They think it’s all over and it is now… at least as far as Generation Z’s knowledge of England’s greatest ever sporting triumph is concerned.
In a pitiful display, an astonishing one in five of those aged 14 to 29 did not even know that England had ever lifted the World Cup trophy.
Some 17 per cent of them thought the hat-trick hero that day was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rather than Sir Geoff Hurst, the last surviving member of the side.
A third were so clueless that they thought cockney sitcom star Alf Garnett – rather than the great Sir Alf Ramsay
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