| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 10:44 - May 26 with 1215 views | Pendejo |
Gazza would have made a massive difference |  |
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| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 10:51 - May 26 with 1207 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 10:44 - May 26 by Pendejo |
Gazza would have made a massive difference |
Gazza had played a star role alongside Paul Ince when we qualified v Italy.
I know Gazza had his issues, but I still don't understand his omission.
I often wonder whether Hoddle made the decision based on personal rather than professional grounds. [Post edited 26 May 2020 10:52]
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| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 11:58 - May 26 with 1147 views | davblue |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 10:51 - May 26 by Marshalls_Mullet |
Gazza had played a star role alongside Paul Ince when we qualified v Italy.
I know Gazza had his issues, but I still don't understand his omission.
I often wonder whether Hoddle made the decision based on personal rather than professional grounds. [Post edited 26 May 2020 10:52]
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Wasn't Gazza an Alcoholic at this point or very much verging on it? If i recall correctly.
Depends how much of a bad influence he was also, he was always one that needed to be managed and needed alot of monitoring.
I think we was finished at this point, i don't recall him doing anything of note. |  | | |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 12:00 - May 26 with 1136 views | davblue |
That Argentinian team had some serious talent.
Batistuta, Simeone, Zanetti, Veron, Crespo, Ayala, Ortega was a very good player to name a few. | | | |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 12:02 - May 26 with 1135 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 11:58 - May 26 by davblue |
Wasn't Gazza an Alcoholic at this point or very much verging on it? If i recall correctly.
Depends how much of a bad influence he was also, he was always one that needed to be managed and needed alot of monitoring.
I think we was finished at this point, i don't recall him doing anything of note. |
He played a key role in qualifying against a very strong Italian side a few months earlier.
At this point he had probably been a functioning alcoholic for a few years, not sure anything changed between Italy and final squad selection.
I've never heard any England players suggest that Gazza was a negative influence.
He was past his peak, but he always turned up at finals for England when selected. | |
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| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 12:09 - May 26 with 1116 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 12:00 - May 26 by davblue |
That Argentinian team had some serious talent.
Batistuta, Simeone, Zanetti, Veron, Crespo, Ayala, Ortega was a very good player to name a few. |
Veron was immense in that period.
Ortega was a champ legend! | |
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| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 13:05 - May 26 with 1086 views | Ftnfwest |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 11:58 - May 26 by davblue |
Wasn't Gazza an Alcoholic at this point or very much verging on it? If i recall correctly.
Depends how much of a bad influence he was also, he was always one that needed to be managed and needed alot of monitoring.
I think we was finished at this point, i don't recall him doing anything of note. |
The decision to exclude him certainly nearly finished him although you can't lay the consequences at Hoddle's door of course. Mind you with ET to play having the option to bring him on instead of Lee or Batty could well have had a difference. It was all very odd, they made him play more of the warm up games than anyone else to prove his fitness, played very well in one of them as i recall, and then dropped him anyway. |  | | |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 16:47 - May 26 with 996 views | factual_blue |
| Rob Smyth taking a fresh look at England - Argentina on 98 is excellent on 10:44 - May 26 by Pendejo |
Gazza would have made a massive difference |
Has he visited Barnard Castle though? |  |
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