The Fifth Redcafe Sheep Draft QF - Gio vs. Tuppet

[Gio]

You mean World Cup debut defeat. One of the greatest moments in football's history after years of isolation because they were far too good to mix up with the rest. The Yanks of all people.

Read Brian Glanville's piece on that game earlier, a couple of belting lines in it:

• "The England World Cup team spurned the rudimentary dressing rooms of the Belo Horizonte stadium and changed in a nearby hotel arriving a few minutes before kick-off"
• "A number of the Americans had stayed up until 2am, dancing and drinking - soft drinks. Several of them asked an English journalist before the match whether he had brought a cribbage board with him, to keep the score."
• "The Americans were faster, fitter and better fighters", said Sir Stanley Rous.'

 

[Gio]

Whether he's facing Luis Monti or fecking Monty Burns, I don't think anyone, anywhere, can hold a candle to this repertoire of eye-of-the-needle final balls.


Some of the interplay with Stoichkov and Romario is just spell-binding.

 

[Gio]

Well drafted @Tuppet and good luck for the rest of it.

 

[Tuppet]

Well drafted @Tuppet and good luck for the rest of it.

Cheers Gio, yours was a great side as usual.