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1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 21:09 - Jun 9 by azuremerlangus
It was pretty good.
USA ‘94 was such an anti-climax that it beggars belief we are back there again.
I went to USA 94 and tbh, it was dogsh1t. Only did a couple of matches but compared to Italia90 (where the whole country was transfixed) it really was garbage.
Americans on the whole didn't know it was on, remember watching USA v Brazil in an empty bar in Phillidelpia. Yank walked in oub and asked in San Diego were playing. I said yeah, they're in yellow.
He watched for 90 mins cheering on Brazil thinking they were San Diego. And he was one of the locals who liked football.
Argument was that the World Cup would help launch football there. Few years later and there was no professional league at all.
For me, yes 1990 was the best. We had a great team, the country felt united, football was in fashion, I was 20 years old. What a time to be alive!! :)
Second best for me was Espana 82. I was twelve. Robson's goal against France (27 seconds?); Maradona's bravery and skill while being physically assaulted by Italy; the weird groups of 3 after the first group stage with Italy, Argentina, Brazil; that amazing Brazilian team - Socrates, Falcao, Junior, Zico, Eder, Serginho; the France semi final vs West Germany; Italy winning the final - Paulo Rossi, Marco Tardelli. Loved it all!
While I'm not yet excited about this world cup, I'm sure I will get in to it and there will be some iconic moments to look back on. Bloody hell, football eh?
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1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 22:02 - Jun 9 with 847 views
Despite being very young at the time and not watching much if any of it, I strangely know this world cup quite ell as my dad recorded this BBC round up.
I just loved watching it. SSSCHHHHHIIIIILLLLLLLLLLAAAAAACCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!
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1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 22:47 - Jun 9 with 717 views
1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 19:21 - Jun 9 by Churchman
I loved Italia 90. We were in Italy the week before and the atmosphere was absolutely electric.
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I still believe that 1990 WC pretty much marked the end of hooliganism as we knew it previously. We were 5 years on from Heysel and one on from Hillsborough. The whole atmosphere of football seemed to change at this WC and i know there was and still can be trouble, but for me it seemed there was a definite change of attitude from then on which improved pretty much year on year. People half my age will never know just how much things have improved since the 70/80s.
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1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 01:39 - Jun 10 with 545 views
1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 22:00 - Jun 9 by blue_curacao
For me, yes 1990 was the best. We had a great team, the country felt united, football was in fashion, I was 20 years old. What a time to be alive!! :)
Second best for me was Espana 82. I was twelve. Robson's goal against France (27 seconds?); Maradona's bravery and skill while being physically assaulted by Italy; the weird groups of 3 after the first group stage with Italy, Argentina, Brazil; that amazing Brazilian team - Socrates, Falcao, Junior, Zico, Eder, Serginho; the France semi final vs West Germany; Italy winning the final - Paulo Rossi, Marco Tardelli. Loved it all!
While I'm not yet excited about this world cup, I'm sure I will get in to it and there will be some iconic moments to look back on. Bloody hell, football eh?
Can’t remember it but watched a lot of docs over the years on it. Felt like a tournament within a tournament really once we got going. When you say great team, the group stages seemed a real struggle and we squeaked by into the knockouts.
Was it like 2018? Zero expectations after a disastrous Euros and then came home heros? Thats what it seemed like.
Obviously the emergence of a superstar as well in Gazza. My old man always said Bobby should have subbed on Dave Beasant at the end of extra time. Shilton did look awfully small in that shootout.
For many reasons… England’s achievements (especially given who the manager was), the music and fashion at the time, my age (15), the iconic games and players, Nessun Dorma and the fact it meant people started to like football again after an appalling decade for the sport in the 80s.
But to the wider football world, it wasn’t looked back on favourably, too much negative play and passes back to the goalkeeper, which led to FIFA banning goalkeepers from picking up back passes a couple of years later.
P 1199, W 528, D 308, L 363, F 1819, A 1470
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I know fifa say they want to take football to the world they definitely want to take to where the money is. I believe the best tournaments are where the countries are passionate about football like Argentina, Italy England just to name a few. The USA far more interested in their own sports.
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1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 06:59 - Jun 10 with 406 views
1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 06:52 - Jun 10 by cressi
I know fifa say they want to take football to the world they definitely want to take to where the money is. I believe the best tournaments are where the countries are passionate about football like Argentina, Italy England just to name a few. The USA far more interested in their own sports.
Exactly, Qatar, Saudis, USA will never create a World Cup like Argentina, Mexico, France, Italy.
1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 06:52 - Jun 10 by cressi
I know fifa say they want to take football to the world they definitely want to take to where the money is. I believe the best tournaments are where the countries are passionate about football like Argentina, Italy England just to name a few. The USA far more interested in their own sports.
1990 World Cup was the best ever (n/t) on 23:44 - Jun 9 by norfsufblue
I still believe that 1990 WC pretty much marked the end of hooliganism as we knew it previously. We were 5 years on from Heysel and one on from Hillsborough. The whole atmosphere of football seemed to change at this WC and i know there was and still can be trouble, but for me it seemed there was a definite change of attitude from then on which improved pretty much year on year. People half my age will never know just how much things have improved since the 70/80s.
Couple of points.
Why mention Hillsborough when talking about Hooliganism? Last time I checked the Taylor report, the HIP report and two public inquests (including the longest one in history) thoroughly rejected the SY police lies, lay zero blame with the fans and placed the blame where it belonged, with the SYP.
Italia90 absolutely was very much still a time of hooliganism. I would say 3 out of 4 who went were looking for trouble. The policing was incredibly violent and the Caribinerri were little more than thugs in uniform. The violence before the Holland match had Sardinians pulling fans into their houses to escape the police waving their batons at anyone in the way.
I could go on, witnessed trouble in Pula and Turin and the undercurrent of violence was constant sadly. Two fckwits even held up a bar on the overnight ferry to Sardinia, like the police wouldn't be waiting on arrival...
Where I do agree is that the TV coverage and success on the pitch did make football popular/trendy at home. So agree it was a turning point but trust me the way things were on the ground in Italy was far from peaceful.
Anyone wanting to learn about how it was as a fan, watch Kevin Allen World Cup diaries (on YouTube). Fascinating times, easy to be hoodwinked by the quality of football (cheers Bobby) but the dark days of hooliganism were very much around. The policing was off the scale with a "crack heads now, ask questions later" approach the order of the day.
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