2018 so far has been an excellent World Cup, few boring games and negative football
Thinking back, 1994 was a very poor World Cup. Held in a "non football" country (at the time), which was a massive come down after Italia 90, and the matches were mainly dull too. We seemed to lack superstars too, Maradona was in his final druggy stage, Van Basten's career had been cut short by injuries, Brazil won but were very ordinary by their standards. Add in the absence of England, and I don't remember it fondly.
Things quickly change though, 1998 saw Zidane and Brazilian Ronaldo as the new superstars, while England at least provided some hope.
1982 running home from school and watching Robson so early on and then falling in love with Brazil , Zico & Socrates and co and getting the hump Italy knocked them out . Even enjoying rare bits of Scotland scoring v Brazil (was it David Narey) and N Ireland beating Spain ??
1986 O Level time and late kick offs and “Lineker coming in on it now ...”
1990 first one in the boozer , The Plough in Lewisham next to the station hammered most games .
Went out to Japan and saw all our games in 2002 but was in pieces (boozing constantly for a few weeks) by the time we lost to Brazil so wasn’t the end of the world for me . Went there cos thought it would be low on the twat fan factor and the atmosphere in the night clubs in Tokyo was great , Swedish banter and whoever else . Being very proud when Claus Jensen came on for Denmark against us and we were 3-0 up by then (I think) Bizarrely due to travelling a lot it was prolly the least amount of actual World Cup matches I watched !
Still 74 for me. Seeing Holland bamboozle every team on the way to the final, playing like no other team before them, only to fall to the Germans in the final. Their wins over Argentina and Brazil were particularly telling...
There's another reason why '66 is my favourite. In '66, the winner of group 1 finished 1st, the winner of group 2 came 2nd, the winner of group 3 3rd and in 4th was the winner of group 4. (Ms AA reckons I'm a bit OCD.)
Can't really pick a favourite, but I think 2014 was better than 2018 (at least so far). The Germany Brazil 7-1, goals like that of Cahill, Rodriguez, Van Persie, etc. And the world cup final winning goal was spectacular.
Can't really pick a favourite, but I think 2014 was better than 2018 (at least so far). The Germany Brazil 7-1, goals like that of Cahill, Rodriguez, Van Persie, etc. And the world cup final winning goal was spectacular.
2014 was very good too.
Very welcome after 2006 and 2010 weren't the best (and 2010 had that annoying buzzing during every game from the vuvuzelas).
2002, back when I had a big circle of friends who had no kids or jobs that mattered. Smoking weed and drinking beers while cooking breakfast with a houseful of people at 9am...that was a one-off tournament and I'd give pretty much anything I have now to go back to that time, if only for a day.
Haha...I remember drunkenly cooking breakfast with a group of mates after getting back from watching the Brazil game in the pub, we were hammered! Then we went back down the pub to continue the “post match analysis”! They were the days...
2002, back when I had a big circle of friends who had no kids or jobs that mattered. Smoking weed and drinking beers while cooking breakfast with a houseful of people at 9am...that was a one-off tournament and I'd give pretty much anything I have now to go back to that time, if only for a day.
Haha...I remember drunkenly cooking breakfast with a group of mates after getting back from watching the Brazil game in the pub, we were hammered! Then we went back down the pub to continue the “post match analysis”! They were the days...
We all had breakfast in the village pub - and the boys were allowed to be in late for school.
I got to the pub at around 7am and left the pub at midnight!!
2002, back when I had a big circle of friends who had no kids or jobs that mattered. Smoking weed and drinking beers while cooking breakfast with a houseful of people at 9am...that was a one-off tournament and I'd give pretty much anything I have now to go back to that time, if only for a day.
Haha...I remember drunkenly cooking breakfast with a group of mates after getting back from watching the Brazil game in the pub, we were hammered! Then we went back down the pub to continue the “post match analysis”! They were the days...
We all had breakfast in the village pub - and the boys were allowed to be in late for school.
I got to the pub at around 7am and left the pub at midnight!!
Excellent work @bobmunro ! My lasting memories of our post match drink were my mate standing on the pub garden table and getting his balls out to “prove” that he wasn’t ginger, and another friend putting the white ball from the pool table in his mouth, all in, in a dispute over a foul! I’m still amazed he managed to do this to this day. That was about 8 in the evening and we carried on until closing time! I’ll be watching tonight’s game at home with the kids ha!
82 or 86....though to be honest I enjoy the world cup and European championships, don't have Sky/BT so it's nice for me that it's on BBC/ITV....if they lose I probably wouldn't bother other then watching it down the pub....not easy when there are 3 games a day.
Wasnt born for another 13 years but what made 1970 so special?
Brazil
Going to sound rude (Dont mean it to be) but is that it?
i.e. Was it simply a great World Cup because Brazil were so good and strong rather than individual games like this year?
No, not just that - there were some great games also - Brazil v England in the group stage, the semi-final Italy v W Germany, our defeat to W Germany in the QF - very painful but a great game.
But if it was just Brazil then it would be enough - they were just incredible.
I would add that my memories from that World Cup (as a 13 year old) still live large almost half a century later.
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Very few boring games
Plenty of fantastic goals
Big team casualties
Almost an "anyone can beat anyone" feel after some results
Incredible
Thinking back, 1994 was a very poor World Cup. Held in a "non football" country (at the time), which was a massive come down after Italia 90, and the matches were mainly dull too. We seemed to lack superstars too, Maradona was in his final druggy stage, Van Basten's career had been cut short by injuries, Brazil won but were very ordinary by their standards. Add in the absence of England, and I don't remember it fondly.
Things quickly change though, 1998 saw Zidane and Brazilian Ronaldo as the new superstars, while England at least provided some hope.
Even enjoying rare bits of Scotland scoring v Brazil (was it David Narey) and N Ireland beating Spain ??
1986 O Level time and late kick offs and “Lineker coming in on it now ...”
1990 first one in the boozer , The Plough in Lewisham next to the station hammered most games .
Went out to Japan and saw all our games in 2002 but was in pieces (boozing constantly for a few weeks) by the time we lost to Brazil so wasn’t the end of the world for me .
Went there cos thought it would be low on the twat fan factor and the atmosphere in the night clubs in Tokyo was great , Swedish banter and whoever else .
Being very proud when Claus Jensen came on for Denmark against us and we were 3-0 up by then (I think)
Bizarrely due to travelling a lot it was prolly the least amount of actual World Cup matches I watched !
Seeing Holland bamboozle every team on the way to the final, playing like no other team before them, only to fall to the Germans in the final. Their wins over Argentina and Brazil were particularly telling...
Very welcome after 2006 and 2010 weren't the best (and 2010 had that annoying buzzing during every game from the vuvuzelas).
I got to the pub at around 7am and left the pub at midnight!!
This could be the last "great World Cup"
Italia 90 was another standout.
Enjoying the 2018 so far....
i.e. Was it simply a great World Cup because Brazil were so good and strong rather than individual games like this year?
But if it was just Brazil then it would be enough - they were just incredible.
I would add that my memories from that World Cup (as a 13 year old) still live large almost half a century later.