- Dec 13, 2005
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There was a thread on Twitter yesterday, it evolved from taking the piss out of Ozil and Germany going out of the World.
It got to a point where It was asked something along the lines of 'name any of our players 'who won (sic) the World Cup'
There was a bit of an impasse until I obligingly informed them that our dear Jimmy Greaves did in fact win a WC
winners medal for his part in the 1966 finals, he played in three group matches in the finals and injury kept him out. The rest is history.
What I didn't tell them was that Jimmy actually had to wait for his winners medal for about 40+ years following an appeal by the FA which was accepted by FIFA who decided that all previous players who had been in the finals squads got recognition they deserved.
I also didn't tell them that he flogged that medal a few years later for about £44k or so.
It got to a point where It was asked something along the lines of 'name any of our players 'who won (sic) the World Cup'
There was a bit of an impasse until I obligingly informed them that our dear Jimmy Greaves did in fact win a WC
winners medal for his part in the 1966 finals, he played in three group matches in the finals and injury kept him out. The rest is history.
What I didn't tell them was that Jimmy actually had to wait for his winners medal for about 40+ years following an appeal by the FA which was accepted by FIFA who decided that all previous players who had been in the finals squads got recognition they deserved.
I also didn't tell them that he flogged that medal a few years later for about £44k or so.