First World Cup you remember watching?
Discussion
Mexico 1970 for me. Watching 'Good morning Mexico' at 8am with Frank Bough ... Seeing the Brazil team then was great (I was 8) and the semi between italy and Germany was fantastic.
Best one since? There's been a few - 1978 was great with the ticker tape and Mario Kempes and David Coleman's commentary "Kempes ... 2-0". Bring him back I say. John Motson is crap nowadays - he's lost it big time.
Anyway 1982 was even better - SPain, nice weather, I'd just left college so nothing to do - the Brazil team were fantastic, Zico, Eder, Falcao, Socrates etc but lost 3-2 to an opportunistic Italian team who exposed Brazil's fragility at the back and over confidence. Paolo Rossi (returning from a match-fixing ban) scored a hat-trick to knock them out.
1990 - well too painful to recall really.
Looking foward to this year's one and the first day was superb really - lot of goals already.
Best one since? There's been a few - 1978 was great with the ticker tape and Mario Kempes and David Coleman's commentary "Kempes ... 2-0". Bring him back I say. John Motson is crap nowadays - he's lost it big time.
Anyway 1982 was even better - SPain, nice weather, I'd just left college so nothing to do - the Brazil team were fantastic, Zico, Eder, Falcao, Socrates etc but lost 3-2 to an opportunistic Italian team who exposed Brazil's fragility at the back and over confidence. Paolo Rossi (returning from a match-fixing ban) scored a hat-trick to knock them out.
1990 - well too painful to recall really.
Looking foward to this year's one and the first day was superb really - lot of goals already.
Edited by MikeyT on Saturday 10th June 02:03
Gazboy said:
I remember Gazza crying in Italia 90 and not much else, and watched a fair bit of USA'94, remember Charlton getting arsey with an official over the heat. Went on holiday with my parents/bro/sis in Devon at a really shit venue and watched all the England group matches there for France 98, I regret to say that was the earliest World cup I really remember. 
Haha. I remeber John Aldridge trying to come on as a sub when the ball wnet out of play. One of the FIFA blokes would not let him on and they were temporarily down to 10 men(?)
Aldridge had the cameras µphones right on top of him, and you could hear all his ranting...
"a a a, yeah
in cheat" along with much pointing and finger wagging 
1966 yup.
Didn't have the fullest impact on me - but I know my Grandad was on top form for days. We watched in the front room big black and white telly in shinny wooden casing had a sort of lid like a bonnet on the top that lifted up with the volume and channel switch inside. Grandma kept coming through with tea and seedy (raspberry)jam on toast. Curtains were drawn and there were no lights on and the screen just lit up the whole room and my Grandad's face just shone in a big chubby smile .. don't know where the rest of the family was !! A bit later me and Grandad went into Darlington to the Odeon and watched it all again in colour !! Then just afer that Alf Ramsay came to Binns in Darlo and me and Grandad went to try to see him - don't think I did though. Of the game I remember 3 things mainly ..the Germans equalising, the 4th Goal and Nobby Stiles dancing and jigging all over the place.
Didn't have the fullest impact on me - but I know my Grandad was on top form for days. We watched in the front room big black and white telly in shinny wooden casing had a sort of lid like a bonnet on the top that lifted up with the volume and channel switch inside. Grandma kept coming through with tea and seedy (raspberry)jam on toast. Curtains were drawn and there were no lights on and the screen just lit up the whole room and my Grandad's face just shone in a big chubby smile .. don't know where the rest of the family was !! A bit later me and Grandad went into Darlington to the Odeon and watched it all again in colour !! Then just afer that Alf Ramsay came to Binns in Darlo and me and Grandad went to try to see him - don't think I did though. Of the game I remember 3 things mainly ..the Germans equalising, the 4th Goal and Nobby Stiles dancing and jigging all over the place.
I really enjoyed the 1982 World Cup - mainly because of Northern Ireland's giant killing antics - beating Spain on their home soiul for instance. That West Germany V Framce game is a classic, even if the outcome was the wrong one.
The World Cup of 1974 is the least impressive in my memory. It seemed to bucket down with rain at every match. I remember one game where they tried to dry the pitch with a helicopter. One game was rain-delayed so long that the TV cameramen spent the time zooming in on airliners on approach to Frankfurt Airport.
The World Cup of 1974 is the least impressive in my memory. It seemed to bucket down with rain at every match. I remember one game where they tried to dry the pitch with a helicopter. One game was rain-delayed so long that the TV cameramen spent the time zooming in on airliners on approach to Frankfurt Airport.
Eric Mc said:
I really enjoyed the 1982 World Cup - mainly because of Northern Ireland's giant killing antics - beating Spain on their home soil for instance.
I remember really getting behind N Ireland for that game,i think Spain threw everything at them on that night but just couldnt find a way through.
It was the same when Eire beat Italy in Germany.
Gazboy said:
I remember Gazza crying in Italia 90 and not much else, and watched a fair bit of USA'94, remember Charlton getting arsey with an official over the heat. Went on holiday with my parents/bro/sis in Devon at a really shit venue and watched all the England group matches there for France 98, I regret to say that was the earliest World cup I really remember.
Yeah me too, I collected all the coins and stuff for Italia '90, and also watched a bit of '94 but in 1998 I was 17 and could get in a pub...
All changed after that
so 1998 is the one I remember... Owen as an 18 year old running rings round absolutely every bitch on the pitch!Spain 1982, I remember Bryan Robson's goal against France which was until recently I think the fastest ever scored. Paolo Rossi's goals against Brazil, Socrates, Zico and the rest. England winning their first group stage and then the silly second group stage (only one team out of three would go on) where we had 2 goaless draws with Spain and Germany and Germany went through to the Semi-finals. Apart from Cameroon who went out early with 3 draws England were the only team other than the eventual winners Italy to not lose a game.
Italia 90 for me. Couldn't really miss it as I still lived in Ireland at the time and it was the first year they qualified, managed by Jack Charlton. It's quite something to see an entire country go on the piss together for a couple of months.
Pat Bonner's penalty shootout save against Romania to go through to the quarter-finals - brilliant moment!
Pat Bonner's penalty shootout save against Romania to go through to the quarter-finals - brilliant moment!
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