Yes , the Belgians were probably unluckily . Gazza was the best English player since Bobby Charlton . When he ran with the ball he really was hard to get at as he used the elbows well. He also had a great range of passing .
England could well have won that WC and the 1996 euros and the common denominator was Gazza running the show.
Enzo Scifo hit the post with a long range effort in that game too. Fabulous player, was brilliant v Uruguay in the same World Cup.
John Barnes had a perfectly good goal wrongly disallowed for offside.
It was a splendid volleyed finish. Still, it wouldnāt be the last one of those in that game.
Parker, Butcher and Lineker admitted as much in that Return to Turin thing on the history channel, Scifo was a superb player
He got a hat trick in that game. He ran the show as an 18 year old in the 84 uefa cup final at Tottenham, it was the first time he was seen in England and was already a big name. Pure class
Hopefully thereāll be some of this from Peru this afternoon.
Iconic Jersey
They reckon 50000 Peruvians have travelled to Russia.
Its great to have a country like Peru back on the big stage after 36 years. They were terrific in the 1970 and 1978 World Cup.
That is Incaredible
Unbelimable.
Thatās a paddington of the figures if I ever heard it
The worlds largest pan flute band
Recent article by Barney Ronay, in which he is very, very easy on the horrific tackling, especially by Terry Fenwick, that day.
Take that Jerry. Thatās two World Wars and one World Cup.
They were showing Italy v Brazil 1982 there the other night. Zico was very overrated. He set up a goal for Socrates about 10 minutes in. After that Claudio Gentile didnāt give him a kick of it and he went missing.
Nostaglia aināt what it used to be
