Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Saturday, 30 July 2016

1966 And All That

Fifty years ago today I watched on TV as England won the FIFA World Cup final, and to commemorate that event BBC Radio 2 broadcast a show “World Cup 66: Minute by Minute” to cover the period, 2:50 to 4:30, that the game lasted incorporating both events in the stadium and around the country, as weddings, bus journeys, even putting out a fire played second fiddle to events at Wembley; I missed the transmission but stumbled over a televised version on the red button late tonight and was enthralled, even moved, by the recollections, testimonies, footage, interspersed by live performances of music of the day.

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