SIR GEOFF HURST ALMOST GAVE UP FOOTBALL FOR CRICKET.

Sir Geoff Hurst the only footballer ever to score a hat trick in the 1966 world cup final in England. Geoff Hurst who played his club football with West Ham United, along with sir Bobby Moore. Geoff Hurst reported in THE DAILY MIRROR, that he nearly gave up fotball in the year 1962 four years before the famous 1966 world cup win against West Germany. He was more keen to be a cricketer and also played for Essex second eleven. But what would have happened if he really did quit football? England would still be waiting for their first world cup even today.