Where were you 24 years ago today?

[dynamo kerry]

I walked home to Rathfarham to save bus fare (10 smokes equivalent). I got home and dad asked me if I knew the final score. When I said no he turned on the VHS and showed me. I was just waiting for it to be disallowed. Then I remember Bulgaria flashing the ball right across Scotland's line in injury time.
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To Rathfarnham from the old bar? thats some walk - what was bus far at the time? just shows how much smokes are now compared to bus fare.

I beat a path home from school to watch it- I was 9.
Now I live in edinburgh and occaisionally spot the man himself. Love the story about packie waiting for him in the airport. Apparently he was getting deliveries of flowers to his gaff every day for weeks after...

[corkharps]

I was at the RTC in Leterkenny. A few of us were amazed that nobody gave a ****e about the game. 4 of us went to McFadden's ? (on the hill) to watch. Gingernut scored and i haven't stopped drinking since!

[Irish_Praha]

I was only just gone 10... Don't recall much about it other than me oul lad Telling me and the Brother. It only really started for me at Euro 88 itself.

Exact same for me but I do remeber coming home from school and turning on the TV (only had RTE then) and they were showing clips of the game on what either the news or the post match analysis.
For the hell of me I can't remember if the game was just over or if it was a news report afterwards. I would have gotten home sometime between 4 and 5 that afternoon. Maybe it was even the 6 o'clolck news - very fuzzy memories. My mother still doesn't have any interest in Soccer (apart from the fact Kevin Doyle went to the school where she works) and my father was still at work so I know I only found out about it from the TV.

[Stuttgart88]

Where will you be in 24 years' time?

Momentous day.

[Scratchy]

I was 12 and at home in London. It was before the days of Satelitte TV so I had to put up with watching Teletext while England were thrashing Yugoslavia 4-1 on ITV. I remember when it updated the page with Bulgaria 0 Scotland 1, not quite believing it for a few seconds, then running around the living room like a lunatic while my parents, who were not really into Football at the time, looked on in total bemusement.

When it updated the page with the full time result I once again ran around the room like a loon. It was a glorious day as was the 11th of November 2011.

[drummerboy]

Watched the game on RTE. They had Big Jack and his assistant, Maurice Setters, in the studio as pundits. When the game was over, they produced the champagne live on air. Great stuff.

[mypost]

It was a 3.30pm ko here on a Wednesday afternoon. Got home just before half time, the Bulgars were knocking seven bells out of Scotland, and had just hit the woodwork for the second time. The goal came out of nowhere really, and was completely against the run of play. But at 5.10pm that evening, it didn't matter. The final whistle was great, and I would love to see the last 10 minutes of the game again sometime.

That goal saved Jack's job, and it was an incredibly tough group to get out of, with 3 Mexico '86 Finalists in it. It was some justice for 1981, when we got knocked out on goal difference after our campaign had finished.