Alfred Ernest Ramsey Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Template:Multiple issues Sir Alfred Ernest "Alf" Ramsey (22 January 1920 – 28 April 1999) was an English footballer and manager of the English national football team from 1963 to 1974. His greatest achievement was winning the 1966 World Cup with England on 30 July 1966. They also came third in the 1968 European Championship and reached the quarter-final stage of the 1970 World Cup and the 1972 European Championship under his management. He was knighted in 1967 in recognition of England's World Cup win the previous year.As a player, he had been capped 32 times between 1948 and 1953, scoring three goals, and was part of the Tottenham Hotspur team which in 1951 became champions of the top flight a year after promotion.Between the end of his playing career and his appointment as England manager, Ramsey was Ipswich Town manager for eight years, taking them from the Third Division to the top of the First Division in that time, winning the English Championship title at the first attempt.His final job in football was manager of Birmingham City, which he left in March 1978.
He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1967 Queen's New Year Honours List for his services to football including the England's 1966 World Cup Triumph.
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Football player who went on to become the most legendary manager in the history of the English game, when he guided England to World Cup victory for the first and only time in 1966. Playing career: Portsmouth FC (amateur) 1940-1943; Southampton FC (amateur) 1943-1944, professional 1944-1949; Tottenham Hotspur FC 1949-1954; won 32 England caps. Managerial career: Eton Manor (part-time) 1954-1955; Ipswich Town FC 1955-1963; England 1963-1974; Birmingham City FC (caretaker) 1977-1978.
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Appointed England manager following his distinguished tenure at Ipswich Town, whom he had taken from Division Three (South) in 1955 to the Division One Championship in 1962.
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Sacked as England Manager in 1974 following the team's failure to qualify for that year's World Cup Finals.
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Knighted in 1967, in honour of his World Cup triumph.
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As a defender at Southampton FC in the immediate postwar years, Ramsey was initially unable to break into the first team thanks to the form of regular right-back Bill Ellerington. Ramsey's big break came when, in January 1947 prior to a 4th round FA Cup-tie away to Newcastle United (on the North Sea coast), Ellerington neglected to wear a jersey when the squad went playing golf (in winter conditions), causing him to be hospitalised with pneumonia for 3 months, and kept out of the first team for 10 months. Ramsey immediately seized the opportunity to prove himself, leading to his first England appearance in December 1948. Although an injury sustained in January 1949 meant that he lost his Southampton and England positions to Ellerington, Ramsey's transfer to Tottenham Hotspur spectacularly revived his career at both levels. One can only wonder how different postwar English football might have been were it not for that moment of self-neglect on the part of one Southampton defender.
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kicking & Screaming
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself
This Is Your Life
1971-1972
TV Series documentary
Himself - Guest
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Wags of '66
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Jonathan Meades: Off-Kilter
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
Who Stole the World Cup?
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Story of Football
2002
Video documentary
Himself - 1953 England v Hungary, World Cup Semi-Final 1966, England v Poland 1973 (as Sir Alf Ramsey)