Was Italia 90 the best couple of weeks ever?

lazygal · 2012-03-12 19:35:52

Such good memories from that time. I was only a nipper but got time off in school to watch the matches. It was just a mad few weeks.

12-03-2012 08:35PM

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Such good memories from that time. I was only a nipper but got time off in school to watch the matches. It was just a mad few weeks.

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#2 12-03-2012 08:40PM

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Yeah t'was pretty good alright, bout the only time I ever had any interest in football! Just those opening bars of "put em under pressure" makes me smile!

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#3 12-03-2012 08:43PM

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I preferred the one in the USA, I could drink then. good times.

No interest in the fuzzball.

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#4 12-03-2012 08:44PM

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It was a bit of craic sure enough!

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#5 12-03-2012 08:44PM

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a mate of mine's neice was born during it. i remember him telling me that he sent his sister a card with the line 'uw ah frans a ma, uw ah joes a da' a lá paul mc grath

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#6 12-03-2012 08:45PM

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Yeah I was off work for a fortnight and it was the best holiday I ever had, even though I stayed at home. I have equally good memories for Euro 88.

I did a thread about this a while ago.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74909488

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#7 12-03-2012 09:18PM

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It's the first world cup I fully remember, I vaguely remember when we beat England in euro 88.

Great times.

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#8 12-03-2012 09:21PM

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Best ever Olé, Olé.....We're all part of jackie's army

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#9 12-03-2012 09:33PM

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Let's be honest, most of the football we played was frankly crap, as was most of the football played by other teams.

Perhaps the worst and most forgettable WC ever.

Ironic then that Irish people found it so enjoyable, but for a couple of weeks, yes we all went nuts. Good times. And we were probably poorer then too, in fact many of us were.

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#10 12-03-2012 09:35PM

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It was the best time ever.

Everyone going around with smiles on their faces, people having a great time, everyone stopping to talk to each other.

An unreal time, we will never see the likes of it again. If you weren't around you will never know it. As Con Houlihan said afterwards 'I missed Italia 90, I was in Italy at the time'

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#11 12-03-2012 09:49PM

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If Ireland beat Spain in the Euro's we will see crazy celebrations in the country.

Possible QF against England also.

Roll on June.....:)

COYBIG

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#12 12-03-2012 09:56PM

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A never to be repeated sporting occasion

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#13 12-03-2012 09:57PM

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Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I preferred the one in the USA, I could drink then. good times.

No interest in the fuzzball.

You must have got tickets so

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#14 12-03-2012 10:01PM

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lazygal wrote: »

Was Italia 90 the best couple of weeks ever?

No, but it was good craic alright.

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#15 12-03-2012 10:04PM

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It was indeed the best time ever.
Especially on O'Connell street after each match.
Any other world cup just didnt come close.

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#16 12-03-2012 10:05PM

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plasmaguy wrote: »

Let's be honest, most of the football we played was frankly crap, as was most of the football played by other teams.

Perhaps the worst and most forgettable WC ever.

Ironic then that Irish people found it so enjoyable, but for a couple of weeks, yes we all went nuts. Good times. And we were probably poorer then too, in fact many of us were.

The glass really is both half full and half empty for you

It was a great few weeks though!

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#17 12-03-2012 10:07PM

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Yeah it was great all right, i was doing the Inter Cert that year but all we were thinking about was the World cup.

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#18 12-03-2012 10:08PM

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Never had any interest in football, but I was fairly hooked during those weeks. I was a student in London at the time, and we were experiencing a heatwave. Such great memories!

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#19 12-03-2012 10:09PM

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sod the real thing but Italia 90 was a superb mega drive game,forget ISS,fifa and all that modern crap, addictive football gaming is all about the oldskool; sensible soccer rip offs and net yaroze football games,if want football games to be so damn realistic try prising arses off seats and go out side for kick about.

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#20 12-03-2012 10:13PM

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I think the best thing about Ireland matches back then was they used be on in the middle of the day as Landsdowne had no floodlights so half days from school were the done thing,Italia 90 though was unreal,pubs packed out the door even though me and my mates were on a fanta and taytos binge,everyone a soccer expert and there was so many bloody things you could collect,World Cup 90 stickers,some kinda of coin collection thing as well and I remember The Star doing two page pullout every day of each player in the squad the bedroom was a shrine to the Ireland squad,great times.

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#21 12-03-2012 10:15PM

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Yeah O'Connell Street was bonkers - people surfing on tops of trucks and buses, dancing with the floozie in da jacuzzi. Saw the penalty shoot out in the Stags Head, a whiskey for each penalty, sore head the next day but what a day!

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#22 12-03-2012 10:17PM

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We all have the rose tinted spectacles on tonight then?

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#23 12-03-2012 10:28PM

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oppenheimer1 wrote: »

We all have the rose tinted spectacles on tonight then?

Ah sure why not, back to the days when we were all part of Jackies Army, and laughing at the t-shirts that were printed of the sh1te going on between Jack Charlton and Eamon Dunphy (or A moan grumpy as he was called by Zig n Zag)

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