Its the one fault of the World Cup... VAR was supposed to eliminate diving and wrestling with cards being given yet its being ignored even more by the Referees
That was a great game and reminded me of watching the world cup as a kid and just enjoying watching live international football as a neutral (which is appropriate, as Switzerland were involved).
He was a keeper and Maradona about 4'3", if he'd have done his job and jumped properly then Maradona wouldn't have got anywhere near it anyway.
Really ?
Did you watch it live?
Look at the picture, Shilts was going to punch the ball, fatty punched it about 3 feet in front of him! The ball was 2 feet above fattys head.
Very harsh on Shilton or naive....
Great ( unbelievable in spells) player that he was and 2nd goal proved that, Maradona blatenly cheated - end of. Nothing to do with Peter "doing his job" properly.
Must be a WUM comment imo or just stated this for no reason ?
They only won 7 out of 18 games in the whole of qualification so it's not like they were winning that much even when he was in the team! Also its not exactly like competitive games come around every week - 600 days...? well their last competitive match was about 250 days ago... and they didn't score a single goal in 5 of their last 8 competitive games so saying 600 days is a bit misleading - no-one was scoring for Argentina.
And yes I know he got a hat trick in the final game of qualification! It was papering over the cracks of Argentina's issues though.
He was a keeper and Maradona about 4'3", if he'd have done his job and jumped properly then Maradona wouldn't have got anywhere near it anyway.
He probably wasn’t expecting the little f***** to slam dunk it in the net ffs. If his hand wasn’t there then that ball is getting punched away by Shilts followed by clothes lining that cheating scumbag and possibly ruining his facial features in the process.
Shilton jumped like a girl and should have taken out the ball and player. Then in 90 his little pitter patter backward steps let in Germany’s goal followed by waiting to see which way the ball was going before diving in the penalty shoot out. And don’t even ask me about next game and being tackled in his own box when allowed to pick it up and conceding against Italy. He cost us two world cups and a 3rd place
Reading this article about England's infamous 1-1 draw against Poland that cost us a place in the 74 World Cup, and saw the end of Alf Ramsey (Shilton was poor for their goal too) I noticed this little bit about our equaliser
Eight minutes later, England were given a glimmer of hope.
Martin Peters burst down the right wing and went down inside the area under a challenge from Adam Musial. Peters later admitted to diving, in desperation for England's cause. It worked - Belgian referee Vital Loraux awarded a penalty.
66 legend Martin Peters diving? I thought that was a modern thing brought in by "cheating foreigners"
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Bizarre.
Switzerland are the first team to lead a game having been 1-0 down in this World Cup if am right?
Switzerland should then beat Costa Rica
Either way; Switzerland could end up above Brazil in terms of Goal Difference which could then setup a Brazil v Germany second round tie
If England then top the Group they'd avoid facing either beyond the Quarter Finals
Who plays for Switzerland was a power house 2nd half.
Did you watch it live?
Look at the picture, Shilts was going to punch the ball, fatty punched it about 3 feet in front of him! The ball was 2 feet above fattys head.
Very harsh on Shilton or naive....
Great ( unbelievable in spells) player that he was and 2nd goal proved that, Maradona blatenly cheated - end of. Nothing to do with Peter "doing his job" properly.
Must be a WUM comment imo or just stated this for no reason ?
And yes I know he got a hat trick in the final game of qualification! It was papering over the cracks of Argentina's issues though.
Then in 90 his little pitter patter backward steps let in Germany’s goal followed by waiting to see which way the ball was going before diving in the penalty shoot out. And don’t even ask me about next game and being tackled in his own box when allowed to pick it up and conceding against Italy.
He cost us two world cups and a 3rd place
Reading this article about England's infamous 1-1 draw against Poland that cost us a place in the 74 World Cup, and saw the end of Alf Ramsey (Shilton was poor for their goal too) I noticed this little bit about our equaliser 66 legend Martin Peters diving? I thought that was a modern thing brought in by "cheating foreigners"