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Watch this video at your own peril as its content contains footage of an injury so horrific, words really can’t do it any justice. Take a bow Rivaldo for your performance against Turkey during the 2002 World Cup.
The semi-finals of Italia ’90 was England’s biggest match since their 1966 triumph of winning the World Cup and was a night which will be remembered forever in English football with Paul Gascoigne right at the heart of it. Grab your tissues boys and girls…
Sent on during extra time in the second round game against Belgium, David Platt responded by scoring a memorable volley on the turn in the very last minute of extra time – sending England through to the quarter finals.
The infamous battle between Chile and Italy in the home nation’s World Cup of 1962 saw David Coleman describe the match as; “the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game.” Nonetheless, still a classic World Cup moment…
Maradona: genius, villain, madman, folk hero. Acknowledged as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Maradona showed the two extremes of his character in Mexico 86
Sometimes all you have is hope. And that hope is placed in the unproven talent of one young player. And sometimes that young player does something magical. Michael Owen was that young magician
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