Earliest World Cup memory

Yep , similar for me. I remember seeing a few of the Russia team including Lev Yashin looking through the windows of the old Cowies car showrooms !

 

1958 in Sweden
Can’t remember England
But can remember Brazil and garinshia

 

Gives away people's ages, this thread like. I remember watching the 86 World Cup but only just. Was dazzled by the amazing Denmark shirts! First one I watched every possible minute of was Italia 90. Been hooked ever since. Mind you, wish I'd paid more attention to Mexico 86, it was a better world cup than Italia 90. Theme tune wasn't as good though.

 

Vaguely remember 74 but loved 78 and the ticker tape. Mario Kempes was magical and the Jocks v Holland was edge of your seat football...simply brilliant.

Favourite though, by a mile, was Italia 90...it had everything and we were pretty good then as well.

 

The final was awful I seem to remember

 

82 - first season watching SAFC so and first world cup I was old enough to have memories of (was 6) - it's vague but I remember watching Paolo Rossi thinking "That's what I want to be when I grow up" - I'm a computer programmer and teacher for the NHS FFS!!

 

It was. The 3rd/4th place pay off was against the Italians and a bunch of pissed up Englishmen; far better than the final.

 

Getting home from Junior School and turning the TV on expecting to watch children's programs like Play School. Instead I got Italy V Poland which (I believe) was the opening game of the 1982 World Cup. Started watching it and enjoyed it.

England were really unlucky not to advance further in that tournament

 

Wasn't it Italia 90 that lead to the introduction of the back pass rule because of the negative and cynical football on display? Not from everyone but from a lot of teams.

 

Made my day Vince, I was starting to think I had better give this one a miss, but Sweden 58, was my intro to World Football and all its magic, and they didn't come more magical than that Brazil team, winning the competition for the first time, with Pele making his debut on the World stage at 17, Zito, DiDi and of course the "Little Bird" Garincha, trying hard to master the Bobby Kerr banana shot.

 

Was it Garincha who had one leg shorter than the other which helped with his crosses?

 

Taking photographs of Lev Yashin in action from the Roker End in 66. Can’t remember the opponents but I will have the photos in a box somewhere. What a year!

 

My Dad was at that game with my Granda! Always talked about Lev Yashin as the best keeper he'd ever seen!

 

Yeah, and he also had a deformity of the knees which is supposed to have helped his dribbling.

 

Aye but i hear that he moved in mysterious circles.

 

That rings a bell actually. I didnt realise at the time cos i thought it was great but later on ive heard on numerous ocassions that Italia '90 was a poor world cup, not pleasing on the eye.

 

Oh yeah, I loved it at the time and the back passing didn't bother me, but apparently the powers of the time didn't like it. Somehow the lack of goals must have impeded the flow of the brown envelopes.

 

Would have been Italy or Hungary if memory serves - which it doesn`t always these days!

 

I'm going to sound young here... Owen's goal in 98.

I'd likely have remembered 94 if we'd qualified.

 

Italy were in the group, also N Korea but they played all their games at Ayrsome Park and I think they were group runners up. Not sure of the 4th team, Uruguay?