| World Cup exits 17:26 - Jul 16 with 1034 views | vapour_trail |
My boy was asking about them. This was the third he’ll remember.
I recall 82. A strange exit given the format, unbeaten. 86, unique on every level. 90, heartbreaking. 94, LOL. 98, so frustrating, that goal should have stood. 02, really tough to take but they were better than us. 06, really tough to take and we were better than them. 10, meh. 14, same. 18, actually proud and surprised we got that far. 22, see 06 but worse.
This time. More than any other time. It’s the worst one for me given what was there for taking and the manner in which we shrunk after taking the lead.
Load of old boIIocks. |  |
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| World Cup exits on 18:17 - Jul 16 | DropCliffsNotBombs |
98 was the one that really stung and still does for me.
Likely a perfect combo of being 13 and recently moved to suffolk, Beckham red, batistuta nodding as KMN issued the red, sol's disallowed header, the pain of the penalties, that argie keeper's haircut...all just horrible. |  | | |
| World Cup exits on 18:20 - Jul 16 | ITFC_Forever |
| World Cup exits on 18:17 - Jul 16 by DropCliffsNotBombs |
98 was the one that really stung and still does for me.
Likely a perfect combo of being 13 and recently moved to suffolk, Beckham red, batistuta nodding as KMN issued the red, sol's disallowed header, the pain of the penalties, that argie keeper's haircut...all just horrible. |
Didn’t the Argentina keeper from 1998 stop playing fairly soon after as he thought the end of the world was coming?
Not sure what he did after it didn’t. |  |
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| World Cup exits on 18:26 - Jul 16 | DropCliffsNotBombs |
| World Cup exits on 18:20 - Jul 16 by ITFC_Forever |
Didn’t the Argentina keeper from 1998 stop playing fairly soon after as he thought the end of the world was coming?
Not sure what he did after it didn’t. |
That has taken me down an interesting little hole. Essentially he's now the AEK Athens GK coach but this is an interesting bio.
His retirement wasn’t down to his age catching up with him, or a severe injury. No, Roa firmly believed that the new millennium would spell the end of humanity, and he fled to an isolated retreat in Argentina’s Córdoba province to spend his last year on this earth becoming at one with God. Roa vanished, and without a telephone couldn’t be contacted by his club or agent. He remarked at the time: “In the world, there is war, hunger, plague, much poverty, floods. I can assure you that those people who don’t have a spiritual connection with God and the type of life that he wants will be in trouble.”
Roa’s idea was to “prepare for the end of the world, in a place where He will provide everything we need”.
Roa would pull on a pair of gloves once again, as the predicted apocalypse never came and the millennium passed without incident. His brief hiatus from the game ended his international career, although he returned to club football with Mallorca in 2000. Roa said his faith was unaltered despite the fact that the world had not ended, stating that the break had in fact done him good and reinvigorated his appetite for football. [Post edited 16 Jul 18:26]
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| World Cup exits on 18:44 - Jul 16 | positivity |
1990 by far the worst for me.
gazza agonisingly close to winning it, penalties, the end of bobby etc etc etc
the manner of the defeat was chastening yesterday, but i had no real belief that we'd beat spain even if we'd held out. |  |
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| World Cup exits on 19:03 - Jul 16 | Swansea_Blue |
| World Cup exits on 18:44 - Jul 16 by positivity |
1990 by far the worst for me.
gazza agonisingly close to winning it, penalties, the end of bobby etc etc etc
the manner of the defeat was chastening yesterday, but i had no real belief that we'd beat spain even if we'd held out. |
At least we had a go in some of those other exits. They were heroic failures rather than the embarrassment we saw last night. I may be over reacting, but I thought that was one of the worst capitulations I’ve seen at the top of the international level. |  |
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| World Cup exits on 19:14 - Jul 16 | MattinLondon |
| World Cup exits on 19:03 - Jul 16 by Swansea_Blue |
At least we had a go in some of those other exits. They were heroic failures rather than the embarrassment we saw last night. I may be over reacting, but I thought that was one of the worst capitulations I’ve seen at the top of the international level. |
I’m not sure that the England team will have much faith in TT - that could well be completely over the top but his selections and tactics were strange. |  | | |
| World Cup exits on 20:20 - Jul 16 | Leaky |
Well e very team in any completion will make an exit except the team that wins it. We are 1 of 47 that got beat. |  | | |
| World Cup exits on 20:24 - Jul 16 | Perublue |
I hated 2010 .. I’d gotten used to England going out heroically or unfairly… that campaign was just downright embarrassing and pathetic. [Post edited 16 Jul 20:25]
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| World Cup exits on 20:35 - Jul 16 | LeoMuff |
| World Cup exits on 18:17 - Jul 16 by DropCliffsNotBombs |
98 was the one that really stung and still does for me.
Likely a perfect combo of being 13 and recently moved to suffolk, Beckham red, batistuta nodding as KMN issued the red, sol's disallowed header, the pain of the penalties, that argie keeper's haircut...all just horrible. |
What a ridiculous and criminal decision that Beckham red was, Simeone absolutely clattered him.
I think the disallowed goal was the right decision, Battys first ever penalty in his life wasn’t a good one though. |  |
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| World Cup exits on 20:38 - Jul 16 | Ftnfwest |
1990 is the only one that beats this for me. But then it’s gazza, it’s butcher and of course sir bob so the connection will always be there. With this one I can accept being beaten by anyone but not them. |  | | |
| World Cup exits on 22:18 - Jul 16 | Illinoisblue |
1990 was a kick in the nuts but it was mildly exciting to see town center shop windows getting smashed after the game.
Not condoning it, obviously. But the post match cacophony of sirens and breaking glass was quite something to behold as an 18-year-old.
Watched the semi in Trader Jacks. |  |
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