“It’s like opening a box, the memories come flooding back…”
It’s over 47 years ago now, but Alan Mullery can remember the finest details.
The heat in Mexico will never leave him. “It was 100 degrees in the shade - but there was no shade!”
Gordon Banks’ save to deny Pele. “I ruffled his hair and said ‘why didn’t you catch it?”
German striker Gerd Muller breaking England hearts. “He just did what he did.”
Of course, there are more - Bobby Moore’s perfectly-timed challenges to deny Brazilian legends Pele and Jairzinho, still replayed over and over to this day, and later swapping shirts with Pele, a legendary image, Franz Beckenbauer firing past Peter Bonetti to bring West Germany back into the game from 2-0 down and not forgetting Alan’s goal to open the scoring in that quarter-final.