1966 WORLD CUP HAT-TRICK HERO MAKES LOCAL APPEARANCE


England’s 1966 World Cup hat trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst is probably as famous as Winston Churchill for very different reason.
Now you have a chance to see the football legend up close and personal at The Rose Theatre in Kingston in his one man show called ‘Last Man Standing’ on Sunday night (February 2) as part of his countrywide farewell tour.
His fame and achievement is part of England’s football history – England beat Germany 4-2 at Wembley – and he is still the only player ever to score a hat trick on a winning side in a men’s World Cup final. He was just 25 years old at the time he lifted the Jules Rimet trophy.
He is returning due to popular demand after last year’s successful tour and he will talk about his glory days at West Ham with fellow England heroes Bobby Moore and Martin Peters as well as his glittering England career during which he scored 24 goals in just 49 appearances for England between 1966 and 1972.
His good friend and agent Terry Baker, from A1 Sporting Speakers, will be joining Sir Geoff on stage for an intimate conversation full of humour and heart.
Audience members will have a chance to ask questions of their own in the second half and VIP ticket holders will have a chance to be photographed with him and get his treasured autograph,
Sir Geoff, now aged 83, and the last living member of the World Cup winning team, made his name with club side West Ham United, where he made 499 league and cup appearances, scoring 248 goals. He was Player of the Year three times and won the FA Cup with West Ham in 1964 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1965.
However, it was playing in the national side that launched Sir Geoff Hurst as a world football icon not only as being part of the England team that won the World Cup in 1966 but also scoring a hat-trick in that final. Hence Kenneth Wolstenholme’s immortal words “They think its all over — it is now”.
In the Autumn of 1998 the BBC announced that the England fourth goal with Kenneth uttering those immortal words, has been the most shown sporting piece of footage ever seen on television.
After leaving West Ham, Sir Geoff Hurst then played for Stoke City with 100 appearances and 30 goals, then West Bromwich Albion for 1 year. He then became player-manager for Telford and also had spells playing in America and Kuwait.
He went on to become the assistant coach to the England National team under Ron Greenwood from 1977 to 1982, and then became the manager of Chelsea for 2 years.
He has undertaken a number of speaking engagements across the world at a range of events, some of the speeches were just an entertaining after dinner speech whilst others more of a motivational address.
Tickets available here: Sir Geoff Hurst: Last Man Standing — An evening with England’s hat trick hero | Rose Theatre, Kingston, London