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Football: World Cup linesman dies

Saturday 27 March 1993 00:02 GMT
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Tofik Bakhramov, the Soviet linesman who judged Geoff Hurst's shot against the crossbar in the 1966 World Cup had crossed the line to put England 3-2 ahead of West Germany, has died in his native Azerbaijan at the age of 66.

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