If there was one game in history you could attend.....

[Peever]

We had met some Villa fans at England away games previously and they invited us out there.

They were good lads but sadly one of them was knifed the following season when they played Juventus at home, but it was the standard leg job so fortunately not fatal.

The strangest thing was we bought a ticket on the day of the game which was unusual as a European Cup Final at the stadium for the Villa end. Also, in the Bayern end was a huge Villa / English contingent made up mostly of squaddies based in Germany and there was a lot of fighting to say the least.

Nice one, that you went of course not that knifing etc. Talked to a few who went to the match and heard the stories.... Sounds like 1 amazing night!

 

[16bha]

Galatasaray v Fenerbahce, 1996 Turkish Cup final

The famous Graeme Souness flag incident. Now that would liven up the atmosphere.

 

[SeagullSongs]

City vs QPR at the end of last season. I'd never celebrated a non-Albion goal so loudly or got goosebumps...

 

[Hatman1234]

Excluding BHA and England what game in history would you have liked to have attended?

For me, would be Argentina v Holland 1978 WCF. My first real memory of World Cup Footie. Mario Kempes v Total Voetbal, ticker tape, what an atmosphere..

I would've loved to have been in the Kop for the champions league game between Liverpool and Olympiakos in 2004.

 

[Tybalt]

Edgar street 03/05/97 and luckily I was there.

 

[catfish]

The 'White Horse' cup final just to witness that sea of fans around the pitch while the match went ahead.

 

[Pevenseagull]

No brainer ...... England V Australia, Edgbaston 2005

 

[grawhite]

Newcastle 5 - 0 Man Utd

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Brazil v Italia
Mexico 1970
Football at it's best
Lovely goal nets as well

This - with bells on!

Carlos Alberto to apply the Cherry of all Cherries on top of the Samba Cake: with my all-time fave goal, isn't it?

The beautiful game in its absolute pomp! Marvelous.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

If it was a time machine scenario then Liverpool V Forest at Hillsborough to tell that idiot Copper not to open that gate so 96 people wouldn't die needlessly !!

 

[Rugrat]

The 3-3 draw between France & Germany at the '82 world cup

i was there in seville

Without a shadow of a doubt the most exciting game I have ever seen ... if you were there Rev I am immensely jealous

Just a flavour of what an Observer hack had to say

Football matches imprint themselves upon the memory for a variety of reasons. Contrary to what one may imagine, it is rarely for the quality of play. The connoisseur, drawn back to classics, is often disappointed by how play has moved on: great players of the past now look slow-witted.

One match, however, when returned to, proves to be of an astonishing quality: the second semi-final of the 1982 World Cup, between West Germany and France. Michel Platini was the French captain that night and has said: 'That was my most beautiful game. What happened in those two hours encapsulated all the sentiments of life itself. No film or play could ever recapture so many contradictions and emotions. It was complete. So strong. It was fabulous.'

 

[Joe Punter]

Liverpool v AC Milan Champions League final.

You may not like Liverpool or their fans but when 40,000 of them are singing "You'll never walk alone" in such circumstances the hairs on the back of your neck would come flying off

I had two tickets to this, but decided not to go because I thought the flights were too pricey by the time I got round to booking...Doh! I've kept the unused tickets, and hope to sell them to a nostalgic scouser in a few years time to soften the blow on missing out on the best Euro final in recent times.

 

[big nuts]

Some good shouts so far but Liverpool 5 Nottingham forest 0 from the 87/88 season will always stick in my memory as the single greatest performance by an English club side.

 

[16bha]

England v Brazil
World Cup Final June 2014
Maracana
Rio De Janeiro

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

True. But less than 10 years after the end of the war, in an era when you'd have known nothing about their club or players.

You'd have known about the Honved players that had whipped England on behalf of Hungary at Wembley in 1953.

(The Wolves v Honved game was very competitive. Wolves groundsman even made the pitch muddy to stop those crafty continentals playing their passing game).

 

[cloud]

1998 world cup final to see Zidane outclassing a good Brazil side.

I was at that game!

I would have liked to have been at the FA's Centenary match at Wembley 1963, England v Rest of the World XI, featuring the one and only Lev Yashin doing some of his most amazing saves ever

 

[rcf0712]

Was the first one that came into my mind also.

and another vote, must be that age.....