Jonathon Wilson ruins Italia 90

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

http://www.theguardian.com/football...d-cup-italia-1990-gary-lineker-diego-maradona

*Shakes fist*

 

[neil999]

true tho is it not, thats the thing with knock out tournaments...

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

He's only saying what we hide at the back of our minds I guess

Articles like this just kill the magic sometimes I think

 

[rascal]

He's absolutely spot on. Never got the fascination with England in that tournament tbh. The best thing to come out of it was this:

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He's right though, isn't he? A last minute winner against Belgium, a couple of penalties against Cameroon. In the semi-final, the rub of the green could easily have gone our way. Luck does play a big part in these things.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I think England were just fine in that tournament

There was always a chance they could win every match, even when they didn't

 

[Little Ralphy]

You could say that about any game of football. What a negative article.

 

[Walken]

He's right though, isn't he? A last minute winner against Belgium, a couple of penalties against Cameroon. In the semi-final, the rub of the green could easily have gone our way. Luck does play a big part in these things.

yep spot on for me, we scraped our way through, did very well against a good german side mind, but its talk about like we were boss throughout the tournament, having said that if Robson wasn't obsessed with that lead booted 40 year old shilton who knows

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

yep spot on for me, we scraped our way through, did very well against a good german side mind, but its talk about like we were boss throughout the tournament, having said that if Robson wasn't obsessed with that lead booted 40 year old shilton who knows

That's doing Shilton a massive disservice mate

 

[Little Ralphy]

That's doing Shilton a massive disservice mate

To be fair after the 86 disgrace of being out jumped by a 5'6" bloke, Shilton should never have been anywhere near Italy in 1990. He had his eyes closed FFS!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Shilton almost got every single one of those pens in the semi final and was incredibly unlucky in regards to the deflection for Germany's goal

And who else would have played anyway?

Seamen was still a bairn

 

[Little Ralphy]

Shilton almost got every single one of those pens in the semi final and was incredibly unlucky in regards to the deflection for Germany's goal

And who else would have played anyway?

Seamen was still a bairn

Almost is nothing in a 2 horse race.

 

[flibbyflob]

If your auntie had a dick and all that...

 

[ijjysmith]

He is right.

I watched the 1990 Germany game on Saturday and even Lynham, Venables and Hill at half time were saying we'd been lucky to get there.

 

[Walken]

That's doing Shilton a massive disservice mate

two world cups he knocked england out of, he was very decent, but somewhat overrated for his status in the game, most neutrals even have him above south southall in the list of great keepers, no way maradona gets past big nev in 86 with that ease