Host Selection
England was chosen as host of the 1966 World Cup in Rome, Italy on 22 August 1960, over opposition from West Germany and Spain.
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Famous quotes containing the words host and/or selection:
“Thrust, my daughter or son, to escape, there is none, none, none,
Nor when all ponderous heavens host of waters breaks.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,not though it be of the Garter,confers so fair an honour.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
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