it didn't of course, geoff hurst claimed that accolade.e forgotten goal, but he had a different take. if i hadn't have scored, we would have lost 2—1. it was an important goal. his journey to world cup greatness began seven years earlier, instead of following his father's foot steps, west ham came calling. he made his debut for the hammers in ‘62. he won the european cup winners‘ cup in 65. sir alf ramsay said his style and ability was ten years ahead of his time, but he didn‘t receive his first cap until the may of 1966. by 1970, his legend at west ham was secure and he left for spurs in a deal that made his britain‘s first £200,000 midfielder. with tottenham he won the league cup twice and the uefa cup. he left in 1975, moving to norwich. despite making his debut at the age of 31, he still played more than 200 games for the club. he lived and breathed football. his family said they would find him practising headers in his sleep. there are fears heading the ball helped cause his disease. like some of his former team mates, he had been suf

geoff hurst claimed that accolade. take. if i hadn‘t scored, we would have lost 2—1. so, yeah, it was an important goal because of the situation. his journey to world cup greatness had begun seven years earlier. instead of following in his father‘s footsteps to become a lightmerman on the river thames, west ham came calling. he made his debut for the hammers in 1962 and won the european cup winners‘ cup in ‘65. sir alf ramsey said his style and ability was 10 years ahead of his time, yet, amazingly, he didn‘t receive his first cap for england until the may of 1966. peters has scored! by 1970 his legend at west ham was secure. he left for spurs in a deal that made him britain‘s first £200,000 midfielder. oh, what a beautiful goal! what a glorious header that was from martin peters! with tottenham, he went on to win the league cup twice, the uefa cup, and he became club captain. he lived and breathed football. his family said they would find him practising headers in his sleep. but there are fears heading the ball helped

geoff hurst claimed that accolade.h many called peters‘ strike the forgotten goal, he had a different take. if i hadn't scored, we would have lost 2—1. so, yeah, it was an important goal because of the situation. his journey to world cup greatness had begun seven years earlier. instead of following in his father's footsteps to become a lightmerman on the river thames, west ham came calling. he made his debut for the hammers in 1962 and won the european cup winners‘ cup in ‘65. sir alf ramsey said his style and ability was ten years ahead of his time, yet, amazingly, he didn't receive his first cap for england until the may of 1966. peters has scored! by 1970 his legend at west ham was secure. he left for spurs in a deal that made him britain's first £200,000 midfielder. oh, what a beautiful goal! what a glorious header that was from martin peters! with tottenham, he went on to win the league cup twice, the uefa cup, and he became club captain. he lived and breathed football. his family said they would find him practisi

on twitter, martin peters' world cup winning team—mate sir geoff hurst said...rd from steve perryman, a former teammate of martin peters at tottenham in the seventies. he told us how he will remember him. martin was one of those people that just deserve the more than being a footballer of high repute, which he was obviously. he did things for charity, he was kind, he was a proper gentleman. when he promised to do something, he would deliver it. therefore, what he did and cup and stuff like that, these days we talk about giving honour to footballers when they get to a semifinal. martin peters actually w011 semifinal. martin peters actually won the world cup for england. i only ever played with two world cup winners in my life, the both were very classy people and intelligent. his conduct with regard to how... you are in a special situation being a footballer at a top class club. because of that, you are like a role model. he took that serious. that he should conduct himself at a certain way. i've heard people speak on the television today about the x liverpool te

it didn't of course, geoff hurst claimed that accolade. he had a different take.dn't have scored, we would have lost 2—1. it was an important goal. his journey to world cup greatness began seven years earlier, instead of following his father's foot step, west ham came calling. he made his debut for the hammers in 63. sir alf ramsay said his style and ability was ten years ahead of his time, but he didn't receive his first cap until the may of 1966. by 1970, his legend at west ham was secure and he left for spurs in a deal that made his britain's first £200,000 midfielder. with tottenham he won the league cup twice and the uefa cup. he left in 1975, moving to norwich. despite making his debut at the age of 31, he still played more than 200 games for the club. he lived and breathed football. there are fears heading the ball helped cause his disease. like some of his former team mates, he had been suffering from alzheimer's. in the last few years he had withdrawn from public appearances and alzheimer's robbed him of many of his memories, but he remain one of only two

sir geoff hurst stole the headlines with his hat—trick in the 1966 world cup final, but for a while itn it, before west germany equalised. peters also won honours at west ham and spurs in a career that spanned more than 20 years. one of peters' former team mates at west ham is sir trevor brooking. everyone will be very sad, martin lived locally and i was except like lucky as a young apprentice to join west ham in‘ 65 when they won the cup winners' cup, the epoch of the year before, and then in‘ 66, they all say that west ham won the world cup because of the three lines there. they were key people and i was exceptionally lucky to be an apprentice at the club when they we re apprentice at the club when they were training and everything and i made my debut up at burnley with all three of those still in the team. people like martin, we were intrigued how it grew in more important. martin never revelled in it or anything, he was very low—key, but very humble and good company. but never went looking for any headlines. liverpool have won the fifa club world cup after beating flamengo1—0 in ex

sir geoff hurst has led the tributes to his world cup—winning team—mate, martin peters, who has diede of 76. peters won 67 caps for england and played over 700 clubs games throughout his career. our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, looks back at his life. commentator: 97,000 fans gave them the biggest roar of the competition. with all eyes on hurst, the danger from martin peters went unnoticed. commentator: and a chance on goal! peters! little wonder they called him "the ghost." there's martin peters, the man who scored the goal which could well win the world cup for england. his journey hisjourney had his journey had begun seven years earlier. instead of following in his father's footsteps, west ham came calling. he made his debut for the hammers in 1962 and won the european cup winners' cup in ‘65. sir alf ramsey said his style and ability was ten years ahead of his time, yet, amazingly, he didn't receive his first cap for england until the may of 1966. peters has scored! by 1970 his legend at west ham was secure. he left for spurs in a deal that made him britain's first £200,0

the tributes led by people like geoff hurst, a team—mate, summing up.ague of over 50 yea rs. all—time greats, a colleague of over 50 years. rip, old friend. the feeling of another english sporting greats has gone. five now dead from that team, three in the last 12 months or so, wreh—wilson and gordon banks have died in the last year or so. banks have died in the last year or so. they are all older men now. and u nfortu nately, we so. they are all older men now. and unfortunately, we will be reading these stories again. penny, you were nodding? i was thinking also, no matter what the circumstances, it is never easy when somebody you love is i'io never easy when somebody you love is no longer around. it is particularly difficult at christmas time. your heart goes out to the family. people like me, who have never really had any interest in football, what i do know is that we won the world cup in 1966. an iconic moment even for those non—footballers! 1966. an iconic moment even for those non-footballers! and you say you met him. i was thinking, it says good