Bobby

England,, England, England,

England!

Cohen, Bali, banks, Wilson,

Hurst. Chamon, Bobby Charlton, Peters. Stiles. Jackie Charlton.

Bobby Moore, the England captain.

Her majesty arrives in the royal box.

Redknapp: The streets were deserted.

Everybody was in watching the television.

The tension was enormous.

Cohen: That was the only time that I,ve ever really felt nervous,

that noise will stick with me forever.

There was not only 100,000 people in the ground.

But the rest of the English nation,

I usually went out behind Bobby Moore,

he didn,t seem to be sweating.

Hurst" there was something that he had as a leader.

More than just the football.

Rob Jenkins, he had the aura of a prince.

if only they really knew the truth,

how much more would he have been revered?

He was a proper hero.

Bobby and I grew up in the same part of east London.

Some of our most amusing early encounters.

We used to find ourselves at the old llford Palais,

which was the old Palais De Dense then

Redknapp, big Lee was the bouncer there.

He used to get US up the from of the queue.

The girls used to put their handbags down. Dance round the handbags,

didn,t they, in them days, you know,

I could understand it with me.

But I couldn,t understand why he as well as me would be standing

up against the wall like wallflowers and could never get a dance.

I mean, he was adorns

he was a bit nervous about going and asking anyone.

When I was just coming up to my 16th birthday,

I,d gone to the llford Palais

and there was a song called Blue Moon, which was playing:

And this young man with blond hair

had come over to me and asked me to dance, and it was Bobby.

I thought he was a bit square.

But I wasn,t terribly impressed by the fact he was a footballer.

I said, "no. I can,t go out with you."

But one day I was with my mother in a tax/ going along llford

and there was a coffee bar and he was sitting in ,at.

And I said, "look mum. That,s the young man who asked me our."

And she waned across, and she looked at him and she said,

"he looks great. Bring him home for tea."

He was a young kid doing Tuesday and Thursday night training at West Ham,

and at the end of the year they were taking 10, 12 places:

For apprentices or ground staff, as they probably were called then:.

And Bobby looked like he was not gonna be selected,

it was between Bobby and another lad,

there were mixed opinions of him initially.

There were the questions of his natural talent and pace.

Not great in the air, not quick, not particularly big.

I always refer to Bobby when I talk about him,

he came as... He was quite a green youngster.

If you go back a few years, when he was a kid, at barking schoolboys:.

You look at the pictures of him there, he,s a tubby little schoolboy.

Eamonn Andrews: Your physique earned you a nickname.

Do you remember what it was?

-Can I say it here? Andrews, yes

or dare I? Yeah, it was tubby.

- "Tubby" -tubby and fatso.

Andrews" tubby and fatso. Yes -Tina: Fatso.

We went out one night, you know: We were chatting about football,

and he said without Malcolm he wouldn,t have been a player.

Malcolm Allison was such a powerful figure a! West Ham.

He said, "you,ve gotta sign mm. I,m telling you, he,s different class."

They listened to him. So West Ham took Bobby on.

He got on the bus and never stopped

asking me questions all the way.

And he said to me, "mr Allison, what,s the most important thing about football?

"What,s the most important thing to do?"

I said, "knowing what you,re gonna do with the bah, before you get it. "

We used to have a practise match

and then he,d stop it and say: ,Close your eyes."

And he,d ask individual players where everybody else was,

and Moore-o was fantastic at knowing exactly on the field:.

Immediately his eyes were closed:

Where the left winger was: Where the right back was,

the centre half two yards behind him, and Joe Bloggs is 10 yards over there.

Bobby obviously had the intelligence to listen and /earn

what Malcolm was telling him and to put it into practise,

after training, he would go back to the little cafe

up the road from upton park with Malcolm

and get the salt and pepper pots out on the table,

go through the moves and the strategies

and where people were out of place.

And he just loved Bobby and Bobby responded to Malcolm

and he swears that without Malcolm he wouldn,t have made it.

If all your life you,ve been dreaming of playing in West Ham,s first team

and that dream gets realised: It,s an absolute defining moment.

From a fan,s point of view I think that,s what relates them to the club,

a local boy has come good and ls playing for his local ream.

Standing room that side.

Ticket holders? Tickets? Ail got tickets?

When I arrived at the ground

about an hour to an hour and a half before the kick-off,

I found that all the gates had been dosed.

I had to fight my way into the dressing rooms,

and I thought at one stage that let alone play the game,

I won,t even see it.

Thereb, be nerves. There,d be butterflies in the stomach.

There,d be doubts whether you can perform at this level.

The first night I actually did go out with him,

was the second match he ever played, it might have been Nottingham forest.

He apparently had had a poor game

and the after write-up in the paper was pretty grim,

so he bought as many as he could and destroyed them.

He was hurt and I was trying to bolster his ego.

He was a perfectionist, Bobby.

Whatever he did, he had to do it to the best of his ability.

Interviewer, football came very easy to you. You didn,t have to work too hard.

Moore: I don,t like the way when you say you didn,t have to work too hard.

It was bloody hard work all the time. To be truthful.

Tina, he would train tremendously hard every Clay.

The first team players were always prepared to work that much harder

to improve their own game and to improve the team.

And when you grow up in that environment, you just want to copy.

My life was totally committed, 11 months of the year basically, to football.

You became aware of Bobby as he got picked for the under 23s.

And you recognised that this guy could play.

Commentator" leaving it for Moore, Moore going through,

a lovely little move, and goal number three

Cohen". He had Ron greenwood. Who did wonders, of course. For West Ham,

and I think he did wonders for Bobby Moore.

Commentator" a beautiful piece of play there by Moore.

Redknapp Ron greenwood was so far in front of anybody else, really.

He was the best coach I,ve certainly ever been fortunate enough to meet.

Commentator: Musgrove, and it,s in the

Winterbottom also was very good: I think: In those days for Bobby.

I think he gave him a great deal of confidence,

a surprise to everyone, very young at the time,

Walter Winterbottom decided to take him to Chile for the ,62 World Cup.

Not having any full international experience,

I thought I was going along for the ride

and to see what a full international tour was like.

They weren,t letting on to him that it might be more than that

because maybe he,d have become a bit overawed

by the prospect of playing against the great Brazilians and so on.

Nice tackle by Moore.

I noticed how he took responsibility when he was first picked.

Moore very much in the game in his first international,

seen a lot of the bah in the first three minutes.

Even at 20-odd, he was taking corners.

Things that normally you allow the senior players to do.

And that,s just a pan of his character.

Commentator Moore, onto Greaves.

A chance here for Greaves. A great chance.

Jimmy Greaves was a phenomenon

commentator Greaves,

and Greaves again. Number three for Greaves,

number four for England.

Bob and I become roommates.

We knew each other as teenagers.

He was a barking boy. I was a Dagenham schoolboy,

and we literally had a month tn this corrugated iron mountain shack.

And we never ever thought we,d get home from that trip,

we were very lonely. And there was a big bond between US.

I think we were united on that tour.

Commentator" it,s a corner to Brazil on the left wing.

It was always a sheer delight to play against the Brazilians

and I think whenever you had the chance

of pitting your wits against them on an international football pitch,

you knew that that was something very, very special.

It was even in those early days,

commentator Garrincha.

Ifs a goal, a beautiful goal, by Garrincha!

Brazil have beaten eng/and, so reach the semi-final of the World Cup.

Tina, Bobby was a very romantic man,

he was very caring, I mean, right from the word "go?

He was really charming.

I would go to bed and he would slip notes underneath my pillow

or I,d put my hand in a dressing gown and there would be like a love note.

We went out for about a year and then he asked me to get roamed.

When we went to the church. There were photographers outside,

quite a crowd of people,

and I was shocked that they,d come to see Bobby Moore get married.

He was quite unique. He used to do my haw.

When I used to have really blonde hair, he would do my roots.

He was like my mate.

England will win the World Cup in 1966.

We didn,t really look at it like that at the time.

They were aware that this could become

a very important moment in their lives.

It now gives me great pleasure

to declare open the eighth wand football championship.

Powell". For the opening game against Uruguay,

the country was not yet alive and throbbing and demanding.

The game itself was a nought-nought draw,

it,s always a difficult first game as the home ream.

Against the Mexicans: Bobby Charlton got the ball:

Progressed into thew haw,

shootings a feeling,

Bobby Charlton had this son of feeling that he was gonna hit it.

And it flew in the top corner.

That ball entered the goal egg-shaped.

Just the fact that he,d hit it like he hit it

and he,d scored it like he scored:.