Gazza's Tears

ghost of shinton · 9th July 2010, 09:11 AM

Probably SEB

but

watched it last night tremendous stuff, forgot what a great world cup 1990 was ,the players you had never heard of who became stars Roger Milla, Schillaci, the players looking like they gave a shit.....

That little kid who was there, 7 at the time what a spawny get, caught the ball from Waddles miss as well

Interesting 99% of the flags were union jacks not george crosses..

Wish i had went loads of drunken plans made but nothing ever came of them............... went to tenerife instead

Hetzkes Ballet Teacher · 9th July 2010, 10:01 AM

My all time favourite World Cup by a mile. I really thought we'd go all the way, once we got past Camaroon. For once we had genuine class in the squad, as well as the usual grit and determination.

kingmonkey · 9th July 2010, 10:17 AM

Was a great program that, ITV usually ruin everything they touch but that was well done.

The press treated Robson very shabbily in those days.

errant · 9th July 2010, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ghost of shinton

That little kid who was there, 7 at the time what a spawny get, caught the ball from Waddles miss as well

i'd always assumed that ball was still in orbit...

Gerrin · 9th July 2010, 11:03 AM

Makes you realise how crap this world cup has been. Download 'One Night in Turin' as well, better documentary to be honest, focuses on Englands campaign more, the press campaign against Robson and that fateful night in Turin. Still brings a tear to the eye!

Slightly different format back then, it was almost impossible to get eliminated in the first phase, 6 groups of 4, and the top 3 teams went though in 4 groups, Scotland still managed it though.

kingmonkey · 9th July 2010, 11:04 AM

All played out by Pete Davis is a quality book about the England camp in that world cup.
Well worth a look.

youmademerealise · 9th July 2010, 11:04 AM

Is he flogging them on ebay?

SAFCMarc · 9th July 2010, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Hetzkes Ballet Teacher

My all time favourite World Cup by a mile. I really thought we'd go all the way, once we got past Camaroon. For once we had genuine class in the squad, as well as the usual grit and determination.

Wish we had that now.... or atleast some class!

Gerrin · 9th July 2010, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by SAFCMarc

Wish we had that now.... or atleast some class!

You've gotta laugh at some of the shit they reckon Butcher used to shout in the changing room before the games though "this is my house, and nobody beats me in my house" "caged tigers" etc

smoker · 9th July 2010, 11:28 AM

I think it's a piss poor indictment of English football that Italia 90 is looked on as a high water mark. We were really poor in the group stages, scraping through with a 1-0 win against Egypt and had a dream route into the semis but struggled to overcome the mighty Belgium and Cameroon. The Germany game was the first really good performance we put in!

I think people enthuse over it because they love all that "plucky English" horsecrap.

It's shocking the number of times we have gone out of major tournaments on penalties since 1990. I think the last time Germany lost on pens was the final of Euro 1976 - they decided it would never happen again and did something about it!