Posts Tagged ‘World Cup classics’
Six alternative great World Cup goals
Read about them here. 1) Alcides Ghiggia (URUGUAY v Brazil 1950) 2) Ivor Allchurch (WALES v Hungary 1958) 3) Lothar Emmerich (WEST GERMANY v Spain 1966) 4) Janos Farkas (HUNGARY v Brazil 1966) 5) Patrick Kluivert (NETHERLANDS v Argentina 1998) 6) Dario Rodríguez (URUGUAY v Denmark 2002)
World Cup classics: France 1 – 1 Brazil (Mexico 1986)
The most memorable quarter-final match of one of my favourite World Cups saw the clash of the two great teams of the tournament. Thankfully, the FIFA idiots had started considering European viewers by this point of the tournament and had stopped scheduling middle of the night fixtures, hence the 13-year-old me actually getting to watch this one on [...]
World Cup classics: Romania 3 – 2 Argentina (USA 1994)
It seems strange now to think that Colombia went to USA '94 as one of the favourites to win the tournament, only to fall at the first hurdle after humbling Group A defeats against Romania and the United States, 3-1 and 2-1 respectively. The favourites tag came largely due to a 5-0 mauling of Argentina on 5th September 1993 in Argentina's back [...]
