| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced 21:47 - Jun 11 with 826 views | Zx1988 |
Ignoring old ITFC sides (they're a given), which sporting sides would you have liked to have been around to enjoy in the moment? Not necessarily live - just the ability to have been about at the same time.
For me I think it would have to be the all-conquering West Indies side of the 1980s. [Post edited 11 Jun 21:51]
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 21:50 - Jun 11 with 803 views | ITFC_Essex |
Sticking with football, as being BrIt-alian and being semi obsessed with Football Italia on Channel 4 as a lad, I always loved the Juventus side of that era, specifically 95-00 really. Loved seeing that team play on the TV and would loved to have seen Del Piero and co. in the flesh. |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 21:53 - Jun 11 with 757 views | WD19 |
1995-96 Dallas cheerleaders. |  | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 21:58 - Jun 11 with 731 views | gainsboroughblue |
I watched all of that 1984 series v West Indies and no amount of money could have tempted me to face up to that attack. Marshall, Holding, Garner were accurate, bouncy and ridiculously quick. Marshall, in particular, was terrifying.
Andy Lloyd and Paul Terry retired hurt and played no further part as more and more poor sods were drafted in to face the music. England were a fairly poor side overall really at that time. Getting Gooch back a year later after his Packer ban helped. |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 22:25 - Jun 11 with 676 views | Keno |
Not a team as such but I’d have loved to have spent a day in the TMS box with Arlott, Joyner’s, CMJ, Blowers etc etc |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 22:49 - Jun 11 with 647 views | norfsufblue |
The Borderline Test series!... although when the West Indies rocked up with their Blitzkrieg attack that was pretty similar. |  | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:04 - Jun 11 with 627 views | BlueBoots |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 21:58 - Jun 11 by gainsboroughblue |
I watched all of that 1984 series v West Indies and no amount of money could have tempted me to face up to that attack. Marshall, Holding, Garner were accurate, bouncy and ridiculously quick. Marshall, in particular, was terrifying.
Andy Lloyd and Paul Terry retired hurt and played no further part as more and more poor sods were drafted in to face the music. England were a fairly poor side overall really at that time. Getting Gooch back a year later after his Packer ban helped. |
West Indies just had a conveyor belt of fast bowlers in that era, starting with the "Four Horsemen" Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Andy Roberts, and Colin Croft...and then as you said, if that wasn't enough Malcolm Marshall came along  Loved Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose too...complemented eachother very well and batsmen knew they weren't going to get any respite |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:09 - Jun 11 with 623 views | Churchman |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 21:58 - Jun 11 by gainsboroughblue |
I watched all of that 1984 series v West Indies and no amount of money could have tempted me to face up to that attack. Marshall, Holding, Garner were accurate, bouncy and ridiculously quick. Marshall, in particular, was terrifying.
Andy Lloyd and Paul Terry retired hurt and played no further part as more and more poor sods were drafted in to face the music. England were a fairly poor side overall really at that time. Getting Gooch back a year later after his Packer ban helped. |
Not only them (M Holding is my favourite ever bowler - pure fluid rhythm), but a certain IVA Richards back in the day.
If you needed somebody to bat for your life it’d be him. I was lucky enough to see him bat for Somerset once. He only made 20 or so that day but when he walked out to bat you could feel the aura of the great man. What a player. |  | | |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:14 - Jun 11 with 616 views | Churchman |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 22:49 - Jun 11 by norfsufblue |
The Borderline Test series!... although when the West Indies rocked up with their Blitzkrieg attack that was pretty similar. |
You mean Bodyline? The 1932 Ashes series down under? Douglas Jardine, Harold Larwood. Yes, that must have been something.
I think I’d choose the 1923 Cup Final. The official attendance was about 120k but the estimate was double that. Must have been a sight to see. Other than that, I’d loved to have seen the greatest team ever. Brazil 1970 in their final v Italy. | | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:15 - Jun 11 with 614 views | wkj |
Im breaking the rules a bit because I was around, but a person I would have liked to have wathced live was Henrik Larson of Celtic. He was too good for the Scottish Leagues and always felt exciting when repping Sweden.
Though if I stick to the rules I would say Ajax (1971–1973). "Total Football" led by Johan Cruyff. |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:29 - Jun 11 with 574 views | Perublue |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 21:58 - Jun 11 by gainsboroughblue |
I watched all of that 1984 series v West Indies and no amount of money could have tempted me to face up to that attack. Marshall, Holding, Garner were accurate, bouncy and ridiculously quick. Marshall, in particular, was terrifying.
Andy Lloyd and Paul Terry retired hurt and played no further part as more and more poor sods were drafted in to face the music. England were a fairly poor side overall really at that time. Getting Gooch back a year later after his Packer ban helped. |
The blackwash series … iconic |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:38 - Jun 11 with 559 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:29 - Jun 11 by Perublue |
The blackwash series … iconic |
The West Indian crowd were brilliant too. Airhorns, whistles etc. Used to take over the ground. My late mum used to get so wound up when I was watching listening to it.
The decline of cricket in the Caribbean is so sad. | |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 00:23 - Jun 12 with 518 views | norfsufblue |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 23:14 - Jun 11 by Churchman |
You mean Bodyline? The 1932 Ashes series down under? Douglas Jardine, Harold Larwood. Yes, that must have been something.
I think I’d choose the 1923 Cup Final. The official attendance was about 120k but the estimate was double that. Must have been a sight to see. Other than that, I’d loved to have seen the greatest team ever. Brazil 1970 in their final v Italy. |
Yes of course... how did i not spot that! | | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 00:31 - Jun 12 with 507 views | Churchman |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 00:23 - Jun 12 by norfsufblue |
Yes of course... how did i not spot that! |
Freudian slip. Let’s face it, in the context of cricket at the time, it was pretty borderline and cased a right load of trouble! | | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 08:10 - Jun 12 with 388 views | You_Bloo_Right |
I'd have loved to have seen the Hungary team from 1950-56.
69 games featuring 10 draws, just the one defeat and over 400 goals.
All writings about this side point to tactical innovation and Total Football (sort of at least) 20 years before the Dutch. |  |
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 08:29 - Jun 12 with 374 views | norfsufblue |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 00:31 - Jun 12 by Churchman |
Freudian slip. Let’s face it, in the context of cricket at the time, it was pretty borderline and cased a right load of trouble! |
I have family ties with Bosser Martin the legendary/infamous head groundsman at The Oval back in the 30's, responsible for the featherbed pitch on which England scored 903/7 in a timeless test that he claimed could have gone on till Christmas! Would have liked to have been there. He was very disappointed apparently that England declared and didnt post a thousand runs!
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 10:20 - Jun 12 with 328 views | vilanovablue |
Probably the early 1970's for the Ajax side that won 3 European cups in a row, it would also mean I could enjoy the Dutch side of that era too. Posted this without realising someone else said the same. [Post edited 12 Jun 10:23]
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| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 12:05 - Jun 12 with 286 views | solemio |
Sir Donald Bradman's 1948 Australians | | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 12:59 - Jun 12 with 249 views | Europa |
A match rather than a team, but Czechoslovakia in the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championships, specifically: either or both of the games against the USSR, and specifically in a flat in Prague, surrounded by Czechoslovaks, as the occupying Warsaw Pact troops shivered on the streets below. The USSR won the whole thing, but Czechoslovakia won both of those games. That feeling must have been electric. |  | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 13:33 - Jun 12 with 211 views | wischip |
Charlie's Angels |  | | |
| Teams you'd have loved to have experienced on 14:37 - Jun 12 with 169 views | yorkshireblue |
The 1974 "invincibles" Lions team. |  | | |
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