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World Cup legend passes away.

World Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.

West Ham said “the 1966 World Cup winner passed away peacefully” on Saturday after “a long and courageous battle with illness”.

Peters, who joined West Ham aged 15, spent 11 years with the club until he became Britain’s first £200,000 player in a move to Tottenham in 1970.
He scored for England in their 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany.

Peters won the European Cup Winners’ Cup with West Ham in 1965 as well as the Uefa Cup and two League Cups with Spurs.
After five years at Norwich he moved to Sheffield United for a season before retiring in 1981.

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