You'd have thought that he could have afforded a properly-tailored suit, though. No excuse for looking like a bookmaker or provincial estate-agent. Even our family doctor was better-dressed.
Classic Matches, Thanks for providing this 1978 World Cup preview programme. Again a very good panel and great insights from Keegan and Cruyff into top players. Once more one can feel that sense of excitement and anticipation before a big tournament.
I was 11 when the 1978 world cup was on, and I was glued to the TV for the duration. I remember discussing every game with my mates at school, I was in the final year of the upper juniors.
I’m the same age. It was the summer before I started secondary school. It was the first World Cup I was able to follow fully. Had the sticker album, Shoot magazine coverage and everything. I think most people had acquired colour TV sets by then so it was their first colour World Cup.
Because he was a no nonsense Englishman up against bunch of stuffy scared Englishmen, the F.A. You're right, he should have got the job, instead they went for easily controllable and safe option of Ron Greenwood and then Bobby Robson. Nothing against those two, but Clough would have been better. Us English wanted him, the F.A. were scared of him.
As a hungarrian never fodgeet. My first mundial. In school we hoped that scotland will be one of the best amd will win against . Peru . But never forget their winagainst fcken neederland🥰
1978 World Cup Preview - Action Argentina 0548am 8.8.23 the character clough overshadowed the man, i feel. interesting to have people in the departments they are consummate within waffle on to the umpteenth degree to the media's glee... about anything and everything..... they all need a bit of good copy, don't they? do you reckon they will bring back this format for future world cup events? as for Argentina - i doubt there was anyway any foreign team was going to win even if it won!!! i envisioned mass catastrophe if holland had bothered to turn up that night and beat the Argies as anyone worth his salt knows or knew they could...
Kevin was a Great player! But what he said, " A couple of easy games for Scotland!" Anything but easy! Ja, ja, ja! Draw against Iran, and got outclassed by Peru 3-1.
Cruyff used to go to the Barcelona youth training ground, take a five minute look at a certain player, then say to the coach something like "move him to center mid" or "move him to the wing." More than one pro got their start that way.
Derek Johnstone must have created some kind of record. He scored in 3 consecutive games at Hampden Park in 11 days in 1978. The Scottish Cup Final, Scotland v Northern Ireland and Scotland v Wales - all headers.
Argies as anyone worth his salt knows or knew they could... 0555am 8.8.23 as a young kid all those home nations sides seemed filthy in comparison to good ol' english fair play....
@@davidmurray5926 He had a point you know - some fans should take their share of the responsibility. Turning up mob handed and late with no tickets and hoping the Police would let you in because they didn't want trouble, was standard practice in the 80's at big games.
1978 World Cup Preview - Action Argentina 0602am 8.8.23 slower game? watching football these days that bit of waffle has turned out to be a curse, young man. watching england try to create a base from which to launch an attack is tedious. and i mean tedious. we have seen the same formation launch these slothful excuses for precision and poise take the same lacklustre stance against any opposition you could care to mention since the days of ron greenwood... it's that bad!! and now the women's game - once a style all it's own... has now taken on the same boring lacklustre docile goonish style the men's game has clownishy clung to for all they're worth. we want fast paced and entertaining football. watching folk run into spaceto then see their teammates adhere to a flat back formation is as tiresome as listening to clough's hackneyed point of view... we might as well look out the window at those flashing lights they're so eager to flash into one's front room as a poor man's entertainment scenario... wtf!!! get on with it win something ffs!!! is about al needs be said. as i should think they know how to play football by now.... sod text book football...
@@marknewbold2583fact as many Forest fans witnessed what occurred. Those drunken liverpool fans should own up. Guess what they won't. There is also past history at Heysel and those Italian supporters that were charged at and died on the terraces.
That brought back some fond memories. It was the first world cup I ever saw and it made me fall in love with the game. RIP Brian Moore and Brian Clough.
Great insight from Keegan, especially on Platini and France which despite being the only team that beat Brazil on their European tour that year is pretty much ignored here. Lady Fortuna just wasn't going to be on France's side for the next 3 Cups, to say the least.
@@classicfootballmatches6167 Thanks for that trip down memory lane, the first world cup I watched as a 6 year old, I remember those Arie Haan exocets they were fantastic. ⚽🗺
When the screen went blank on the first break , back in 1978 the trick was to bang the top of the television as hard as possible , then you'd get the picture back !
They seemed so fresh and energetic in this clip.Moore,Clough and Cryuff died in their late 60s and would be in their 90s if they were still with us .People have lived well into their 90s even gone on to be centenarian
@@thoskel1 Top footballers live life in the fast lane - few live that long. You may have a grandfather who spent his life pushing pens in some office and is now crumbling like an old church at age 95, but a footballer lives a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
@tancreddehauteville764 There are 6 members of the England WC winning team of 1966 still living although Bob Charlton have been diagnosed with dementia like his brother Jack Cloughie was too fond of the booze which probably cost him a go at the England job.What a pity . Never heard of Brian Moore or Johanne Cruyff being into drugs,sex and rock like the great George Best and Madonna. You can't paint every top footballer, manager or commentator with the same brush
@@tancreddehauteville764 Incidentally your wrong about my Grandfather and my Grandmother was stil enjoying party's andl flying to the US while she was well into her 90s
I remember watching this pre-World Cup episode. Argentina had probably the best opening ceremony of all World Cups and the best goals scored in any World Cup tournament. Cruyff didn’t actually go to Argentina because his home had been raided by burglars whilst he was away and he had death threats the year before which affected him and his family. Regards hosting the World Cup in Argentina, those who didn’t want it hosting there were right, it was proved corrupt and the Argentina Government were killing its own citizens.
I have quite a few Qualifier games from the 74, 78, 82, 86 & 90 World Cups. I'm sure i have uploaded a few already. But please be patient and i will be uploading more in the coming weeks!! 👍
Wow I was 11 years old then remember it like like yesterday loud and clear as day great times seriously no bills or mortgages 😂not a care in world playing football with school mates also down my fathers boxing club and I became so successful at it down years Arsenal in 78 FA Cup final against Ipswich Town also my brother in ABA National Boxing finals also at Wembley great year and times 👌
Those 16 team world cups were brutal. Hard to qualify and look at some of those groups. Argentina and Scotland's in particular. A bloodbath. Hosts these days get cakewalk groups.
Goes to show those odds are not to be sniffed at, I mean who'd have thought Scotland (getting stuffed by Peru and drew v Iran) had a better chance than Italy?! Couldn't make it up could you?
Football is a strange game. England's national team during the 1970's was packed with accomplished, experienced and skillful footballers and missed out on qualification for two world cups. The 1980's England team was run of the mill and played the hoof-it -high style and yet only Argentina and Maradona and "the hand of God" stopped England from reaching a World Cup Final in 1986.
I disagree on England in the 80's. They had good set-up and some very skillful and solid players. With Hoddle marshalling the midfield, the players passed the ball around, looking to do overlaps against the opposition. And some of the performances were very good
it wasn't so tragic. for the 1974 wc qualifiers, England was outclassed by Poland, one of the best teams of the world at the time, and they would go on to defeat Argentina, Italy and Brazil in the upcoming finals. something that i honestly can't picture england doing. not even today
This is because world cup qualification was extremely difficult when the tournament was only 16 teams strong. Poland in 1974 and Italy in 1978 were top quality teams and England was simply unlucky to be in groups with them.
If only the great Kevin Keegan could have played against or with Roberto Dinamite. The Brazilian number 20 in the 1978 World Cup was Brazil’s best player in that World Cup. Zico’s World Cup would be 1982 where he shone like a star. There is a saying in Brazil that if Roberto was in Serginho’s place in 1982 the outcome of that World Cul could have been different.
No chance. Your poor defence and goal keeper were bad. Brazil weren't an actual team more individuals. The midfield was world class. Although people forget that Antognoni had a valid goal not given and the game should have finished 4-2 in 1982 to better team Italy. Also Brazil were fortunate in 78 game against Italy as the Italians hit four posts and should have scored. Result would of have been different if not for those posts.
I only have the 1970 opening ceremony, that i could try and upload (copyright permitted). The only other piece i have is a preview of the 70 Final, but because it has footage of the games, copyright wont let me post it. such a shame to be honest!! I also have the Opening Ceremony's from the 74 & 78 Finals too, plus the full draw from the 1982 World Cup.
Unfortunately FIFA wont let you upload any World Cup games as they own the copyright. Such a shame as i have every World Cup game (full games) from 1966 to 2014, all in great quality.
@@classicfootballmatches6167 It's terrible that they do that considering the FIFA and UEFA YT channels are so poor. I'm looking for extended highlights of WC and Euro games between 1966 and 1990 mainly.
Yeh ok but at least Ally pumped up the Nation and had us all going.Never be anything likd it again and by god was it a great Memory😂🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
With a decent manager that highly talented Scottish team could've progressed far into the tournament. What a mistake not to have played Souness earlier in the group.
@@imnhtp2006 What Holland really needed was somebody in the middle snapping up goals. They struggled at times because they played with three wingers - Rep, Rene van der Kerkhof and Rensenbrink. Given a real centre-forward like Ruud Geels, Holland would have been transformed. He was also excellent in the air and would have played havoc with Argentina's central defence, but he declined to go to Argentina apparently because of political reasons.
They would have been a more complete team! But as far as winning, we'll never know! A Final is a match like no other! And Passarella was really good at ruling out great players. Plus they had Kempes at the top of his game. Wow! He was almost unstoppable. I've never seen any player in the history take a World Cup like that!!!
@@GriefTourist Then again! We'll never know! All I can say is that Argentina were so hungry to win the World Cup. And the likes of Kempes and Passarella were at the top of their games!!!
Ally McLeod was brilliant and had us Scot's believing(rightly so)but sadly lacked good judgment and sussing out deadly opponents that Scotland succumbed to in their 1st match at Argentina.Had we a better technically manager then like a Stein or Ferguson then we WOULD have gone further...
At 02:20 in this video Brian Moore is in the 1978 Guinness Book of Records for having the biggest forehead in the history of humanity 🤣😂😅 A record that still stands to this day and is unlikely to ever be broken.
Peru, Iran, Scotland and Holland. PISH! Still at least we got there twice when England were nowhere. Also Scotland was unbeaten in 3 games in 74, not at all bad for a tiny country.
49:00 Off topic. English football was a shambles back then. A youth manager who was too busy to attend to his youth team.😂 It explains a lot. Scottish football has gone the opposite way, from one of the favourites to permanent 500/1 outsiders.
1978 World Cup Preview - Action Argentina 0632am 8.8.23 sepp mayer? one of the few who could catch a ball - refer to nowadays keepers who seem to have taken on the American style of keeping wherein the goalie isn't deemed a player in his own right, merely some sap who can punch or block ball with his hands as opposed to dictating the play in the box or making sure his defenders are abreast of the situation when on the defensive. not good, is it?
Half an hour of this 'documentary' wasted on the question of Scotland's chances of actually winning the World Cup. Fortunately they were the only British team to qualify, otherwise this would have taken 3 hours. That's the problem of British teams at World Cups or European Championships. They always overestimated their abilities and put too much pressure on the players. Nobody outside Britain would expect Scotland to become World Champions. They were on a level with Peru and Iran, so getting out of that group would be a success. But of course they're 'expected to beat Peru' (they lost 1:3) and Iran (1:1).
Considering that there was a military dictatorship ruling in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, during which time it committed all kinds of human rights abuses, it is an absolute disgrace that FIFA allowed the World Cup to be staged there. They must have know what was going on there at the time, but they simply looked the other way...
RIP Brian Moore. A gentleman.
Yes 👍
Brian Moores voice is long missed, even to my Scottish ears, a legend
I'd watch it all again just for Brian Moore.A classic British broadcaster and commentator.
You'd have thought that he could have afforded a properly-tailored suit, though.
No excuse for looking like a bookmaker or provincial estate-agent. Even our family doctor was better-dressed.
Brian Moore was pure class
R.I.P Brian Moore ⚽🥅
The two greatest Brians that ever graced a tv studio. Loved em both in the day,,well, thanks for posting this. Brings back the memories
Classic Matches,
Thanks for providing this 1978 World Cup preview programme. Again a very good panel and great insights from Keegan and Cruyff into top players. Once more one can feel that sense of excitement and anticipation before a big tournament.
I was 11 when the 1978 world cup was on, and I was glued to the TV for the duration. I remember discussing every game with my mates at school, I was in the final year of the upper juniors.
I’m the same age. It was the summer before I started secondary school. It was the first World Cup I was able to follow fully. Had the sticker album, Shoot magazine coverage and everything. I think most people had acquired colour TV sets by then so it was their first colour World Cup.
Great seeing 78 preview that was the best world cup i saw
As a Scotsman all I can say is Brian Clough what a man, How he never got the England job was beyond belief.
Because he was a no nonsense Englishman up against bunch of stuffy scared Englishmen, the F.A. You're right, he should have got the job, instead they went for easily controllable and safe option of Ron Greenwood and then Bobby Robson. Nothing against those two, but Clough would have been better. Us English wanted him, the F.A. were scared of him.
This was the world cup you should have done well what a team you had
As a hungarrian never fodgeet. My first mundial. In school we hoped that scotland will be one of the best amd will win against . Peru . But never forget their winagainst fcken neederland🥰
Because his style of management would not have worked at international level. A great club manager nevertheless
1978 World Cup Preview - Action Argentina 0548am 8.8.23 the character clough overshadowed the man, i feel. interesting to have people in the departments they are consummate within waffle on to the umpteenth degree to the media's glee... about anything and everything..... they all need a bit of good copy, don't they? do you reckon they will bring back this format for future world cup events? as for Argentina - i doubt there was anyway any foreign team was going to win even if it won!!! i envisioned mass catastrophe if holland had bothered to turn up that night and beat the Argies as anyone worth his salt knows or knew they could...
What Legends Zico, Platini, Dalglish, Rumminega and all
KALLE RUMMENIGGE, damn it! I still have his (and Breitner's) autograph from 1982.
Pezzey.
Learning about football history and this channel is wow
Cruyff and Keegan, they were not only top players but also real football experts
Kevin was a Great player! But what he said, " A couple of easy games for Scotland!" Anything but easy! Ja, ja, ja! Draw against Iran, and got outclassed by Peru 3-1.
And one of them was a half decent manager.
Cruyff used to go to the Barcelona youth training ground, take a five minute look at a certain player, then say to the coach something like "move him to center mid" or "move him to the wing." More than one pro got their start that way.
Wonderful memories. "Wille Donachie who's never scored for Scotland, has now scored for Wales"
Derek Johnstone must have created some kind of record. He scored in 3 consecutive games at Hampden Park in 11 days in 1978. The Scottish Cup Final, Scotland v Northern Ireland and Scotland v Wales - all headers.
Beautiful goal tho, wasn't it? 😂
@@Ruda-n4h But he wasn't included in the squad.
@@mondegreen9709 DJ for me!
Argies as anyone worth his salt knows or knew they could... 0555am 8.8.23 as a young kid all those home nations sides seemed filthy in comparison to good ol' english fair play....
Crazy that two points for a win lasted so long
This is gold! The good old days before the world went to absolute shit. And remember what a brilliant time this era was for music.
2007 was the end of ends.
@@johnkeane1419 Certainly the early part of the 21st century.
How very true.
With you on that
The world ended just a year later with the election of the creature, Thatcher.
If only we'd known at the time...
Brian Clough speaks so much sense. Blunt of course, but so much sense.
Unless he’s accusing Liverpool fans of causing the Hillsborough disaster that is.
@@davidmurray5926 He had a point you know - some fans should take their share of the responsibility. Turning up mob handed and late with no tickets and hoping the Police would let you in because they didn't want trouble, was standard practice in the 80's at big games.
@@Ruda-n4h no. This has been proven to be a false story. If you believe The Sun tells the truth then dream on
1978 World Cup Preview - Action Argentina 0602am 8.8.23 slower game? watching football these days that bit of waffle has turned out to be a curse, young man. watching england try to create a base from which to launch an attack is tedious. and i mean tedious. we have seen the same formation launch these slothful excuses for precision and poise take the same lacklustre stance against any opposition you could care to mention since the days of ron greenwood... it's that bad!! and now the women's game - once a style all it's own... has now taken on the same boring lacklustre docile goonish style the men's game has clownishy clung to for all they're worth. we want fast paced and entertaining football. watching folk run into spaceto then see their teammates adhere to a flat back formation is as tiresome as listening to clough's hackneyed point of view... we might as well look out the window at those flashing lights they're so eager to flash into one's front room as a poor man's entertainment scenario... wtf!!! get on with it win something ffs!!! is about al needs be said. as i should think they know how to play football by now.... sod text book football...
@@marknewbold2583fact as many Forest fans witnessed what occurred. Those drunken liverpool fans should own up. Guess what they won't. There is also past history at Heysel and those Italian supporters that were charged at and died on the terraces.
Brian Clough, what a man he was. Great manager and funny too. 😄👍
cluff was toss. leeds soon hoofed him out.
And what a talker! He should have gone into politics, not football.
Cubillas - what a player!
Too right!
That brought back some fond memories. It was the first world cup I ever saw and it made me fall in love with the game. RIP Brian Moore and Brian Clough.
Wonderful insight into the past. Thanks for posting.
The 1978 ITV World Cup Production Team Were Nearly All From Thames and LWT
Really excellent programme.
Nice to see a relaxed Kevin Keegan !
Great insight from Keegan, especially on Platini and France which despite being the only team that beat Brazil on their European tour that year is pretty much ignored here. Lady Fortuna just wasn't going to be on France's side for the next 3 Cups, to say the least.
Thanks so much for sharing these Gems.
Thanks so much for uploading this.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@classicfootballmatches6167 Thanks for that trip down memory lane, the first world cup I watched as a 6 year old, I remember those Arie Haan exocets they were fantastic. ⚽🗺
When the screen went blank on the first break , back in 1978 the trick was to bang the top of the television as hard as possible , then you'd get the picture back !
fantastic post thank you😊.
Great comments from kev about Scotland …..he nailed that!!😅
Ja, ja, ja!!!
Brian Clough was spot on.
Great stuff. What a treat.
Amazing how far back Italy were in the betting.
Brian Moore , brilliant
Hard to believe that Brian Moore ,Brian Clough and Johanne Cryuff are now deceased except for Keegan.May they rest in peace
Not that hard to believe - this programme was broadcast 45 years ago.
They seemed so fresh and energetic in this clip.Moore,Clough and Cryuff died in their late 60s and would be in their 90s if they were still with us .People have lived well into their 90s even gone on to be centenarian
@@thoskel1 Top footballers live life in the fast lane - few live that long. You may have a grandfather who spent his life pushing pens in some office and is now crumbling like an old church at age 95, but a footballer lives a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
@tancreddehauteville764 There are 6 members of the England WC winning team of 1966 still living although Bob Charlton have been diagnosed with dementia like his brother Jack
Cloughie was too fond of the booze which probably cost him a go at the England job.What a pity .
Never heard of Brian Moore or Johanne Cruyff being into drugs,sex and rock like the great George Best and Madonna.
You can't paint every top footballer, manager or commentator with the same brush
@@tancreddehauteville764 Incidentally your wrong about my Grandfather and my Grandmother was stil enjoying party's andl flying to the US while she was well into her 90s
I remember watching this pre-World Cup episode. Argentina had probably the best opening ceremony of all World Cups and the best goals scored in any World Cup tournament. Cruyff didn’t actually go to Argentina because his home had been raided by burglars whilst he was away and he had death threats the year before which affected him and his family. Regards hosting the World Cup in Argentina, those who didn’t want it hosting there were right, it was proved corrupt and the Argentina Government were killing its own citizens.
Great job . Is there any way we can see World Cup 1978 and 1982 qualifications zone Europe
I have quite a few Qualifier games from the 74, 78, 82, 86 & 90 World Cups. I'm sure i have uploaded a few already. But please be patient and i will be uploading more in the coming weeks!! 👍
@@classicfootballmatches6167 I would like to see the Wales v Scotland - Anfield '77 and the Wales v U.S.S.R -Wrexham '81 qualifiers.
It amazes me that John McGovern was never capped for Scotland
I don’t remember any of this, and yet I was married in 79
30:20 he didn't go because his home in Spain was robbed at gunpoint and he wasn't prepared to leave his family.
Iran did have a world class training facility. Great program.
Wow I was 11 years old then remember it like like yesterday loud and clear as day great times seriously no bills or mortgages 😂not a care in world playing football with school mates also down my fathers boxing club and I became so successful at it down years Arsenal in 78 FA Cup final against Ipswich Town also my brother in ABA National Boxing finals also at Wembley great year and times 👌
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Those 16 team world cups were brutal. Hard to qualify and look at some of those groups. Argentina and Scotland's in particular. A bloodbath. Hosts these days get cakewalk groups.
True. I bet the 2026 WC group stage matches will be practice matches.
Brian Moore. What more do i need to say.
Absolute the Best, a truly Gentleman and Personality .in every sense, R.I.P Sir , we are missing you.
Goes to show those odds are not to be sniffed at, I mean who'd have thought Scotland (getting stuffed by Peru and drew v Iran) had a better chance than Italy?! Couldn't make it up could you?
Football is a strange game.
England's national team during the 1970's was packed with accomplished, experienced and skillful footballers and missed out on qualification for two world cups. The 1980's England team was run of the mill and played the hoof-it -high style and yet only Argentina and Maradona and "the hand of God" stopped England from reaching a World Cup Final in 1986.
I disagree on England in the 80's. They had good set-up and some very skillful and solid players. With Hoddle marshalling the midfield, the players passed the ball around, looking to do overlaps against the opposition. And some of the performances were very good
it wasn't so tragic. for the 1974 wc qualifiers, England was outclassed by Poland, one of the best teams of the world at the time, and they would go on to defeat Argentina, Italy and Brazil in the upcoming finals. something that i honestly can't picture england doing. not even today
@@リンゴ酢-b8g Poland finished 3rd, I think, in 1974
This is because world cup qualification was extremely difficult when the tournament was only 16 teams strong. Poland in 1974 and Italy in 1978 were top quality teams and England was simply unlucky to be in groups with them.
If only the great Kevin Keegan could have played against or with Roberto Dinamite. The Brazilian number 20 in the 1978 World Cup was Brazil’s best player in that World Cup. Zico’s World Cup would be 1982 where he shone like a star. There is a saying in Brazil that if Roberto was in Serginho’s place in 1982 the outcome of that World Cul could have been different.
No chance. Your poor defence and goal keeper were bad. Brazil weren't an actual team more individuals. The midfield was world class. Although people forget that Antognoni had a valid goal not given and the game should have finished 4-2 in 1982 to better team Italy. Also Brazil were fortunate in 78 game against Italy as the Italians hit four posts and should have scored. Result would of have been different if not for those posts.
Keegan sounds like a member of Take That
Archie Gemmels goal
Yes, immortalised forever, remember it like yesterday!
The best thing about this '78 World Cup was watching Scotland get humiliated ! 🤣
The Scottish team had brilliant world class players back then and should have done much better as they briefly showed against the Dutch.
If one was wondering why Holland didn’t beat Argentina in the final, the answer is @ 28:45
Scotland player Willie Johnson with dopping...
Hi bosss any other previewss loving thissss
Did I really just hear Keegan say that Scotland had a real chance to win that World Cup??! Wow.
Great Nostalgia here, do you have any uploads about ITV world cup 1970?
FIFA own all the copyright for the World Cup, so wont allow you to put anything game wise on TH-cam. Even this 78 Review had to be edited!!
I only have the 1970 opening ceremony, that i could try and upload (copyright permitted). The only other piece i have is a preview of the 70 Final, but because it has footage of the games, copyright wont let me post it. such a shame to be honest!!
I also have the Opening Ceremony's from the 74 & 78 Finals too, plus the full draw from the 1982 World Cup.
THIEFA. Corporate scumbags!
Hello. Love the uploads! Is there any way we can see World Cup games on YT or anywhere else?
Unfortunately FIFA wont let you upload any World Cup games as they own the copyright. Such a shame as i have every World Cup game (full games) from 1966 to 2014, all in great quality.
@@classicfootballmatches6167 It's terrible that they do that considering the FIFA and UEFA YT channels are so poor. I'm looking for extended highlights of WC and Euro games between 1966 and 1990 mainly.
McLeod's interview shows you need a professional in charge at that level.
Yeh ok but at least Ally pumped up the Nation and had us all going.Never be anything likd it again and by god was it a great Memory😂🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
@@davidgammie1310 But with a more professional approach they would have done themselves justice.
With a decent manager that highly talented Scottish team could've progressed far into the tournament. What a mistake not to have played Souness earlier in the group.
Harry Maguire in a previous life there in defence for Scotland
In a previous life Harry was Ian Ure.
If Cruyff had gone to the WC 78, Holland would have won.
@@imnhtp2006 What Holland really needed was somebody in the middle snapping up goals. They struggled at times because they played with three wingers - Rep, Rene van der Kerkhof and Rensenbrink. Given a real centre-forward like Ruud Geels, Holland would have been transformed. He was also excellent in the air and would have played havoc with Argentina's central defence, but he declined to go to Argentina apparently because of political reasons.
If Beckenbauer and Breitner had gone West Germany would have won it easy.
30:20 he didn't go because his home in Spain was robbed at gunpoint and he wasn't prepared to leave his family.
They would have been a more complete team! But as far as winning, we'll never know! A Final is a match like no other! And Passarella was really good at ruling out great players. Plus they had Kempes at the top of his game. Wow! He was almost unstoppable. I've never seen any player in the history take a World Cup like that!!!
@@GriefTourist Then again! We'll never know! All I can say is that Argentina were so hungry to win the World Cup. And the likes of Kempes and Passarella were at the top of their games!!!
McHubris personified.
Remember Cubilas what a goal against Scotland stuck with me 🤣🤣
I have a good feeling about Scotland winning the World Cup. Peru and Iran should be pushovers.
😂😂😂
@@fezhat7096 Peru are cr@p. They'll hammer them 😄😄
Agree. No chance against Holland though.
We at least got to the finals in 74 & 78, mock yea not. I bet you're English.
@@seltaeb9691 Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but I'm not British at all. 🥲
Brian Moore quite noticeably older looking in just 4 years compared with ‘74 ?
Ally McLeod was brilliant and had us Scot's believing(rightly so)but sadly lacked good judgment and sussing out deadly opponents that Scotland succumbed to in their 1st match at
Argentina.Had we a better technically manager then like a Stein or Ferguson then we WOULD have gone further...
Scotland had Ferguson at the helm for Mexico '86, they still failed to progress beyond the group stages!
Which I would suggest shows he wasn't brilliant.
Most Scots were sensible and didn't believe they would win it
You would have. Most definitely. What a Scottish team. Full of talent.
At 02:20 in this video Brian Moore is in the 1978 Guinness Book of Records for having the biggest forehead in the history of humanity 🤣😂😅
A record that still stands to this day and is unlikely to ever be broken.
Love the way they call NI,Ireland 🤣
great show, but they clearly didn't do their homework on argentina
I remember the awful opening game followed by a tournament to remember for many reasons.
Peru, Iran, Scotland and Holland. PISH! Still at least we got there twice when England were nowhere. Also Scotland was unbeaten in 3 games in 74, not at all bad for a tiny country.
And your second best performance in team sports is... :P
Scotland has about the same population as Sweden , Denmark
That's true, they lost one game out of 6 in 74 and 78. Not that bad.
Where is England???
Hi there J. Did u live in Lisburn some years ago?
Karl Heinz Rummenigge the west German striker
Keegan.
England is pioneer in the sporting ❤😊media
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49:00 Off topic. English football was a shambles back then. A youth manager who was too busy to attend to his youth team.😂 It explains a lot. Scottish football has gone the opposite way, from one of the favourites to permanent 500/1 outsiders.
8:08 oh dear
Does make you wonder how Scotland never went on to win the competition! 😂😂
@@duncanevans5197 Is that some sort of joke?
Anyone got a Time Machine?
Yes it's called TH-cam, a most marvellous invention!
And Scotland fans are still singing,
" We want our money back, We want our money back" 😂🤣
England 🏴 not qualify then I did not know that
Brian Moore wow! Would get weekly capsule shows in Trinidad all hosted by him. Good times.
1978 World Cup Preview - Action Argentina 0632am 8.8.23 sepp mayer? one of the few who could catch a ball - refer to nowadays keepers who seem to have taken on the American style of keeping wherein the goalie isn't deemed a player in his own right, merely some sap who can punch or block ball with his hands as opposed to dictating the play in the box or making sure his defenders are abreast of the situation when on the defensive. not good, is it?
22:50 Por eso q perdieron 6 a 0 vs argentina xd
Poor souls, trying to find a cosmic combination of events that permits Scotland to win a world cup.....
Bettega 🤗
Scotland didn´t go through the group stage, just like in every World cup.
Italy showed the World how to attack with your defenders and with that won the 1982 World Cup England as usual all talk and no cup.
Wasn't Roughie great?
Clough knew Ally Macleod was a crap manager.
Scotland beat the best team of the tournament,netherlands, but couldn't defeat Iran?!
Half an hour of this 'documentary' wasted on the question of Scotland's chances of actually winning the World Cup. Fortunately they were the only British team to qualify, otherwise this would have taken 3 hours. That's the problem of British teams at World Cups or European Championships. They always overestimated their abilities and put too much pressure on the players. Nobody outside Britain would expect Scotland to become World Champions. They were on a level with Peru and Iran, so getting out of that group would be a success. But of course they're 'expected to beat Peru' (they lost 1:3) and Iran (1:1).
Saor Alba
How could the referee allowed them to play in the same colored jerseys?
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also known as the cup of shame! Peru 1x6 Argentina. Dictatorship Cup!
Where England there 😂😂😂😂
Was cocaine involved in this production?
they should have made clough the manager ,,,
Considering that there was a military dictatorship ruling in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, during which time it committed all kinds of human rights abuses, it is an absolute disgrace that FIFA allowed the World Cup to be staged there. They must have know what was going on there at the time, but they simply looked the other way...
Wah wah.
That has to be the worst opening sequence for a world cup programme I've ever seen lol.
A bit dodgy that world cup 😮
9/1 Scotland. 🤣🤣🤣