And me. 😢 Brilliant days. 😁

Greatest summer of my life ...The Rave scene. Madchester .My mates and I all single .The weather ...Not the greatest world cup ever but England flying by the seat of there pants and a bona fied Genius in Paul Gascoigne...Great Times.

Oh dear,there's always some idiots!..And ur name sake totally cancelled out the England Midfield back then.. .And I didn't think that game was so bad,it was a hard fought game between players who knew each other a little to well.

And Peter Beardsly

Correct👍.. and I wonder if some of the more contemporary fans can notice that back then the players were still playing with a firmer,better weighted and certainly(imo)more suitable footBall, Which only allowed those players with elite skill and technique to pull off rare&magical moments. .The goals by Giannini (Italy)and Lothar Matthaus (arguably& possibly the best and most complete Midfield player we've seen in the last 60 yrs)were fantastic.. These days u see players pulling off all manner of "Circus"Tricks only because no one is going to make a decent and honest tackle and the ball is so f##king lightweight and the "Football Pitches are like "Putting greens". .Yep,I have no doubts whatsoever that the game in general was better and this World Cup was def one of the best!(maybe after the world cup of 1970)My apologies for the Rant..ITALIA 90👍👍☘️

Funnily enough, at the time, Italia 90 was slated as the WORST World Cup ever, full of cynical, negative play. It had the lowest goals-per-game ratio in the history of the tournament, and too many of the top stars off form for the quality level to rise to the top. My suspicion is that nostalgia is distorting memories of how dull a lot of the matches were. Irish fans in particular are likely to see the tournament as 'The Good Old Days' as they have never done as well in any subsequent tournament. England fans too perhaps remember it as more exciting than they should, as it was the only time until 2018 that they got to an overseas semi-final. I've discovered down the years that if you rewatch the full 90 minutes of even the English and Irish matches at Italia 90 in the cold light of day, it can come as a shock to realise how slow and undramatic they often were. It can also be startling to realise, given the mania about him at the time, just how little Paul Gascoigne really did at the tournament. Also, Jerry, believe it or not, the ball was the same weight then as it is now. It was a bit less streamlined back in 1990 perhaps, but the legal weight of the ball has never changed in over 150 years. I personally own a ball based on the design from the 50s, one based on the one from the 60s, one based on the one from the 90s, and a modern one. They all weigh exactly the same, although the surface becomes firmer, rougher and less consistently rounded the older the design. A thought; if the design of the ball made top skills rarer, as you suggest, surely that means the tournament was lousy compared with subsequent ones?

@@martinodoni8943 nostalgia your right it's like watching re runs of the A team what a load of crap it was, but I must digress England tried against Cameroon and Germany

Hannibal Barca totally agree

If my aunt had balls she'd still be my aunt, just now with balls, and she could race all of my other aunts..

Would have been too expensive

Was gonna post similar. Everyone is looking like. The FCK am doin sitting watching this pish 😂😂😂

😂​@@ajjohnstone7063

No way

Top quality banter. It really is.

4th. Beat zaire 2-0 in 74, holland 3-2 in 78, new zealand 5-2 in 82 and then this game vs sweden in 90. The sweden game is the only match ive seen scotland win a world cup match.

What racism?

​@drw78 He's programmed & very miserable as a result. I would like to see the fellas face watching the casual sexism in a Carry On film. He would cry his sensitive eye's out. 😢

Two greats, Greaves & Boycie. Who is Harry Kane...?

At 7.34 that England team should have been the one they played through the tournament..England should have won that match but Lineker screwed so many chances...

spent it on spemtex

look like something rosenthal pick up from a secondhand pawn shop

He probably lost it in a cards match within minutes of getting it