Facts aren't really your thing are they? We can discuss events in the past as well as the future, hence history books. You should go and read...
I remember seeing the banners at Spain '82 and then...Mexico hosted it. I read that FIFA whipped out a list of impossible requirements after...
by Chris Sartorius - who is that?
Spector speaks on the game: http://www.yanks-abroad.com/content.php?mode=news&id=3104
World Cup hosting depends on FIFA politics. If the US wants to host 2010 or any other it has to increase weaseling around the world like Blatter...
Barnes was just about unplayable for Liverpool in 1989, but those two games you mentioned are pretty much his only two England successes. Why...
Wingers seem rarer and rarer these days but were once the norm. Garrincha springs to mind as a great from the past, Ryan Giggs as one from today.
I get the impression Italy likes to keep the English hooligan stereotype alive, maybe because of Heysel, and a result is blind to its own fans'...
Leaving deaths aside, France spring to mind for cocking up the 1982 WC SF & the 1994 final qualifier v Bulgaria, but also Italy in the Euro 2000...
Now what about Austria's 'Wunderteam' in the 1930s. Wasn't Hugo Meisl supposed to have pre-dated total football with 'The Whirl'?
Compare the experience of going to a game in England (pleasurable) and Italy (frightening) - I rest my case :)
Bugiardo, e' il San Siro!
Italian policing of football is clueless, brutal and awful, Italian fan culture is the same. English fans do not launch missiles like Italian ones...
