As each new World Cup approaches, I always turn my mind back to July 30, 1966, and the day that changed my life forever. At the turn of that year, I hadn't really considered being in manager Alf ...

Sir Geoff Hurst became the first player in history to score a World Cup final hat-trick when his trio of goals secured what remains England's only-ever World Cup triumph. Unknown to him, however, ...

Sir Geoff Hurst is thinking about absent friends. He has been doing a lot of that lately. “You get to that age,” the 82-year-old says with a wistful tone, all too painfully aware that many people ...