croatia/uruguay final?
@Sidney
was the 1988 Stanley Rous Cup the last time England played Colombia?
that was one of my favourite tournaments growing up
i remember england winning the rather emphatic trophy and it think it was Barry Davies when commentating on the highlights that night on bbc1 was not best pleased they were wearing the opposition’s shirts
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France “98, pal.
Becks scored a free kick.
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I paused the game at half time and went off to hurling training. Jesus, that was some treat to come back to. Another instant classic.
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now that would be a novelty!!
Croats weren’t great last night and could be running out of steam, I’d like to see them get there though
My good friend @The_Scouse_Cafu wrote this after Chile lost on penalties to Brazil in 2014.
The manner of Japan’s defeat was their real victory. The second half of that game was a whirlwind of excitement and emotion. It’s always better to leave a World Cup in agony but knowing you that you gave it everything you had and wounded your opponent to within an inch of their lives, rather than timidly bowing out 1-0 or 2-0 or losing on penalties after almost boring your opponents into submission.
Croatia would have had serious regrets had they lost out last night. Japan will have none. They almost certainly would have lost in extra-time anyway.
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yes!
and that celebration afterwards in front of the fans
good man
i am watching all these 7pms on delay
phone goes off and i start at 9pm ish
it has it’s issues tho
saturday night sat down to uruguay/portugal at 10 ish- stopped the game at HT to carry out marital duties - then we ate some grub in the garden- came back in c. half past midnight to resume the second half- woke up on the couch at 2-30am with a can of Carling and the game over
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tomorrow night will be epic
you simply cant beat Engalnd in the world cup for a night of sheer drama
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Spot on. The very essence of the World Cup viewing experience is investing in and then feeling incredibly sorry for a team like Japan tonight.
I also have a child like thing where I feel terribly sad after the group stage as I know we’ve reached the halfway point and then I can’t bear the rest days as the teams are whittled down to the last two.
And then that moment after the coverage of the final ends is hell. It’s like when David Vine used to sign off from the Crucible on the Monday night when the final finished and you knew that you had to wait forever for it to come around again.
Life is just so unfair.
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Tomorrow’s games have draws written all over them, particularly the Sweden and Switzerland match, toss of a coin then on penalties
even tho i have a financial interest in croatia i was very moved by the support Peter Schmichel gave his son last night and felt very sorry for them when they lost as i felt i could identify with where he was coming from as a father and how denmark played the game
Peter’s tweet last night also of the two of them walking off the field in OT was very nice also i felt.
I get very moved with anthems - the croats crying in the crowd singing it is a sight i am jealous of- here are a folk so wonderfully proud, they absolutely love their countryand would have no problem dying for it either if imagine and probably know a few who have
I’m terribly saddened to see my beloved Blue Samurai go out, especially to those cheating Belgian fuckers. I’ll have long sympathetic conversations with my Japanese colleagues in work today, a great bunch of lads and hot women.
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Not getting to watch enough football because you have riding to do is definitely a first world problem.
As well as the France '98 game @Bandage mentions there was also the famous 1995 friendly when Higuita did that ridiculously extravagant thing that is apparently known as a “scorpion kick”.
I vaguely remember Colombia being involved in the 1988 Rous Cup but have no recollection of their game against England being televised, however I do have a recollection of photos of it being included in the next issue of either Shoot or Match magazine.
The England-Scotland game in that tournament was I think covered live by RTE. Peter Beardsley scored an early goal to give England a 1-0 win in what was the final ever biennial England-Scotland clash at Wembley - they did play at Hampden Park in 1989 when Steve Bull scored in a 2-0 English win.
The English FA had a couple of goes at organising end of season international tournaments after the final Rous Cup in 1989 - there was a triangular tournament with England, Argentina and the USSR in 1991. I think the Argentina-USSR fixture at Old Trafford was the first international fixture between two non-“home” nations to be played in England since the 1966 World Cup.
Then there was the Umbro Cup in 1995 which featured Brazil, Sweden and Japan alongside England.
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were the USSR involved in qualifying at the time for the 1992 European Championships Sid?
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Unreal encyclopedic knowledge.
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Yes, they qualified ahead of Italy.
If you have a Euro '92 Panini album, Italy are included along with Denmark (Denmark were also included in Orbis World Cup '90) as there was some talk that the USSR would pull out of the finals, however they participated as the Confederation of Independent States (CIS).
The Argentina team that played in that 1991 triangular tournament was an almost entirely new team from the 1990 World Cup, almost exclusively Argentine domestic club game-based, and would go on to win the Copa America in Chile, which was live on Screensport, and was a smashing tournament. Gabriel Batistuta was one of their rising stars. I watched the first six nights of that tournament religiously before being rudely interrupted by having to go on a family holiday to France. I got the result of the Argentina’s 3-2 win over Brazil in the second group stage from an edition of La Gazetta Dello Sport I bought in Bordeaux. I couldn’t understand the match report, but still got the gist of what had happened.
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and at what stage was it decided they would not play? or did they go in there as the CIS? and were in Scotland’s group?
i remember Denmark stepped in for Yugoslavia after it all went to pot during that infamous Dinamo Zagreb / RedStar game . (igor stimac and sinisa mihailovic;s finest hour)- “our boys should have burnt your entire family alive at Borovo, etc”
that was then- today you have Neymar- i think the Croats have earned the right to sing their anthem no matter how despicable they were
Is that the game where Boban kicked a member of the riot squad? That was 1990, I think. Denmark weren’t officially informed that they would be replacing Yugoslavia until June 1st, I think - the tournament started on June 10th.