Martin Peters

But it was a fantastic trip.

I learnt so much from, you know, a lot of the World Cup winners, Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin, Martin Peters, Alan Ball.

They were all on the trip, and it was, uh, it's a, yeah, it was, it was a great experience.

I didn't make the final 22, obviously, but, um, I made my debut the first game the next season against East Germany.

But Nicholson gets rid of Greaves in a really harsh way.

I mean, he basically tells him, I'm sending you to West Ham in a deal for Martin Peters.

And he just calls him up and says it's happening.

And Greaves has sort of said subsequently that he sort of wished that he hadn't agreed to that move.

And then as you say, those bursts of pace were, were absolutely killing.

But just on the, uh, the, the, the pace element, I mean, England have had Teddy Sheringham, you can go back to Martin Peters.

Intelligent players will be able to, to, to, to compensate.

Sure.

Those 11, you can practice free kicks, right? You can work different variations of free kicks, not this being magnetically tr- attracted to bend a ball around a wall.

What happened to attack to the side, player running on with a hard shot blasting it? What happened to the Martin Peters chip over the wall? What happened to the slide rule pass down the side of the wall? It's become so robotic.

And throw-ins.

My God, I mean, you can't watch a game, can you, without a foul throw? And they're never given.

You go and keep talking.

I think Martin Peters had...

He died as well recently.

Anyway, so that was that.

That's the first thing.

Can I just add on that Martin Peters did that all the time and scored wonderful goals like that.

I remember England v Scotland at Wembley, late 1960s, passed it into the net with the same movement.

Right-footed though this time.

It's good that, isn't it?

I suddenly thought then that, uh, a, a strange quirk, I went to a, a West Ham charity match, and it was, like, a West Ham XI, and Martin Peters played.

This was in the mid-'90s.

[laughs]

But we used to support them.

Also Tottenham, Martin Peters.

Oh my goodness.

Also Bobby Moore.

Oh, now you're testing me.

As I said, my memory's gone from the Arsenal players going back to 66.

Well, you mentioned Martin Peters.

That's not a bad shout.

But it could be wrong.

Halftime 1-1, and it was quite late on when Martin Peters, my next question here, Martin Peters scored, but what number was Martin Peters wearing? He wasn't

in the, you know, they normally go numbers 1 to 11 to the expected squad.

I think 9 pieces, 21, 22 or something.

People used to always talk about West Ham, but I don't think West Ham would.

Well, they had one back in the day, Bobby Moore, Jeff Hurst, Martin Peters.

I was going

to say Joel Cole, but Bob's gone further back in the day.