IndoMike
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He really respected Bobby Moore and the fact that we were sporting : we didn't try to kick him off the pitch. Even Maradona saidWhen I lived in Brazil they used to replay World Cup matches from the 1970s in their entirety quite often and the England game they won 1-0 (with the famous Banks save) was a favourite. Watching it I was astonished at how much football the national team played on the floor with weighted passes, Cooper and Ball in particular were players I never associated with that. We abandoned that stuff pretty quickly in the later 70s and 80s when aerial balls and headers became the normal route to goal for England. Pele has described a lot of English players in very complimentary terms, I think he liked the individuals in that team.
that he could only have scored that second "wonder goal" against England : other teams would have brought him down.