| Title: | Soccer Football Conference |
| Notice: | Don't forget your season ticket..... |
| Moderator: | MOVIES::PLAYFORD |
| Created: | Thu Aug 08 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 608 |
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Back from various travels during the World Cup, and having watched it
on SVT, TF1, A2, FR3, ZDF, BBC, ITV and Eurosport, a few personal
reflections:
- BEST COMMENTATORS - there is no such thing, they are bad everywhere. I
actually liked the French best, probably because I only understood
about 20% of what they said.
- WORST COMMENTATORS - hard to pick, I developed a particular dislike
for Jack Charlton, who has the nerve to complain about defensive
tactics when he himself manages a team that's scored 4 goals in nine
World Cup matches.
- THE COMEBACK - Diego Maradona. Brilliant against Greece and Nigeria.
- THE STUPIDIDITY - Diego Maradona - he's done it again.
- THE PARADOX - Brazil were easily the best and most entertaining team,
yet most of their games (second half against Holland the notable
exception) were rather boring, simply because the other team
concentrated on defending.
- HOW TO MAKE A DIFFICULT THING SIMPLE - Romario. Get the ball, run in
a straight line 40 yards forwards, put the ball in the net with a
toe-poke. A true genius!
- HOW TO MAKE A SIMPLE THING DIFFICULT - The French and English
commentator's attempt to pronounce "Roger Ljung". I laughed every time.
- THE HEAT - well it didn't bother me :-)
- BEST MATCH - Holland - Belgium (Preudhomme's game)
- REFEREEING - Apart from a few over-zealous sendings-off, this World
Cup showed that the best Football is played if the rules (that have
been there all along) are actually applied.
- HEROES - Sweden. Still a young side. Look out England -96!
- VILLAINS - Norway. What a load of rubbish!
- MOST RIDICULOUS COMMENT - Aftenposten (Norwegian Newspaper) after
Norway's fluke win over Mexico: "this surely is the Footballing style
of the future". Well, God Save Us!
- MOST TIRESOME COMMENT - "he really made a meal of that" every time
J�rgen Klinsmann was clearly fouled.
- LEAST MISSED - the English.
- MOST OVERRATED PLAYER - Hristo "give us a smile" Stoichkov.
Absolutely useless to have on your team unless you're winning (in which
case you don't need him anyway)
- THE SELECTIVE MEDIA - British press reported Tommy Svensson to have
said that the 3rd place play-off should be scrapped. In the Swedish
press it was our most important game ever.
- THE RELIEF - when Brazil scored in the semi-final against Sweden.
We were so out-classed I didn't want the pain to continue into
extra-time.
- THE ANTI-CLIMAX - the Final
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| 427.1 | SUBURB::ABSOLOMT | Let them eat fish | Thu Jul 28 1994 12:49 | 12 | |
> - LEAST MISSED - The English
Surely not, apart from Argentina who else was there that the whole
footballing world could unite in their dislike for? Everybody either
hates the country OR they hate the footballing style.
Sadly missed I'd say.
Tony
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| 427.2 | Forgot this, Tony | EVTDD1::LAFONTAINE | A flame about this high | Thu Jul 28 1994 13:25 | 5 |
>> Everybody either hates the country OR they hate the footballing style.
Not forgetting the people who hate both the country AND the style
===
8-)
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| 427.3 | Anafewmore... | PAVONE::TURNER | Thu Jul 28 1994 13:39 | 29 | |
re: .0
What about:
- MOST ANNOYING ANTICS AFTER SCORING A GOAL - Sweden's Kenneth
Andersson jogs to the nearest touchline/corner flag, comes to a sudden
halt and then looks at his hands, one after the other, like he's only
just noticed that they're attached to the ends of his arms.
- LEAST CONVINCING (BUT MOST SUCCESSFUL) ATTEMPT TO CON THE REF - The
Nigerian who fell to the ground poleaxed against Italy after Zola's "foul".
Pity that a)he was clutching the wrong leg, b)he got up again
immediately the ref got the red card out, and c)he was congratulated by
at least 2 teammates for this stunning piece of amateur dramatics.
(Consolation prize goes to Roger Ljung [pronounced "Ly�ejo�jy�ni�ng"] for
his little bit of death feigning to get Popescu booked in the
Sweden-Romania semi-final.)
>- MOST TIRESOME COMMENT - "he really made a meal of that" every time
>J�rgen Klinsmann was clearly fouled.
Tell you what, I was watching one of Germany's matches (I forget which)
and the phone rang. I got up to answer it, brushed against the TV
set...and Klinsmann fell over!! (Sorry if this loses something in
translation - I originally heard it in Italian...)
Dom
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| 427.4 | BEST MATCH? | PIECES::63597::oneills | seachain na neantoga | Fri Jul 29 1994 14:34 | 20 |
- BEST MATCH - Norway Vs Ireland
- MOST MISSED England & Gazza ...
- BEST advert for Gillette ...Roy Keane
- THIRSTIEST TEAM ... Ireland
- SADDEST MOMENT Diego's suspension (maybe he should take up American
football)
- BIGGEST BORE Trevor Brooking
- BEST "ANALYST" Gorra be Big Ron
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| 427.5 | my thoughts.... | IRNBRU::HOWARD | June18-94, the Italian Job | Mon Aug 01 1994 15:48 | 31 |
- BEST COMMENTATORS - I heard 4, the English, the Irish, EuroSport and I
watched the final on Greek TV. The Irish were probably the best ones that
I heard, (if only because they didn't mention 1966).
- WORST COMMENTATORS - Easy. It has to be Brian `Growler' Moore and Big
Ron Atkinson on ITV. The BBC's Trevor Brooking has to have the world's
most boring voice....
- BEST MATCH - Argentina 2 v 3 Romania
- REFEREEING - Some good, some bad and some really bad. It was nice to
see video evidence being used to punish violent play. It would have been
nicer to see some of the obvious mis-carriages of justice, (Zola etc.),
being corrected by video. The rules about carrying injured players from
the field is a good new rule and should stay, in my opinion....
- HEROES - Bulgaria, Brazil, Houghton,(v Italy), Preudhomme,(v Holland)
- VILLAINS - The Brazilian and the Italian banned for violent use of the
elbow, and Maradona of course
- MOST MISSED - probably the French
- LEAST MISSED - football hooligans of all countries
- MOST OVERRATED PLAYER - can't think of one
- MOST UNDERRATED PLAYER - Letchkov, Bulgaria. Better than Wilkins at his
very best, in my humble opinion....
Ray....
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| 427.6 | CHEFS::HARRISR | Mon Aug 01 1994 15:55 | 4 | ||
Most Overrated player - that columbian with the BIG hair. Valderama or
something. What a waste of space.
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| 427.7 | GLADYS::CRAVEN | When you buy a Big Mac you get a bag | Tue Aug 02 1994 09:31 | 4 | |
re .2, Dom,
what the Swede was doing was signalling a goal like the umpires do in
Australian Rules Football. You may get it on a pay-TV channel in Europe
somewhere....Ica, Sydney.
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| 427.8 | At last. | BCFI02::SCHOTT | Mickey Mouse is a rat | Tue Aug 02 1994 09:49 | 6 |
Finally someone figured out what Andersson did.
Good of you to figure it out.
Hermann
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