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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.
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.