Bobby Moore – 29 years gone
February 24, 2022 at 11:48 am Leave a comment
… but never forgotten
West Ham‘s official website pays tribute to the great Bobby Moore who passed 29 years ago today, aged just 51.
The world of football was rocked to the core by the passing of Bobby Moore OBE, when he tragically lost his brave battle with liver cancer in his Putney Heath home at 6.36am on Wednesday 24 February 1993, aged 51.
Ten days later, on an emotional afternoon at the Boleyn Ground, that footballing family united in grief and as one to salute England’s 1966 FIFA World Cup-winning captain and the Hammers ‘ home-grown legend, who made 647 outings during his 16 seasons down West Ham way, when West Ham played Wolverhampton Wanderers at Upton Park. It was a game played in the second tier (1st Division), West Ham won the game 3-1 thanks to goals from Julian Dicks, Trevor Morley and Holmes and was promoted to the Premier League at the end of the 1992/93 season.
Incidentally, Wolves will also be Sunday’s Premier League visitors to London Stadium. Prior to this game, they have to play Arsenal this Thursday, and Arsenal as well as Wolves could leapfrog West Ham in the table ahead of Sunday’s game if the Gunners draw or if Wolves win tonight’s match at the Emirates. Therefore a win on Sunday, 3 p.m. (MET) will be vital for West Ham‘s push for European football and the Champions League.
Could there be a better expression of commemorating East End‘s greatest son than a West Ham win on Sunday afternoon?
I hope West Ham will do just that and keep alive their hopes of being the best out of the bunch of clubs behind the three on the top of the Premier League (Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea).
Remembering the late Bobby Moore makes me think: What a time that was when Bobby Moore played for the Irons for sixteen seasons in the sixties and seventies! Today a player like him would never stay with a club for almost his entire career, and transfer rumours would emerge more often than West Ham match reports in the papers, as it is the case with West Ham‘s stars Declan Rice and Jarrod Bowen today.
Money makes the world go round, but money is also destroying the bond between players, supporters and the Club.
Just had to get this off my chest. But anyway: come on you Irons!
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EXTRA TIME 
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