Why was the ball in the 1966 World Cup Final orange?

Answer 1

It was grey on our black and white telly!

Answer 2

Until the 1960's the balls were made of a leather outer cover which was very hard to see both at night and in bad wheather plus it became very heavy when it would get wet making painful when "headed".
The synthetic ball made of polymers was invented in the 1960s and the first World Cup Final played with a synthetic ball was in 1986. Once footballs were brown and tanned, or orange in the memorable case of the 1966 World Cup Final. Today they're white (an idea introduced by Santos for night games) light and either synthetic or plastic coated, apart from those snowy days when high-visibility luminous orange balls are introduced.

Answer 3

Balls used to be made of leather, which is tanned like the 1966 ball.

Answer 4

So people could see it, but it was the middel of summer when the final took place.

Answer 5

No doubt England fixed it because it gave them another advantage.

Clearly it adopted mysterious properties of invisibility when hitting opponents goal lines.

Answer 6

the cup was sponsered by tango that year. also many thought holland were going to get to the final and win so it was done in their hounour

Answer 7

they use orange balls in the lower leagues of english footy when it snows.

Answer 8

It was winter. Maybe... It is also orange to let people see it.

Answer 9

i think they was going to get snow. yes i know its played in summer. it was played in england and we all know what our weather is like.

Answer 10

there could not find a yellow one

Answer 11

So that everyone could see it.