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";s:4:"text";s:7236:"Three days later, when the decision was reversed for fear of a backlash from supporters, Ramsey gave two weeks' notice to quit. His beloved wife Lady Victoria avoided having to sell their modest family home in Ipswich only by auctioning off his England memorabilia. [127] A lot of Ramsey's tactics and decisions proved their worth in this final. [57], Spurs won the 1949–50 Second Division title with seven games to spare, scoring more goals and conceding fewer than any of their rivals, and were promoted to the First Division for the following season. His sense of fulfilment was strengthened by his happy marriage in 1951 to Rita Norris (she later changed her name to Victoria), an attractive divorcee who shared his quiet, private nature. [6] Ramsey played for teams representing the schools of Dagenham and Essex County respectively, and trialled unsuccessfully for the London schools team while at Becontree. "[170] He made regular trips to Wembley, including a visit in 1991 where he and some members of the World Cup-winning team were reunited prior to that season's FA Cup Final. "[184], While not everyone reveres Ramsey's managerial style, for example according to historian Frank McLynn "he was a humourless bore and stifling tactician whose reputation rests on a single undeserved triumph",[185] Ramsey was listed in the ten best British managers ever in The Independent,[186] and he is widely regarded as one of British football's all-time great managers. [113] Moore came from working-class roots in the East End of London, similar to Ramsey. [4], "He was very withdrawn, almost surly", Cairns recalled, "but he became animated on the football field". Knighted in 1967 in recognition of the World Cup win, Ramsey also managed his country to third place in the 1968 European Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup and the 197… We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. [95] The side had been tipped by many contemporary football pundits and journalists for relegation at the start of the season, making the achievement all the more remarkable. The home leg, played under Winterbottom, had been drawn 1–1 at Hillsborough. But the bosses had no alternative, and once more Alf worked his alchemy. Interviewed in June ahead of a five-a-side tournament between eight of the 1966 World Cup teams for a trophy named in his honour, Ramsey admitted that, having "met so many more people, I know so much more about the world, and I'm so much more relaxed than I was three or four years ago", and said he would consider a return to management. [45] Ramsey was impressed by the South Americans' footballing ability, but not by the conduct of their players, pressmen, administrators or fans; McKinstry considers the experience to have "fed Alf's nascent xenophobia". 'Now go and win it again,' he said. The belief that he had referred directly to the Argentinians as animals damaged Ramsey's reputation and made successive England teams unpopular abroad, particularly in South America. "[90] Ramsey kept most of the training staff hired by his predecessor Scott Duncan, who had stepped down after 18 years as Ipswich manager. This request was refused by Football League chairman, Alan Hardaker who said: "It is a football match, not a war". [18], Military service also allowed Ramsey to play football more regularly, and at a higher standard than before. The slump was partly because the players who had formed the spine of the championship-winning side were losing their fitness—push-and-run required players of exceptional physical condition, and Ramsey, Ron Burgess, Nicholson, and others were all past 30. He died on April 30, 1999 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Starting as a centre-forward, he scored two goals in each of Southampton's opening two games, then a hat-trick in a 6–2 victory at Newport County on 6 October 1945. [22][23] The Southern Daily Echo reported "he can certainly hammer a ball. The England captain Billy Wright recalled that "even Alf Ramsey, who used to be expressionless throughout a game, threw up his arms and looked to the sky when a perfect free-kick was somehow saved by their unorthodox keeper". [105][106], England lost to Brazil in the quarter-final of the 1962 World Cup in Chile and, being under attack from the British press,[107] manager Walter Winterbottom resigned five months later. [80] His last appearance for England came on 25 November 1953, in what the British press dubbed the "Match of the Century"—England against the 1952 Olympic champions Hungary, the so-called "Golden Team" or "Magical Magyars", at Wembley Stadium. [34] The following season, 1947–48, Ramsey firmly established himself ahead of Ellerington in the Southampton team, and was the only player at the club to appear in all 42 League matches. [6] While he was at school, his brother Albert took him to see his first Football League match, watching their favourite team, West Ham United, play against Arsenal. As a player, he represented the England national team and captained the side, but he is best known for his time as England manager from 1963 to 1974, which included guiding them to victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. But he was a decent tackler and a great passer. Ramsey missed matches during the 1954–55 season through injury, and in April 1955 suffered what he called "a terrible roasting" at the hands of the Leicester City winger Derek Hogg. [60] Ramsey was furthermore affected by a recurring abdominal injury. [96], In the 1960–61 season, Ramsey guided Ipswich to the Second Division title and into the top flight for the first time in the club's history. One of the team's advantages was the patronage of the aristocratic Cobbold brewing family, to which the chairman and much of the club hierarchy belonged. [167] After the final, at the banquet, with the players in one room and their wives forced to sit in an adjoining room, he excused his players early from the banquet to allow the players to join their wives after nearly four weeks apart. [137] In the quarter-final they lost to West Germany 3–2, after having been in the lead 2–0 with twenty minutes remaining. "In fact the first thing I had to do was to forget my set ideas on how football ought to be played. We should never have lost. When the ecstatic England team begged him to join them on a lap of honour around Wembley, he refused. He was buried in a private ceremony at Old Ipswich Cemetery on 7 May 1999. As natural wingers were not always known for their defensive qualities, Ramsey started dropping them in favour of attacking midfielders who could also drop back into defensive roles. He spent the next two years working at the Co-op while playing cricket in the summer and football in the winter. He gave us our proudest moment. [90] "I had no plan for Ipswich when I went there", Ramsey later said. Alf Ramsey, Self: VIII FIFA World Cup 1966. The youth in the team powered England through extra time, in particular Alan Ball who, at 21, was the youngest player in the England side. Just as in the World Cup victory, Alf was unfailingly modest at the moment of Ipswich’s glory in 1962. 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