Magic Moore analysed

Bobby Moore’s performance in the 1966 World Cup final went under the microscope on Monday Night Football. How good was he? We take a look…

Sir Geoff Hurst said he was his hero, Sir Alf Ramsey claims he was the best he ever worked with and that England would never have won the World Cup without him. Franz Beckenbauer, an opponent in that 1966 final, called him “the best defender in the history of the game” and Pele agreed. But what made Bobby Moore so special?

The Monday Night Football special re-examining England’s World Cup final win over West Germany in 1966 was an opportunity for older generations to refresh the memory and perhaps a chance for younger people to get a closer look at Moore’s extraordinary qualities as a captain, a defender and a footballer.

There were the last-ditch tackles – perfectly timed, of course – and the instinctive sense for danger that led Jock Stein to quip that “there should be a law against him as he knows what’s happening 20 minutes before everyone else”.

But it was his role in the build-up to England’s first goal that caught the eye of Jamie Carragher on Monday …

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