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Great stuff.
Is Pele’s goal in 1958 as a 17 year old as good as Maradona’s against England in 1986?
I think it may well be.
No it isn’t because no goal apart from Maradona’s against Belgium is even in the same conversation as Maradona’s goal against England, but that is no slight on Pelé’s goal. It was magnificent in and of itself.
I’ve mentioned this before but there was a Brazilian made series called “The Game Of Billions” presented by Pelé which Eurosport showed about 1991. It had a voice over by the well known English voice over person Sean Barrett. This series went into great detail and narrative about the great World Cups especially 1958, 1970 and 1986 and about football in general with a special focus on Brazil. It had utterly sublime background music full of utter joy and wonder which is burned into my mind despite not having heard it for probably 25 or 30 years. This series is nowhere to be found on YouTube or anywhere else but I think I have tapes containing parts of this series somewhere in an attic, and I am going to have to go to the trouble of learning how to transfer video tapes to digital format for the express purpose of not letting this musical soundtrack and this series be lost to history.
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His son Mark hurled with Nap, think Ross was there for a while too. That the link?
I don’t remember them hurling to be honest. Ross definitely played soccer. I posted here before that my wife is from Greystones.
Both families were good friends. But times move on. I still think Ann McCabe lives in Greystones.
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Today is Debbie Harry’s 80th birthday.
17 years ago, Marco Materazzi said something to Zinedine Zidane…
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Tue madre e una putta.
I remember watching that at home in Leitrim.
Referee running to Zidane flashing a red card out of nowhere.
I was wondering what the hell was going on.
Then I saw it.
And his last ever match too.
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The semi-final of that tournament between Italy and Germany is the best match ever played for me. It had everything
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Apart from a goal before the 119th minute.
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Both goals were leading a charmed life. Italy definitely hit the woodwork anyway, cant remember if Germany did but I’d say Podolski was fit to kill Buffon by the end of it.
The breakaway goal right at the end from Del Piero was just magic
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It was a cracker alright.
I had some mad bet with Rocko that Germany wouldn’t win the tournament so I was delighted with the result.
I do wonder how this game would be remembered if there hadn’t been the two goals at the end.
It was some finish - the two goals were both great - but I suspect the finish makes people look upon the rest of the game in a much different light, sort of like retrospective justification for the 118 goalless minutes. Maybe that retrospective justification is justified because I’ve never watched the majority of the game back.
Holland v Italy 2000 is a rare example of a scoreless draw which sort of goes down as a classic game - the best 0-0 of all time surely - so maybe Germany v Italy would have been a classic without the goals, I don’t know.
I probably mentioned this here before but I watched that game beside Lorraine Keane in a backstage area at the Oxegen music festival. I was drinking red wine out of a plastic water bottle. I’d say she was delighted to have me in her vicinity.
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That’s a new one for me.
A 500ml volvic bottle is easy enough to walk into a festival with. Actually you can walk in with two of them, which is probably what I did.
And you chose to fill them with red wine… fucking hell