Only in England ....

[Clarets4me]

At 5pm tomorrow, the BBC are to show a full re-run of the 1986 W/C Quarter Final between Argentina and England, " In honour of the Argentinian great ", on it's website, app and i-player ....

Apparently, there will be an accompanying text commentary on the BBC Sport website, for us all to " share our thoughts and join the wider conversation " ..... Expect to see a plethora of " This comment was removed because it broke the rules "

[bfcjg]

No doubt Argentina's broadcasters will be showing a rerun of the liberation of the Falklands by the UK as a balancing act.

[Burnley1989]

I read a comment the other day about England’s obsession with the hand ball, you see it on here with the Owen Coyle grudge and I wonder if other nations hold a grudge like the English?

They probably do but when you really think about it, it’s a bit sad isn’t it

[bfcjg]

I still hate vikings.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Peter Shilton won’t be happy with this.

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

I read a comment the other day about England’s obsession with the hand ball, you see it on here with the Owen Coyle grudge and I wonder if other nations hold a grudge like the English?

They probably do but when you really think about it, it’s a bit sad isn’t it

Is it any wonder when you see how revered the boys of ‘66 are?
These guys were cheated out of a possible World Cup win, on foreign soil. They would have been feted forever.
When you think back to the grief Beckham got in ‘98 I still can’t understand how Terry Fenwick got off so lightly for the hoofed back pass.

[claretonthecoast1882]

Glad nobody has spoilt this and posted the score... might watch it now

Come on England

[Clarets4me]

I still hate vikings.

You think we're bad .... talk to some Scots about the Act of Union, or a dyed in the wool Ulsterman about the Battle of the Boyne ( 1707 and 1690, respectively )

[Devils_Advocate]

Is it any wonder when you see how revered the boys of ‘66 are?
These guys were cheated out of a possible World Cup win, on foreign soil. They would have been feted forever.
When you think back to the grief Beckham got in ‘98 I still can’t understand how Terry Fenwick got off so lightly for the hoofed back pass.

Without the handball we would most likely of lost that game and I very much doubt we'd have gone on to beat Belgium and West Germany had we somehow won. We struggled to get of one of the easiest groups in World Cup history and were nowhere near a world cup winning team

With regards to Fenwick I think criticism of him would be very harsh seen like it was Hodge who tried to hook the ball back to Shilton for the Handball goal

[Clarets4me]

No doubt Argentina's broadcasters will be showing a rerun of the liberation of the Falklands by the UK as a balancing act.

They should be grateful, the defeat brought down an extremely nasty Military Junta the year after. It's estimated that 15,000 - 30,000 political opponents " disappeared " during the 7 year period they were in charge .....

[tim_noone]

Well we did win the 66 world cup fair and square after all.....

[chekhov]

Is it any wonder when you see how revered the boys of ‘66 are?
These guys were cheated out of a possible World Cup win, on foreign soil. They would have been feted forever.
When you think back to the grief Beckham got in ‘98 I still can’t understand how Terry Fenwick got off so lightly for the hoofed back pass.

England were very poor against Argentina that day in what was a poor game by all accounts. We deserved to get knocked out. It was 34 years ago, let’s move on, eh?

[boatshed bill]

I watched the programme, it was quite entertaining with the players sat around talking about the game retrospectively.
hodge actually swapped shirts with Maradona!