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Italia '90

Can't believe it's 25 years since this!!

Can remember where I watched every England game........work's bar v Ireland (it started so well that day watching Costa Rica beat the Jocks!!); on cricket tour v Egypt; at in-laws v Cameroon (that was tough!!); at home with a non-football supporter v Germany (that was even tougher!! In fact my wife had to tell him to leave at the end of the game when he tried to engage me in meaningful conversation!!)

World in Motion, Cameroon beating The Argies in the first game, Gazza's tears (Lineker's face), Platt's volley (Lineker's face......again!!), the excitement of the nation building with every round, England fan's having a disco with Butcher and Waddle joining in, Klinsmann's dives, the deflection off Parker seemingly going in slow motion over Shilton, Toto Schillachi, Lineker sh*tting himself, Roger Milla's corner flag shimmy, Nessun Dorma, Rijkaard gobbling at Voller, buying the White, Red AND Blue England shirts (still got them!!), having to take the next day off work after the Semi defeat through sheer disappointment, 'mad' Jack Charlton.......the list is endless.........

Just wondering if there's any tournament review type documentaries planned on telly??
(If you've never seen the (excellent) 'One Night In Turin' it's well worth a watch as it captures the atmosphere superbly)

I know it's now commonly perceived as being a 'poor' World Cup, but for me it was THE defining Tournament........
 

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Good recollection. But you forgot the lucky penalties to claw back a losing position v Cameroon..... :)

Best World Cup that I remember though :sorted:
 

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Not for me as 66 beat it as we did the world! Having said that 90 was bloody good. I'll always remember Bobby Robson swinging his fist and going what I think was 'Oh Shucks' when we missed the vital pen.
 

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Banana said:
Good recollection. But you forgot the lucky penalties to claw back a losing position v Cameroon..... :)

Best World Cup that I remember though :sorted:
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Lucky pens??!! You must be joking??!! Both nailed on.......

although I have recently heard that Cameroon seriously considered they had been deliberately 'cheated' out of the.competition
 

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Banana said:
Good recollection. But you forgot the lucky penalties to claw back a losing position v Cameroon..... :)

Best World Cup that I remember though :sorted:
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Definite penalties. Nothing lucky about them. :looks:
 

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Definitely the most dramatic world cup for me. England's group games were awful but after that it excellent. Watching it back, mainly through One Night in Turin, made me realise how well we played in the semi final.
 

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Just loved platts volley.

First real World Cup I recall. Saw a bit of 86 but was too young to be overly interested especially getting up in the early hours.

Re-call my dad saying he would streak in the garden if we beat Cameroon at 2-1 down. God, that was a sight but he was going nuts. Not sure my kids would allow me to do that!!!
 

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Billy Hunt said:
Definite penalties. Nothing lucky about them. :looks:
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Reminds me of the Cameroon defending in the game against Argentina when Caniggia got away down the right wing & just about rode two flying tackles before the third bloke came across & simply took him out. If you're gonna get a red card, do it in style, wonderful scenes.
 

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badgerbee said:
Can't believe it's 25 years since this!!

Can remember where I watched every England game........work's bar v Ireland (it started so well that day watching Costa Rica beat the Jocks!!); on cricket tour v Egypt; at in-laws v Cameroon (that was tough!!); at home with a non-football supporter v Germany (that was even tougher!! In fact my wife had to tell him to leave at the end of the game when he tried to engage me in meaningful conversation!!)

World in Motion, Cameroon beating The Argies in the first game, Gazza's tears (Lineker's face), Platt's volley (Lineker's face......again!!), the excitement of the nation building with every round, England fan's having a disco with Butcher and Waddle joining in, Klinsmann's dives, the deflection off Parker seemingly going in slow motion over Shilton, Toto Schillachi, Lineker sh*tting himself, Roger Milla's corner flag shimmy, Nessun Dorma, Rijkaard gobbling at Voller, buying the White, Red AND Blue England shirts (still got them!!), having to take the next day off work after the Semi defeat through sheer disappointment, 'mad' Jack Charlton.......the list is endless.........

Just wondering if there's any tournament review type documentaries planned on telly??
(If you've never seen the (excellent) 'One Night In Turin' it's well worth a watch as it captures the atmosphere superbly)

I know it's now commonly perceived as being a 'poor' World Cup, but for me it was THE defining Tournament........
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It grew into a fantastic World Cup - full of atmosphere, big characters, great games, Nessun Dorma still makes hair on my neck bristle, World in motion still makes me proud, Gazza was outstanding, I remember being very proud to be English.
 

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For those who want to relive it, All Played Out by Pete Davies is an excellent read. One of the first of the new generation of football books.
 

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badgerbee said:
Can't believe it's 25 years since this!!

Can remember where I watched every England game........work's bar v Ireland (it started so well that day watching Costa Rica beat the Jocks!!); on cricket tour v Egypt; at in-laws v Cameroon (that was tough!!); at home with a non-football supporter v Germany (that was even tougher!! In fact my wife had to tell him to leave at the end of the game when he tried to engage me in meaningful conversation!!)

World in Motion, Cameroon beating The Argies in the first game, Gazza's tears (Lineker's face), Platt's volley (Lineker's face......again!!), the excitement of the nation building with every round, England fan's having a disco with Butcher and Waddle joining in, Klinsmann's dives, the deflection off Parker seemingly going in slow motion over Shilton, Toto Schillachi, Lineker sh*tting himself, Roger Milla's corner flag shimmy, Nessun Dorma, Rijkaard gobbling at Voller, buying the White, Red AND Blue England shirts (still got them!!), having to take the next day off work after the Semi defeat through sheer disappointment, 'mad' Jack Charlton.......the list is endless.........

Just wondering if there's any tournament review type documentaries planned on telly??
(If you've never seen the (excellent) 'One Night In Turin' it's well worth a watch as it captures the atmosphere superbly)

I know it's now commonly perceived as being a 'poor' World Cup, but for me it was THE defining Tournament........
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Unbelievable you posted this today. For some reason this morning I was smiling to myself remembering Des Lynhams opening line " Shouldn't you be at work"?
 

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Jimmy Greaves going on about beating the 'macaroons'.

England vs. Egypt being dreadful. Actually, the group stage was dire.

England's World cup was pretty rubbish till the 120th minute against Belgium.

Costa Rica 1-0 Scotland.
 

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Loved it-got me back into football again after a few fallow years.

Watched every game I reckon-as I was on the dole at the time !

Great weather in the UK at the time as well-hot evenings watching football-great stuff.
 

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Italia '90?
For us up here in the North it was a endless 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 march...Brazil, Scotland and Costa Rica...?.
Forgettable.
 

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Could never believe the Semi-Final wasn't sold out.......just wouldn't happen these days.......

Anybody on here go to any games??……
 

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lots of good footage on the new gazza documentary.... .love watching that tackle on Claudio Cannigia
 

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Billy Hunt said:
Jimmy Greaves going on about beating the 'macaroons'.

England vs. Egypt being dreadful. Actually, the group stage was dire.

England's World cup was pretty rubbish till the 120th minute against Belgium.

Costa Rica 1-0 Scotland.
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Bit harsh Billy! Yes the group games started off really badly, didn't Butch Wilkins aka The Crab got sent off against Portugal, talk about a silver lining.
Then we finally battered Poland 3-0 with a Lineker hattrick, playing 3 centre backs & our tournament took off......the Cameroon & Germany games were fantastic
 

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davido_i said:
Bit harsh Billy! Yes the group games started off really badly, didn't Butch Wilkins aka The Crab got sent off against Portugal, talk about a silver lining.
Then we finally battered Poland 3-0 with a Lineker hattrick, playing 3 centre backs & our tournament took off......the Cameroon & Germany games were fantastic
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You're mixing your World cups.

In 1990, England drew with the Oirish, drew with the Dutch and scraped a 1-0 win over Egypt. Ireland drew 3 games, the Netherlands drew 3 games, Egypt drew 2. :yawn:

Mexico '86 was a good world cup, too. :cool:
 

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Was at Luton Airport when the team came home,unbelievable sight. People were on the roof of the petrol station dancing, thought it was going to collapse!! David Platts goal resulted in a massive pile of bodies on the pub floor.......best World Cup for me so far.
 

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davido_i said:
Reminds me of the Cameroon defending in the game against Argentina when Caniggia got away down the right wing & just about rode two flying tackles before the third bloke came across & simply took him out. If you're gonna get a red card, do it in style, wonderful scenes.
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Benjamin Massing.

That name will remain with me forever. Surely the daddy of all take outs.
 

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A Real Mysteron said:
Benjamin Massing.

That name will remain with me forever. Surely the daddy of all take outs.
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It was a great sequence of "tackles". Seem to remember the ref taking his take to consider and then booked him....and he'd been booked before. Easily a straight red today.
 

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1990 is the first WC i watched lots of and the first I remember clearly. Cameroon v Argentina was fantastic. This was a time where no-one really knew anything of football outside of the UK, African nations might as well have come from a distant galaxy, everything about them was unusual - I remember a friend of mine and I just pronouncing the names over and over again: Makanaky, Mbouh, Mfede! We must've recreated Cameroon's goal celebrations dozens of times in the weeks afterwards, the goal itself saw possibly the worst ever attempt at a routine save in a WC, I don't think Pumpido ever recovered.

Brian Moore describing Massing's challenge on Caniggia as a "brutal assault". The thing that stuck in my mind about it was Massing lost his boot in the course of the challenge and one of the many Argentine players who ran to harangue the ref slyly trod on his boot less foot, Massing actually went to kick him in his backside.
How that mediocre Argentine team recovered to get to the final...
 

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The official FIFA World Cup films have been on BT Sport recently. Worth watching to see if they repeat it (got bugger all to show till August so more than likely)
 

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Billy Hunt said:
In 1990, England drew with the Oirish, drew with the Dutch and scraped a 1-0 win over Egypt. Ireland drew 3 games, the Netherlands drew 3 games, Egypt drew 2. :yawn:
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there was something about drawing lots to go through right? i guess Ireland and Holland had the exact same record or something :scratch:

Paki Bonner vs Romania :love:

watched the Belgium game at a neighbour's i think. i have real vivid memories of going out into the street after and people were coming out of houses all around and celebrating wildly. never ever saw our street like that on another occasion.
 

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Newport Pagnell Bee said:
Unbelievable you posted this today. For some reason this morning I was smiling to myself remembering Des Lynhams opening line " Shouldn't you be at work"?
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Not that unbelievable really. Des said that 8 years later for England's lunch time kick off in Marseille!
 

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Some cracking memories - i was only 10 but still a quality world cup!
 

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Remember as a 17 year old all piling round a mate's in our Umbro white and blue shirts, only England shirt I've ever bought. I think Royal Dutch was the drink of choice in those days for me lol
 

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The Belgium game , was in pub where i live * Barb had just got in from netball as Gazza lined up the free kick . " quick sit down " i said. She dutifully sat on one of those little stools, then absolute carnage , mental scenes deffo the maddest tellyclapping celebration ever.

After a few mins of leaping about , cuddling mates and people running around the pub , car park and road like loons i suddely remembered my fiance.

She was covered from head to toe in beer , properly drenched . Took it well though and absolute scenes that night that will live with me forever.

* Catcracker , now a fecking co op
 

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Mr Tree said:
there was something about drawing lots to go through right? i guess Ireland and Holland had the exact same record or something :scratch:

Paki Bonner vs Romania :love:

watched the Belgium game at a neighbour's i think. i have real vivid memories of going out into the street after and people were coming out of houses all around and celebrating wildly. never ever saw our street like that on another occasion.
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I was going to mention the drawing lots thing in my post but thought I may have imagined it. I'm sure it was the case because everything was level going into the last group games.
 

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wibs said:
Mark Wright got us through
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Yep, header from a corner against Egypt. It was either before that Egypt game or maybe at half time when the pundits were talking about the possibility of having to draw lots. If we had drawn with Egypt 1-1 then all 4 teams would have ended on 3 points with a goal difference of 0 and with 2 goals for/2 goals against.
 

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That Germany semi final was the first time I got properly pissed as a 16 year old. Dad wasn't impressed when I puked all over the bathroom.
 

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i forgot to mention too the immense sticker album that I, a mere sapling at 8yrs old, adored at the time. i spent HOURS poring over it. i still have it somewhere - it's totally battered but still fantastic.
 

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Halcyon days!
I was 12 and did a school project on it.

I found the folder a few years ago and I was totally immersed in it, every team, every player.

Nessun Dorma instantly transports me to the most purest of places.
 

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I got a terrible school report that year for constantly swapping stickers! for some reason I still remember I just couldn't get Maurice malpas!
 

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I used to play in the Newport Pagnell Pool League,every Tuesday evening. The game against Belgium was on a Tuesday and it was a "cup" week in the pool league, with both the teams from Mercedes-Benz (I was captain of one of the teams) being drawn to play at the neutral Unionist Club. They had 4 pool tables in a back room, with a little telly on a shelf, in the corner and EVERYONE from the 8 teams playing there that night was crowded round the TV - nobody gave two hoots about the pool.

When Platty scored, the whole place just erupted - there was beer everywhere! lol
 

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Ghost said:
Halcyon days!
I was 12 and did a school project on it.

I found the folder a few years ago and I was totally immersed in it, every team, every player.

Nessun Dorma instantly transports me to the most purest of places.
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I'm the same with "Anal Pleasures 4"
 

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Good trip with BEES loyals to Italia 90. Went via Corsica to Sardinia and saw the three group games in Cagliari.

Had a villa in the north of Sardinia. Sardinian roads were hard work through the mountains in our crap fiat hire car.

A lot of good stories and a few disasters along the way.
 

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It was a good world cup to watch, but by accident we came across a decent formation and started to play a little better. In large spells we were not very good to watch. Gazza and Platt combination certainly lifted us, but Platt was an after thought selection.
 

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I was out in Sardinia and went to first three games and funny enough I went back a couple of weeks ago to try and visit where I stayed.
Spent a week trying to find it and came home realising I must of been more pissed than I thought for those two weeeks as I couldn't find it.
 
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