Great waste for England football.

World champion 1966 George Eastham died at 88 years of age. The BBC reports this.

Played 19 matches for England and was a member of the national team that won the 1966 World Cup.

Attacking defensive player who played for Newcastle, Arsenal and Stoke City. During his professional career, he played 545 matches and scored 81 goals.

George Eastham was convicted in a 1963 court case that resulted in a major reform of the British transfer market. Vaughn allowed the expansion of freedom for citizens to move between clubs.

Eastham became the 19th footballer, who is proud of his life with the English team, who became the champion of the world. As a result of that championship, only three people lost their lives: Ian Callaghan, Terry Payne and the hero of the 1966 emergency final Geoffrey Gerst.