Sir Geoff Hurst, 1966’s last man standing

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Hurst is the only player still alive for the team that won the World Cup for England. He speaks here on how that makes him feel

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 don’t. We are talking about lives, legacies and the passing of time.

But he has only been on stage minutes before his nose starts bleeding again. He reluctantly leaves to be patched up. An auction of signed shirts — , Lionel Messi, Pele, Hurst — ensues, brought forward from the interval, raising money for children’s charities in the south west, before Hurst returns to the stage half an hour later.

 

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