Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 14:36 GMT
World Cup Willie was used extensivly for the Mexico '70 World Cup. I remember having key rings, and various other promo material given out by my Junior School.
Shame we went out in the quarter finals. Wonder what the stuff would be worth if I still had it.
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 15:19 GMT
For all the 'merkins and other outcasts, the key here is that the sport is Football (the sort played with feet and not hands), and the year is 1966..
Which by some weird coincidence is also the year England won the football world cup, a fact that I'm sure is purely co-incidental to this attempt to commandeer, err, register, 'World Cup Willie'.
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 15:19 GMT
On reflection, must have been stuff left over from '66, as I was in a different school in '70. Cheepskates.
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 15:19 GMT
My 1966 World Cup Willie (original price 1 shilling) went for £25 on eBay.
Posted Thursday 1st November 2007 00:46 GMT
It's a plague but no one ever forgets these trivial things quick without looking it up who was president of the United Nations general assembly in 1966. You don't know, but you know Willie. The human mind is a vast garbage dump.
Posted Thursday 1st November 2007 12:54 GMT
Didn't look it up though so I could be wrong
Posted Thursday 1st November 2007 20:00 GMT
Good points, but you probably should have pointed out that when we say "World Cup" we mean "lots of countries around the world competed" as opposed to, say, "World Series of Mens Rounders" which actually translates from Merkin to English as "US States Series of Baseball".
Whilst the mind is indeed often a "vast garbage dump" it is important to know the differences to be properly culturally educated. Or something.
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