What were Stuart Hall. Ralph Miliband and E P Thompson doing on 30th July 1966, the World Cup Final at Wembley?
The social historian David Kynaston has a new book out in September looking at 1965-66 based on memoirs and diaries of the time.
The Sunday Times (12th July) has an extract of the pages covering the 1966 World Cup Final at Wembley. England beat Germany 4-2.
Possession of a TV (black and white) was then far from universal. The TV would usually be rented rather than owned.
Kynaston notes
In Birmingham the writers David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury, neither of them possessing a TV, are watching in the flat of the absent cultural theorist Stuart Hall.
BBC highlights were broadcast at 10.20pm. Kynaston records
The cream of the New Left including E P Thompson and Ralph Miliband were gathered at the writer Mervyn Jones house off Blackheath Common; and once it starts, they get so irritated by the American essayist Clancy Sigal’s exuberance over a German defeat, his lamentable lack of ‘comradely internationalism’ that eventually Thompson and Sigal have it out in fisticuffs in the back garden
Kmflett's Blog 
Did no-one think to sell tickets for the Thompson-Sigal fisticuffs? It’d be much more fun (and dialectically interesting) than a couple of dozen people booting a ball about.