1966 was an historic year in sport and the marvellous achievements of some of the greatest sporting heroes of all time have been effectively airbrushed from history thanks to the events of one late July afternoon at Wembley Stadium. The World Cup that year has obliterated other events from the annals of sporting history.
No more. In this groundbreaking book David Ross restores the forgotten stars and occasions of 1966 to their proper place in the pantheon of sporting greats. Here in this book the deeds of Muhammad Ali, Henry Cooper, Jack Nicklaus, Ann Jones, Scobie Breasley, Geoff Boycott, Gary Sobers, Walter McGowan, Bill Shankly, Ron Clarke, Kip Keino, David Hemery and many others are told anew.
These are events and deeds unjustly forgotten by time. Men and women whose sporting prowess has been neglected by posterity simply because they had the misfortune to reach their peak in the same year England won the World Cup. It is time to rescue them from an undeserved obscurity
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