Nazis in Space wrote:Aboim wrote:Ok, England must win the World Cup in Moscow. It's time again.
Not gonna happen.
If they reach the final, classified chem weapons will spontaneously appear in the stadium, courtesy ofChechenArabUkrainianMartiana British false-flag operation, and the final will have to be called off.
People survived the lake in Rio, Kevin de Bruyne’s music, and Karl Rappan legacy. They can face a bombastic match.
The Archregimancy wrote:I've been watching the BBC's (remarkably neutral) Christmas 1990 summary of that year's World Cup.
Leaving aside nostalgia for a time when Scotland could win World Cup matches and actually run Brazil close (while still contriving to lose to Costa Rica some 20 years before the Ticos were competitive)...
God, it was an awful World Cup.
There's some considerable nostalgia in England for the last tournament where they stood a genuine chance of doing well, but it was a dire competition, quite possibly the worst World Cup in living memory.
Argentina's tedious and cynical progression to a final it didn't deserve to reach meant that 1990 was the very last time I could bring myself to support Germany in a World Cup final. Only as the lesser of two evils, mind; but if - this being Italy - we're to use Dante as a model, West Germany were merely dallying in Limbo, while Argentina's frozen, twisted, and bitter bodies were deep in the Ninth Circle of Hell, forever clinging to the three-faced Lucifer's hairy shanks.
Brehme's 85th-minute penalty wasn't catharsis for most of us, mind; it merely put all of the neutrals out of their conflicted misery.
I should but I won't. Argentina launched Maradona on a special place, so it's fine for now.
Anyhow, I remember that 90's Cups usually had a group with Brazil, Scotland and a Scandinavian nation, almost always Sweden. I forgot the games but not the flags in wallcharts.