There will never be another football match like it. I write that with complete confidence even though I have as much interest in football as I have in bin liners.
Within seconds of the final whistle being blown, everyone was out in the street for what may have been the biggest spontaneous street party this country has seen.
England had won the World Cup and in the most dramatic way imaginable. But that was only part of the story.
In truth this was not about football. Our opponents were West Germany and I doubt there was a soul watching that game in the summer of 1966 who was not re-visiting their own memories of the most terrible war in history.