The Kaiser

comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯✯ (U1561)
posted 12 minutes ago
Used to love watching Gerd Muller. Proper goal machine.
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I broke my neighbours window by volleying a ball screaming Muller in 1974

I saw him at a funeral a few years later and he said "oi Muller get up the bar and get me a drink you still owe me for that window from 1974.

comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯✯ (U1561)
posted 12 minutes ago
Used to love watching Gerd Muller. Proper goal machine.
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I broke my neighbours window by volleying a ball screaming Muller in 1974

I saw him at a funeral a few years later and he said "oi Muller get up the bar and get me a drink you still owe me for that window from 1974.
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Great anecdote.



RIP The Kaiser.

comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 5 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by He who Dares, waits for Trophies (U15748)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by He who Dares, waits for Trophies (U15748)
posted 44 minutes ago
WHo here has seen him play live?


Not many, since our resident hectagenorian left the site...Sandy!
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Yes quite a few times, Germany youth team 1st time
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Personally I would have liked to have seen players like Rensenbrink, Cruyff, Rep, Neeskens, Haan, Gerd Muller, Beckenbuer, Breitner etc...

Some great name there
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Hann might not be as well known as some of the other players you listed but he scored some fantastic long range goals in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
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Some proper screamers at that World Cup. At least two , maybe, outrageous Dutch goals, Haan and perhaps Rep?

It's the first World Cup I remember having watched bits.

I also remember the star of Peru, Teófilo Cubillas, netting one or two corkers too.

I also remember a controversy around an English ref who blew for FT when a corner kick was launched and the attacking team only went and scored. Sweden-Brazil iirc. Clive something? Might have been the same ref who once booked a player twice but failed to send him off? Or that might have been Poll. Far too long ago now to remember clearly.

Granted I was only a kid, but I don't think the sense of discovery that used to surround all these tournaments is something that can be easily replicated today.

Oh man

Zagallo n now Beckhambauer

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 5 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by He who Dares, waits for Trophies (U15748)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by He who Dares, waits for Trophies (U15748)
posted 44 minutes ago
WHo here has seen him play live?


Not many, since our resident hectagenorian left the site...Sandy!
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Yes quite a few times, Germany youth team 1st time
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Personally I would have liked to have seen players like Rensenbrink, Cruyff, Rep, Neeskens, Haan, Gerd Muller, Beckenbuer, Breitner etc...

Some great name there
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Hann might not be as well known as some of the other players you listed but he scored some fantastic long range goals in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
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Some proper screamers at that World Cup. At least two , maybe, outrageous Dutch goals, Haan and perhaps Rep?

It's the first World Cup I remember having watched bits.

I also remember the star of Peru, Teófilo Cubillas, netting one or two corkers too.

I also remember a controversy around an English ref who blew for FT when a corner kick was launched and the attacking team only went and scored. Sweden-Brazil iirc. Clive something? Might have been the same ref who once booked a player twice but failed to send him off? Or that might have been Poll. Far too long ago now to remember clearly.

Granted I was only a kid, but I don't think the sense of discovery that used to surround all these tournaments is something that can be easily replicated today.
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Yup

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 8 hours, 32 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 5 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by He who Dares, waits for Trophies (U15748)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by He who Dares, waits for Trophies (U15748)
posted 44 minutes ago
WHo here has seen him play live?


Not many, since our resident hectagenorian left the site...Sandy!
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Yes quite a few times, Germany youth team 1st time
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Personally I would have liked to have seen players like Rensenbrink, Cruyff, Rep, Neeskens, Haan, Gerd Muller, Beckenbuer, Breitner etc...

Some great name there
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Hann might not be as well known as some of the other players you listed but he scored some fantastic long range goals in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
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Some proper screamers at that World Cup. At least two , maybe, outrageous Dutch goals, Haan and perhaps Rep?

It's the first World Cup I remember having watched bits.

I also remember the star of Peru, Teófilo Cubillas, netting one or two corkers too.

I also remember a controversy around an English ref who blew for FT when a corner kick was launched and the attacking team only went and scored. Sweden-Brazil iirc. Clive something? Might have been the same ref who once booked a player twice but failed to send him off? Or that might have been Poll. Far too long ago now to remember clearly.

Granted I was only a kid, but I don't think the sense of discovery that used to surround all these tournaments is something that can be easily replicated today.
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The ref you’re referring to was Clive Thomas I think

Yes it caused some controversy.

comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 8 hours, 15 minutes ago
Oh man

Zagallo n now Beckhambauer
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Belated happy birthday Forza.

RIP Franz Beckenbauer, one nice gentleman and great sportsman .

Weirdly when I saw Zagallo had died I only saw the picture first and thought it was Beckenbauer. And now Beckenbauer has died not even a week later.

We are running out of legends from that era of football. RIP

comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 9 hours, 13 minutes ago
Weirdly when I saw Zagallo had died I only saw the picture first and thought it was Beckenbauer. And now Beckenbauer has died not even a week later.

We are running out of legends from that era of football. RIP
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I'm kinda relieved you don't know what I look like.