Those old enough

Working a 6 day, 48 hour plus split shift in the kitchens, either in St Annes or in Newcastle Upon Tyne as a Commis Chef. Depends on the time of the year.
 
Was stuck in traffic around about this time heading back from Church Stretton and panicked that we wouldn’t get home in time for “The Match”.
Arrived about ten minutes before kick off.
 
At this particular time I was probably playing football in the road outside our house before the match started age 7
 
Born_in_the_Fifties said:
Watched the whole game and brilliant to see our Alan Ball have an outstanding game, how they gave MoTM to Geoff Hurst, bloody unbelievable Jeff!

My Grandma gave me 5 shillings to go and celebrate at Staining Gala, so me and my mates pedalled off on our bikes.

I won a goldfish and called it Bally, it died the day after!
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Less dying, and more transferred out, like his namesake
 
I was working on the Dungeness B power station construction. What an absolutely awful place Dungeness was in winter, and not much better in summer. The money was fantastic so it had it’s good points.
 
As an almost 3 year old, probably toddling around wondering what all the fuss was about

My earliest World Cup memory is from '70, being allowed to stay up and watch the first half of the QF in the TV room of the B&B we were holidaying at in Newquay, going to bed with England 2-0 up against the Hun, only to discover next morning that we ultimately lost 3-2
 
Final year at Sheaf St School (now Poulton St Chad’s C of E Primary School) in Poulton-le-Fylde. A year later, (was tall for my years) I was delivering newspapers down Longhouse Lane and Hardhorn Road. Pretty lucrative at Christmas. 😊
 
I was -8 so not too much. If you are in to the reincarnation thing, I was a dog called Jasper, sat in a sidecar enjoying the wind as my owner headed off to Mrs Ramsbottom's gaff to 'unblock her sink' whilst her old man toiled down the pit.
 
I was 6 at the time. 14 of us crammed in the front room of our neighbours house in Thornton to watch the match. They were one of the few who had a black and white telly at that time. We got a second hand one from my great aunt in 1968 and my Dad borrowed a ladder to put up an aerial on the chimney stack.
 
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Early shift as a student working as a porter on Blackpool North Excursion platforms (Now the actual station). Got home just in time to see kick-off.
 
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