the England captain.

Her majesty arrives in the royal box.

Redknapp: The streets were deserted.

Everybody was in watching the television.

The tension was enormous.

Cohen: That was the only time that I,ve ever really felt nervous,

that noise will stick with me forever.

There was not only 100,000 people in the ground.

But the rest of the English nation,

I usually went out behind Bobby Moore,

he didn,t seem to be sweating.

Hurst" there was something that he had as a leader.

More than just the football.

Rob Jenkins, he had the aura of a prince.

if only they really knew the truth,

how much more would he have been revered?

He was a proper hero.

Bobby and I grew up in the same part of east London.

Some of our most amusing early encounters.

We used to find ourselves at the old llford Palais,

which was the old Palais De Dense then

Redknapp, big Lee was the bouncer there.

He used to get US up the from of the queue.

The girls used to put their handbags down. Dance round the handbags,

didn,t they, in them days, you know,

I could understand it with me.

But I couldn,t understand why he as well as me would be standing

up against the wall like wallflowers and could never get a dance.

I mean, he was adorns

he was a bit nervous about going and asking anyone.

When I was just coming up to my 16th birthday,

I,d gone to the llford Palais

and there was a song called Blue Moon, which was playing:

And this young man with blond hair

had come over to me and asked me to dance, and it was Bobby.

I thought he was a bit square.

But I wasn,t terribly impressed by the fact he was a footballer.

I said, "no. I can,t go out with you."

But one day I was with my mother in a tax/ going along llford

and there was a coffee bar and he was sitting in ,at.

And I said, "look mum. That,s the young man who asked me our."

And she waned across, and she looked at him and she said,

"he looks great. Bring him home for tea."

He was a young kid doing Tuesday and Thursday night training at West Ham,

and at the end of the year they were taking 10, 12 places:

For apprentices or ground staff, as they probably were called then:.

And Bobby looked like he was not gonna be selected,

it was between Bobby and another lad,

there were mixed opinions of him initially.

There were the questions of his natural talent and pace.

Not great in the air, not quick, not particularly big.

I always refer to Bobby when I talk about him,

he came as... He was quite a green youngster.

If you go back a few years, when he was a kid, at barking schoolboys:.

You look at the pictures of him there, he,s a tubby little schoolboy.

Eamonn Andrews: Your physique earned you a nickname.

Do you remember what it was?

-Can I say it here? Andrews, yes

or dare I? Yeah, it was tubby.

- "Tubby" -tubby and fatso.

Andrews" tubby and fatso. Yes -Tina: Fatso.

We went out one night, you know: We were chatting about football,

and he said without Malcolm he wouldn,t have been a player.

Malcolm Allison was such a powerful figure a! West Ham.

He said, "you,ve gotta sign mm. I,m telling you, he,s different class."

They listened to him. So West Ham took Bobby on.

He got on the bus and never stopped

asking me questions all the way.

And he said to me, "mr Allison, what,s the most important thing about football?

"What,s the most important thing to do?"

I said, "knowing what you,re gonna do with the bah, before you get it."

We used to have a practise match

and then he,d stop it and say: ,Close your eyes."

And he,d ask individual players where everybody else was,

and Moore-o was fantastic at knowing exactly on the field:.

Immediately his eyes were closed:

Where the left winger was: Where the right back was,

the centre half two yards behind him, and Joe Bloggs is 10 yards over there.

Bobby obviously had the intelligence to listen and /earn

what Malcolm was telling him and to put it into practise,

after training, he would go back to the little cafe

up the road from upton park with Malcolm

and get the salt and pepper pots out on the table,

go through the moves and the strategies

and where people were out of place.

And he just loved Bobby and Bobby responded to Malcolm

and he swears that without Malcolm he wouldn,t have made it.

If all your life you,ve been dreaming of playing in West Ham,s first team

and that dream gets realised: It,s an absolute defining moment.

From a fan,s point of view I think that,s what relates them to the club,

a local boy has come good and ls playing for his local ream.

Standing room that side.

Ticket holders? Tickets? Ail got tickets?

When I arrived at the ground

about an hour to an hour and a half before the kick-off,

I found that all the gates had been dosed.

I had to fight my way into the dressing rooms,

and I thought at one stage that let alone play the game,

I won,t even see it.

Thereb, be nerves. There,d be butterflies in the stomach.

There,d be doubts whether you can perform at this level.

The first night I actually did go out with him,

was the second match he ever played, it might have been Nottingham forest.

He apparently had had a poor game

and the after write-up in the paper was pretty grim,

so he bought as many as he could and destroyed them.

He was hurt and I was trying to bolster his ego.

He was a perfectionist, Bobby.

Whatever he did, he had to do it to the best of his ability.

Interviewer, football came very easy to you. You didn,t have to work too hard.

Moore: I don,t like the way when you say you didn,t have to work too hard.

It was bloody hard work all the time. To be truthful.

Tina, he would train tremendously hard every Clay.

The first team players were always prepared to work that much harder

to improve their own game and to improve the team.

And when you grow up in that environment, you just want to copy.

My life was totally committed, 11 months of the year basically, to football.

You became aware of Bobby as he got picked for the under 23s.

And you recognised that this guy could play.

Commentator" leaving it for Moore, Moore going through,

a lovely little move, and goal number three

Cohen". He had Ron greenwood. Who did wonders, of course. For West Ham,

and I think he did wonders for Bobby Moore.

Commentator" a beautiful piece of play there by Moore.

Redknapp Ron greenwood was so far in front of anybody else, really.

He was the best coach I,ve certainly ever been fortunate enough to meet.

Commentator: Musgrove, and it,s in the

Winterbottom also was very good: I think: In those days for Bobby.

I think he gave him a great deal of confidence,

a surprise to everyone, very young at the time,

Walter Winterbottom decided to take him to Chile for the ,62 World Cup.

Not having any full international experience,

I thought I was going along for the ride

and to see what a full international tour was like.

They weren,t letting on to him that it might be more than that

because maybe he,d have become a bit overawed

by the prospect of playing against the great Brazilians and so on.

Nice tackle by Moore.

I noticed how he took responsibility when he was first picked.

Moore very much in the game in his first international,

seen a lot of the bah in the first three minutes.

Even at 20-odd, he was taking corners.

Things that normally you allow the senior players to do.

And that,s just a pan of his character.

Commentator Moore, onto Greaves.

A chance here for Greaves. A great chance.

Jimmy Greaves was a phenomenon

commentator Greaves,

and Greaves again. Number three for Greaves,

number four for England.

Bob and I become roommates.

We knew each other as teenagers.

He was a barking boy. I was a Dagenham schoolboy,

and we literally had a month tn this corrugated iron mountain shack.

And we never ever thought we,d get home from that trip,

we were very lonely. And there was a big bond between US.

I think we were united on that tour.

Commentator" it,s a corner to Brazil on the left wing.

It was always a sheer delight to play against the Brazilians

and I think whenever you had the chance

of pitting your wits against them on an international football pitch,

you knew that that was something very, very special.

It was even in those early days,

commentator Garrincha.

Ifs a goal, a beautiful goal, by Garrincha!

Brazil have beaten eng/and, so reach the semi-final of the World Cup.

Tina, Bobby was a very romantic man,

he was very caring, I mean, right from the word "go?

He was really charming.

I would go to bed and he would slip notes underneath my pillow

or I,d put my hand in a dressing gown and there would be like a love note.

We went out for about a year and then he asked me to get roamed.

When we went to the church. There were photographers outside,

quite a crowd of people,

and I was shocked that they,d come to see Bobby Moore get married.

He was quite unique. He used to do my haw.

When I used to have really blonde hair, he would do my roots.

He was like my mate.

England will win the World Cup in 1966.

We didn,t really look at it like that at the time.

They were aware that this could become

a very important moment in their lives.

It now gives me great pleasure

to declare open the eighth wand football championship.

Powell". For the opening game against Uruguay,

the country was not yet alive and throbbing and demanding.

The game itself was a nought-nought draw,

it,s always a difficult first game as the home ream.

Against the Mexicans: Bobby Charlton got the ball:

Progressed into thew haw,

shootings a feeling,

Bobby Charlton had this son of feeling that he was gonna hit it.

And it flew in the top corner.

That ball entered the goal egg-shaped.

Just the fact that he,d hit it like he hit it

and he,d scored it like he scored:.

All of a sudden, "hey hold on a minute. We can win this."

From then on in. The lads started to believe

that they nan a chance of winning it.

Tina, Bobby wanted to have a life outside of football,

and I don,t think Ron greenwood

at West Ham could really understand that.

Redknapp, he loved a night out with the tads, that,s for sure

drink to run and run to drink. That,s what he did,

and he trained like a demon

sometimes he,d come in on Sunday mom with his dinner suit on still,

straight from a night out.

He used to come to the ground on a Sunday.

Put his tracksuit on, the bin linen the black bag.

And then he,d go and do 12 taps.

He,d tram harder than anybody. He,d sweat it out of him.

About 11:00 he,d come out and he,d be immaculately dressed.

Then go up the pub.

Hurst in ,64, the biggest game of the cup run was against Manchester united.

Hurst we won 3-1.

For Ron greenwood,

it was the greatest achievement of his career to that date

he always thought from that moment on he lost Bobby Moore

to all the showbiz types who Bobby seemed to attract like a magnet.

We all came through the youth team at West Ham together

all homegrown players.

Number five, and Hurst. And Moore!

Are we going to have a sensational ending?

It,s a West Ham united have won the fa cup.

If I had any heroes, it was Bobby Moore,

who actually had done more for the east end,

forget about the football. But the mags of the east end.

Brian dear, it was great for the east end, it was great for West Ham,

and that was our life. It wasn,t the west end.

We were east end boys. That,s where we,d go and have a drink.

They all worshipped him.

He,d walk in and the place used to light up.

I had an auntie used to come to the games and she absolutely adored him.

She said he had the aura of a prince

and she used to shiver all over just looking at him.

Argentina were probably stronger than Brazil.

We were geared up for a big fight. And Alf didn,t shy away from it.

He made the remarks about animals:

Which was, you know, not well received in the blazered circles of the game.

Alf Ramsey" we have stall to produce our best.

And this best is not possible until we meet the right type of opposition:.

And that is a team that comes out to play football and not act as animals.

Germany played Argentina in their group in the earlier round.

And that was probably one of the nastiest games you,d ever wish to see.

If I invite someone to my house. I don,t treat him as an animal.

As animals... Animals.

We,ve got people here who aren,t gonna play fair

this is the home of fair play.

It sent the nation into that game with determination.

They could sense the drums beating.

They were shocking out there: Especially the captain, Rattin.

Hunter, they were up to all sons of things.

Hurst, probably one of the most aggressive, tough,

bordering on violent games I think I,ve ever played in,

you know. All of a sudden, your mind is with something else.

We not about winning the game.

It,s about getting your own back on an individual player.

Rattin is dicing with death. He,s arguing with the referee.

Aw needed someone of the stature

the personality. The commanding presence:

But above all the cold, calculating intelligence

to be himself on the pitch.

It was Bobby,s character. It was Bobby,s intelligence of the game,

Bobby,s ability. Although Alf might not always have enjoyed it,

to change things while the match was going on

if he didn,t think it was going properly,

he wasn,t/list a lieutenant. He saw Bobby as himself on the pitch,

hunter" nothing ever phased Bobby.

Bobby just distanced himself,

compartmentalized the thing, let them get on with it.

And Rattin,s in trouble. He,s off! Rattin goes off

the referee went, “off," and he looked down at him

,cause he was quite tall and the referee was only small:

And he goes... Shook his head like that

he wouldn,t go off.

Magnificent player, but he just couldn,t shut up.

Banks, he waved to his players, "come on. We,re all going off."

He wanted to take the players off the field.

“If you take your team off, you forfeit the game,

"England will go through."

Commentator" Bobby Moore wants to be able to take the free kick and get on with it.

But it,s clever because he didn,t get ruffled

and then he went on to play his normal game

that was Moore-av that was just typical of how the man was,

Bobby Moore handled that stuff really well.

I think that,s the key to being a captain, not to get riled.

Commentator" this is Moore.

It,s interesting to have three or four players from one team:

Who,ve played with each other since they were kids,

and Martin,s cross was just inch perfect.

And there,s a

By number 10,

the near-post cross, a West Ham goal.

And the whistle has gone and England have won.

Alf was absolutely incensed, he lust came up to me and he said.

“George, you,re not changing that shirt with this pf layer."

Words to that effect. I got the message,

captain,s got sent off, lost 1-0, can,t get hold of an England shirt.

They ain,t best pleased.

Ah of a sudden through the plateglass door comes a chair.

Crash. Glass all over the mace,

they wanted to fight US in the tunnel.

Well, I think they wanted to fight: But I think they would have lost.

Bobby groomed himself, his manners. He watched people. He learned.

He was aware that he carried a responsibility

of being the captain of England.

Moore that,ll do.

He was Roy of the Rovers. He was Dan Dare.

I think he personified what a captain in those days should be:

A leader

you just looked up to him as a player and as a person.

He wasn,t a captain that shouted and screamed at people.

I think if he just lifted one eyebrow: You knew you were in trouble.

But that was his style on and off the field.

Yeah. He had that look

I remember playing at Leeds, getting sent off one day in the first half.

As I walked past Moore, he went to me...

He used to do that with his arms.

I can see him stood on the halfway line now.

And, you know, that was enough. Like,

It,s obvious that Portugal: Who we play tonight,

are a very attacking side

and, um: You know, we,re looking forward to playing against them a great deal.

Bobby had a presence,

on the pitch. You felt that that presence was, you know, very necessary

to his game and to the players around him.

England: England: England. England!

Eusébio was never allowed to rum at all.

Except to play the ball out wide.

Nobby played mm completely out of the game,

Bobby knew that the players knew what they were doing.

But if somebody made a mistake: He made sure that he was around

or somebody else was around to rectify it.

He was the best captain that I think I,ve ever. I,ve ever played with.

He wouldn,t just play ms own game.

He helped others, while he was our there.

Hurst, it says a lot for. For Moore-o that he was comfortably the captain

in a group of people with a rot of very, very strong personalities

a tough bunch of boys.

Now it,s Wilson. Hunt

Charlton he scores!

And it,s Hurst. Fine bit of running by Hurst.

Hurst. Back to Charlton and it,s in!

And that could be the goal that puts England an the final.

England are in the final of the World Cup. It is all over.

Eusébio was to leave the pitch in tears, emotionally distraught.

Because when peke went out of the tournament,

he was the superstar of the tournament.

A Wembley crowd has never been like this.

England! England! England!

I was about seven months pregnant with Roberta in 1964

and Bobby had noticed that he,d had an injury,

and he had a very swollen testicle and very, very painful.

They operated on him and he said to the nurse.

"I need to phone my wife" and he rang me and he said, “it,s ah over“

and I said, “how are you?“ "Everything,s fine."

The surgeon was waiting for me

and he said, "Tina, I,ve got really, really bad news“ ll was cancer

I was devastated.

I didn,t know whether or hot... Oh, dear.

I didn,t know whether or not he,d live or die.

Bobby was absolutely demoralized, gutted.

He didn,t know whether or not he would play football again.

It was the most horrendous. Horrendous time

we used to sit at home and cry

about the fact that he,d lost

what he thought was part of his manhood.

He was proud and he was embarrassed. He was humiliated.

I had a major time bolstering his ego again.

When we went to buy swimming shoos, I used to go with him

to make sure that nothing was revealed.

He pleaded with me not to tell anyone.

Hurst, wasn,t really aware.

It was kept very, very quiet.

I didn,t know, ,cause usually in football circles:

You know, it gets round.

No, I didn,t have any clue at all.

In fact. I was quite shocked when I heard about it

the media were very good in those days.

They didn,t witch-hunt people that much.

But in those days you didn,t write the word "cancer"

and so we put in the paper

that Bobby had gone into hospital for a groin injury

and we didn,t mention the fact that he,d had a testicle cut off.

“Nr. One day Ron greenwood came in.

Martin Peters filled Bobby,s place.

He said, "yeah, Bobby, don,t worry. Martin Peters is doing such a great job."?

And I,ve baked at Ron greenwood. Like,

if I could have killed him with my eyes, I would have done.

And I thought this is the last thing...

And Bobby. I could see has eyes glazed over,

and I know what Ron was tr Yang to do was say,

“look, Bobby, he,s doing a good job.“

but what he really wanted to hear

was that, "we miss our captain and we want you back."

It was very very diff/cult, he was only a 22-year-old.

It was a terrible time for him.

He had to go every three to six months for check-ups.

It was the start of his being an insomniac as well.

You must lie awake at night wondering

- if the cancers still in your body. - Man; That,s right.

But Bobby would never ever share that with anybody.

He didn,t want you to know his weaknesses:.

And I think his major weakness was

that he used to worry himself sick at night.

He was an insomniac. Terrible insomniac.

/ used to go the club doctor, old dr bell

and. Uh. Yd say. "Look. Bobby couldn,t sleep.

"Make your prescription our for some Mogadon. Please, uh, doc.“

and. Uh: That was it

and he always had a sleeper on a Friday night before a game.

I used to get up and if he... Before we had Roberta,

in the two months before she was born.

He,d be gone, he,d be sort of pounding round the streets.

I was a bad baby. I think I cried a for and had colic.

And he,d been unwell just before I,d been born

and obviously that was a period of great anxiety for them.

So he wasn,t sleeping well.

So, I think he used to kind of look after me through the night.

They,re very lonely and kind of solitary and isolating,

so I think from a very early age we bonded.

And / was a real. Real daddy,s girl,

I adored him.

I think lots of fathers and daughters have that bond

and we had a very special bond.

I think once he realised that he was going to survive,

that he still felt manly:.

That he could still play the game that he loved,

I think he wanted to prove to himself

that he could be the best.

Not that he could be the best that there was

and now west ham here in the European cup winners cup final.

When Bob played well, everyone played well.

Hurst" we changed our format a bit. Bobby Moore played as a sweeper,

we were very difficult to beat defensively because of that.

Ron loved a time bit of flamboyance

and we had cane blanche to go where we wanted.

It was just an amazing game.

We just moved around and we dropped in places,

commentator Sealey free on the right. This could be a goal for West Ham,

yes, a goal and Sealey has scored!

I got fouled outside the box

and Bob was a great passer of the ball.

Here he comes.

Like, 30, 40 yards and he used to smash balls into you.

It got knocked down and we were two up.

Commentator Sealey has made it two!

West Ham have won the European cup winners cup.

Fantastic performance by West Ham.

And Bobby Moore, who knows, in just over a year,s time.

He might be standing on the same spot with the worm cup in his hands.

Tina, the build-up was phenomenal,

you walked out. It was quite electric,

Jimmy Greaves was ref! Out of the England side.

Everybody was talking about it.

Jimmy Greaves,s record as a goal scorer

is absolutely phenomenal.

Everybody in this country knew what a great player Jimmy Greaves was.

I know his record off by heart,

160-odd games for Chelsea, 130 goals, in four seasons, 16 to 20.

360 games for spurs, 260-odd goals.

Hat-trick in has debut

57 games for England. 44 goals.

It was a huge decision for Alf. Of course. To have Jimmy out,

because he couldn,t put him on the bench, there were no subs

and people don,t realise that.

You,re leaving one of the greatest goal scorers out in a World Cup final.

Tina poor Jimmy Greaves was absolutely incense/able.

I mean, Bobby was really upset for him.

Cohen. He,s my oldest friend in football, Jimmy Greaves.

We,ve known each other since we were 15.

I have never been able to approach him on that particular score.

Tina, and I think he found him packing the morning of the cup final,

and he put his arm round him and tried to console him as best he could.

I think Bobby was empathetic. He understood what he was feeling,

Powell they were strong right through the team.

That great German ethic.

They,re never beaten until the final whistle blows.

And they had the genius of Franz Beckenbauer.

It was quire a quiet dressing room.

Players were focused on theirselves and thew own preparation

and what we were about to do.

Redknapp, there was no one on the streets that day.

Everybody was in watching the television.

You,ve heard the bell go in the dressing room.

It sounded like a Siren.

Walking out into that tunnel uh. And just standing there,

uh: Just for a very, very short while it was. Oh, dear,

it was, uh... Like nothing on earth,

the tension was honestly enormous, it really was,

England!

Hurst" I remember thinking, "there,s 100000 people up there."

Not only 100.000 people in the ground:

But the rest of the English nation were there:

Hoping that we were gonna win.

And I thought to myself, "we just cannot afford to lose this today."

England!

The crowd, it was almost like flames coming back down the tunnel:

You know, starting from the ground, back down to where we were.

And that noise will always stick with me forever,

and, uh, talking about it today, the hairs on the back of the neck still stand up.

Cohen, the noise blew even/thing out oi, your mind. You couldn,t think.

That was the only time that I,d ever realty felt nervous,

I usually went out behind Bobby Moore.

He didn,t seem to be sweating.

It was perhaps a calming effect.

He would certainly not give the impression that he was scared of anything at ail,

there are big players, good players: Who can freeze on big occasions.

That would never happen to Moore-o,

I think the bigger the game, the better he played.

As soon as that whistle went...

He played exactly how he would normally do,

oh,

he was nice and calm and he was gonna get on with his job

Lift them if they weren,t doing too well

and calm them down it they were getting a bit too excited.

It,s back to halter.

A goal,. West Germany have scored.

Twelve minutes gone.

You know you,ve just got to push that aside and carry on, you know,

it,s important to get back in the game quickly.

People talk about Moore-e as a sweeper.

Moore-o got fouled in their last third of the field.

Rather than retaliate, he backs oft: Puts the ball down, looks up.

He stutters to take it, probably knew I wasn,t in quite the right position.

Ron greenwood used to say,

"your mind,s gotta be like an electric buzzsaw."

You can be in a difficult situation,

but time stands still while you pick your moment.

To me. That sums up Bobby Moore.

Hurst goes up. Tilkovvski loses it.

Commentator: Hurst.

And a chance... A goal...

Peters!

I,d love to do that again.

Let alone it,s the final of the World Cup.

Commentator" there,s Martin Peters, the man who scored the goal,

which could wet! Win the World Cup for England.

Emmerich coming in.

And he,s

oh, yes, they must do! They have done!

Weber has scored in the last seconds.

Bobby Moore did exactly the same as I did.

We,re going like this to the referee: You know, it,s a hand ball.

He,s given them the goal.

You know, it,s hit his arm, r,s a free kick for US.

We were winning, got the World Cup: And he lets that go, you know.

Bobby Moore was that angry.

H,s a foul

anyway, he gave the goal.

Big Jackie says that it,s the only time

that Bobby ever swore at him in the course of a match

Jack doesn,t particularly want to accept the blame:

But Bobby turned round to him and said: “Don,t ever effing do that again."

Hurst" losing the goal just a! The end of the game

I think was hugely disappointing.

Put the World Cup final in context, it was only 20 years after the war.

For a lot of people, it was slightly more than a game of football.

Bobby was one of the war children.

He and I were born during the war.

Bombs dropped on US.

The children of that era did grow up

with that as very much part of their DNA.

Football really became, as it was subsequently described,

the opiate of the masses,

as a relief from the horrors of war

and the privations of the post-war years.

People went to football to get away from that.

1 cam remember not playing.

You,d come home with the sole off your feet.

There wasn,t too many places you could go, it was very dangerous.

I remember my father looking for unexploded bombs.

Redknapp, all we knew was going out every night when we got home from school

playing football, until it was too dark to see,

and then find a bit of light somewhere,

carry on having a little game,

banks so then you can imagine there were millions of young boys

playing football at that time,

and for you to be picked out of a“ those kids

to become a professional footballer, fantastic,

Moore. Every kid as a young boy

probably all wanted to play professional football,

all wanted to play in a cup final

and all if they could wanted to captain eng/and,

any other team with a fess competitive spirit, fess camaraderie,

less team spirit, I think possibly could have folded,

Alf Ramsey showed his true self here, when he said that,

“you,ve already won the World Cup once. Go and win it again."

He was like a general, wasn,t he?

Commentator: Out to ball.

England have to pace themselves in the second half.

Hunter" Alan ball, in extra time, was absolutely awesome.

There were some brilliant performances.

Commentator" banks still impeccable,

Ball irresistible.

Hurst" well, the disputed goals been talked about

and will always be talked about as long as there,s football, really.

Hurst" I couldn,t see it.

Banks" Geoff hit the crossbar and it went

a yard over the mme,

no, it was, you know. Very dose to the line. But spun out.

And Roger, who was standing really close to it:.

He turned round: "That,s a goal."

Commentator" no. No, the linesman says, "no."

It,s a goal,

oh, and the Germans go mad at the linesman.

Who can only speak Russian and Turkish.

Had we had technology then:.

It would quite clearly show that the ball was over the line.

Willi schulz found himself on the right wing

and knocked one of countless baits in the last few seconds of the game.

Leading 3-2, seconds to go,

it was gonna bounce in a very dangerous area.

And what does Moore-o do? He chests the ball down.

Now. I wasn,t too bothered.

I,d seen him do this.

It was like a Sunday morning game to him.

He brought the ball down on his chest?

In the area?

Hurst. It shows you about the composure of Moore-o.

It summed up everything I,ve always felt about him,

it was a very calm thing to do:

But you have to have the vision and the flair to do it.

And you have to have the balls to bring it down in the area

in that situation.

Big Jack was screaming, you know, to put it three tiers up.

And I said the same thing. I told him to clear it.

But knowing Bob like I knew him.

Oh, he was not gonna give that ball away.

He was not gonna give that ball away.

It seemed as though that was his motto

calm and composed as you like. He threatened to knock it to George.

The German front two opened up. He waltzed up to the edge of the box.

Banks and he,d seen Geoff make this run now.

He put has head down as quick as he could,

because there was somebody dosing him down.

-Looked up, -bang.

And I remember looking back at Moore-o thinking:

"The game,s over, immaculate as ever:

"Pulling his socks up. Preparing himself to meet the queen."

That was Moore-o.

"I,m tired, the game is now over.

"I,m just now gonna whack this ball with my left foot."

It goes beyond the bar, beyond the sand, into the crowd,

by the time the ball boy gets it back to the keeper, Tilkowski,

the game,s gotta be over,

but, as you know, I mishit it.

Some people are on the pitch. They think ifs all over.

It is now.

England! England!

Commentator great moments in English sporting history.

As Bobby Moore goes up to get the worm cup,

al? Ramsey walking forward to shake his hand.

I laughed when he went up the stairs,

,cause it was just so typically Bobby.

He had dirty hands and he,s rubbed them against his shorts,

so he wouldn,t muddy or Sully the queen,s gloves,

and wiped it on the velvet balustrade.

And I laughed. Because that was so much Bobby.

Even in the heat of winning the World Cup:.

His thoughts were for somebody else.

The crowd were ecstatic.

A huge noise you cam describe. Kt was unbelievable.

It was him holding it up, but he held it up for all of US.

And now, we were running round that field with the World Cup in our hand

and the fans were going absolutely berserk,

Bobby made sure that every one of US

had a little run with that work! Cup in our hand

and we all got a round of applause.

And then he,d take it back and then give it to somebody else.

Wonderful. Wonderful day.

I looked at him and there was all these people standing up cheering

and I just thought "my god. What a man."

He survived cancer, which realty meant more

than all the football to me, to be honest with you.

And here he is holding up the Dukes Rimet cup.

I thought, "ll only they really knew the truth,

“how much more would he have been revered?“

he was a proper hero.

Football exploded that night.

Yay!

There was a buzz. I mean, there was just a buzz around the country.

Oh, over the world. Over the world.

Bobby became a star.

He had film star status and he deserved fr.

There was something about him, he just oozed class.

He was the king: On and off the pitch,

always looked impeccable.

He became so famous.

People used to hold up babies for him to touch.

Rock and roll music. Fashion and football all combined.

Greg dyke, and the world has never been quite the same since,

that night, the game changed. It became totally glamorous,

he had really good taste. Bobby.

Clothes: Women

I never ever heard any stories that he was a womaniser

I always felt very secure and comfortable in my marriage.

Football, before pop and rock music came along,

was the only way working-class people could get out of their situation.

West Ham won the World Cup in 1966,

Martin Peters. Geoff Hurst and, of course, Sir Bobby Moore.

Everybody loves your daddy.

He dealt with his fame differently as he got more comfortable with it.

We used to go to parties with the Beatles, the stones the who

and everyone had a few drinks

and everyone got happy and god knows what,

then I started to realise that Bobby had gone into another stratosphere: Really.

Robert Mitch um. Sonny and Cher, Sammy Davis junior:

Omar sharif, Michael came.

You know. They were like. Became like our mates.

Robert a". Sean Connery used to babysit for US.

Powell". ,66 changed the image of the footballer.

What do you do?

- I play football. - Football?

They did become pan of the phenomenon,

which brought the working-class boy through their glass ceiling.

We started to do modeling together.

I started to get more recognition, it made you feel very special.

So I get round there and I see that Tina,s not a bad-waking girl.

I said, "Bobby, do you mind if she wears the England shirt?"

So he said, "yeah." So we go out.

And this was the picture and it caused such a hoo-ha.

I was treating the England shirt with disrespect,

according to some people: But I wasn,t, actually.

Tina. After the World Cup, Dean was born.

It was absolutely the most amazing occasion,

it fulfilled his dream and, more than anything else:.

He,d fathered a son after he,d had that horrible operation.

It,s very diff/cult, you know, to live in the shadow of my father.

He cast a very long shadow: Particularly for Dean.

Dean was a nice boy. You know,

but how do you {we up to your dad,

who,s the captain of the World Cup ,66?

You can? Replicate that, can you?

Being the son of a very famous father can sometimes be difficult.

I think a lot of people expect an awful lot of you.

Growing up with somebody very famous,

it does have tremendous positives:

But then it has its drawbacks and it can be a dark place to be.

Because you have to be mindful of people sometimes having other agendas.

Hurst, when we went out to Mexico in ,70, we were arguably the team to beat,

we were strong favorites.

Banks, it really was a good side.

We felt we were unbeatable.

Bobby used to say ,70 was a better team than ,66

he thought that was a better, more balanced team.

A more youthful team,

en route to the finals in Bogota the interest was phenomenal,

Hurst" in Bogota,, the advice we were given was don,t stray outside the hotel,

so, there were obviously some elements of risk in that part of the world at that time.

I had a phone call at 2:00 in the morning

and they said, "have you heard what,s wrong, what,s happened to Bobby?"

And I went. "What do you mean? Has there been an accident?"

When Bobby Moore was arrested on a stopover in Colombia

and charged with stealing a gold bracelet,

Tell US how you feel, Bobby.

Nothing at all?

The captain of the World Cup holders is detained and it was huge.

It is interesting that both Moore-o and the other Bobby

were both arrested but the focus seemed to be a lot more on Moore-o.

He had basically taken ll upon himself to bear that burden,

banks we were ready to go to Mexico and somebody come to me and said.

"Have you heard? Bobbys got to stay back here.“

Powell". The media storm then swirled around the world.

The official plane had flown on to Mexico without him.

Alf felt confident to leave him

and get on with the job of trying to retain the World Cup,

that tells you everything you need to know about Alf,s belief in Bobby.

That he was man enough to take it.

Roberta". I remember there being a phone calk

he just said. "Are you all right?" I went. "Bobby, don,t worry about how I am,

"how are you?" And the phone,s gone dead.

And off she flew

unix, and I really didn,t know what to do.

May the 27th, the foreign office ask the prime minister

"every minute,s delay in securing Moore,s release

"militates against England,s World Cup chances,

"request urgent action at highest level."

What happened to him was definitely a political/oh and he knew it,

he had some terrible dark days over that.

Bob,s bomb proof, and / think he,s the only man I know

that would have stood up to days in a Colombian jaw.

Hunter it was all nonsense to try and get US upset.

Bobby was released. Thank god.

It,s obviously been a diff/cult last few days for you.

How do you feel now you,re 20,000 feet over Colombia?

Well, I must insist that this is the first time

I,ve really enjoyed flying

and I must say I,m delighted to be heading back to Mexico

to meet up with the rest of the \ads.

Hurst" I don,t think he ever legally actually finally cleared his name.

Redknapp, they picked on the wrong man,

because there,s no way Bobby would do anything like that. Not a chance.

He comes out of house arrest: Not training, no preparation,

he comes out and plays within a few days against Brazil

and probably plays better against Brazil than he did in the final in ,66.

Bobby Moore,s got to read it.

Robbed by Moore. And Bobby Moore takes it away from mm.

Hurst, it,s astonishing.

He was phenomenal, he played as if nothing had happened,

comment nor Tostéo. And again Bobby Moore "in there to stop him.

What a superb bloke to have in your side.

To come and play as he did, it showed the Mark of the man

commentator" when you,re champions of the world, everybody wants to beat you.

At that stage.

It was thought that Brazil and England were the best two teams in the world.

Commentator: in for Pelé ..

Pelé was the greatest player we ever seen.

This guy was absolutely fantastic.

It,s pele,, number 10

I don,t care how old you are, you don,t say Pelé without knowing

who you,re talking about.

The genius that we know this man pele can be.

I remember pele, going past one or two.

Then, he come at Bobby and Bobby just waiting.

Here,s pele now. And Bobby Moore stopped him.

He was magnificent that day,

and England supporters waving their flags

and rising to Bobby Moore, the England captain.

It,s a good cross ball, and pele,!

And a fantastic save by banks!

And I now see the ball bounce behind the goal,

I thought, "wow."

Bobby Moore walked over to me. Leant over and he said,

"try and get a hold of ,em, for Christ,s sake. No silly corners."

Commentator" what a fantastic save by Gordon banks.

He would talk about them in real reverential tones,

but not just, the Pete,s, he,d talk about the whole of the Brazilian team.

Because he knew them and he knew their abilities.

Jairzinho, there it is!

Commentator" it,s open for Jairzinho. We,ve only got Bobby Moore.

Redknapp; Jairzinho started running: One against one,

and Jairzinho had been murdering everybody in the 1970 World Cup.

And he,s running at Bobby from just over the halfway line.

You thought, "oh, my god, one against one. He,s clean in.“

hunter, and he just waited, waited.

And Bobby skid in.

When his timing was right, boom.

Commentator" and Moore stopped him,

what a player this fellow is.

Bobby had a great game.

That,s a good one. Here,s Bob char/ton.

- We could have beaten them that day. - Ara-n bah,.

Jeff had a couple of chances -Astle now.

And he misses. Alan ball.

And he hits the bar.

One equaliser is all they want at this moment.

The game,s over.

England have lost it.

There,s a couple of great players there.

Pelé, number 10. And Bobby Moore in: England,

On they went until the quarterfinal.

When England were up against Germany.

Germany all in white,

England wearing the red shirts they wore in 1966.

Through ball for Muliery! England are one up.

Back for Seeler. And Bobby Moore,s got this.

Oh. A good cross bail. On the far side is Martin Peters.

It,s in the net! Martin Peters makes it two nothing.

Two goals in from after an hour and we hadn,t had any problems

from the west Germans in any way whatsoever.

And Bobby Moore again. What a great game this man is having.

Beckenbauer

Beckenbauer. Ball,s still down injured. Beckenbauer.

In the net! Beckenbauer the scorer.

So, that cuts it back a bit

there,s Seeler Seeler!

Uwe Seeler has equalised.

There,s the 90-minute signal.

From a team that was dead and burled,

as it stood then, there was only one team gonna win.

A good cross ball, Löhr the far post.

And there,s muller, muller has done it.

And there is the final whistle.

K,s allover 3-2

that was the worst feeling I,ve ever had in football.

As much as the euphoria of winning it in ,66:

Conversely it,s a huge blow

to lose a game against the German team in the quarter final.

It was bad enough for me: I hadn,t even played,

but that,s football.

Terry (snell I think that ream; Hit him. That match.

Coming back with the England team,

he was led down the steps and taken to a hotel to sleep it off

I think he was drowning his sorrows.

Dyke Harold Wilson always blames it for why he test the election.

Because the election was later that week.

Suddenly the national morale collapsed.

Redknapp, after the World Cup, when it comes to business.

Bobby was always open to somebody

with a good idea about opening a pub: Opening a wine bar,

making shirts, leather coats.

Cohen: But had give ,em away, he wouldn,t charge people for it.

Redknapp one after the other, there were businesses that weren,t successful

he did trust a lot of people that didn,t prove to be terribly trustworthy.

If someone tells you open this business or that:

Then he,d go. “Yeah yeah“

we,ve all done a fortune and Bobby was no different.

Bobby one of the things that became very public knowledge

was being associated with a country club in the Chigwell area.

Bobby, somewhere along the line:

Signed a guarantee,

he was a guarantor,

I don,t know if he was totally on his own, but I think he was.

And he ended up with a bill for 100,000.

Which in those days was a fortune.

And he paid it.

He got taken to the cleaners there.

It was nasty. A nasty business.

“Dear sift I swear that this information is true

“and is not a hoax “

and those words are heavily underlined.

"But in the next few days, five men, two of them armed,

"are going ahead with their plans to kidnap mrs Tina Moore."

Reporter since then, police nave been keeping a close watch on mrs Moore

and the two children.

Tina somebody had been released from prison or was on bail or something,

and he,d heard of this plot,

and he said he was a huge West Ham {an

and he felt he had to let the police know,

Roberta, the threat of being kidnapped was very real for some time.

Ah he wanted to do was to protect US and to care for US.

I haven,t heard anything.

It was scary. We had some detectives who moved in with US.

They were there for about two weeks.

Long time to kind of have strangers live with you and protecting you.

Tina, and then somebody rang my cousin Jenny

and said that Bobby was going to be shot,

so, Jenny was really alarmed. She,s rung the police.

And at the time, they were playing a match.

They,d run on the pitch. Surrounded Bobby and escorted him off

he made a good joke coming off the pitch,

"I didn,t have that much of a bad game, did I?“

when there was about six coppers round him.

This is Greaves.

Still there. Greaves.

I think Jimmy had just signed with US.

Greaves, Bobby got me me into more trouble

than any other footballer I,ve ever known.

And I,ve played with some villains.

Well, the incident in Blackpool

was, uh, I think the game looked like it was gonna be off for sure.

We thought the game was gonna be called off.

We were just sitting there and Bob said,

“did we fancy going up to see Brian London?“

so to the nightclub, off we went,

don,t forget, this is the night before a game.

That was Bobby Moore, Brian dear, myself. Robbie Jenkins. The physio.

Yeah, we met Brian London and he invited US

we were going for a walk, actually:.

And: Actually, if I can remember rightly,

I think I possibly had forgotten to bring his sleeping pill.

We came back quite early. We weren,t the worse for wear

then we went to bed.

Commentator craven with a shot. It,s in the goal.

That is number four.

And that is the disconsolate figure of Ruben Moore.

The papers had got hold of the story that we,d gone to the nightclub.

And it was on the 1:00 news

Ron had been on the phone questioning US

and we were summoned to the ground.

The directors really wanted to Chuck US out that day. I think,

it was that bad.

But / think Ron lust saved our grace and let US down gently.

Well, I suppose, Bobby.

You might think that we could have chosen a better week to say, "this is your life "

it,s not exactly the happiest week in West Ham,s history.

You can say that again, Eamonn.

But nevertheless, it,s all part and parcel of the job

and, uh, we have to take the rough with the smooth.

They were thinking of scrapping it: But the damage was done.

Bobby Moore obe, captain of England,s World Cup team:

Tonight, this is your life.

They went through, did this ls your life,

which was live at the time.

That was on the Wednesday.

And on the Thursday, they issued a statement.

They suspended Bobby, Jimmy and Brian dear.

And Bobby thought the way they handled it was disgraceful.

Um, I left at the end of the season. Jimmy left. Bob stayed.

But it was never really the same for Bob then.

Commentator" and what a task it,s gonna be for this reshuffled West Ham side.

So recently demoralized by the events in Blackpool.

And ifs Geoff Hurst.

Who should lift their spirits by coming back into the side. \\

I think derby were interested in Bobby.

Brian slough was making quite a lot of noise about it.

Well, I just, you know: I,d like things to happen

and, uh, get the sort of club that would appeal to me.

The club, I think at that time: Didn,t wanna let him go

and once a club didn,t wanna let you go at that period of time:

You had no choice but to stay.

Commentator: Lubanski.

Bands.

Mcfarland, Moore.

Moore in trouble! Lubanski. Moore was too casual.

2-0

Bobby was to make one mistake in the qualifying competition for 1974.

Ball out near the touchline. Turned inside. As he,d done a million times,

got caught in possession, away they go.

Nigel Clarke" it was the first time I,d seen him even come close to losing it,

he was pacing up and down:.

Quite red-faced and, and agonising over it.

He was so upset that he,d let England down.

And himself.

We went for a walk one day and we met these fa councillors

and they had found Bobby fast asleep on a park bench,

couldn,t sleep, got up, went our, lay there like a tramp on a bench.

He was really, really beyond despair, in a way.

If you,ve been wondering what this is in my hand. It,s a nail,

and it,s either going in Poland,s coffin or ifs going in Sir Alf,s.

Having seen Bobby Moore make one mistake,

you could guarantee with your life

that he would never do the same thing again.

It would be removed

that little tiny glitch in the computer would have been deleted.

And by terrible irony, Norman hunter replicated that mistake.

And then, I messed that up a bit on the halfway line, you know.

Lato screaming down the right side, left, left side, rather.

Nova. Ifs late against mcfarland.

And Gadocha,s over there.

The shot ts on for Domarski.

Oh! And he scores!

Hunter; You do things in your career: Nobody makes mistakes on purpose,

and I made that howler

and then I couldn,t wait to try and rectify that.

And the chances were unbelievable

and we should have beat them three or four,

if the keeper hadn,t have been so brill/ant, Tomaszewski.

Goalkeeper had a miracle game.

We should have scored about six goals.

Commentator on for Clarke. He knocks it back and...

Bobby kept saying to Ali "gel Kevin on

"get Kevin on. Get Kevin on."

“Too \ate, “ says av.

Bobby says, "no, it,s not too late. He could still do it.

"There,s space down that left side. He,s perfect for this."

Had the best chance of the match,

put the ball wide from two yards and that was it England were out.

It,s over. It,s allover.

And for eng/and, one of the blackest days they,ve ever had.

Sir ak Ramsey must be a very disheartened man.

And I will never forget that final whistle.

And I,ve got me head down and I,m trudging off.

And I,m thinking, "well. That,s it,

"that,s the end of your international careen lad."

And Bobby was there,

put his arm round me, and he said something:

And I can,t really remember what he said,

but uh, I was just so upset.

What about your own future now as the England manager?

Well what about it? I,m the England manager. Aren,t I?

Which wasn,t well-handled.

Bobby was given the chance to get to the number of caps he did,

but the castle was falling:.

And, uh, from then on it,s proved to be difficult

to rebuild a castle with sand.

Commentator" just four weeks after England were knocked out of the World Cup,

Moore tonight captains England for the 90th time

and thereby equals the record or Bury Wright.

He got his 108 caps, which was a record,

So he finished on a high.

But I think. In a way,

although he was upset about the career coming to the end,

he was excited because he was quite looking forward

to the next period of his life.

He was captain of England:

He dressed smartly. He had a red Jaguar:

He went to the best places,

and he lived the life of somebody that was

and deserved to and was very successful.

But at the end of it, um. You can have a good we.

But there,s not a lot of money you can save during your career:.

No matter who you are and what you achieved in the game.

The last of around 650 appearances,

Bobby Moore. Made for West Ham,

came in the humble setting of a reserve match against Plymouth,

Moore has signed for Fulham,

joining up with former England colleague Alan Muliery.

Lee strong, he had quite a few offers, obviously, and to stay in the top division.

I mean: We were in the old second division.

Reporter" there,s a newspaper story this morning

that you might pack up at the end of the season.

I don,t think you,re taking that terribly seriously.

But do you see this as your last chance to get to Wembley?

Uh“

I hope not. I,d like to go on playing for as long as possible, Brian,

and, uh, as I say: It,s a great inspiration

to know that you,re knocking on the doorstep of Wembley again.

The cup final was a great occasion for US.

We were good mates and I knew how he would have felt.

He wanted to wan badly,

and Bobby Moore comes out

to the atmosphere he loves and knows so we“

this is Moore,s 47th appearance at Wembley.

Just for Bob to get there in ms final last couple of years

was a dream come true, really, for him.

I wouldn,t have minded getting beat that day by Fulham,

purely because it was Bobby Moore.

Commentator" Taylor turns rt back, yes! And bit well back by number two!

The fa cup goes back to upton park.

LAMPARD straight after the game he shook hands with me on the pitch.

And it was different cf ass. Different class.

Strong, he took it in his stride, Bob, played well on the day

but not quite good enough.

After a match we,d all go out, the whole team.

We would go off down the king,s road, even if it was for an hour.

Fans would bother him. Wouldn,t bother US, of course

oh it helped when George best signed for US,

,cause he took a little bit of the load off Bob.

Commentator" best that,s the best.

Oh, my goodness! He hit the post.

I was involved with marsh. Best and Moore

in the fact that I was an apprentice

and carrying their stuff all around Europe.

Loads of European tours, pre-season friendlies.

It was just the place to be. They were like a travelling circus.

Another smite. We?! Be cooking up something.

Bobby loved his time there.

It suited him: Really, ,cause he liked the bars over there.

Hurdled beautifully over“.

Took it off Rodney marsh, marsh coming back to tackle here.

But you entertained, and people went away and said:.

“Oh, did you see what marsh did there? Did you see what best did?

“Dad you see what Bobby Moore pulled off?"

Moore

that really was the nerve of a great player there.

They wanted to see them. They wanted to see some magic.

Commentator onto the right foot. Mitchell on the far post.

Marsh with a header!

What about the future? Are you gonna go into management, or what?

Well, if the right sort of opportunities come along, I,d very much like to.

It,s unbelievable that he had to go abroad to find a job.

He was offered a job at Seattle sounders.

Commentator" Bobby Moore playing in ms fourth game of the season.

He,s 37 years old.

Then we went to San Antonio thunder and Denmark.

I think he was a bit demoralized about that.

Carr. Bobby retired after that.

I think once you,re out the limelight:

No one gives a monkey,s about you. Really, let,s be honest.

When you,re gone, you,re gone.

Redknapp, the most important thing is you,ve got your family around you,

as a professional footballer: Particularly then,

you weren,t prepared for the next stage of your life

and what are you going on to do?

Graham Taylor, Elton John approached Bobby Moore to become the Watford manager

Tina; They were gonna do like a big film on it

about the two icons of football and music:.

And Bobby was so enthused, he thought this was great.

Anyway, we were on holiday and he was excited,

because by then he,d already had this conversation,

there were other directors on the board, and Elton was very good at this,

he wanted the directors to have their say,

and their view was that it would be better if he went for me.

Now. Please, I,m not doing this to boast.

Because I was only told that. I,d no idea.

When I accepted the Watford job, I,d no idea they,d spoken to Bobby Moore.

He used to go for a run every morning and stop at the focal. Sort of, grocery shop.

He,s come in and he handed me the paper. He was ashen,

they,d given Graham Taylor the job.

Well, I mean. We were both gobsmacked,

that was the biggest letdown, I think. Oi Bobby,s hie.

I mean. He was absolutely shattered by that.

He was a very proud man and it must have really hurt,

we just thought it was a matter of time before another football offer would come tn

nothing came in.

And, you know, then when one did, it was a really lowly job at Oxford city,

and actually it was very nice of the man to even give it to him,

but it was a very dour, grim sort of start.

Bobby had no money. Harry Redknapp went to help him,

I went to Oxford city. It was non-league.

We didn,t know the players. It was an impossible job.

And then he started writing off for jobs: Putting it out that he wanted a job.

Sometimes people didn,t even return the letter.

Bobby wrote to the fa after Don Revie left,

but I could well see him not getting a reply, you know,?

You didn,t ever feel that there was a conspiracy against you

just pushing you out of football,?

Well, I wouldn,t have thought so and I wouldn’t have liked to think so.

Because, uh, you know. If there had have been, uh.

I would like to have known the reasons why.

Reporter" but the eng/and captain of the World Cup winning team

with a lot of knowledge about football not offered a job?

It seems crazy,

as great a player as he was and as much as he was loved,

I wouldn,t see them giving him a job,

Ron greenwood got the job.

Maybe he had more of a relationship, especially with Geoff, you know.

Unix he was dejected.

I mean, it,s so awful to be spurned by

something that you,ve given so much to.

There,s no rhyme nor reason to it.

Only people in charge of football and in charge of clubs

could tell you why they didn,t,

maybe they were soared about the stories of his friends, if you like.

Sometimes you,re judged by the company you keep.

And probably that,s what they thought.

There had been all the great upset of the Bogotá incident.

Maybe that had an impact on the fact that he was overlooked.

In the big box game celebrity squares“,

Tina, it totally changed our financial position.

And it must have been a terrible, terrible burden on him

I haven,t played football for 20 years

and I,m teaching Pelé, Ardlles, Bobby Moore, how to play football.

Myself and Bob Moore, we work with the stars who doesn,t play soccer.

They teach US how act. We teach them how to play soccer.

Tonight it,s Bobby Moore.

Tina". He didn,t want to set! Morlands.

He was very proud of that house.

He,d worked terribly hard to get it,

I think Bobby was so proud:

He,d elevated himself and me and the children to such a level,

he didn,t really...

I don,t think he was: Felt he was capable

of dropping to a much lower \eve\.

Host. Bobby Moore.

His insomnia got worse.

I think he turned inwards.

I think he felt that he,d failed US as a family and I think that, looking back,

I think there was depression.

In general terms, Bob:

What are you offering at the Bobby Moore soccer school?

Well, basically, you know, we are taking the boys on a week,s course.

It,s a non-residential course that runs from a Monday to Friday

from 10:00 to 4000 every day.

And you meet your heroes as well as getting coached. You see.

Well, that,s what we think, but some of them can,t even remember US.

Tina, Bobby had died in all those years, when he was neglected.

I think he was crushed.

What I want from you. Lads, right...

/ think it broke his heart actually.

He would never have admitted it.

But I know that it really got to tum.

Tina, and I think that then Bobby withdrew into himself

and I,m sure,

that,s when life got all too much

and I think after all the rejections:

He just got very despairing:

And I,m sure really that was the cause

of what helped make him look outside of our marriage.

He kept saying. "Look we got a problem.“

I know he felt very guilty,

I don,t think he did if lightly,

(think he found it a heartbreaking thing to do.

He kept ringing me and coming round and seeing me,

he couldn,t make the break.

As much as I was hurt and devastated, I think he was too,

and he was such a decent man and such a good man,

I think that it really impacted on him a great deal.

He did the right thing as much as he could in that situation

and he ensured we were all looked after.

And, you know as far as Dean and I were concerned,

he was always there for US: Always there for US.

Bobby, it,s been a difficult period for all concerned,

I mean, not only for Tina and my children

but also for Stephanie and myself.

Stephanie, when I met Bobby, I didn,t know anything about him at all,

because I didn,t come from a footballing family.

I just found mm to be a very gentle, very understated,

very correct, very dignified.

He was just a very nice guy.

Undoubtedly, making the decision to leave his family

was an exceptionally hard decision for him to make.

And I would only know the half of it:.

Um. Because, once again:

He would try and protect everybody from the inevitable.

Everybody was gonna be hurt in that situation at some point

and he really wrestled with that, with his conscience.

He was a very romantic man,

one of my favourite songs at the time,

and stiff is, is Autumn leaves.

And one day we were sitting at an airport

and he,d gone off to the loo or whatever,

and I was sitting facing the wall: Finishing my coffee,

and then I became aware in this crowded lounge,

you know, where we were eating:

Bobby was standing behind me singing Autumn leaves to me.

Uh, you know, he was a great romantic.

The first time I ever saw Stephanie was when he was a manager here

and he brought her to Southend,

Stephanie, because he,d given up everything, even his car,

things were difficult financially for some years.

But Southend is a great club. You know. The fans are fabulous.

Real sense of community in Southend.

He went there as a director

and they were not in great shape financially or football-wise,

and matters only got worse. And then one day they sacked the manager

and said to Bobby, "well, you can take over."

Southend did the right thing in trying to take him on,

but I don,t think it was big enough for him.

He was given the job: Because they were facing relegation.

They weren,t going to avoid relegation.

So he was given an impossible job, really.

Um..

You just had to laugh and get on with it.

Bobby one of the things that I realised I had missed,

when I first got back involved in the coaching capacity,

was the camaraderie that you get in dressing rooms and in training sessions,

where you,re getting like 15, 16 players, you know,

chipping at one another, bantering with one another, fishing jokes.

We had a great couple of years there. All said and done.

I don,t know if he had the attributes to be a manager,

to be honest: I don,t think he was hard enough.

Who knows? He could have been the best West Ham manager of all time.

No one knows, given the chance to do the job.

He could have been the England manager. He knew the game inside out.

Why couldn,t he have been a great manager? I don,t...

He just needed a chance at a good club with good players

to show what he could do. And he never got that opportunity.

At the end, it was difficult.

He was ready to leave and ready to move back to London, as was I

the first time I met Bobby Moore was when I was at capital gold

and we needed someone to be a really heavyweight co-Commentator:

and he was working for the Sunday sport at the time

I didn,t think it was possible and then, io and behold,

a couple of days later, Bobby walked into the office and...

Pristine, immaculate. Which he always was:.

And a big smile on his face, you know, and he said, “all right, jp?“

and that was it, really, and we were set from then on.

He was just like, you know, Bobby Moore, 1966 World Cup winning...

The absolute hero, icon, god for me, and lust a normal bloke,

Bobby would insist on driving.

Stephanie told me ifs because Bobby thought

I did a“ the work at the ground

and therefore he would do ah the work tn getting there and getting back.

Bob would cut up everyone and there,d be people

banging their horns and thumping their windows, everything like that.

And then they,d see it was Bobby and go, you know,

“Bobby Moore. Bobby Moore,s just out US up.“

everyone waving for Bobby.

You,d stop at a traffic jam a bit further up.

The car that you,d just cut up: They,d want his autograph.

He shouldn,t have been doing local radio.

He should have been sitting up in the stand at Wembley

and he should have been sitting in the front row at West Ham

he should have been an ambassador.

He was sad about that. But he was never bitter about it.

I remember seeing him at Grimsby,

sat up here doing commentary during a really cold, bleak day.

And I hear somebody, "Harry!“ I look up and there,s Moore-o,

he,s looking at the pitch before the game and he,s sitting up there.

He,s got a great bag cap on, eating fish and chips,

and I rooked at mm and I thought,

"he shouldn,t be here. He shouldn,t be doing radio:.

"Getting 100 quid or whatever he,s getting for a night,s work."

I felt embarrassed working at West Ham and he,s not.

"Maybe I should be up there doing the radio and he should be down here."

It wasn,t very glamorous, a whole lot of it,

but, yeah, he loved the involvement and he loved the crack.

Then, Stephanie said to me that, you know, it made him feel pan of a team

and close to football again, which I think was really important for Bob.

Wherever we went in World Cup ,90: Bobby was revered.

Pearce". We,d come to the semi-final, with England playing Germany up in turin.

We,ve always called it the tears of turin.

Now if anyone wants to see a great game of football,

that was a wonderful game of football.

One of the last great World Cup games I think I,ve ever seen

it was brutally passionate, it was exotically skilful

and England went out so cruelly.

And at the end. I turned: In the commentary:

And I was like welling up in the commentary,

,cause m,s my first World Cup

and it,s the closest I,ve ever seen to England winning the World Cup:.

But I turn to my right-hand side and Bobby was in floods.

,Cause in 1990, that,s what it still meant to him.

That,s what England still meant to him.

That,s what England in a World Cup still meant to him.

And I think that was one of the defining moments of my relationship with him.

So, we plodded away through these jubilant German supporters

and we get to this square in turin:

And it,s like something from Dante-b inferno,

you know. There,s all these hooligans

piling into one another and smashing each other up.

These were bad days.

Wed gotta get across this square because we could see our hotel in the distance

so I said to Bob, "listen, let,s find a bar. I,m not gonna go across there.“

and he went, "no, no. Pearce-o: We,ll be all right."?

So Bobby starts walking: Don quixote: Across this square,

and I,m his Sancho panza, you know: I,m hid behind him.

But I didn,t need to.

As soon as Bobby hit the square,

all these people punching heck out of one another, bang, bang, bang:.

"Oh, it,s Bobby Moore. All right, Moore-o."

“All right, son,? What,d you think of the game? Bad penalty, wasn,t it?"

"Oh, it was a shocking penalty. It,s Bobby Moore. It,s Bobby Moore."

Ah! Bang, bang. Bang. Carried on the fight.

So, we,re walking across, it was like the parting of the red sea:

Bobby and me and these hooligans having a go at each other

and no one touched US. No one touched US

it was brilliant: Like being in the presence of a divine being.

West Germany are through to the final.

The only person Gascoigne would talk to after being booked

was Bobby Moore.

Well, who do you turn to. You know?

Because sometimes you wanna know the experience:

What it would be like winning the World Cup:.

And obviously with him doing it.

Gascoigne had run after him and said: "Bobby, Bobby, can I have a word?“

I wasn,t privy to it, but apparently dad said to him, you know,

“you okay?“

and he opened up to him.

Gascoigne, we had a little chat for a while and then I got to sit next to him.

He sat next to US on the plane and that.

We chatted at! The way back.

That time that I were with him was really nice, you know.

So I was one of the fortunate ones that actually got to meet the guy,

people like Gascoigne, they knew that Bobby had lived it.

He,d lived it, he,d experienced it, he,d coped.

Because it was a lot to cope with.

When he developed bowel cancer

and he was told that it wasn,t curable,

he was very stoic.

I went to see dad in hospital

he was, um, lying in the bed and he was just coming round from the op,

and he looked at me and he was literally just coming to:.

And Stephanie was there:

And he said, "I think they,ve got it all."

And I saw Stephanie,s eyes well up and then I just knew.

He was very motivated

to hem anybody understand what cancer was about

my impression was that he was a very private man.

We decided that we wouldn,t make it public.

So nobody was really in:

Bar his immediate family. My immediate family.

I think Bobby,s greatest coping strategy is called Stephanie.

Uh, she was absolutely wonderful in her support,

not in a stupid, feather-bedded way: Very practical,

but obviously so concerned for his health.

His calmness enabled me, when I was in his presence:

To be exceptionally calm and controlled.

But, there were months and months and months

where I was going to work and rust in a terrible state,

because I knew I didn,t have him for very long now.

Prof John Smyth, he displayed what is catted fighting spirit

in a way that was very realistic.

Stephanie, he didn,t ask how much longer he had,

but he made sure he lived every day to the full.

Places he wanted to go to,

people he wanted to see.

One of the things I remember about that period

was a phone call he made to me and ream; Asking me nothing.

I knew he just wanted to talk to me.

And I felt, my wife felt very strongly:

That he knew exactly what was gonna happen

"I think he,s calling to say goodbye."

I was on a train. It was rush hour

and all of a sudden someone,s come in

and must have sat down and they,ve nudged me and went, "madam?

And I looked and it was Bobby and I didn,t recognise him.

And I went. "Oh, Bobby."

But he looked so different.

The golden, beautiful Bobby that / remembered wasn,t there.

Obviously, he wasn,t we“.

Then he got up and he went to get off the train:.

And just as the doors were about to close, he got back on,

and then he stayed with me and we chatted until I got off at my station.

And then I walked away with a lump in my throat.

I didn,t see him again.

He announced that he was ill

and then there was a match against San marine at Wembley.

Gascoigne takes it

and it,s nice to see Bobby Moore up in the press box working for radio,

the best wishes of ms many friends in football are with him tonight,

England won convincingly.

And he turned round to me at the end

and he just kind of went like that. He,d done it.

I think he wanted to say goodbye to Wembley stadium.

He kind of took stock and had done what he wanted to do,

had said goodbye in his own quiet way.

He wanted to come to the royal garden hotel:

So it was a significant place.

We came and we had lunch and then we came and stood outside

it was not a cold day, but chilly.

He had this long, red leather coat:

Which had been a gift from Malcolm Allison,

which he was wearing against the weather:.

,Cause he was feeling the weather a bit at that point.

And then we both realised that this was gonna be the end

and we just sod of embraced and, uh...

Looked at each other.

A little bit later on that week: Stephanie phoned me up,

and we were due to go to West Ham, and Steph phoned me up.

And she said she didn,t really want him to go to West Ham,

because she thought it would be a media circus, and I totally agreed with her.

There,d be cameras everywhere.

So she said, "he won,t take it from me. Will you tell him?"

So: I phoned up Bob and I said:.

"Bobby I don,t think you should go to West Ham,

"it,s gonna be quite cruel. There,s gonna be cameras“

I didn,t know how long Bobby had.

“Cameras there all over you, you know, and I don,t think it,d be best."

And he said to me. "Pearce-o, I,ll always respect your opinion...

"I,ll always..."

"I,ll always respect your opinion: But I don,t agree with you,

“and we,ll talk on Monday?

There was no way Bobby could have gone to that game.

The press would have been all over him it would have been horrendous

and Bobby was not well. It was the Saturday before he died.

Sadly

the last words he ever said to me were,

"I respect what you say, but I don,t agree with you."

And I carry that,

the doctor came at one point and said, “we,ll move him into hospital."

And I went downstairs and I said to Dean,

"they want to take your father into hospital. I don,t want this."

I said: "There,s no way they,re moving him out of this house."?

And Dean said, "I,ll deal with it."

And he went and spoke to the doctor.

And I don,t know what they discussed, but Bobby stayed at home,

I went straight round to has house

and, you know, he was only lucid for moments then

and was kind of in and out of consciousness

and he woke up and he saw me and he kind of touched me on the nose

and just went, “hello, Dolly drops."

And that,s one of the last things he ever said to me.

And, um, I,ll never forget that night.

I mean, I was with him all night, as we all were.

And, you know, it was the saddest night of my life.

The outpouring of love was very comforting for those of US left behind.

He was very beloved, he,d given an awful lot to West Ham,

he was one of their own.

They,d lost a son. Hadn,t they?

There was a huge outpouring of public emotion.

A minute,s silence at grounds.

You could see what the man meant.

We didn,t, as the fa.

We probably didn,t treat Bobby Moore as he should have been treated.

I don,t think Bob had a great deal of time: Really, for the fa mandarins,

and, uh, clearly the way they famed to use him

would suggest they had no, you know, no great time for him:.

Which is incredibly sad.

He should have been used by the fa, he should have been used by West Ham.

Suddenly, they wanna name a stand after him.

When he was alive. They didn,t wanna know mm.

And at that stage, I think West Ham united did themselves a disservice

and I certainly think the fa did as well.

Um, it was too kite

um, Bobby had gone.

No disrespect to other footballers who,ve got knighthoods.

Good luck to ,em

no one deserved a knighthood more than Bobby amongst the footballers.

You know, he should have had a knighthood for sure.

Naturally, looking at the people

who,ve been knighted in this country of footballing figures,

without question you would put Bobby up there:

As somebody that should have been knighted.

In fact, people: Even today:.

Still refer to him in conversation as “Sir Bobby Moore.“

but I suppose some people are knighted by monarchs

and other people are knighted by the people:.

And I know which one has more value.

Since he died, Stephanie has worked tirelessly

for her bowel cancer shanty,

and actually, in some ways, she has rebuilt Bobby Moore,s name, I think.

Dyke, by putting his statue outside Wembley

and saying. "Here is the iconic player of his age."

I do think we,ve made up for that.

I think we,ve said, "he matters."

But I think it was belated.

He should have been an ambassador

LAMPARD". The fa needs to have that.

It needs to have a link to players that have been there and done it.

Powell they,ve done it in Argentina with Maradona.

In Brazil with Pelé.

And it,s like Beckenbauer with Germany.

Powell for some reason. This nation of ours gets very embarrassed

by anybody who becomes a hero.

Pearce". He could have been a great spearhead for our footballing oaf son,

would we have been in a better mace seeking another worm cup in England

with someone like Bobby Moore as a figurehead?

Yeah, I think we would have been

England supporters waving then flags and rising to Bobby Moore,

the England captain.

It would have been a significant contribution

and it could have dealt with some of the problems

and the decline subsequent to has era as a player,

commentator" what a superb bloke to have in your side.

I saw the greatest defender who ever stepped on a football field.

Hurst" his ability to read the game at the back, his composure,

- good tackle by Moore. - Yeah. Well hang on a minute.

We all can,t do that, otherwise it,d be an easy game,

as a player and a man, I loved him.

Pearce he wasn,t just a footballer. He wasn,t just ,66.

He was a man of great spirit and bravery and dignity,

and I think his legacy goes on because of that.

He,s a great ambassador for life: Not just football but for life.

You never heard anybody say a bad word about Bobby.

There was no one ever I could think of

who came in contact with him and wouldn,t have liked him.

You couldn,t dislike him

football was Bobby,s life.

Hunter" he was born to play for England. Weren,t he?

Bobby Moore is one of the figures that will be in the fine! Pantheon

of Pelé. Maradona, George best, Johan Cruijff. Bobby Moore,

like these players that are above.

It,s because you,ve connected to something in people

that goes beyond sport.

It,s almost as though he,s presiding over the game

at the stadium that he most loved.

Hodgson: That great victory has weighed on teams ever since

and that,s no fault at all of the people who achieved it,

it just shows up the fact that they did something,

which none of US have been able to achieve

tn the 50 years that have succeeded that

but you can never lose sight of the fact that they did win it:.

And you have to go back to basics sometimes and remember that,

be proud of that and try and replicate it.

And why not? I think we should talk about it a lot.

I think we should show the video

and try and inspire another group to go and do something the same.

He said to me, “you,ve no idea what it,s like

"walking out onto that turf.

"Ifs levitating."

I think 50 years for this country is too long.

We wanna change it, we wanna try and create our own history,

so people talk about US in 50 years time

the way they speak about Bobby Moore.

They give all the generations after something to believe in

and something to took up to.

Hurst" younger players look up to him and feel he,s an inspiration to them.

,Cause you couldn,t possibly pick a better role model.

Pearce". Come the end of the day,

there is a 7-year-old boy kicking a rumba“,

who one day wants to lead his country,

and you will never ever beat the passion o? Kids who want to do that.

And Bobby would have loved that.

Commentator" and Bobby Moore straight into the referee.

Knocked out the referee.

That realty was a powerful header away by Bobby Moore

and the referee ls completely knocked out,

and a lot of people ask me: Even today, who,s my hero?

And I say, “Bobby Moore?

Bobby would come round the house, and then as I became of an age

to be aware of the fact that, what he,d done in the game,

you know, England captain who lifted the World Cup,

then I was obviously quite excited that he was flicking the ball

around in the garden with me.

I don,t think I,d have had the mental strength and the physical strength

to have come back from testicular cancer,

and for Bobby Moore 18 months after a diagnosis of testicular cancer,

to lift the World Cup and then to go on and further has career.

That,s a remarkable achievement.

Bernard against Bobby Moore.

It must 100-1 against.

And he saved it!

He had a wicked sense of humour

he,d never leave my consulting room without me having had a laugh.

And staff outside, you know: Who weren,t listening in,

but they,d say, "goodness. You,ve been laughing in there."

He played centre forward one night at Shrewsbury, in a friendly game,

and he was fantastic. I think he got two or three.

He might have got a hat-trick that night.

But he could play anywhere, Moore-o.

He was that type of footballer: You know?

An intelligent one to Bobby Moore,

got a ricochet of somebody.

My team. I really supported, when I was younger. Was West Ham,

I tried to go there when I was 17, even though I played for newcastle.

Must wanted to go to West Ham

and I think that Sir Bobby was one of the reasons.

I was walking out the ground one day, a car pulled up beside me and it was Bobby.

And he said, ”where are you going?" Sol said, "I,m going to Bow.“

he said, "well, I,m going up the station. Jump in. I,ll give you a lift."

He dropped me off at Bow Church

and I was just hoping that there,d be someone

walking along the road that knew me

that would see me getting out of Bobby Moore,s car.

Commentator: they,ve gotta go for Moore soon

a shot. Goal! By Moore!

We were banned for four years.

We got banned in 1965 for, I don,t know what we did.

We were banned from working there, so...

And that was a big shoe out of our career

because, you know. It was the biggest market in the world:.

So we had to come back here, so I wrote songs about England.

And Sunny Afternoon was about England.

And England won the World Cup.

It,s all so poetic.