After scoring my hat-trick in the World Cup final, I went home to mow the lawn and wash the car. No wonder GEOFF HURST's wife Judith can't stand today's pampered WAGs - as the last surviving hero of 1

When I woke up on July 30, 1966 I did not know the coming hours would mark me for life. Jack had seen me score plenty of goals at West Ham that season and predicted to my wife Judith that I would have a World Cup hat-trick. England players Nobby Stiles, Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters celebrate winning the World Cup in 1966 Queen Elizabeth II presents the Jules Rimet Cup to Bobby Moore, captain of England's national soccer team, as her husband Prince Philip and forward Geoff Hurst look on Hurst says of his third goal against Germany in the 1966 World Cup: 'At 24 years old, it was the start of a lifetime of being hailed for the events of a single afternoon' Hurst walks with Geoff Hurst following their famous 1966 World Cup win at Wembley Later that day, alongside my teammates – Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks, Roger Hunt, Martin Peters, Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, George Cohen and Nobby Stiles - I walked up the steps at Wembley to accept a winner's medal from Her Majesty the Queen. England captain Bobby Moore gets a wake-up call from West Ham and England team mates Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters the morning after their World cup win Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore and Martin Peters pose for a photograph as members of the 1966 World Cup-winning England team My daughter Claire was only two months old and I was pushing her in her pram. It's a fact of football history that my second goal of the 1966 final was the most controversial in a century of World Cup tournaments.