Greatest World Cup game ever

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28/06/2007, 8:25 PM
Risteard

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Originally Posted by Risteard

Christ, you must get up hours and hours before work every morning.

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I was on study leave at the time for my accountancy exams at the time. Up at 7, watch three games in a row, four hours study and then sleep for a while! :p

Ireland v Germany was a 12:30 kick off, for example. Nearly didn't do any study that day!

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

It was a 7am game, as I recall. Missed the first goal making my corn flakes!

:) :p
28/06/2007, 8:27 PM
pineapple stu

Do you have any idea how long it takes to pour milk at seven in the morning, after about a week of staring at the telly for six hours and studying four more hours each day?!
28/06/2007, 8:36 PM
Risteard

The milk is grand but Kelloggs package the cornflakes readymade nowadays.
Saves you acres of land, many pairs of wellies and 6 months of corn growth.
28/06/2007, 8:42 PM
pineapple stu

But sure what would I plant out the back then?

You'll be telling me next the milk is ready packaged too.

What's the right verb then? You make breakfast, so it sounds right that you make your cornflakes too.

Reckon this is off topic?
28/06/2007, 8:53 PM
Risteard

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Reckon this is off topic?

No.
I distinctly remember the special World Cup Subbuteo sets free with Cornflakes in 2002.
P.s. POUR

Okay, i'm finished now.

After that Argentina Serbia match, my best memories would obviously be of Ireland v Romania.
01/07/2007, 8:33 PM
OwlsFan

Dare I say it the World Cup Final of 1966 was a classic (the FA Cup Final that year was also a classic :().
01/07/2007, 8:42 PM
pineapple stu

Wasn't really. Have it on video - think it was repeated on BBC around 1996 - and it's not a great game of football. A great occasion undoubtedly, but not a great game.
02/07/2007, 7:13 AM
OwlsFan

Classic or great games aren't necessarilty about the quality of the football. They're about the drama and the excitement. That's why I doubt none will ever beat that game between Italy and Germany I first mentioned.
02/07/2007, 9:14 AM
Steve Bruce

Spain, 1982, Gerry Armstrong - THE MATCH(from a Northern Ireland point of view :D)
02/07/2007, 3:57 PM
OwlsFan

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Originally Posted by Steve Bruce

Spain, 1982, Gerry Armstrong - THE MATCH(from a Northern Ireland point of view :D)

Teams you follow don't count :p I saw the game though live and we on the other side of the border have never had a result like that. It would have been the equivalent of us beating Italy in 1990.
02/07/2007, 4:56 PM
RogerMilla

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Teams you follow don't count :p I saw the game though live and we on the other side of the border have never had a result like that. It would have been the equivalent of us beating Italy in 1990.

agreed or the russians in 88 or perhaps even beating spain on penos in 2002 as they had a very good side
03/07/2007, 9:20 AM
gustavo

Or the Italians in 1994 , Oh wait no...
03/07/2007, 9:51 AM
OwlsFan

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Originally Posted by gustavo

Or the Italians in 1994 , Oh wait no...

Beating a major team on its own turf is what I mean. NY was Irish that day.
06/07/2007, 11:22 AM
Piltownpossy

...plenty to choose from and good shouts on the 1982 matches.

This for me would be up there too from 1986 - just imagine scoring a hat trick in a World Cup match and still losing! Cracking little player that Belanov

Belgium 4 3 Soviet Union
(Le�n 1986)

One of the best games in the World Cup, the Soviets seemed capable of overcoming a Belgian side that had done little of note so far in the tournament. Two goals from the Russian striker Igor Belanov had handed the initiative to the USSR, although Belgium had scored through the little Sicilian=bred midfielder Enzo Scifo. But late in the game a long ball beat the offside trap set by the Soviet defence and the Belgium forward Jan Ceulemans only had Rinat Dassajev the goalkeeper to beat, and Ceulemans scored.

So extra time was needed, and the Belgiums were better mentally equipped, compared to the Soviets whose minds were perhaps already on the quarter-finals. Belgium scored two cheap goals, and although Belanov was able to complete his hat-trick with a late penalty, once Belgium had their foot in the quarter-finals they would not relinquish their prize.
07/07/2007, 2:54 PM
CollegeTillIDie

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

The final in 1970, two teams at the height of their powers, neither would be anything close to this strong for more than a decade.
And one of my favorite goals ever - Carlos Alberto lashing it in after Pele's almost nonchalant pass rolls the ball out to him

Not true about the Italians the team they had in 1973 was better, beating Brazil , England and Germany and they were in the middle of an 11 .5 game run where they did not concede a goal. However by the next year's World Cup in Germany they had peaked though and were a shadow of the side from the previous year bowing out in the group stages of the World Cup. Had it been held a year earlier, Italy might well have won it. But if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.:D

The semi-final was a much better game either side could have won it right to the end. Once Brazil went 3-1 up in the Final the result was never in doubt.
11/07/2007, 10:49 PM
Thunderblaster

My best World Cup games were:

1986-Brazil V France

1990-Argentina V Cameroon

1994-Argentina V Romania

1998-England V Argentina

2002-Brazil V England

2006-Argentina V Mexico
13/07/2007, 8:57 PM
stojkovic

1974 Holland 4-0 Argentina
Holland 2-0 Brasil

1978 Italy 1-0 Argentina
Argentina 2-1 France
Holland 2-1 Italy
Argentina 3-1 Holland

1982 Brasil 2-1 USSR
Italy 3-2 Brasil
Germany 3-3 France

1986 France 1-1 USSR
France 1-1 Brasil
Belgium 4-3 USSR
Argentina 2-1 England
Argentina 3-2 Germany

1990 Germany 2-1 Holland

1994 Romania 3-2 Argentina
Bulgaria 2-1 Germany
Brasil 3-2 Holland
Ireland 1-0 Italy

1998 Argentina 2-2 England
Holland 2-1 Argentina

2006 Argentina 6-0 Serbia
Argentina 2-1 Mexico
Italy 2-0 Germany
15/07/2007, 12:20 AM
Marked Man

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Originally Posted by Piltownpossy

...plenty to choose from and good shouts on the 1982 matches.

This for me would be up there too from 1986 - just imagine scoring a hat trick in a World Cup match and still losing! Cracking little player that Belanov

Belgium 4 3 Soviet Union
(Le�n 1986)

One of the best games in the World Cup, the Soviets seemed capable of overcoming a Belgian side that had done little of note so far in the tournament. Two goals from the Russian striker Igor Belanov had handed the initiative to the USSR, although Belgium had scored through the little Sicilian=bred midfielder Enzo Scifo. But late in the game a long ball beat the offside trap set by the Soviet defence and the Belgium forward Jan Ceulemans only had Rinat Dassajev the goalkeeper to beat, and Ceulemans scored.

So extra time was needed, and the Belgiums were better mentally equipped, compared to the Soviets whose minds were perhaps already on the quarter-finals. Belgium scored two cheap goals, and although Belanov was able to complete his hat-trick with a late penalty, once Belgium had their foot in the quarter-finals they would not relinquish their prize.

Best game I've ever seen, that one.
19/07/2007, 12:20 PM
Bluebeard

Two will always stand out for me

1982 Semifinal France 3-3 Germany
1994 Round of 16? Romania 3-2 Argentina
21/07/2007, 9:45 PM
Closed Account 2

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Originally Posted by Bluebeard

1994 Round of 16? Romania 3-2 Argentina

Indeed, THIS is how you defend a corner...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vivmb...elated&search=

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