ESPN.com · Jan 5, 2016
Greg Dyke: England can win World Cup 'one day soon'
ESPN FC's Alexis Nunes and Shaka Hislop believe that Wayne Rooney got English Player of the Year Award because of leadership and milestones.FA chairman Greg Dyke launched this year's 50th anniversary of England's World Cup triumph by hoisting aloft the Jules Rimet trophy and insisting the Three Lions will soon reclaim their crown.
Four of England's 1966 heroes Sir Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Gordon Banks and George Cohen gathered at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington in the same room where the tournament's draw was made 50 years ago on Wednesday.
The hotel was also the venue for the team's celebratory dinner the night they beat West Germany in the final.