What's your earliest world cup memory..

[Zippity]

Whenever I think of the England football team, I increasingly associate them with the knobhead fans and the growing North/South divide. I'm obviously not saying all 'our' fans are like that but there's a decent number. Do the Scots, the Irish or the Welsh carry on like that? And I agree, Ash-it feels like a southern team rather than the national team and we get so little consideration from 'the South' that I identify as being Geordie far, far more than I identify as being English.

[bix01]

Bryan Robson scorning at the start of the match in the Spain 82 World Cup against France I think we won 3-1
I was 10 year old watching the game on holiday in Majorca in a dusty bar on a small portable tv with my dad and a dozen or so English.
I was exited and the goal coming so near the start of the game was amazing

I remember that back in 82 and also keegan (my childhood England hero) and Trevor Brooking coming on as subs versus Spain I think when we needed to score to go through but they couldn't quite manage it.

[ronandtet]

66 -ironic we had my german cousin staying with us
ironic as well - he dashed down to blackett street post office and got a limited edition stamp - a world cup stamp overstamped with england winners strange what you remember

[ex_pat_magpie]

I was still at school when England took part in the 1950 event, the first one we had ever entered and would you believe we went out to the U.S.A. 1-0.

Us lads at school were taking pocket money bets pre holidays about how many we would score, most of us expecting double figures.


GK Bert Williams
RB Alf Ramsey
LB John Aston
CH Billy Wright (c)
MF Laurie Hughes
MF Jimmy Dickinson
FW Wilf Mannion
FW Tom Finney
FW Jimmy Mullen
FW Stan Mortensen
FW Roy Bentley
The two listed as mid field were originally left half back and right half back ( the term midfielder wasn't used those days)
Manager:
Walter Winterbottom

And that's a strong and as good an England team as we have ever had.

[ex_pat_magpie]

Whenever I think of the England football team, I increasingly associate them with the knobhead fans and the growing North/South divide. I'm obviously not saying all 'our' fans are like that but there's a decent number. Do the Scots, the Irish or the Welsh carry on like that? And I agree, Ash-it feels like a southern team rather than the national team and we get so little consideration from 'the South' that I identify as being Geordie far, far more than I identify as being English.

There was a good mix of north/south in the 1950 team above Zip but not so much football politics those days. Except it was a selection committee who chose the team for quite a number of years.

[sherwoodmag]

I was still at school when England took part in the 1950 event, the first one we had ever entered and would you believe we went out to the U.S.A. 1-0.

Us lads at school were taking pocket money bets pre holidays about how many we would score, most of us expecting double figures.


GK Bert Williams
RB Alf Ramsey
LB John Aston
CH Billy Wright (c)
MF Laurie Hughes
MF Jimmy Dickinson
FW Wilf Mannion
FW Tom Finney
FW Jimmy Mullen
FW Stan Mortensen
FW Roy Bentley
The two listed as mid field were originally left half back and right half back ( the term midfielder wasn't used those days)
Manager:
Walter Winterbottom

And that's a strong and as good an England team as we have ever had.

I think the USA goalscorer was Scots born and played for Third Division Bury.Another one for Wolfs I mean Ghosts conspiracy theories.

[ex_pat_magpie]

i think the usa goalscorer was scots born and played for third division bury.another one for wolfs i mean ghosts conspiracy theories.

I wonder what the great players of the time would think of that

xdxdxd

[pboromag]

I hardly watch the worl cup
I find watching to many games in such a short time just gets boring
usually watch from quarter finals onwards

but the 1998 final france beating brazil was a good game

[dagenhamJohn]

evening all you Toons people..
as a guest on your most prominant of Footy boards i would like to select the West Ham United V Germany world Cup 1966,
Captain Sir Bobby Moore, Hattrick Sir Geoff Hurst,( still a fete never achieved since in a final), and of course the 4th goal, Martin peters,
thats tradition..
take care all you Norverners,
John.

[sherwoodmag]

evening all you Toons people..
as a guest on your most prominant of Footy boards i would like to select the West Ham United V Germany world Cup 1966,
Captain Sir Bobby Moore, Hattrick Sir Geoff Hurst,( still a fete never achieved since in a final), and of course the 4th goal, Martin peters,
thats tradition..
take care all you Norverners,
John.

All true but Northumberland lad Bobby Charlton playing deep stopped Beckenbaur getting forward from his sweeper position.He had destroyed a few teams on the way to the final.I was in my twentieth year and remember a lot of the games vividly.