Which match from the past 40 years?

[Irwin99]

It's probably not the most sporting match to pick but the 4-2 game at Highbury in 2005 was ridiculously aggressive and intense (and that was before the match had even started). You knew the players really didn't like each other. Made for a great watch though. The quality of the football was fantastic too.

Looking back, it's a shame Ruud didn't play. He really knew how to wind the Arsenal players up

 

[Tomuś]

It was entertaining, but wasn’t quite as epic or intense as the scoreline suggests since Real were never really in any trouble once they scored.

It was a spectacle more than a game. As you said it wasn't tense perhaps for the most part but it was so good in that respect that you could just watch it forever. If you want epic, tense game then perhaps United 4-3 City. So many turnarounds.

 

[pacifictheme]

No game where a team batters another. That 7 1 v roma was great for united fans but yeah.

United 4 city 3
Milan 3 liverpool 3*
The two legs of barca psg from the champions league a couple of years ago was great overall aswell

 

[harms]

Any game with the Brazil side of 1982 is a good choice. A game against Italy if you want more drama.

 

[Stepney73]

Utd wise.

1999 CL final
1999 cup semi(complete with Giggs hairy chest moment)
1977 cup final 2–1.
Barca home 1984.


None Utd


Hate to say it but those Liverpool/Newcastle 4-3s in the mid to late 90s where good games for the neutral.



Loads of others in each category and those where off the top of my head.

 

[The Cat]

Any game with the Brazil side of 1982 is a good choice. A game against Italy if you want more drama.

Was going to suggest the very same.

 

[harms]

Barca home 1984.

Not an easy game to find — I've spent years trying to obtain full footage, even MUTV showed only extended highlights (30 or 40 minutes, I think).

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Arsenal 2 : 2 Manchester United
2003
A special match. The best footballing rivarly I've witnessed.

 

[0le]

United vs City, 4:3. Hilarious, dramatic, scouser scoring a winner for United, mistakes, Tevez...had a lot that game...

 

[Achilles McCool]

Any game with the Brazil side of 1982 is a good choice. A game against Italy if you want more drama.

I remember what they did to Scotland in ‘82! They were fun to watch

 

[Sonny1972]

Feyenoord - Ajax (cup tie) 1995
Holland - Argentina 1998
Feyenoord - Dortmund 2002
Holland - Brazil 2010
Spain - Holland 2014

Holland - Italy 2008
Holland - France 2008

 

[KirkDuyt]

Holland - Italy 2008
Holland - France 2008

Being from 72, surely you'd say Germany - Holland 1988?

I blocked out 2008 after that anti climactic quarter final.

 

[Sonny1972]

Being from 72, surely you'd say Germany - Holland 1988?

I blocked out 2008 after that anti climactic quarter final.

Denmark - Holland 1992

Brasil - Holland 1998

ITALY - HOLLAND 2000!!!

Argentina - Holland 2014 .

The games i blocked out ..lol

 

[Luke1995]

Liverpool X Borussia Dortmund for the Europa League in 2015-16 was very good!

 

[Colin Clarke]

Wasting your time lads, if they don't understand the game, the passion and the excitement of following a team or even just loving the sport itself there is nothing you can do. I know I have tried with a couple of mates who are GAA ( Gaelige football, yes I am Irish) mad. They can seem to grasp the game or its intense rivalries

 

[redman5]

1970 World Cup final Brazil 4 - 1 Italy

That Brazil side is greatest side I ever saw. They showed the total beauty of football which was perfectly encapsulated by the final goal in the tournament scored by Carlos Alberto.

I was only a young kid who loved football anyway, but this team made me love it even more.

 

[Josep Dowling]

United 2-1 Bayern, 1999

The actual game was terrible.

I’d go for Japan vs Italy in the confederation cup in 2013. One of the best games of football I’ve ever seen.

 

[OleTheGreat]

Show them all the classic comebacks. Especially the one where Barcelona score 6-1 at Nou Camp to win against PSG. That was some atmosphere and game.

 

[Robertd0803]

The 2008 Champions League Final.

Then not including us Italy v France World Cup Final 2006. Great game and had it all.

Or else the Italy v Germany semi from the same World Cup.

Spurs v Arsenal 4-4 and Arsenal v Liverpool 4-4 as well.

 

[FootballHQ]

Germany 7-1 Brazil.

That result will still be talked about in 100 years time.

Interestingly if you gave some highlights of that game who had no interest in football they'd probably think Brazil was some sort of Panama style team in the world cup although I'm sure even people who don't care about football know about Brazil's history in the sport.