RIP George Cohen
England World Cup winner 1966
That rare thing - a one club man his entire career.
Fulham through and through.
(He must have had offers from bigger clubs)
Playing for Fulham, the World Cup was the only senior trophy he ever won in football.
Described by both Alf Ramsey and George Best as the best fullback they ever saw.
One of the gentlemen of football.
Worked for cancer charities since first being diagnosed with bowel cancer way back in 1976.
Interestingly, he was of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry but they had converted to C of E.
His brother Peter was killed defending a patron from attack at the nightclub he owned in London.
Peter's son Ben became an MBE like his uncle George after winning the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
After what happened to his dad, Ben has devoted much of his time to fighting bullying, homophobia etc. through a charity he runs.
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Related to my post above about the overly physical play that the likes of Pele had to cope with in the World Cup, here is George Cohen writing in 2009 about the infamous Argentina side's brutality against England at the 1966 World Cup:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/17/seven-deadly-sins-england-argentina-george-cohen
A side known since as "the Animals" after Alf Ramsey dubbed them that.
England World Cup winner 1966
That rare thing - a one club man his entire career.
Fulham through and through.
(He must have had offers from bigger clubs)
Playing for Fulham, the World Cup was the only senior trophy he ever won in football.
Described by both Alf Ramsey and George Best as the best fullback they ever saw.
One of the gentlemen of football.
Worked for cancer charities since first being diagnosed with bowel cancer way back in 1976.
Interestingly, he was of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry but they had converted to C of E.
His brother Peter was killed defending a patron from attack at the nightclub he owned in London.
Peter's son Ben became an MBE like his uncle George after winning the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
After what happened to his dad, Ben has devoted much of his time to fighting bullying, homophobia etc. through a charity he runs.
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Related to my post above about the overly physical play that the likes of Pele had to cope with in the World Cup, here is George Cohen writing in 2009 about the infamous Argentina side's brutality against England at the 1966 World Cup:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/17/seven-deadly-sins-england-argentina-george-cohen
A side known since as "the Animals" after Alf Ramsey dubbed them that.