Rediscovered X and back into the groove of nostalgic, retro football writing. Current series = Euro 96 Revisited. Fully immersive, apparently - check it out
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EURO 96 REVISITED
A month-long return to the football world of summer 1996.
Thirty archive entries.
Daily memory fragments.
One football summer revisited.
The archive is now open:
footballbh.net/euro-96-revis…
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Father's Day gift, sorted.
TIRO Issues 1–3 — Napoli, Atalanta, Fiorentina
Order by Wednesday for guaranteed delivery.
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#FathersDay #Italy #Football #Calcio #SerieA #GiftIdeas
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Given how utterly dire this match is, enjoy your half-time break with this thread and thank me later
Jun 10
I’ll also be compiling what I can find during the tournament in this thread, so bookmark this if moaning for moaning’s sake is your thing…⚽️🧵
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Absolutely in my venn diagram of interests
Preparing a nice "little" research (I'm lying... because I've covered 96 partnerships already) on great front-twos that rocked defenders and nets wherever they played.
You can suggest partnerships to add to the list. There are many, and it's impossible to remember every single one of them.
Will present the list once I feel like I've covered enough players to have a proper "best of"
A couple of 'house rules' - both players had to start / at least 10 games together / national team games only
#research #football #footballhistory
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This is wildly more interesting than the actual match itself
Spain v Cape Verde is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ highest points are volcanoes in Macaronesia.
Spain tops out at Mount Teide in Tenerife. Cape Verde tops out at Pico do Fogo on Fogo.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
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If you want to see more tremendous football based caricatures, search no further. (warning, contains a naked Joe Royle)
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EURO 96 REVISITED
A month-long return to the football world of summer 1996.
Thirty archive entries.
Daily memory fragments.
One football summer revisited.
The archive is now open:
footballbh.net/euro-96-revis…
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15 days in.
15 archive entries.
Lots of readers.
The project is now halfway complete.
Website archive:
footballbh.net/euro-96-revis…
Substack archive:
chrisfootballbh.substack.com…
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The strange thing?
We’re now competing with the World Cup, transfer season and the modern football news cycle.
And yet people are still finding time to revisit Euro 96.
Maybe because some football stories don’t really belong to the past.
They just wait for the right moment to be remembered.
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Jun 14
Come on then, give me some other player names that aren't quite right for their role...
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Jun 15
This is a great entry.
Jun 15
Gentile, one of the most ruthless stoppers I've seen.
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Egypt planned to take part in the first World Cup in 1930, but missed the connection with the SS Florida due to their own boat crossing to Marseille being delayed by a storm.
Read my book: The World Cup Story. Available from Amazon
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Jun 14
How BBC radio covered the World Cup tournaments in 1986, 1990 & 1994. My June 2012 blog post
andywalmsley.blogspot.com/20…
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🇧🇷 OTD 1958: a 17-year old Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé, made his World Cup debut in Brazil’s 2-0 win over the Soviet Union in Sweden. Brazil went on to win their first World Cup 🏆
Pelé won three World Cups, playing 14 games and scoring 12 goals!
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Jun 15
On This Day at the World Cup - June 15
🕰️ You could say this was the day that Italy last won a game at a World Cup. Their victory over England at Brazil 2014 kicked off as the clock struck midnight on the peninsula - on the evening of the 14th in South America.
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