They think it's all over...

One Saturday in July 1966, Geoff Hurst put the ball in the net three times and people still ask him about it. OK, it was the World Cup Final and Hurst’s three goals helped England win the World Cup for the one and only time. The moment has been immortalised in Kenneth Wolstenholme’s commentary as Hurst scored for the third time, “Some people are on the pitch. They think it’s all over [Hurst scores]. It is now.”

Fifty-two years on, I wondered if Hurst found it strange that he was still remembered for that one game of football: “The short answer is yes,” he replied. “As I said to someone the other day, ‘It’s a weird kind of fame that you’re known for something that happened 50 years ago.’ I am still pleasantly surprised that from time to time people stop me in the street, want to talk to me or shake [my] hand. Or have a selfie with [me] – the modern way, not autographs anymore. I find it amusing and entertaining that people still want to talk to me.”

While winning the World Cup was...