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I wonder if anyone has ever checked out the excellent Tifo Football channel on YouTube?

They often do great tactical analysis of teams, but also short documentaries on history.

This is one they did a while back on the Iraqi national team from 2007 that won the Asian Cup, the aftermath of it and also how the team suffered under the Hussain's, notably Saddam oldest son Uday, a sick bastard if there ever was one.
 
Guido 🇺🇦 said:
This is fucking great!!!!

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Obviously I'm not a fan of Bellerin (or his 'fashion sense') but fair play to the guy, he comes across pretty well, and - dare I say - even likeable...?🫢 Dammit!

Guido 🇺🇦 said:
This is one of my fav docs (I've posted the English version in here before but like so much on YouTube looks like it's been pulled).

Anyway, here is a non-English version, it doesn't matter too much as the clip I want to refer to is only short, literally a few seconds and there's no speaking. I have played a few games but it's rare thing that any of my managers have got pre-match stuff right, here Simeone nails it for me. When he was river Manager he had his team warm-up under the stands prior to the Classico away to Bocca. He just paces around between the players, as the clip progresses you can see him talking. Again tiny, tiny thing and maybe it's the film that's atmospheric but I'd want my manager to be with me pre-match like this. (clip is at 1:11:28)

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A great watch, thanks for sharing.
Have always wanted to visit and see a match at La Bombonera!
 
N17-Tommo said:
Was a decent watch. Things have changed so much since then.
Still can’t believe how Liverpool got off lightly for the murder of 39 Juventus fans. Every other club was punished as much as them.
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English fans were fucking animals whenever they went abroad, Heysel was the final straw.

What they did in Heysel wasnt that different to what they would do every week. Except in this case the ground was shit so the walls collapsed.

But instead of doing what normal human beings do and blame their own fans for being fucking lunatics, they blamed the ground, uefa, the police and even chelsea fans. After all, they used to charge the opposition end all the time no problem, so it cant be their fault. Instead it has to be everyone elses fault for not creating perfect conditions for them to be psychopaths without consequence.
 
The new Netflix documentary "FIFA Uncovered" is both awesome and terrible. It's really interesting and that's why I say it's awesome. It's terrible because the corrupt and criminal behaviour (I know, no surprise there) is just appalling.

I'm not all the way through it yet, but it's really worth a watch.
 
Calgary Spur said:
The new Netflix documentary "FIFA Uncovered" is both awesome and terrible. It's really interesting and that's why I say it's awesome. It's terrible because the corrupt and criminal behaviour (I know, no surprise there) is just appalling.

I'm not all the way through it yet, but it's really worth a watch.
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Just finished the series.

Whilst it didn't tell me a great deal more than I already knew, the fact that the numerous bribes, for that is what they were, were given with the knowledge of so many other FIFA Ex-Co members is scandalous but of no real surprise. Almost everyone kept their mouth shut in order to keep power and the status quo.

The practice is, unfortunately, far too common in business and government and I have so much time for any whistleblower who often stands more than to lose their job, and investigate journalists who expose these crooks.

I really don't know how things can change. It's all well and good for the great and good to say they will be transparent etc, but at some point at that level you need to either compromise your principles or look the other way or you won't last too long in position.
 
Kid Chameleon said:
That is a good one. Bobby Robson was someone I always enjoyed listening to.
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I didn’t really appreciate what he had achieved in the game when Italia 90 happened. A great man.

I was just a teenager so a lot of that documentary was all new information to me. But that World Cup remains my favourite. 1982 was special too as the first one I can really remember but 1990 remains full of great life memories.
 
coalhada said:
Literally the worst possible preview image.
The Game of their Lives is about the North Korean team at the 1966 World Cup, who caused maybe the biggest upset in football history, and their return visit to Middlesbrough in 2002.
They were the first Asian team to make it to the knock-out stages of a World Cup, and they created an unlikely cultural link between Middlesbrough and the DPRK that still continues.

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''This is my old lady who has lost all her teeth'' - Brilliant.
 
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