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The World Cup
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My first memory of the World Cup was Mexico 1970 and that Brazil team, my elderly neighbour was a mad sports fan but slowly dying from emphysema as a result of years as a collier.
He had a bit of money and as he was nearing the end didn't give a monkeys and bought himself a colour TV, my younger brother and i were invited in to sit with him and watch one of the opening games, we would have been 9 and 8 years old. In view of the time difference between us and Mexico i am not sure if it was live or a delayed transmission. When i saw all that colour and skill my brother and i were basically high as a kite when we came from there.
*****Reader warning some pretty disgusting comments coming up surrounding death…
We were allowed in every day old Ned sat in his chair with an empty Nescafé jar in front of him and coughed his lungs into that jar non stop, every few hours his daughter would come in empty the jar and clean him up whilst we sat there glued to the TV.
My mother played hell with my father to stop us going in there but he was happy enough and Ned seemed to enjoy our company and we watched almost the entire tournament in that dark room in the middle of summer, eventually my mother put a stop to it and forced my old man to get a colour TV off his mate who worked for rediffusion i think it was probably some sort of dodgy deal as we never paid Rediffusion for it.
Not long after Ned died and his daughter came in to tell us, i always felt guilty that we shortened his life by leaving before the final was played.
But it was my first real exposure to football and talking about it to an adult as an equal, my mother said later that the only reason we were invited in was that were kicking the ball non stop outside our house and the daughter couldn’t cope with the racket whilst nursing her poor old dad.
He had a bit of money and as he was nearing the end didn't give a monkeys and bought himself a colour TV, my younger brother and i were invited in to sit with him and watch one of the opening games, we would have been 9 and 8 years old. In view of the time difference between us and Mexico i am not sure if it was live or a delayed transmission. When i saw all that colour and skill my brother and i were basically high as a kite when we came from there.
*****Reader warning some pretty disgusting comments coming up surrounding death…
We were allowed in every day old Ned sat in his chair with an empty Nescafé jar in front of him and coughed his lungs into that jar non stop, every few hours his daughter would come in empty the jar and clean him up whilst we sat there glued to the TV.
My mother played hell with my father to stop us going in there but he was happy enough and Ned seemed to enjoy our company and we watched almost the entire tournament in that dark room in the middle of summer, eventually my mother put a stop to it and forced my old man to get a colour TV off his mate who worked for rediffusion i think it was probably some sort of dodgy deal as we never paid Rediffusion for it.
Not long after Ned died and his daughter came in to tell us, i always felt guilty that we shortened his life by leaving before the final was played.
But it was my first real exposure to football and talking about it to an adult as an equal, my mother said later that the only reason we were invited in was that were kicking the ball non stop outside our house and the daughter couldn’t cope with the racket whilst nursing her poor old dad.
Hear hear.
I would quite like them to revert back to their old cut-off point of the quarter finals though. You knew where you were with that. It was like death and taxes. All this losing in the final nonsense in recent times, it's put the shivers right up me.
A nice comfy quarter final exit to Brazil in the searing heat, with Declan Rice having a pass completion rate of 10% and Harry Kane having about 5 touches. That'll do me nicely please.
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