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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nobby Stiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Stiles won his 15th cap as England kicked off the competition with a dour goalless draw against Uruguay and maintained his place as the uncompromising hardman playing ahead of the back four and making sure there was space and time for the likes of Charlton ahead of him.
		In 2000, Stiles was awarded his MBE after a campaign by sections of the media who were surprised that five of the 1966 team had never been officially decorated for their achievements.
		Stiles was awarded his MBE in 2000 for being a part of the 1966 World Cup side, he was a member of the group of five "forgotten" winners who had to wait over three decades to receive offical recognition for their success.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nobby-Stiles (5088 words)

	Nobby Stiles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stiles' simple passing game and fearless ball-winning skills saw his swift conversion into a "holding" midfield player of a type now a feature of all top teams but still a rarity at a time when forward lines consisted of five players and the midfield was restricted to covering half-backs.
		Stiles won his 15th cap as England kicked off the competition with a dour goalless draw against Uruguay and maintained his place as the uncompromising hardman playing ahead of the back four and making sure there was space and time for the likes of Charlton ahead of him.
		In 2000, Stiles was awarded his MBE after a campaign by sections of the media who were surprised that five of the 1966 team had never been officially decorated for their achievements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nobby_Stiles (1265 words)

	Nobby Stiles - Definition, explanation
		Stiles grew up supporting Manchester United and his talent was swiftly recognised when he played for England Schoolboys at the age of 15.
		In the semi final, Stiles did a decidedly effective man-marking job on the Portugal playmaker and prolific goalscorer Eusebio to the extent that the enigmatic and immensely skilled player was essentially nullified for the whole match, which England won 2-1.
		Stiles' played well without keeping Eusebio wholly quiet, and with the score at 1-1 and just a few minutes left, the Portuguese legend got away from the United defence with just goalkeeper Alex Stepney to beat, yet only managed to slam the ball straight into Stepney's midriff.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/no/nobby_stiles.php (1272 words)

	Nobby's Piles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nobby's Piles is the name of a cartoon in the British comic Viz.
		Each week, Nobby undergoes repeated abuse to his bottom by a series of terrible accidents that only serve to agonize his poor, hemorrhoid-afflicted anus.
		He has been impaled on a church spire after a parachute jump, had his hemorrhoids stabbed by the rock pick of a mountain climber, fallen into a skip full of broken glass (bottom first of course), and slid down the rusty metal bannister of a flight of steps after an ill-advised skateboard trick went wrong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nobby's_Piles (225 words)

	Nobby Stiles: After the Ball - My Autobiography \| Funny UK Comedy
		Stiles' collaborator, award-winning sports writer James Lawton, may well have given the recollections some structure and polish, but there is a real sense of immediacy and relish in the telling of even the more familiar tales.
		No doubt Stiles' late-blooming career on the after-dinner speaking circuit has played the major part in the process of reviewing and refining the story of his life in football, with the result that the personal and the humorous drive the narrative to happy effect, but "After The Ball" is no "great times, great mates" sleepwalk.
		I also, have a soft spot for Nobby because he was a local lad and not least because he once helped City to a draw with a timely own goal in the Manchester derby of 1966-67.
	www.funny.co.uk /comedy/prod_0-0340828870-Nobby-Stiles-After-the-Ball-My-Autobiography.html (758 words)

	Nobby Stiles - susning.nu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nobby Stiles, fotbollsspelare, född 18 maj 1942 i Manchester i England.
		Nobby Stiles var en liten, ettrig och hårdför halvback i Manchester United och det engelska landslaget under 1960-talet.
		Nobby Stiles har fått låna ut sitt namn till bl.a.
	www.susning.nu /Nobby_Stiles (137 words)

	www.manutdzone.com: Nobby Stiles: A career profile with pictures of United's famous full back
		Famous for his toothless grin and victory dance in the 1966 England World Cup victory, Nobby Stiles was known as one of the "Hard men" that were commonplace in the 1960's and 70's.
		Nobby was born in Collyhurst, Manchester, also the birthplace of future team-mate Brian Kidd.
		Stiles was successful on both occasions as he extinguished the attacking threat of "The Black Panther".
	www.manutdzone.com /legends/NobbyStiles.htm (399 words)

	England Football great players roger hunt, nobby stiles, geoff hurst
		Stiles was an intelligent reader of the game, his ability to spot danger early enabled him to plug gaps in defence.
		Towards the end of the 1964-65 season, Stiles made his debut against Scotland and had become a permanent fixture in Sir Alf Ramsey’s squad by the start of the 1966 world cup finals.
		After the 1966 world cup final victory, Stiles became a favorite back home as many people called him to be the next prime minister due to his heroic football performances.
	www.englandfootballyears.com /years/1966-1970starplayers.htm (489 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Special Events \| Wembley \| Nobby Stiles
		Stiles put the secret of his success down to some simple advice from his father about coming out of the tunnel.
		Stiles' father may have been an undertaker and not a footballer, but he swears it was good advice.
		Sadly for Stiles, he was omitted from the side that beat Leicester in 1963 and was never to get another chance in his playing career.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/in_depth/2000/wembley/948180.stm (728 words)

	Nobby Stiles - Manchester United FC - Football-Heroes.net
		Nobby Stiles was born in Manchester and stood on the Stretford End supporting United as a child.
		Though he was left out of the side that won the 1963 FA Cup final against Leicester City, he returned to feature in all but one of United's matches in the successful 1964/65 league campaign.
		During that year, Stiles established himself as a hard tackling player with a great understanding of the game that enabled him to sniff out danger at the slightest whiff.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=2039 (316 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		First thing Friday morning, across town in the Europa, Nobby himself is pouring me a reviving cup of coffee and cheerfully admitting Jack's tales of his toothless terror reign across the playing fields of Europe were all true.
		If Nobby was an unlikely looking hardman - the Roy Keane of his day - with his thick-rimmed specs and diminutive frame, he was, on the surface, an even more unlikely candidate for a cardiac.
		I was there when it happened but Nobby still insisted on testing my memory as he related with pride how his team, due to a clash of red shirts for the semi-final with Liverpool, turned out in green Northern Ireland jerseys.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /sport/story.jsp?story=462127 (975 words)

	TheFA.com - Then and Now
		Nobby successfully man-marked Eusebio in the 1966 World Cup semi-final and says Portugal were the best footballing side England met on the way to becoming world champions.
		The Nobby Stiles jig after England won the World Cup in 1966 has become part of English football folklore.
		Nobby also won the European Cup with Manchester United and went on to coach the David Beckham generation of youngsters at Old Trafford.
	www.thefa.com /England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2004/02/ThenNow_NobbyStiles_17Feb.htm (1048 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Grin is back on Stiles' face after glory days turned sour
		For a man who cheerfully describes himself as "a half-blind dwarf", when it came to divining the intention of attackers, Nobby Stiles was possessed of 20/20 foresight and the strength of a giant.
		Oh, Nobby could dribble, pass and score great goals, but whenever Sir Alf Ramsey needed someone to stifle a creative influence, it was to his tiny, gap-toothed enforcer he turned.
		But death was to assume a whole new meaning for the 15-year-old Stiles on Feb 6 1958 when, after serving his daily duties as an apprentice, reserve team trainer Bill Inglis gathered the Old Trafford youngsters around him to reveal the first inkling of the tragedy unfolding in Munich.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/09/22/sfnrp22.xml (1248 words)

	Books \| Perfect pitch
		Nobby Stiles, the folk anti-hero of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, and Posh Spice's doting spouse could not be more different, either in style of play - Beckham is creative, Stiles's mission was to destroy - or image.
		Like many of his era, Stiles struggled to find fulfilment once his playing days were gone, and his mid-life despair is described with plain-spoken insights that give his story real power as well as nostalgia and humour.
		Jimmy Greaves, a dazzling English talent from the same era as Stiles, slings hatfuls of highs and lows into Greavsie but the tone is more often one of chirpy cockney reminiscence than telling reflection, despite a candid description of how he sank into the drink after he'd hung up his boots.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4756409-99947,00.html (1371 words)

	Nobby Stiles - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the semi final, Stiles did a decidedly effective man-marking job on the Portugal playmaker and prolific goalscorer Eusebio to the extent that the enigmatic and immensely skilled player was essentially nullified for the whole match, which England won 2-1.
		Purists bemoaned the lack of prettiness but realists congratulated Stiles on his desire to win the battle without resorting to dirtier tricks.
		Ramsey, on being asked by a journalist about the way he'd instructed Stiles to "deal with" Eusebio, questioned and objected to the terminology used, though he knew exactly why the reporter had referred to Stiles' display in such a manner.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Nobby_Stiles (1295 words)

	Sport \| As Woodward knows, the cup is already broken
		Some of the older generation will no doubt want to hang on to their active membership of the most successful England rugby team of all time, but, if half a dozen of them choose to follow Johnson's lead, Woodward might just be heard breathing a small sigh of relief.
		As Stiles remembers it, Alf Ramsey's task was a little different in the wake of the 1966 World Cup triumph.
		Even Big Jack went to Mexico, where he sat on the bench, as did Stiles, who was then still only 28 but, after a couple of cartilage operations, had been replaced as a first-choice defensive midfielder by Alan Mullery.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4838518-108598,00.html (1218 words)

	NOBBY STILES MBE
		Nobby Stiles was a legendary hard man. As an enthusiastic and fully committed half-back
		Stiles was born in Manchester and as a young boy he had stood on the Stretford End and dreamt of playing for United.
		Stiles crossed the Atlantic in 1981 to join Vancouver Whitecaps.
	www.comedians.co.uk /nobbystiles.htm (378 words)

	Gordon West - Favourite Team 1970
		Now Nobby Stiles has two faces - the one his opponents see, when he's going in hard for the ball, and the other which he reserves for those moments of leisure away from the madding crowd.
		Alan Ball is a particular buddy of Nobby's, and they and their wives quite often go out together for a meal.
		But Nobby overcame the handicap fate had dealt him at such an early age, and he finally convinced Manchester United that here was a Soccer prospect worth having.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /bob.dunning/westpt2.htm (1731 words)

	Uglyfootballers.com
		Stiles signed for Manchester United as an amateur in 1957, before signing on as a professional in 1959.
		Stiles also managed West Bromwich Albion for a brief period, before returning to Manchester United in a coaching Role with the youth team.
		Stiles played in just 28 games for England, and scored one goal, but most people will remember (or seen archive footage) of Nobby Stiles jigging around the Wembley pitch after England won the World Cup in 1966.
	www.uglyfootballers.com /genpage.asp?DocumentID=146 (133 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		West Bromwich }} Norbert "Nobby" Peter Stiles MBE (born Collyhurst, Manchester, 18 May 1942) is an English former football midfielder.
		England went out to Yugoslavia in the semi finals, during which Mullery became the first ever England player to be sent off.
		He ended with 28 caps - ultimately the least capped member of the 1966 XI - and one goal.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Nobby_Stiles (1258 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Legends back United bid
		Manchester United legends Bobby Charlton and Nobby Stiles are backing the Red Devils to overcome a 1-0 deficit against AC Milan on Tuesday and reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
		But Charlton and Stiles, who lifted the European Cup with United in 1968, are confident the reigning English champions can turn the tie around.
		Stiles hopes the current team can draw inspiration from the 1968 semifinal when United produced one of their greatest ever comebacks against the mighty Real Madrid.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/421973.htm (626 words)

	Sport - Preston Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nobby Stiles had been drifting between sleep and watching the 2002 World Cup from Japan and South Korea on television when he glanced out of a side window at Trafford General Hospital.
		Stiles is a warm-hearted, genuine man and meeting Nobby for the first time is as bracing as one of those ferocious tackles he made for England, Manchester United and Preston, where he managed with some success for three years.
		It is a wonderfully entertaining two hours as Stiles, both charming and honest in equal measure, brings the emotion of the most memorable day in the history of English football flowing back into vivid life.
	www.lep.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=75&ArticleID=577695 (1880 words)

	Conference: Nobby relives the 1966 World Cup win
		Dinner in the Centre, which houses a large collection of the famous “matchstick men” paintings of Salford’s own JS Lowry was topped off by a fabulous sunset.
		Norbert “Nobby” Stiles then gave a colourful account of his time as a young player with Manchester United and the England squad.
		He recounted what it was like to work with soccer legend Sir Matt Busby, the effects of the Munich air crash on both the city and the football club, and how he became known as “El bandido” on foreign tours.
	www.cib.uk.com /artman/publish/printer_294.shtml (548 words)

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