I dropped something alright…
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Ich war dort.
People in the 1980s really looked very old.
This chap was 26 when he was killed:
This chap was 28:
And this guy was only 30:
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who are they?
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They all look in their 40s/50s.
No one was moisturizing in the 80s ffs. And there was no intermittent fasting or nutri bullets — it might as well have been the dark ages.
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1989 cork weirdo, and gimpishness from DFAT
They were all married with kids in early 20s back then, therefore rapidly speeding up the ageing process
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the 1989 European Cup final @Sidney was a fine event played on a balmy Wednesday evening reminiscent to the 1988, 1991 and 1992 finals.
We’ll never see the likes of Steaua and Red Star up there again you know , whilst the berlin wall later that year was symbolic in bringing down communuism it is ironic that the ousting of Ceacascu on Christmas Day in 89 was at the time when club football in the country was at its zenith ,
91 really saw that mass departure of players like Boban , Prosinecki et al to the big European Leagues, England back then didnt receive these players and as we know we had english players go to italy and france like gazza, waddle, ince (later) , etc.
i still think a lot about red star in 91, that famous yugoslav cup final between Hadjuk and Red Star, Boban, igor stinoac the hadjuk center half telling Sinisa Mihailovoc " that he hoped his family would be burnt in Borovo*"… i cant get my head around the whole thing at times… im happy i have the memory, i remember i went to split in 2003 and bought a t shirt with Torcida on it - theyre the hadjuk hooligan firm- i hadnt a clue what i was doing but its still in my wardrobe - i take it everywhere- no idea why
*borovo was a masscace commited by croats on serbs living in croatia at the beginning of the 91 croatian war of independence - children were cooked and men were skinned alive - the croats were abolutely horrible humans and history protected Tudjman who was seen as a peace maker rather then a genocidal maniac, this was the precurser for the bosnian croat war before the serbs got down to business in eastern bosnia… my god
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Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and the Ukraine-powered USSR all had great or very good teams in the late communist era
It was strange that Poland and Hungary who were the traditionally pre-eminent communist football powers had faded by then
Hungary were fairly shit by the time Eire played them in 1989
He played for Derby County after didn’t he?
Tudjman always claimed he wasnt in charge of the HVO the Croat paramilitary force in BiH - rememeber therir leader committed suicide in the Hague by drinking poision , him and alija itzedbegovic were almost deemed to be victims - the west had no problem tho putting milosevic on trial for the actions of Mladic and Karadzic, i have a huge issue with this - Mladic went nuts after his daughter shot herself and killed every bosniak in sight- Karadzic lost control of the bosnian serbs and Mladic employed the likes of Arkan (raznatovic) to go the front line and had free reign in villages ( the majority of his men were thugs from the delige the red star ultras)
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Derby tried to sign two Czechs in 1989, I think it was around February of that year
Robert Maxwell owned Derby at the time
Lubos Kubik was one of them, I can’t remember the other one
It was big news at the time, the BBC 1 o’clock news covered it and all
Anyway it fell through
Kubik ended up playing for Fiorentina around 1991
I wonder who the first iron curtain player to play for a western team was
I’m sure Alexander Zavarov played for Juventus around 1989/90
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