World Cup
2002. The ‘underdog’ World Cup ignites one fan’s passion for the game…
Read MoreThe “Ticker tape” final of the 1978 World Cup. Mario Kempes scoring the third goal for Argentina to win 3-1. Classic game and my first world cup memory. I was 8…
Read MoreThe Brazil team at the 1970 World Cup provide another great football memory…
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Even battle-hardened football journalists are transformed into autograph-hunting fans in the presence of greatness, and a scrawled signature on a shorthand notebook by Diego Maradona is proof of it…
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A 20-year-old Scot sits with his head in his hands and the foreknowledge that beating Zaire by only two goals will not be enough at the 1974 World Cup. But it is the three-month trans-continental hitch-hiking adventure that got him there that remains with Alan Campbell…
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A young Graham Hunter takes on the world at Spain ’82. Like a footballing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, except with slightly more debauchery…
Read MoreThe summer of 1982. Great football teams compete for the World Cup, and one 11-year-old experiences a state of footballing nirvana he will spend a lifetime in search of, all the while wearing his lucky Naranjito belt…
Read MoreFor Mark Wilson, the pain of following Scotland has its roots in the summer of 1982, when he learned that sometimes your father really does know best…
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