Ireland at USA '94.

shamalive

This clip isn't as good as the Italia '90 one that I posted.
Not as many happy memories of a nation gone mad.

Still, a nice goal against Italy, and a win too as revenge for putting us
out of the competition in 1990.

Enjoy the clip, 29MB download.

Have a lamp of it here:
http://www.iol.ie/~shamalive/usa.htm

Pigman II

Ireland 1994 = 36 year old player on the verge of violence after being prevented access onto the pitch to help his team.

Ireland 2003-2005 = half-a dozen players ranging in ages 28-34 'retire' despite still playing top-flight football.

Says it all really imho.

whiskeyman

watching this makes me really want Aldo to get the Irish job

padser

Watching it makes me feel sorry for packie

shamalive

padser wrote:

Watching it makes me feel sorry for packie

Yeah, he was absolutely gutted when the second one went in.
Has to be said that he should have stopped it though.

Kingp35

Yeah it was a terrible mistake by Packie against the dutch. The win against Italy was a great result. Probably one of our best although Pagluica(SP) really should have saved Houghtans shot.

cruiserweight

Yeah I forgot how annoyed shal we say Aldo was ! Didn't we have a disallowed goal from McGrath in that game against the Dutch?

Lemlin

cruiserweight wrote:

Yeah I forgot how annoyed shal we say Aldo was ! Didn't we have a disallowed goal from McGrath in that game against the Dutch?

Yep, it was a header. Houghton missed a good chance as well.

cruiserweight

Lemlin wrote:

Yep, it was a header. Houghton missed a good chance as well.

You sure I could have sworn it was disallowed for a high foot!

Lemlin

cruiserweight wrote:

You sure I could have sworn it was disallowed for a high foot!

Think it was a header, don't quote me on it

Remember Houghton missing a good chance. I think McGrath's was disallowed because he jumped on the defender though.

MrJoeSoap

I have a great 6 minute video of the highlights of the tournament in general, anyone know where I can upload it? Rapidshare and Putfile won't let me.

(Its 57mbs)

whiskeyman

MrJoeSoap wrote:

I have a great 6 minute video of the highlights of the tournament in general, anyone know where I can upload it? Rapidshare and Putfile won't let me.

(Its 57mbs)

Plenty more of highlights here
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/p/video.html#

eirebhoy

MrJoeSoap wrote:

I have a great 6 minute video of the highlights of the tournament in general, anyone know where I can upload it? Rapidshare and Putfile won't let me.

(Its 57mbs)

www.yousendit.com

KdjaCL

Only time i seen a header scored from outside the box with the keeper in goal.
Super header one of the best ever!


kdjac

Nunu

Lemlin wrote:

Think it was a header, don't quote me on it

Remember Houghton missing a good chance. I think McGrath's was disallowed because he jumped on the defender though.

I remember it like it was yesterday. McGrath was my hero and no one in a green shirt deserved a world cup goal more than him. It was disallowed for high feet - a wrong decision in my opinion. McGrath flicked the ball over Rijkaard as he stooped down around waist high level to head the ball clear, then cooly slotted the ball past the keeper.

Pepe LeFrits

Goosebumps all over watching that Houghton goal. Keane and McGrath in the backbone of the Ireland team, think we'll ever have it that good again?

arbeitsscheuer

Nunu wrote:

I remember it like it was yesterday. McGrath was my hero and no one in a green shirt deserved a world cup goal more than him. It was disallowed for high feet - a wrong decision in my opinion. McGrath flicked the ball over Rijkaard as he stooped down around waist high level to head the ball clear, then cooly slotted the ball past the keeper.

Total agreement. For a long time I went around insisting that Ireland had only lost 2-1 and not 2-0, makes me smile at my own naivety tbh. I was only 9, sure.

Phelan and Babb f**ked us between them for the first goal, and Bonner, well, must've been mesmerised by Jonk's brand spanking new shaven head or something... Inexplicable lapse from such a legend.

But it was a fun world cup, seeing teams like Sweden, Bulgaria and Romania kicking ass against heavyweights like Argentina and Germany was fun. The Nigerians were robbed against Italy as well... Great world cup.

eirebhoy

KdjaC wrote:

Only time i seen a header scored from outside the box with the keeper in goal.

Israel scored 2 in the last campaign, one against us.

whiskeyman

eirebhoy wrote:

Israel scored 2 in the last campaign, one against us.

This is probably the only time we're actually thankful you didnt back that up with a video link

YeatsCounty

whiskeyman wrote:

Plenty more of highlights here
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/p/video.html#

www.megaupload.com/en/

Unlimited downloads, just as long as there is at least one download a month.

The last time I checked, yousendit had a limit of 7 days or 25 downloads. That might have changed though.

Ruu_Old

Ah USA 94 was great. Was in the pub watching McGrath against Holland, what a genius and a piece of magic against Holland, pity it was disallowed. He was definately the backbone of the team.

eirebhoy

YeatsCounty wrote:

www.megaupload.com/en/

Unlimited downloads, just as long as there is at least one download a month.

The last time I checked, yousendit had a limit of 7 days or 25 downloads. That might have changed though.

Am I the only one who finds megaupload as slow as hell though?

Benedict XVI

I can't understand how people are looking back at this WC with fondness from an Irish point of view.
We went to the tournament on a high having beaten both Germany and Holland in away friendlies. I know they were only friendlies but the media had plenty to say about the value of the wins coming up to a WC.

In the tournament itself we beat Italy with a flukey goal (yes it was a fluke). We lost dismally to Mexico and were party to one of the most boring game in history in the 0-0 draw with Norway.
We got to the 2nd round and were outclassed by Holland (the same team we had beaten in an away friendly in April).

Then there was the home coming party which was an embracement.

Basically it was a disaster, we may have beaten Italy but they went on to the final remember.

Charlton should have gone after WC ’94, to me it seemed at the time the natural end to his reign.

KevIRL

eirebhoy wrote:

Am I the only one who finds megaupload as slow as hell though?

Yeah its terribly slow, guess thats the pay off for them giving unlimited downloads.

BaZmO*

Weren't the pubs on strike for the first match over here?

B.

shamalive

BaZmO* wrote:

Weren't the pubs on strike for the first match over here?

B.

They were, I cut that piece out of the clip... the file was getting too big!