Loved 02 and 06. Getting up for the 7.30 Ireland Cameroon game on a Saturday morning , beautiful weather, another couple of games tgat day. A uruguay left back scoring a sumptous volley from outside the box vs Denmark.
Going to the pub from work for Ireland Germany, the chaos and disbelief when keane scored.
Getting to watch 20 minutes of a game before scooting off to work.
The south koreans with their boundless energy and enthusiasm.
Great days
2022 was the best World Cup since 1986. But only in a football sense. I don’t have many mental images from it apart from Messi and the final and maybe Suarez crying.
None of the others were great or even good.
World Cups are about narratives and moments and mental images.
2002
Saipan
The Koreans getting every decision going
England v Brazil
Ronaldo
2006
Zidane
Germany v Italy
Grosso
WAGs
2010
Suarez
Germany v England
Spain being a great team but boring
At the time it was mostly about Maradona
2014
Brazil 1 Germany 7
Suarez
2018
Maradona off his head
Mbappe running very fast
Belgium v Japan
2022
2006
2002
2010
2018
2014
As good a world cup (timing) as the Australians will ever get.
Opener v Turkey at 2pm Sunday has the potential to STOP THE NATION.
This is December in Australia so it’s a Christmas Turkey.
We’ve been singing about Johnny Turk for a while. Now it’s time to dance.
Paul Howard’s lost his World Cup cherry in 1982. Same as me. This brought back some wonderful memories.
Australia will be hoping it’s a case of Goallipoli for them in their latest battle against the dark horse Turks.
You surely have Brazil to win this based on the sequences in the lead up.
• Brazil looking to end a 24 year wait for World Cup glory as they had been in 1994. A World Cup which also took place in America.
• Looking very likely to meet England in the quarter-final as they had done in 2002.
• Historically bad qualification campaign. Same had happened in the lead-up to the 1994 and 2002 editions.
• A managerial change the year before the tournament as in 2002 and possibly 1994 as well.
• Arsenal won the league in 2002, Limerick won Munster in 1994.
To answer your query properly. Sky Sports News are doing an hourly round-up, every morning on the hour from 6am to 11am. And I presume for most of the day there after.
AI tells me that ITV4 were doing something similar but I can’t see it on my EPG. I’d say the Sky Sports one might be fairly good, IF you have Sky Sports.
I’ve consistently predicted since the start of the year that Brazil will win the World Cup.
Everything I’ve seen since then, which is nothing, has only convinced me more they’re going to win it.
When St. Mary’s College rise, Brazil rise.
Will the Sky Sports News round-up just be some misfortune like Gary Cotteril standing outside England’s base camp giving updates on Anthony Gordon’s fitness though? I’m not even sure if they have the rights to show the goals/highlights from tournament football.
Good point. I’ll check.
Brazil will lose to Norway.
Mexico, if they win the group, stay in Mexico. As Mexicans, Mexico will suit them. Hot and high, especially Mexico City, they should win their last 32 game.
Then, all going as you’d expect, they play England. And they’ll beat them
For some bizarre reason Oirish people have for years convinced themselves that Mexico is some baking hot oven. While there are certainly parts of Mexico where it gets hot, deserts in the north and tropical jungles in the south, the majority of Mexico’s large cities are in the central mountains where the climate is quite temperate year round. Mexico City is like an eternal spring day.
By comparison, most of the central and southern US would be way hotter in the summer.
You’d hardly know it’s even on.
Some pity for the World Cup to go like this.
Is it big down under?
Been watching the Sky One Doc, Italia 90: Four Weeks that changed the world.
Fuck it lads we were lucky to grow up when we did 
The moment between Scillachi and his dad, pure love between two men. The pride. Ah beautiful. Thank god for sport. Thank god for football. Thank god for the World Cup.
