Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
Don't back Brazil to win the World Cup... I've got them in the office sweepstake.
The Football.....
- Thread starter Spartak
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RedRider
Pulling through
- Location
- Location Embrocation
I have those failings all the time. I clearly remember Kevin Sheedy playing in red in a mini-derby but looking back at the records it never happened.
Here's a good montage btw, Southall was brilliant at watching an attacker's body language, not committing himself in one on one's and of course his incredible reactions...
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Spartak
Powered by M&M's
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- Bristolian
Who would be interested in a sweepstake of the 32 nations competing ( for the winner I will donate & post a 'new' Cycling Plus buff - it was a free gift with the magazine a few years ago & I've never used it )
So all I need is 32 names before Thursday & I'll perform the draw ( or should I say my two daughters will draw the teams )
Please see seperate thread to register interest
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
They did look a bit pish, but you always have to caveat a friendly as follows: 34 players vainly trying to impress and avoid injury.
Smokin Joe
Squire
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
I think us and the other home nations are the only countries to take friendlies seriously, to everyone else they're just a way of keeping match fit and earning money.
accountantpete
OAP
Crikey - Utd's wage bill is going to be around £200m a year at this rate.
http://www.goal.com/en-za/news/4655...w-agrees-160000-a-week-manchester-united-deal
http://www.goal.com/en-za/news/4655...w-agrees-160000-a-week-manchester-united-deal
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
1998 world cup. I was in a supermarket in East Kilbride to pick up some beers for me, a Dutchman, a German and some Americans who were working up there at the time and wanted to see a big game that night. The supermarket had a promotion on where the lucky winner could win 'all 31 shirts' of the finalists. I kid you not, a replica shirt of EVERY* country was hoisted high above the isles and you could win them all. All 31 of them.
BTW, I laughed my Van Der Kockoff at the childishness of this Scottish supermarket (Tesco)'s strategy of keeping the locals on side and I always wondered if this was being carried out in other supermarkets in that fair nation.
* 1 shirt had mysteriously failed to make the requisite line up. Can anyone hazard a guess as to which nation it was that wasn't represented?
BTW, I laughed my Van Der Kockoff at the childishness of this Scottish supermarket (Tesco)'s strategy of keeping the locals on side and I always wondered if this was being carried out in other supermarkets in that fair nation.
* 1 shirt had mysteriously failed to make the requisite line up. Can anyone hazard a guess as to which nation it was that wasn't represented?
cd365
Guru
- Location
- Coventry, uk
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
'98 was the last tournament we played in. I will forever remember Tam Boyd's own goal against Brazil. We'd been holding our own until the 75th minute and looked set for a deserved draw. Cafu fires a howitzer which Leighton saves only to bounce of Boyd's shoulder and into the net.
That was the second time in my young life I'd felt devastated watching a game of football, the first being Gazza's unbelievable goal at Euro '96. To this day that remains one of my favourite yet most hated goals.
That was the second time in my young life I'd felt devastated watching a game of football, the first being Gazza's unbelievable goal at Euro '96. To this day that remains one of my favourite yet most hated goals.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
I was watching a BBC4 documentary about previous World Cups and they had a black and white clip of some Scottish fans moaning about something . The chap doing the voice-over had the usual Pathe News clipped accent, but said something like "there go Scottish fans, they're only level headed because they have a chip on each shoulder!"
For the record, I like it when the Scots and Irish get to the World Cup, it adds to the general buzz, it always seems much flatter when only England qualify.
cd365
Guru
- Location
- Coventry, uk
If Scotland got there and England didn't I would support Scotland, how many Scots can say the same?
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
That's exactly what the Scots hate. They're always willing England to lose and they feel patronised and insignificant when we don't respond in kind.
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
I'm not sure 'support' is the right word to be honest since for me that implies financial as well as emotional investment. Like club football, I want to see my mates teams do well so that they're happy and I'll watch England games with them. Wouldn't go further than that though.
Well I have another memory of that World Cup concerning Scotland. I was staying in an hotel in the Highlands on the night the draw was being made for that year's finals. I went down to the bar to watch the draw live. The first team out, Scotland. The next team out would be the first team Scotland would play. The excited buzz about their being first name out was very quickly replaced with a moan akin to that exhibited by a patient in a hospital being given dire news when the next team out was....Brazil! As the only Englishman in the bar, I had no hesitation to laugh heartily!
