Best ever International tournament?

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A very close friend to my family is Billy Bingham. I remember him coming round to my grandparents house while still Norn Iron manager and just talking football with me for hours.

Such a great guy.

Euro 96 was amazing...

2006 WC because I was there

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Shugs

A very close friend to my family is Billy Bingham. I remember him coming round to my grandparents house while still Norn Iron manager and just talking football with me for hours.

Such a great guy.

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he's a legend for me Rob, met him in Belfast in Littlewoods as a kid.... totally overawed... proper gentleman too.

Spain 82.... managed to get all our games on dvd from ebay years ago, still get goosebumps watching the win against Spain... legendary stuff

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78 in Argentina was good despite us not being in it

Euro 96 was brilliant too. The atmoshere everywhere was just brilliant

The Brazil team of 2002 had me going. And I was the perfect age for sporting wonderment

I really liked the '94 USA World Cup. Ireland beating Italy was really special and although I wanted the Brazilians to win I was a massive fan of Baggio and his role in helping Italy to the final is very underestimated...probably because he missed the final penalty but apart from that he was absolutely brilliant in the tournament. Then apart from that you had players like Hagi, Baresi, Stoichkov and Romario all taking part.

I don't think there's been an interesting WC since France '98, both in terms of quality and entertainment. The Euros tend to be brilliant, Euro 2004 was probably my favourite International, we (England) had a good team and there were some brilliant players involved for other countries as well, Figo, a baby Ronaldo, Xavi, Raul, ZZ, Desially, Del Piero, RVN, Seedorf etc.

Euro '96 being a great tournament is a bit of a myth, it was exciting from an England perspective but a lot of grounds where barely half full and an ageing and average Germany won the competition, Holland were poor, so were Spain, as they always seemed to be up until 2006, as were Portugal, France and Italy, all very pedestrian and workman like.

Euro '96, not all that!

90 an 96 were amazing!

Euro 2000 was a true footballing spectacle. France (with Zidane seemingly at the height of his powers), Italy, Portugal and Holland were all outstanding sides and there were some classic games not even involving those sides.

Euro 2000