Egg and Chips with the Connellys: Remembering 1966
More than 40 years have passed since England beat West Germany to win FIFA's World Cup in 1966 yet this singular historical event remains with us, securely embedded in English popular culture and revisited by the media whenever occasion justifies. References to it are so frequent and so ubiquit...
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| Published in: | Sport in history 2009-09, Vol.29 (3), p.519-539 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | More than 40 years have passed since England beat West Germany to win FIFA's World Cup in 1966 yet this singular historical event remains with us, securely embedded in English popular culture and revisited by the media whenever occasion justifies. References to it are so frequent and so ubiquitous that they have become banal yet powerful signifiers of English national identity. It is argued here that the folk memory of 1966 is also shaped by the way in which the story of England's triumph dovetails with other narratives through which the English try to make sense of the world they live in and the history they have lived through. |
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| ISSN: | 1746-0263 1746-0271 |