Does anyone remember the Socceroos qualifying campaign for Spain’82? Gutendorf, Arok, Scheinflug? Dennis Gedling tells the story of New Zealand football’s finest hour.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 71-Worse Than Franco (1981)
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Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 72-Gazza’s Turin Tears (1990)
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You must remember this, a miss is just a miss. A cry is just a cry.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 73-Give It A Lash Jack! (1990)
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Dennis Gedling tells how ‘Irish Eyes were Smiling’ at Italia ’90 for St Jack’s foreign legion.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 74-Poland’s Golden Boy (1974)
April 1, 2014 by 2 Comments
Who is the best Polish footballer of all time? Podsiadly? No, world football you dill. Dennis Gedling knows and lets you in on his World Cup heroics.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 75 – The Hand of Frog (2009)
March 31, 2014 by 1 Comment
Dennis Gedling tells how the qualifiers for World Cup 2010 were mired in controversy. The French (predictably) underperformed while the Irish cried ‘we wuz robbed’.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 76 – Argentina’s 25 Pass Wonder Goal (2006)
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A thing of beauty: Cambiasso’s memorable goal for Argentina.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 77 – Five-star England Belt the ‘Old Enemy’
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With only one exception, England have been West Germany/Germany’s bunnies on the football pitch since ’66. But in the 2002 World Cup qualifier, there was a surprise Munich thrashing.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 78-Verbeek Bores Australia Through to South Africa (2009)
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Although Aussie Pim delivered the goods in the qualifying rounds for 2010, doubts lingered.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 79-The Redemption of ‘Golden Balls’ (2002)
March 27, 2014 by 2 Comments
A look back at a defining moment in the career of one of the game’s true superstars.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 80 The Arok Aussies Fall Short Again (1989)
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This time it’s the qualifiers for Italia ’90. Dennis Gedling recounts that the Kiwis dudded us and the referees robbed us. Oh, and we did a pretty good job of shooting ourselves in the foot again.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 81-Another French Football Farce (1993)
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Dennis Gedling revisits a magic moment in Bulgarian football. The French were merde.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 82-Don’t Cry For Me John Kosmina (1977)
March 25, 2014 by 3 Comments
Dennis Gedling explains how the Australian Soccer Federation single-handedly destroyed our World Cup Qualifying campaign in 1978.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 83-Ray Houghton and Paul McGrath Are The Kings of New York (1994)
March 24, 2014 by 2 Comments
Dennis Gedling tells the tale of a boozer with bad knees leading Ireland to a memorable first round defeat over favourites Italy.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 84-Ronaldo Breaks the Goalscoring Record (2006)
March 23, 2014 by 2 Comments
Dennis Gedling remembers Ronaldo as a goal scoring genius across 3 World Cups, even if he was overweight and unfit by 2006.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 85-The Hand of Suarez (2010)
March 22, 2014 by 2 Comments
Dennis Gedling tells the tale of Africans ‘bottling it’ and South American ruthlessness triumphing in a tense Quarter Final in 2010.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 86-The Ulsterman Forget Their Troubles (1982)
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Dennis Gedling tells how the Ulster Paddies of 1982 briefly lifted Ireland out of its ‘troubles’.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 87-Better Than Sex! (1978)
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Dennis Gedling relives the Scots’ unfailing capacity to lose gloriously.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 88 -The Great Cheating Condor of Chile (1989)
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The Condor Rojas and his less than surgically precise attempt to promote his country, Chile.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 89-Kennet Andersson’s ode to humble goal umpire. (1994)
March 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dennis Gedling tells the tale of how AFL goal umpiring was demonstrated on the World Cup stage.
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