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Answered Prayers

England and the 1966 World Cup

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Answered Prayers

Written by: Duncan Hamilton
Narrated by: Jonathan Firth
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Written by our greatest sportswriter, three time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Duncan Hamilton.

Answered Prayers is a definitive history of the most famous event in British sporting, the triumph of the 1966 England world cup football team and the disastrous effect that victory had on the game.

©2023 Duncan Hamilton (P)2023 Quercus Editions Limited
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Critic Reviews

"Hamilton has a perceptively humane understanding of men for whom football was never just a game" (Guardian)

"A marriage of prose and detail so fine and fastidious that it takes the breath away." (Independent)

"Justifiably prize-winning." (Mail on Sunday)

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