superallythe2nd
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Just too young to remember this at the time but, with this and watching the games from Euro 96, I do feel a bit sad looking at what the Scotland team was back then compared to the sham it has become now.
How times have changed. Hope my own country’s football team losing now is really quite sad but %^*& themScotland fans singing Super Allly when he came one
How times have changed. Hope my own country’s football team losing now is really quite sad but %^*& them
Great memories SOWAs others have mentioned, this was one of the best days I spent at a game that didn't involve The Rangers. I remember very clearly having a kick about in the afternoon with a team of Swedish girls in one of the main squares. This was long before Ladies football was even being mentioned at home, these girls knocked the ball around as if they were the great Ajax team of the 70's, we couldn't believe our eyes/luck. Memory plays tricks on you over time but to make it even better, everyone of them seemed to be a blonde, suntanned Honey.
I also remember the march to the Stadium that evening, (one of the first?), being stuck in some kind of Motorway underpass, the crowd noise being absolutely deafening with all the locals joining in, hanging out of their motors, blasting their car horns and trying to sing along. Actually winning a game that mattered with the World watching made it even better.
Watching the Italian games with the locals, Toto Schillachi scoring some incredible goals also lives long in the memory.
I'm pretty sure Ibrox and the Stadium in Genoa were designed along similar lines to Dortmunds ground which was seen as state of the art at that time.
I was at the game but now I couldn’t even tell you who would normally be in the current squad.
Correct. Played Alan McInally up front instead. No wonder big Gough had zero respect for RoxburghI went to all the home qualifiers.Mo and Ally up top. What does that fucking prick Roxburgh do?
Drops them and we get beat off Costa Rica..
Aitken was shite even in the qualifiers. %^*& knows how made captain.
86 Mexico for me last one I ownedMy favourite Scotland jersey the Italia 90 one
McCoist talks about in his first video( early 90’s) and thought Roxburgh had picked him to playand had said “Mo ‘n Ally” ,wasn’t until later he was told it was McInally, who he roomed withCorrect. Played Alan McInally up front instead. No wonder big Gough had zero respect for Roxburgh
There was a bus left from the wee gers to go to this tournament, now you couldn't fill a tandem.Great day/ night in Genoa. When following Scotland was still a hobby for bears.
Watched England v Scotland from Euro 96 in ITV4 earlier in the week. Interviewed a couple of Scotland supporters after the game and they were saying, despite his goal, they still loved Gazza since he was playing for Rangers now. Again, how times have changed!How times have changed. Hope my own country’s football team losing now is really quite sad but %^*& them
McCoist talks about in his first video( early 90’s) and thought Roxburgh had picked him to playand had said “Mo ‘n Ally” ,wasn’t until later he was told it was McInally, who he roomed with
Ditto.
After the Costa Rica debacle, this was a great match to be at.
McPherson, Levein, Mcleish and Malpas at the back.
I remember King Richard was at that World Cup, was he injured or dropped?
Not sure where he went immediately afterwards, but Archie was Eurosport's commentator for the opening game of the 1998 World cup when Scotland played Brazil.Italia 90. Archie's swansong as BBC Scotland's main commentator.
Big Mc Inally. Up against a fucking 5foot 7 costa rican centre half and struggled to win a header.Correct. Played Alan McInally up front instead. No wonder big Gough had zero respect for Roxburgh
One of two tournaments that sum up Scotland
1990 mccoist and Johnston are immense
Roxburgh starts mcinally in the infamous Costa Rica game - needed to win that given brasil was the last game
1996 mccoist still the man, only starts the last game and scores the winner
Not sure where he went immediately afterwards, but Archie was Eurosport's commentator for the opening game of the 1998 World cup when Scotland played Brazil.
96 isn’t quite as clear cut as McCoist wasn’t fit and had only started something like 3 games that calendar year.
I went to all the home qualifiers.Mo and Ally up top. What does that fucking prick Roxburgh do?
Drops them and we get beat off Costa Rica..
Aitken was shite even in the qualifiers. %^*& knows how made captain.
My favourite Scotland jersey the Italia 90 one
Seemingly he was in a taxi and thats what the driver said.Was there not a rumour that a leak from the Costa Rica camp said they feared mcinally so Roxburgh played him
But it was a planted story?
Seemingly he was in a taxi and thats what the driver said.
Fucking moron.Hated Roxburgh and Brown.They started the massive decline of the Scottish national team with their shitty negative tactics.
Seemingly he was in a taxi and thats what the driver said.
Fucking moron.Hated Roxburgh and Brown.They started the massive decline of the Scottish national team with their shitty negative tactics.
Oh aye so it was.Nearly fell off my chair with McInally and Van Basten in the same sentence.LOL.That was the Portugal game 3 years later with the taxi driver.
Costa Rica manager said McInally was "Scotland's answer to Marco van Basten"
Roxburgh bought it hook, line and sinker.
It was a good one as well , plain and simpleÌ got the Italia 90 England jersey as a birthday present just before it kicked off. I actually liked it more than the Scottish jersey.
I wanted to see Scotland Brazil 82....USSR instead. Guess STB had the Brazil gameI guess Helicopter Sunday isn't going to happen now then
next weekend is the games from Euro 92, Netherlands, Germany and CIS