Comments on: Classic Programmes #13: England vs. Rest of the World http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/01/21/classic-programme-13-england-vs-rest-of-the-world/ A soccer blog featuring essays, news and photography exploring soccer around the world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Diaper http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/01/21/classic-programme-13-england-vs-rest-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-21759 Bill Diaper Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:39:23 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=6705#comment-21759 This was a memorable game for me. For some reason I didn't even know the game was being played but I went to the dentist that day to have 11 teeth taken out and could not go back to school as I was still groggy from the Nitrous Oxide. So I lay on the couch and my mum switched the TV on for me (no remotes in those days) and, low and behold, this game came on live! I was 12 at the time and had only ever been to one game when my dad took me to a division 2 Liverpool game. But this was such an inspirational game it changed my life forever. I started going to games every week after that and have been a player and huge supporter ever since. I only wish there was a permenant record of it. Great program! This was a memorable game for me. For some reason I didn’t even know the game was being played but I went to the dentist that day to have 11 teeth taken out and could not go back to school as I was still groggy from the Nitrous Oxide. So I lay on the couch and my mum switched the TV on for me (no remotes in those days) and, low and behold, this game came on live!

I was 12 at the time and had only ever been to one game when my dad took me to a division 2 Liverpool game. But this was such an inspirational game it changed my life forever. I started going to games every week after that and have been a player and huge supporter ever since. I only wish there was a permenant record of it.

Great program!

]]> By: Lanterne Rouge http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/01/21/classic-programme-13-england-vs-rest-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-20151 Lanterne Rouge Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:15:23 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=6705#comment-20151 I have a copy of this programme courtesy of my Dad who was at the game. He says that the chance to see people like Puskas and Di Stefano was immeasurably exciting and there was certainly no feeling that the game didn't matter - friendlies with this level of prestige were taken very seriously in those days and this match was akin to the Wolves-Honved and Chelsea-Dynamo Moscow clashes of the preceding years. He also swears by Jimmy Greaves as being the greatest ever and stands to this day by the claim that he should have been preferred to Geoff Hurst in 1966, the latter's hat trick in the final notwithstanding. I have a copy of this programme courtesy of my Dad who was at the game. He says that the chance to see people like Puskas and Di Stefano was immeasurably exciting and there was certainly no feeling that the game didn’t matter – friendlies with this level of prestige were taken very seriously in those days and this match was akin to the Wolves-Honved and Chelsea-Dynamo Moscow clashes of the preceding years. He also swears by Jimmy Greaves as being the greatest ever and stands to this day by the claim that he should have been preferred to Geoff Hurst in 1966, the latter’s hat trick in the final notwithstanding.

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