International football competition, founded by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Apart from 1942 and 1946, it has been held every four years since its inception. Originally sixteen teams contested for the cup. This number was increased to twenty-four in 1982 and thirty-two in 1998.
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World Cup
The Champions. England and West Ham United captain Bobby Moore hoisted on the...
{Around plinth of statue:} Bobby Moore Captain• Ray Wilson• Alan Ball• Nobby ...
Dressage rider, equestrian, and writer. The most successful British dressage rider in the history of the sport and the winner of all major titles and world records in the sport, Dujardin has been d...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
The private boys school Eton College launched a scheme to provide social and religious support to people living in Hackney Wick and to familiarise privileged schoolboys with social conditions in de...
Footballer. Born George Reginald Cohen in Kensington. He spent his entire career playing for Fulham and was in the winning England team in the 1966 World Cup.
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
Dr Harold Moody 1882 - 1947, campaigner for racial equality lived and worked here. English Heritage
{Inscribed on the large stone medallion:} This memorial to the men of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire who fell in the Great Wa...
The plaque is on the first floor balcony, in our photo partly hidden by tree foliage.
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