The 30th July 1966 had proved to be a landmark day for English football, a day that began with hope and expectation among the fans of "the beautiful game" and ended with joyous celebrations all over the country. Not only did England triumph in the World Cup Final, in a thrilling 4 -2 encounter with West Germany in a game that needed extra-time to separate the two evenly matched teams, but England"s Geoff Hurst became the first player in the history of the game to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final, the final goal scored and accompanied by the now famous words of commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, as Hurst"s shot rocketed into the net, “And here comes Hurst. He"s got…some people are on the pitch, they think it"s all over. It is now! It"s four!”
“And here comes Hurst. He"s got…some peopl
