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  1. arabian_ian

    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Did you realise it was his birthday today.
    80 years old.
    Happy birthday big man.
    My memories of you and your 1970 World Cup winning side will remain with me forever.
    Total football.
     
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    Here we are then, the great man in action, for nostalgia's sake:

     
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    The best international team I ever saw.
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    I remember watching that final Brazil v Italy and saying to myself
    This is just like watching Barnsley
     
    arabian_ian, Oct 23, 2020
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    lol mate, that would be funny but you didn't even know Barnsley existed in 1970 :);)
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Well actually I did along with every other team in the league.
    At 14 years old and reading the Goal and Shoot magazines I did have football knowledge of many teams.
     
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    I know mate, I'm just trying to make a funny lol :)
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    That final was the first game I saw on a colour tv. My auntie had just got one so we all piled along to watch the World Cup final.
     
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    Yes, for one beautiful and all too brief moment, it really was like watching Barnsley.
    Seriously, thanks for pointing this out. there was a real joy to it all. The cold chill when I watch the England game with them though is that it would have been Tommy Taylor's swansong and I'd have fancied him to score with the pressure we had and got a least a draw. BTW for some bizarre reason whenever I talk to a Scotsman about international football, I feel compelled to say as a kid I cheered Gemill's goal in 1978 and dont get why (we) are supposed to like Ireland and wales and NI but not Scotland in recent years
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Maybe this is why Pele was *****
    Image1603485532.129258.jpg
     
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    F-ing funny as. Takes me back to a certain time & a certain girlfriend this clip. She was a Burnley supporter & we were the bigger team at the time, How things change.
     
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    Criminal how he was kicked out of the 1966 World Cup. Some of those tackles from 1970 were a bit naughty also.

    Personal taste but much prefer him to Maradona or Messi.

    Not quite as good as Ronnie, though.
     
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    But Maradona single handedly won the World Cup for Argentina
     
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    Remember it well but also remember how in interviews and at the end of games he always came across as a good Sportsman and a Gentleman...
    Happy birthday to one of the best..
     
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    For me, the best footballer of all time. He could do everything.
     
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    I wasn’t born in 70 but I’ve seen the videos and they looked excellent, pele was something else. The 1st World Cup I recall was 82, loved watching that Brazilian team, For me, best team never to have won the World Cup.
     
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    Saw what you did there Ian :).

    Ouch.
     
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    Absolutely 100% correct sir! As I am an only a wee whipper snapper, I've only seen video footage of him but imho there has been no-one to match this brilliance in the last 50 years.
     
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