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I was once at a Trade dinner and the guest speaker was Wilf McGuiness, the ex Man Utd player and assistant manager to Alf Ramsey in 1966, and he came out with an anecdote about "Nobby".Footballer Nobby Stiles,one of the members,of England's 1966 World Cup winning team,has passed away after,a long illness,he was 78.
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Rest In Peace Nobby.
Wilf was a very good mimic and could reproduce Ramsey`s clipped speech and Stiles` broad Lancashire accent.
Before England played Portugal, in his team talk ,Ramsey stressed that Portugal`s best player was Eusebio and that he wanted Nobby to take him out of the game. Nobby`s response, "Do you mean just for tonight, or for effing life"