Ketsbaia Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 USA '94 is the earliest WC I remember. Was only 18 months old at the time of Italia '90. Not enough love for France '98 tbh. Probably my favourite WC to date. Ronaldo going mad, that match vs Argentina, Robbie Earle scoring for Jamaica, Nigeria vs Spain, THAT Bergkamp goal, Lilian Thuram's double, Martin O'Neill chatting to Robbie Williams.....great memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 France 98 was one of our worst WCs to date, distinctly remember Zubizarreta's blunders against Nigeria. And then us romping to an absolute useless 6-1 win against Bulgaria. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the knockout phase a lot, the final took place at the same time of a music fest I was attending to, and they set up a giant screen to watch it. Remember the crowd whispering about the Ronaldo incident, not knowing for sure if it was a rumor or for real.. And the final itself was an absolute classic as long as you weren't Brazilian. Bergkamp's goal against Argentina (), the time when we thought Owen would be a superstar... wasn't Beckham red carded there too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 USA '94 is the earliest WC I remember. Was only 18 months old at the time of Italia '90. Not enough love for France '98 tbh. Probably my favourite WC to date. 5 and a half-years old and you still remember? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 How can anyone also forget Jim Leighton with his moisturised eyebrows have a horror show against lowly Morocco too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 To be frank, I only have "consistent" memories of football (aka, how a full season/tournament went rather than flashes or single games) until I was around 10. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 USA '94 is the earliest WC I remember. Was only 18 months old at the time of Italia '90. Not enough love for France '98 tbh. Probably my favourite WC to date. 5 and a half-years old and you still remember? Aye. Not saying I remember every game, every player but I remember sitting with my dad and watching the odd game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Bam Bam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I remember getting behind Italy in USA 94. It was the combination of Baggio, Albertini and Maldini. Great team. Remember Zola's red card? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Having grown up in a household where my parents had never liked football, I can only remember the '94 final. I was lying ill on the sofa, there was an aerial shot of the stadium before the match and thats about it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Bam Bam same game Baggio scored his pen? EDIT: Nar it wasn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 http://cdn.worldcupblog.org/www.worldcupblog.org/files/2010/05/1109-232903-gicahagi12.jpg BAZINGA. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Romania players all coming out with the same bleached haircut in WC98. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 http://cdn.worldcupblog.org/www.worldcupblog.org/files/2010/05/1109-232903-gicahagi12.jpg BAZINGA. Definitely a cross. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I remember getting behind Italy in USA 94. It was the combination of Baggio, Albertini and Maldini. Great team. Remember Zola's red card? I remember me and my friends (we were 16 ) retaliating against the local Italian restaurant after the Tassotti elbowing incident. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Having grown up in a household where my parents had never liked football, I can only remember the '94 final. I was lying ill on the sofa, there was an aerial shot of the stadium before the match and thats about it The game was shit, that's probably the best memory you could have from it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 All I remember are the penalty misses It's all I remember, I was around 6, remember lying on my front in the living room watching it with my Grandad Also remember when Gazza was back over here my next door neighbour taking the piss out of his crying when he eventually showed his face (he used to visit them quite regular) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 This is quite a good thread idea, memories of past tournaments etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 The time I spent on this: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I won the thing with Costa Rica Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Some of my earliest memories of football are from the '98 World Cup. I was absolutely football mad by that point though (aged 7), so I must have been concious of the game, but I think I'd seen next to nothing of live footy. Bar the odd cup game, probably. I can remember '98 vividly tbh. First game I watched was Brazil vs Scotland when I got in from school. Think England had beaten Tunisia earlier in the afternoon; that was the only game I didn't see. Can remember being in hysterics at Valderrama's hair in our next match against Colombia. Can remember me Dad and I harping on and on during the Romania game to get Owen on. It was so exciting though. First proper feast of football I ever took in. I even had that book where you had to collect all the silver coins with the players' faces on. Had every one, down to the last Andy Hinchcliffe. I've still got that book somewhere, I think. Oh, and Jean-Michel Jarre on ITV's opening and closing credits. Yeah, I fucking loved WC'98. Was the first computer game I saved up to buy, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Fuck Jarre. Faure's Pavane on the BBC was where it was at. Remember watching the first half of the Tunisia game in our French room at middle school at lunchtime on one of them huge wheel in TVs with around 50 other people. Carnage when Shearer scored. Weren't allowed to watch the 2nd half because we had PE and the teacher said if not everyone wants to watch no-one can. Cue a couple of dykes putting their hands up and us all doing fucking gymnastics like a gaggle of knackers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Fuck you, more like. (Yessss. ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 '98 first tournament I can recall the majority of the games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Don't remember 94 world cup at all. Euro 96 was my 1st proper tournament to follow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Some of my earliest memories of football are from the '98 World Cup. I was absolutely football mad by that point though (aged 7), so I must have been concious of the game, but I think I'd seen next to nothing of live footy. Bar the odd cup game, probably. I can remember '98 vividly tbh. First game I watched was Brazil vs Scotland when I got in from school. Think England had beaten Tunisia earlier in the afternoon; that was the only game I didn't see. Can remember being in hysterics at Valderrama's hair in our next match against Colombia. Can remember me Dad and I harping on and on during the Romania game to get Owen on. It was so exciting though. First proper feast of football I ever took in. I even had that book where you had to collect all the silver coins with the players' faces on. Had every one, down to the last Andy Hinchcliffe. I've still got that book somewhere, I think. Oh, and Jean-Michel Jarre on ITV's opening and closing credits. Yeah, I f***ing loved WC'98. Was the first computer game I saved up to buy, too. I vaguely (was only 6 years) remember the 96 Olympics simply because we won the football and there were massive celebrations, but 1998 is my first coherent memory of the sport. Such a wonderful tournament. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47956000/jpg/_47956191_1998_oliseh_getty512.jpg Oliseh against Spain is probably still my favourite football moment. I naively thought we were actually going to win it after our group stage performance. There wasn't any television in my home, so I didn't actually get to see many of the games aside from the Nigeria games and the big knockout matches, but I still followed it very closely. I supported Brazil and Ronaldo after Denmark beat us and was in a bad mood for a month when France beat them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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