to create more goals by using lighter and lighter balls. It was thought they would fly further and everyone loves to see a 30-yard screamer bend into the top corner. But things have gone too far." Cohen was also known for being vocal in his demands for a public inquiry into dementia in football, following research that suggested ex-professionals were more than three times at risk of getting the condition. Personal life and death Although born in Kensington, Cohen was brought up in Fulham, where his Irish-born mother, Catherine (nee Gibbs), was a stores manager at the local Lots Road power station and his father, Louis (known as Harry) Cohen, was a gas fitter. Though of Jewish heritage on his father’s side, with some of his family originally from Ukraine, he was brought up in the Church of England. He married his wife Daphne in 1962. They had two sons. He had a history of bowel cancer, being first diagnosed with the condition in 1976. He was ultimately declared cancer-free in 1990. His nephew Ben Cohen is a former English rugby union player and Rugby World Cup winner with England in 2003. Cohen died on 23 December 2022, at the age of 83, leaving Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst as the last two living English players of the 1966 World Cup final. He was known as one of the few "greatest one-trophy wonders", winning solely a World Cup winner's medal in his career. Honours FIFA World Cup: 1966 References 1939 births 2022 deaths 1966 FIFA World Cup players Association football fullbacks England international footballers England under-23 international footballers English autobiographers English Football Hall of Fame inductees English Football League players English Football League representative players English footballers Footballers from Kensington FIFA World Cup-winning players Fulham F.C. players Members of the Order of the British Empire English people of Irish descent English people of Jewish descent English people of Ukrainian descent