Answered Prayers provides, at last, a full account of English football’s greatest achievement and the failures that followed it. He revisits ’66, tracing the very roots of a story – as well as the hidden figures within it – that really began during the era of post-War austerity. We see the institutional inability to appreciate Ramsey and his players, who were taken for granted; the political machinations of the blazered fools who ran the Football Association; the short-sighted blunderers of the Football League. With his matchless insight and descriptive power, Hamilton tells history afresh and shows us, for the first time, the scale of what was won and what was lost.
