Remember it like it was yesterday? As the trophy was being played for in Japan and South Korea, the biggest impact was on what time the matches were on telly. This is how the BBC kicked off their coverage.
Not that you ever saw that bit, as you'd be hustling at the bar to carry 6 Kronenburg back to the seat you couldn't really see the screen from in the Penderal's Oak.
I was working for http://www.kudosresearch.com - international fieldwork and research call centre. As pretty much every European nationality was represented all the matches were shown in the conference room. This was particularly great when France played Senegal, and les bleus turned from World Champions into pure mairde.
The quality of the tournament was generally pretty good, but quite odd given the Dutch weren't there. France and Argentina went out in the group stages. Italy and Spain fluffed their lines, and bloody hell, for about ten minutes, England were leading Brazil.
Little Mickey Owen scored a beauty again, but nearly all the hoo-hah surrounded Becks. After single handedly getting us to the World Cup, with his Boy's Own last minute winner against Greece at Old Trafford,
Mr Posh was in the form of his life with about 6 weeks to go til the trip to the Far East.
But a crunching tackle from Argentinian Aldo Duscher derailed both Man United season and English world cup hopes. The front cover of the Sun featured the word 'Metatersal' for the first time in history.
When it boiled down to it, England weren't fit or talented enough to win that day. If they had scored 3, Brazil would have scored 5, with the cheeky Ronaldinho supplementing Ronaldo.
By the time it got to the final, I was at Glastonbury for the first time. This is someone else's video clip, but gives you an idea of what it's like...
They showed the final on the big screen an unbiasedly played Brazilian jazz whilst Fat Ronaldo stepped over into his 9th and 10th world cup goals. This article form the Sun is from Euro 2004, but I wanted to show off anyway. Cheers Dan.
Here are the real goals of the tournament, especially the one by Uruguayan Diego Forlan who belted in a cracker despite messing up every 2 yard tap in for Man U.
posted by Andy Lepki @ 9:03 PM
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