{"id":718417,"date":"2026-07-30T03:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:51:11","slug":"my-day-at-wembley-for-1966-world-cup-final-aged-16-was-unbeatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718417\/","title":{"rendered":"My day at Wembley for 1966 World Cup final aged 16 was unbeatable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the 60th anniversary, readers have been sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/send\/u187894196\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Your Voice<\/a> their memories of England&#8217;s dramatic victory against West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966 when they won the World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kenneth Farrington, now 76, watched from the stands as a 16-year-old and shares his account of the excitement of the final on 30 July 1966.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was my workmate, Syd Manning, who obtained the ticket for me and arranged the transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he initially asked me, I was reluctant because I thought I&#8217;d see more of the match by watching it on TV, but thankfully he was insistent saying &#8220;you may never get the chance again to attend a World Cup Final&#8221;, and how right he was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Family occasions apart, it remains the greatest, most memorable day of my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cost of the ticket &#8211; in the standing area behind the goal where, as it turned out, Geoff Hurst would score his third goal and complete his hat-trick &#8211; was 25 shillings &#8211; just over a quarter of my weekly wage as a transport clerk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 60th anniversary, readers have been sending BBC Your Voice their memories of England&#8217;s dramatic victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}