“It was the worst decision made in international football!” | Sir Geoff Hurst 🏆 | Ep 11
Sir Geoff Hurst is with Jeff Stelling on the pod this week to talk about his greatest England matches.
They cover the 1966 World Cup, including the feisty win over Argentina, how he discovered he was playing ahead of Jimmy Greaves in the final, scoring the hat-trick against West Germany that made him a legend and which team-mate ended up in someone’s garden on the night they celebrated England’s men’s greatest ever success on a football field.
He also discusses what he believes is the worst decision ever in international football (no, not that one), why VAR makes him angry, almost joining Manchester United, walking football with Harry Kane and whether he thinks the current England side will win something in the coming years.
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0:00 Sir Geoff Hurst
4:50 Getting called up for the 1966 World Cup
9:55 Being undroppable for the World Cup final
14:05 1966 World Cup final
25:37 1970 World Cup
30:44 The end of Sir Geoff's England career
32:50 Could've joined Manchester United
38:00 Germany 1 England 5
39:35 Why Sir Geoff Hurst hates VAR
43:20 Will Southgate's England win silverware?
45:00 Playing walking football with Harry Kane
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“It was the worst decision made in international football!” | Sir Geoff Hurst 🏆 | Ep 11
Who will be England's most important player at the upcoming European Championships? 🏆
Bellingham imo...A player who loves to perform on the big stage...plus his goals to add to Kane's will be crucial throughout the tournament...🏆🏴⚽️😍
Jude Bellingham 💯
Bellingham (or Foden)
He's one helluva player @@bantamNeil12
@@danielgrundle3324has an aura about him ❤
Sir Geoff looks really well! He is so articulate and modest, too.
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Proper Player and Gentlemen.
What a great show and just how fit does he look at 82 years young
Great interview not keen on the host for some reason.
Looks like he could still put his boots on & play.
Cannot believe he's 82. He looks in his 50's
59th wedding anniversary. Congratulations. Thats a serious achievement
Sir Geoff with Sir Jeff nice Jokes aside Sir Geoff your legacy will forever be legendary thanks for the England World Cup trophy Jules Rinet is still gleaming
Well done Geoff. That is the most relaxed, honest and unguarded interview I have ever heard him give in 40 years.
Super Spieler !!! Ich haben ihn im Oktober 1972 zusammen mit Gordon Banks als deutscher Austauschschüler beim Spiel Spurs vs Stoke live spielen gesehen. Er war auch mit unserem WM Torwart Hans Tilkowski sehr gut befreundet.
Sir Geoff never seems to age.
Unbelievable to think he made his debut in Feb of 66 then went on and won the world cup 5months later.
Enzo Fernandez made his full Argentina debut in the group stage and won the world cup 3 weeks later
Wonder if Jarrad Branthwaite could say the same about the Euros 😅
@@footballsgreatestpodno on 2 counts I believe
The only player in World Cup history to score a two-goal hat-trick.
Not what the record book shows. No penalties either.
He looks really healthy and amazing for his age
Just a fantastic watch brilliant.
Problem England had with Greaves is the bulk of his goals came in friendlies. Twenty-seven goals in friendlies, 13 goals in Home Championships and only four goals in European and World Cup qualifiers and finals (WC62-66; Euro64) and three of those were against Luxembourg in WC62 qualifiers.
A truly great man
Fully agree with Hursty that VAR is really really bad for the game of football! Hate it, hate it, hate it! Yes, some critical goals have been given thanks to VAR, but the stoppages disrupting the flow of the game are NOT worth it!
so you're essentially saying you would not change the maradona hand of god goal?
I think so yes. Tough call but how many goals are not disallowed and allowed using VAR that pundits scratch their heads over? Overall, far more problems caused by VAR than solved by it.
VAR is one of the best things introduced to football. It's some of the clowns monitoring it that makes it look bad.
They are worth it. Easily.
Hursty 😂
I'm English and even I admit it was never over the line Geoff, glad he gave it though.
Great guest & a good speaker.
Gerry Coogan you are spot on great comment 2 goal hat trick are we the only 2 people in the British Isles who are aware that the ball NEVER EVER went over the line 😂😂😂😂
Legend and was bought up in Chelmsford 👏🏻
A hat trick in a world cup final at wembley for England and you get to lap Wembley at the end holding aloft footballs greatest prize.... does it get any better?...i bet even sir geoff cant believe that actually happened😂
Unbelievable Jeff! Naming the England team that won 5-1 in Munich and not mentioning Steven Gerrard, even though he scored a cracking goal.
The reverence that that game is held on makes absolutely no sense to me. It was a qualifier. But you could DVD's of it in the shops 7 years later.
Should've recited the Ant & Dec lyrics
Surprised he never mentioned Alan Shearer, the best centre-forward England ever had.
Bring back the old music!!
When Sniffer Clarke was told he was making his debut ( vs the Cheks 70 - he scored the pen ) ĥe said I've been ready for 3 years - he was Imo and his England's Finest goal getter yet after scoring in his first 4 games he wasn't picked again until we slaughtered the Scots in their Centenary Game in Glasgow 0 - 5 in 73 Clarke got Two - my point he Should have replaced Mr Hurst at least after Mexico 70 W C .
The ball was never over the line .. Refereeing was poor 1970 wc quarter final West Germany I watched it England should have had pens. imho england will not win while fake..flakegate is manager,,, he had 2 chances to win yet his inept skills tactically cost the team
Completely agree, Trying to prove a point by letting those 3 take a penalty...his inept virtue signalling ruined it.
@@LordFlashheart.11 semi WC Russia He never had the conviction to tighten the defence 15 minutes from time while Kane labored up front Deli too. Kane missed chance to make it 2 in the first half .and the midfield run ragged . Grealish keeps hold of the ball Mary Pickford is a clown He likes his pets...Oh for Terry Venables
Give it a rest
Moronic post
My claim to fame , i was born in the same hospital as Geoff Hurst in Ashton under Lyne .
Can tell Stelling doesn't like West Ham, Hursty, tells him two of the world cup goals were straight off the West Ham training ground & nothing LOL
Brilliant to see Sir Geoff Sharp as a button when there's a pall of Alzheimer's hanging over footballers from that time.
Last living
Does Sir Geoff still have the match ball?
No a German player grabbed it...then gave it to the FA 30 years later...think it might have been seeler that grabbed it
@@leeturton9254 Thanks Lee, shame Hurst didn’t get it but fantastic it’s with the FA who will hopefully display it for fans to see 👍👍👍
@@goodonedoo helmut haller grabbed the ball...he gave it to the sun newspaper in 1996 i believe who in turn gave to the f.a
It's in the National Football Museum in Manchester
"I was washing my car outside my house, which cost five grand" Me: Hmm, that was quite a lot for a car in the 60s.
That was for the house not the car.
Brilliant insight, Geoff Hurst's hatrick in a world cup final will never be surpassed, married for 59 years, today's social media viewers need to take note, different class back then.
Nothing wrong with VAR it’s the idiotic referees that are misinterpreting it that is the problem