Myself and the other chaps from my IRA unit will be gathering to have an English-themed barbeque on the evening of the England-Italy match. I imagine it will have the same air of thoroughly civilised jollity that the street parties in honour of the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton had. I have a strong sense that this World Cup can bring the British Isles together in a very special way.
[QUOTE=ābalbec, post: 961473, member: 193ā]The battle of Santiago, 1962 world cup
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Great stuff. The tone of that indignant, pompous toff at the start would make you sick though. He should go back to watching bowls or cricket or whatever it is heās into.
That was David Coleman.
Canāt wait to take on those chocolate munching bureaucrats again in Kaliningrad.
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Jan Cuelemans hit the woodwork in a game Belgium were by far better side in is my recollection. Gazza was the difference maker. England havenāt had a player like him since.
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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.
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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
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Hopefully thereāll be some of this from Peru this afternoon.
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Iconic Jersey
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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.
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That is Incaredible
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Unbelimable.
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Thatās a paddington of the figures if I ever heard it
The worlds largest pan flute band