Alf Ramsay was an anachronism. Look at the turmoil, change, passion and excitement of the mid-60s that was happening all around him. You are very fond of quoting wikipedia so here's a quote from there which accords more with my memory of the 60's -

"The 1960s have become synonymous with all the new, exciting, radical, and subversive events and trends of the period, which continued to develop in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and beyond. In Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers, only for this rule to be replaced in many cases by civil war or corrupt dictatorships."

Tension between the superpowers at an increasing level; student riots in USA and Europe; the Civil Rights movement in the USA; etc etc

With even the slightest grasp of a historical perspective one sees that each era holds the seeds of future change. Even radical change is rooted in strands that go way back in time. Unfortunately those who look back to a halcyon time when everything was fine neglect to see that the agents of change present in those times was what led us (fairly inexorably) to where we are today. The past you yearn for is unfortunately the father of the world you live in now and you can never return and re-write that history (except of course in a mutlidimensional world - I recommend the book and site Imagining the Tenth Dimension to anyone who wants to bend their brain for a while). The past is the engineer of it's own destruction.

Passion and youthful thought are a product of all ages. If you had to pick two decades in the last century I would guess the 20s and 60s would be the ones most would pick rather than now.