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that schumacher "tackle" has never left me, and as much as you lot go on about this ref or that ref being shocking, that was truly the worst abdication of responsibility by a ref I've ever seen..
82 could have been the greatest world cup ever, even with how it ended up its top two/three, but imagine if we'd had a brazil/france final. My god, football might never have been the same.
somewhere there's a really good article by either alex bellos, or tim vickers about how the defeat of the 82 brazil squad changed the way brazil played forever and ushered in a new pragmatism, culminating in the dull as ditchwater (relatively) 94 world cup winning squad, and the ones that came after. If Brazil had won it in 82, imagine the run of fast, all out attacking brazil squads that would have come after..