Sir Geoff Hurst in film to mark 1966 World Cup win’s 60th anniversary

Two new films featuring Sir Geoff Hurst and fans have been released to mark the 60th anniversary of England’s World Cup victory in 1966.

>Hurst’s famous hat-trick in the 4-2 win against West Germany took place six decades ago on July 30 at Wembley Stadium.

>Wembley has brought together the voices of people who were there, with Hurst, the only surviving member of the team, saying: “Coming up the tunnel that day, only a section of the crowd could see us, then 96,000 – that memory will always stay with me.

>“I still meet people today who tell me exactly where they were on the day, either at the game, or on holiday all around the world. Getting married and guests not turning up, all the sort of stories you hear.

>“Programmes still turn up, the original ones. Tickets from the game turn up at functions. People have kept them over the years and bump into to me at a show or theatre asking me to sign. It is quite remarkable.”

>The second film features supporters Norman Cooper, Ray Liberty and Derek Scott, who were all inside Wembley that day, and BBC cameraman Harry Coventry.

>Cooper, Liberty and Scott did not know each other at the time of the final but became friends in later life as they all frequent the same pub, the Nascot Arms in Watford.

>Liberty said: “We’re very privileged, all very happy to have been there. What are the chances you’d have three people who were there all at the same pub?”

>The trio are less enamoured with football these days, with Liberty adding: “It was totally different to now.

>“Now, we’re playing in Mexico, America, and there’s fanatical support, it wasn’t like that then, there was no hype.

>“I appreciated it more back then. It’s been a long 60 years. It was great, we were a little country, everybody had a bit of it, but how lucky we were (to be at) Wembley.”

>Former cameraman Coventry remembers the electric atmosphere but Hurst’s famous hat-trick goal, with fans already running onto the pitch, brings a pang of regret.

>“That moment, and it wasn’t my camera,” he said. “I was on the close-up camera and I was following Hurst all the way.

>“That seminal moment, every year there’s a World Cup that is the shot that everyone remembers, and it wasn’t me.”