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Tag: England 1966

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020Neil Fredrik Jensen

Martin Peters and immortality

WE expect our heroes to go on forever. Football fans are always drawn to the past, to the players that light-up our childhood and teenage years – individuals who were, when all was said and done, just a decade or so older than a 12 year-old fan. As time passes, the gap between the fan […]

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June 26, 2019Neil Fredrik Jensen

Great Reputations: Portugal 1966 – the alternative champions

ASIDE from the image of Bobby Moore holding the Jules Rimet trophy aloft, one of the abiding memories of the 1966 World Cup is of Eusébio in full flight, the leading scorer and the most exciting player of the tournament. If you asked most people who would have been worthy champions if England had not […]

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May 23, 2018Neil Fredrik Jensen

Brexit, the end of the football world as we know it

HARRY Kane has been appointed captain of England, possibly the nearest the nation will get to a “Roy of the Rovers” figure leading the team into battle. Kane has already delivered the kind of message the hordes will want to hear from the man with the armband, “England can win the World Cup.” Even the […]

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July 31, 2016Neil Fredrik Jensen

How non-league welcomed the heroes of ‘66

BY the time you read this, England would have won the 1966 World Cup all over again and football fans will be convincing themselves that lifting the Jules Rimet Trophy is merely the start of a golden era of English superiority. Of course, we all know different. I remember, as a young lad, going to […]

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Game of the People is edited by Neil Jensen, an experienced corporate and football writer published in more than 40 publications worldwide.

In his career, Neil has been a magazine editor, website editor, speechwriter, advertising copy writer and ghost writer. He is a member of the Football Writers’ Association and the Football Collective and a Freeman of the City of London. He is also a columnist with the Non-League Paper and Football Weekends and Chief Executive Officer of Isherwood Editorial.

Neil has also worked for the BBC and SKY Sports over the years and has interviewed some of the big names in British and European football. He has also had four books published, Chelsea FC The first 10 years (1986), The Men from Fishponds Road (1995), Tales of the Town (2017) and Mittel – European Football Stories (2018). He is currently working on his fifth book, Those very nearly men, which will be published in 2022.

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