West Ham’s Martin Peters was a footballer of guile and grit who ghosted into a pivotal role in England’s 1966 World Cup triumph under Alf Ramsey
In the hours after the announcement of Martin Peters’s death someone on the radio described the wearer of the No 16 shirt in the 1966 World Cup final as a typical English footballer of the era. Although clearly meant as the profoundest of compliments, no words could have been further from the truth.
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