West Ham and England footballer who scored in the 4-2 win over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final
Martin Peters, who has died aged 76, was a key figure in England’s 1966 World Cup side, and a footballer of such intelligence and sophistication that the manager of that winning team, Alf Ramsey, hailed him as “10 years ahead of his time”.
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