“My body hasn’t adapted to being here until today, I’m sure its the same with the players,” Camacho said, dismissing suggestions his team was in crisis. “I’m certain that when the championship starts we’ll be perfectly acclimatised.”* Poland beat the South Korean club side Sungnam Ilhwa 2-1 yesterday with goals from Cezary Kucharski and Jacek Krzynowek.* Russia’s World Cup preparations were disturbed yesterday by news of an accident at the nuclear plant near to their Simidzu base. Around 20 litres of radioactive water escaped from a reactor, but the local authorities have assured the Russians that they have nothing to worry about.* Nigeria’s notoriously unreliable electricity company has appealed to the nation’s public not to embark on “an orgy of destruction” if power failures interrupt televised World Cup games. The National Electric and Power Authority, whose acronym, NEPA, is referred to by Nigerians as “Never Enough Power Anywhere,” placed full-page newspaper advertisements pleading: “Please don’t take the law into your own hands…

If you go on an orgy of destruction simply because there was a power failure during a match, you will not be helping matters.”. The Independent brings you a unique service for the World Cup, allowing you to listen to reports from the games, as they happen. The Independent brings you a unique voice service for the World Cup, allowing you to listen to reports from the games, as they happen.
We will deliver voice reports to your phoneat key moments from all the England games and other matches in the run-up to the final, letting you know instantly when a goal has been scored.You can choose from a menu of services which, in addition to England news, includes news and results involving other teams in the competition; analysis and commentary by Independent’s team of experts; and behind-the-scenes gossip from Japan and Korea.The number to ring on your mobile or landline is 0906 272 7700 Calls cost 25p per minute from a landline Calls from a mobile may be charged at your network rates. The country certainly needed a hero at the time England won the World Cup in 1966. Despite the swinging Sixties image that has prevailed in folk lore, Harold Wilson’s Britain was, in fact, experiencing serious economic difficulties and England’s triumph couldn’t have been more timely in providing a national uplift. Anyway, there’s rather a lot of that coming up on our screens soon. But if you want confirmation of why Moore was considered by many observers to be among the very best players ever to have graced the game, you have it here in spades.

You will find it in the words of Sir Bobby Charlton, expressing wonder at the timing of Moore’s tackling. In the comments of Charlton’s brother, Jack, marvelling at his skill in anticipating and negating attacks.Also, in the words of Moore’s first professional coach and formative influence at West Ham United, Malcolm Allison, who speaks of how his teenage pupil was eager to acquire the ability, so evident when the captain played the 30-yard ball for Geoff Hurst’s third goal in the World Cup final, of knowing where he was intending to send the ball before he received it.Terry Venables, born in Dagenham, not far from Moore’s birthplace, Barking, tells how it was important to stay on your feet while making a tackle in street football. Meanwhile, Franz Beckenbauer believes it was Moore’s character and personality that made him the best defender in the history of the game. And so it went on, as they dabbed at their eyes.Yes, for heaven’s sake, of course he was a hero, despite the fact he did not go on to make a success of management, trying his hand at lowly Southend United and Oxford (City, that is, of the Isthmian League, not United of the Football League). Trouble was, as his biographer Jeff Powell said, he only saw good in people. I suspect he was far too much a gentleman to bawl out those players who might have deserved it.He was an immaculately clean player in every sense of the word, beautifully turned out with kit pressed, while the idea of Moore committing a deliberate foul was virtually unthinkable.