its 40 years today

since ENGLAND beat west germany 4-2 in the world cup final........can you remember what you did or where you watched it....i was 9yrs old and all my family sat round the telly it was a huge wooden box with a 10ins screen in the middle(you could actually see the valves through the slits in the wood),and it was black and white,once it was over,all the lads round drummond square all met on the field at montrose ave and kicked a ball around for hours...happy days.

can't remember what i was doing that day but i can remember the year,i was always teased that my husband missed it bacause he married me, but he was coddin me as we got married in march.knowing nothing about football i believed him for years.

i must have missed that match,,, maybe its cos im only 37

And Tommy it was 40years and 2months since I arrived in Australia and I saw the replay on B&W TV but even though Australia got television later than UK I watched the match on a 22inch screen.Not wishing to question your memory but are you sure it was only a 10inch you watched,because that was the size of the first TV I saw in 1951 and that needed a magnifying glass in front of it to see it properly and the last one we had before we left UK was 19inch.

hi mandie,do you work at lower ince or higher labour club?

i work at higher ince. im the nice one behind the bar ha ha

well roy,i dont like to brag,but it was 10 inch,ha ha we didnt have much then and a ten inch is what we could afford at the time,some of the valves inside were actually bigger than the screen..mind you i could have done with a magnifying glass.

tommy whereabouts in lakes are u

sorry mandie i was only on about a screen.......but on a more serious note i am about half a mile from ambleside.where abouts are you?

mandie,just looked at your profile and i see your at hindley green,dont think i know you or anything....but you never know?

no tommy i lived in hindley green when i wen tschool i live in ince now

we went thru lakes a couple of years ago and i was just wondering where u were we stayed in ambleside but i cant renenber where abouts

im so sick about hearing about england winning the world cup in 1966..i wish ppl would give it a rest its old news

everyone knows england won the world cup in 1966 they never let us forget it ..in 2066 they will be saying do you know england have won the world cup once...oh that was in 1966..a 100 years ago

and in a 100 years they will still be saying SCOTLAND still aint won anything,jealously is a terrible thing......if the roles were reversed and scotland had won it,would they let the english forget it..i dont think so!.

Fishy,you may not have to wait another sixty years,it could happen again in 2010 and by then Tommy will got a bigger TV set. And Tommy,at your age you should know it's not the size of the cannon,it's the force of the charge;size is only for show,well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

hi roy....buying a big tv isnt a problem nowadays,and as for you fishy.i have just looked at your pictures on your profile and if thats the best you can come up with,a picture of mel gibson playing william wallace doesnt exactly sum up what scotland is famous for,i love scotland and its people its a beautiful place,but mel gibson isnt scottish and the film was inacurate as well(even though it was good to watch)i am sure you can put some better pics of real scots,rather than an actor...anyway have a look at mine..have a nice day.

1966 was two years before i was born,i just hope that i live to see an English man lift the World Cup.