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Blondy turns butcher
West Germany forward Helmut Haller carves a goose under the watchful eye of team chef Hans-Georg Damker at their hotel in Ashbourne, Derbyshire at 1966 FIFA World Cup England™.
Postcards from London
Francisco Jara, Gustavo Pena and Antonio Carbajal look at some postcards at the reception of the team hotel in London before England 1966.
Hammer time
Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters attack their West Ham United team-mate Bobby Moore with pillows at the team hotel in London the morning after England won the 1966 World Cup.
Royal strumming
Pele plays a guitar at the Brazil hotel in Guadalajara at Mexico 1970. ‘The King’ composed hundreds of tracks throughout his life, famously carrying a voice recorder with him everywhere because “a song can some into your head at any time – even at a World Cup.”
A musical welcome
A marching band welcomes Italy captain Giacinto Facchetti to the team hotel in Ludwigsburg for Germany 1974.
From the pitch to the court
Marc Berdoll and Didier Six prepare for a game of tennis at France’s hotel in Buenos Aires at Argentina 1978.
Piano men
Alan Rough mocks Willie Miller as the Scotland centre-back plays the piano at the team hotel in Malaga at Spain 1982.
Table tussle
Dieter Hoeness, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Ditmar Jakobs and Uli Stein enjoy a game of table football at the West Germany hotel in Morelia at Mexico 1986.
A lion lying
Roger Milla relaxes by Cameroon’s hotel swimming pool during Italy 1990.
Claudio Reyna and his USA team-mates feed geese at the team hotel in Belleville-en-Beaujolais during France 1998.
A Saudi sniper and a British sports car
Yasser Al-Kahtani, AKA ‘The Sniper’, poses beside an antique Morgan sports car on the grounds of Saudi Arabia’s hotel in Frankfurt during the Germany 2006.
Socceroo night fever
Actor John Travolta, of Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction fame, dances with an adidas Jabulani as the Australia players watch on the grounds of their hotel in Muldersdrift at South Africa 2010.
Potting in Pretoria
Philipp Lahm, Arne Friedrich, Manuel Neuer and Piotr Trochowski prepare for a pool tournament at the Germany hotel in Pretoria at South Africa 2010.
Pool pass
Jack Grealish and Declan Rice spray passes to one another across the swimming pool in England’s hotel in Doha at Qatar 2022.
