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France v Brazil 1986 World Cup Quarter-Final

Le Match du Siècle - The Match of the Century

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Le Match du Siècle

Le Match du Siècle - The Match of the Century The Match the World Stopped For: France vs Brazil, 1986, and the Night When Footba...
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booney52 said:
What a great article about a fantastic match
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I'll admit that I'm not what you might call a huge follower of international football but I've watched every World Cup finals since 1978.....

1986 sticks in the mind, probably more than all the others combined.

It was an incredible tournament....
 
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My old man was always harping on about Mexico 1970....

Even though he watched most of it on a black and white telly in a pub in rural Ireland....

He said that after that World Cup everything else he watched football-wise felt secondary....

I remember after the.1986 World Cup the esteemed English journalist Brian Glanville wrote in his newspaper column that every World Cup from now on should be played in Mexico....

He said it was the greatest footballing country in the world for the game’s artistry and spontaneity to shine....or words to that effect!!

He was quite a wordsmith ol' Brian!
 
After 2006 World Cups lost their shine for me...

2010 was horrendously bad, 2014 wasn't happening either...

2018 was better and 2022 was a slightly peculiar affair....
 
Football us life said:
After 2006 World Cups lost their shine for me...

2010 was horrendously bad, 2014 wasn't happening either...

2018 was better and 2022 was a slightly peculiar affair....
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But does football have to be entertaining? For me it's a fight to win and if you have to win ugly you take it. If you want beauty watch the ballet my two cents
 
melbcityguy said:
But does football have to be entertaining? For me it's a fight to win and if you have to win ugly you take it. If you want beauty watch the ballet my two cents
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You're exactly right.

If I'm watching Middlesbrough grind out a 1-0 away win at Stoke on a wet tuesday night on the 1990s like beIn Sports app.... I'm over the fucken moon....

If I'm watching England grind out 1-0 win against Poland in a WC knock-out game on SBS HD I'm over the fucken moon.

When it's my team all I care about is winning the game. Long ball, pressing, tiki taki, ugly.....I'm not at all bothered, just as long as I'm winning...and I don't care what the broadcast quality is like either....

If I'm watching football as a neutral say from La Liga, the EPL or Ligue Un or a neutral international game, I just want to see a nice game ..

Because I don't overly care about who the winner is.

That's why I used to quite like watching Postecoglou’s teams. Win, lose or draw he's setting his team up to play a nice game.....

And I want on a decent streaming quality service too!!

Not the old fashioned beIN Aus/Pacific

It's that age old argument about playing sexy football or ugly football of course and nobody is right!
 


18 million pounds a year loss for oxford

Football clubs can run massive losses year on year and be sustainable because there is an infinite line of owners willing to blow money
 
Football us life said:
After 2006 World Cups lost their shine for me...

2010 was horrendously bad, 2014 wasn't happening either...

2018 was better and 2022 was a slightly peculiar affair....
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I enjoyed every tournament in a footballing sense but Germany was the last to be held in a place that didn't have some social or political issue and I say that even with the bribes they used to get the tournament.

Germany was fun, geographically smaller, infrastructure worked, plenty of hospitality.

South Africa had vast distances, tourist risks and many fans were bussed around. Brazil had similar issues but people wouldn't go to the dangerous areas. A bit harder to reach too.

Russia was vast but did their best with the railway and the European part was reasonably visitable but this is where the media used it to go on about politics the whole time.

Qatar was the same in a political sense and the media amazingly stopped talking about it once the tournament was over so did they even really care about worker's rights?
 
JS96 said:
I enjoyed every tournament in a footballing sense but Germany was the last to be held in a place that didn't have some social or political issue and I say that even with the bribes they used to get the tournament.

Germany was fun, geographically smaller, infrastructure worked, plenty of hospitality.

South Africa had vast distances, tourist risks and many fans were bussed around. Brazil had similar issues but people wouldn't go to the dangerous areas. A bit harder to reach too.

Russia was vast but did their best with the railway and the European part was reasonably visitable but this is where the media used it to go on about politics the whole time.

Qatar was the same in a political sense and the media amazingly stopped talking about it once the tournament was over so did they even really care about worker's rights?
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Honestly Japan/Korea looked like so much fun but might be nostalgia. I'd love either of them to host again
 
Fillowing on froolm the article I did on G & G about the ups and downs of football broadcasting on tv....

The trails and tribulations of the French Football TV market....

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How French Football Lost the Remote Control

From Billion-Euro Dreams to DIY Broadcasting: The Long Fall and Reinvention of Ligue 1 A story of Spanish broadcasters and empty...
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melbcityguy said:
But does football have to be entertaining? For me it's a fight to win and if you have to win ugly you take it. If you want beauty watch the ballet my two cents
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Don't come down to lakeside with that sort of mentality... We want to win above all, ugly if we have too, but ALSO when we do win, its a "shame we couldn't score nicer goals", hahahahah a true fan is never happy.
 
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