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England WCup winner, Liverpool great Roger Hunt dies at 83

dium when he partnered hat- 1966, too.” first time.
trick scorer Geoff Hurst up
front. It remains England’s Hunt wasn’t knighted by Having gone to the 1962
only major football title. Queen Elizabeth II but he World Cup but never play-
was proclaimed “Sir Roger” ing, Hunt made a significant
“I never had any guarantees by Liverpool fans, who raise a impact at the next tourna-
that I’d get in the squad,” banner to him on the Kop at ment four years later for Alf
Hunt recalled last year in an every match. Ramsey’s side.
interview with the Liverpool
Echo newspaper. “There Hunt was honored only in He was the nearest player to
was such a bulk of forwards 2000 for his sporting achieve- the ball when Hurst scored
that I had to be at the top ments by the queen, being the contentious second goal
of (my) game to get in at made a Member of the Order in the final. The shot hit the
that time. There was always of the British Empire among crossbar and bounced down
Jimmy (Greaves who died the so-called forgotten he- over the line, according to
this month). He was the best roes of the 1966 World Cup. England players and the ref-
player at the time. He was so eree but not the Germans
established while I was in and “One of the greatest goal who disputed the legitimacy
out of the England team.” scorers our club has ever of the goal.
seen,” Jamie Carragher, a
By that time Hunt had al- Liverpool player until 2013, Hunt instinctively celebrat-
ready won two league titles tweeted. “Sir Roger along ed, raising his arms which
with Liverpool — in 1964 with the other Legends from could have influenced lines-
and earlier in 1966. With 245 the 60s made LFC the club it man Tofiq Bahramov.
goals, Hunt is the club’s high- is today.”
est scorer in league games. “People still say to me now,
Overall, Hunt scored 285 Hunt was born in the north- ‘Why didn’t you just put it
goals in 492 appearances for west English county of Lan- in?’ because I was only four
Liverpool from 1958 to 1969 cashire on July 20, 1938. He yards away,” Hurst told The
before moving to Bolton. was on leave from national Anfield Wrap website in
service in the army when 2015. “As Geoff Hurst hit it,
“Roger Hunt comes second he was spotted by Liverpool I anticipated it, Wolfgang We-
to no-one in his importance playing for amateur team ber was marking me but I got
in the history of Liverpool Stockton Heath in 1958, go- in front of him — I was there
FC, that much is clear,” ing on to score on his home , ready if it didn’t go in.
Liverpool manager Jürgen debut at Anfield.
Klopp said on Tuesday. “To “So it hits the underside
(AP) - Roger Hunt, a strik- a long illness. be the goalscoring catalyst of In the 1961-62 season, Hunt of the bar and came down,
er in the only England the Shankly team to actually scored 41 goals in as many I turned away because I
team to win the World Hunt’s three goals at the 1966 achieve promotion and then games to help Liverpool win thought it was over the line
Cup and Liverpool’s all- World Cup helped England go on to win those precious promotion to the top divi- and would be bouncing into
time record league scorer, to advance from the group league titles and the FA Cup sion as second-tier champi- the roof of the net. But it
has died. He was 83. stage. He went on to feature puts him in a bracket of LFC ons. He formed an attacking went in, came back out — I
in all six games at the tourna- legends who are responsible partnership with Ian St John, was still convinced — and by
Liverpool, where Hunt spent ment, culminating in the 4-2 for making us the club we are with both scoring in the 1965 then I couldn’t get it because
most of his playing career, victory over West Germany today. Not only that, he was final against Leeds as Liver- it came out at an angle and
said he died on Monday after in the final at Wembley Sta- also a World Cup winner in pool won the FA Cup for the Weber headed it away.”

UEFA motion to remove Spanish judge from Super League case

(AP) - Citing irregulari- ropean football’s governing “Recent events confirm a interests and — most impor- clubs — Arsenal, Chelsea,
ties and lack of impartial- body said in a statement. “In constant line that has raised tantly — those of its members Liverpool, Tottenham and
ity, UEFA on Tuesday took line with Spanish law — and unconfirmed suspicions and all football stakeholders.” Manchester clubs United
legal action to remove in the fundamental interests about his partiality until this The UEFA case was launched and City — pulled out amid a
the judge from a Spanish of justice — UEFA fully ex- very moment, where we can in the fallout from the stun- backlash from their own fans
court case thwarting the pects the judge in question no longer maintain that there ning launch of the Super and the government. Three
attempt to punish Bar- to immediately stand aside is no lack of impartiality League by 12 clubs in April. of the other Super League
celona, Real Madrid and pending the full and proper on the Judge Ruíz de Lara’s The plan to split from the founding members — AC
Juventus for their involve- consideration of this mo- side,” UEFA wrote in a filing existing Champions League Milan, Inter Milan and Atlé-
ment in the ill-fated Su- tion.” seen by The Associated Press. run by UEFA collapsed with- tico Madrid — also quickly
per League breakaway. in 48 hours after the English backed out.
The Spanish league, which UEFA is hoping a ruling by
The latest move by UEFA opposed the attempted cre- the European Court of Jus-
could eventually lead to dis- ation of the Super League in tice in Luxembourg could
ciplinary action restarting April, said it had also filed a back its attempts to eventu-
against the rebel clubs after motion backing UEFA’s case ally ban Barcelona, Real Ma-
it was abandoned on Monday against the judge. drid and Juventus from the
night to comply with the rul- Champions League as the
ing by the judge being chal- UEFA has also filed an ap- clubs refuse to renounce the
lenged. peal with the higher court attempt to create a breakaway,
of appeal in Madrid to re- largely-closed competition.
“UEFA has filed a motion for move judge Manuel Ruiz de
the recusal of the judge pre- Lara, in part highlighting his UEFA said in a statement
siding over the current pro- planned appearance at a con- it will “continue to take all
ceedings as it believes there ference next month discuss- necessary steps, in strict ac-
are significant irregularities ing the Super League case. cordance with national and
in these proceedings,” Eu- EU law, in order to defend its