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Not than 2010, no. The vuvuzelas and general apathy shown by the crowd in many games did nothing to inspire those on the pitch but it was still a disappointing tournament only lit up by the Germans imo.

2002 wasn't great either. A poor tournament won by a Brazil team who in spite of possessing some quality attacking players had a lot of weaknesses and never impressed that much as a team. The fact an absolutely dreadful team reached the final and a pretty nondescript Turkish side reached the semis said it all really.

*Absolutely dreadful Germany team reached the final.

I agree with Hippo. 2010 was pants.

I loved the teh 86 & Italy 90 world cups. They were the best i have seen.

1994.

Yes i remember the controversy about the ball...Engineers from Loughborough University designed it apparantly...Another fail for England

2010 was better than 2006. At least 2010 had a few surprises like Italy and France going out early doors. 2006 was pretty much predictable, dominated by all the big teams and with barely a memorable moment to speak of.

98 was good but I only really remember it for Bergkamp's goal.

comment by Reincarnated Red (U1176)
posted 24 seconds ago
2010 was better than 2006. At least 2010 had a few surprises like Italy and France going out early doors. 2006 was pretty much predictable, dominated by all the big teams and with barely a memorable moment to speak of.
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Apart from an unfancied French side getting to the final beating Brazil on the way, the Zidane headbutt, and a lot of amazing goals including that brilliant team goal by Argentina

Spain boring the pants off everyone
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Spain didn't bore the pants off everyone. The teams who were terrified of them and thus parked the bus against them bored the pants off everyone.

It's not Spain's fault that only Italy in the Euro's final have ever come out and actually tried to play them in recent tournaments. And when Italy did come out and attack them it was a great game of football and Spain played some amazing stuff.

The England Portugal matchups in recent years were good. Full of drama

2006 was the better for Zidane's head butt.

2002 may have been lacking in terms of the strength of the teams in the latter stages - accelerated by Argentina, France and Italy, who were three of the favourites, all bombing. But for entertainment value it was one of the better world cups. Especially compared to 2006 and 2010.

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comment by Detective Vic Mackey (U19237)
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comment by Reincarnated Red (U1176)
posted 24 seconds ago
2010 was better than 2006. At least 2010 had a few surprises like Italy and France going out early doors. 2006 was pretty much predictable, dominated by all the big teams and with barely a memorable moment to speak of.
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Apart from an unfancied French side getting to the final beating Brazil on the way, the Zidane headbutt, and a lot of amazing goals including that brilliant team goal by Argentina
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I'm not saying 2006 was terrible, but I just consider it largely forgettable. 2010 wasn't exactly good, but I think it gets unfairly panned and actually had more memorable moments: Italy finishing bottom of a weak group, the French collapse, England's controversial elimination, the drama of Uruguay-Ghana, and of course we also had a new winner with Spain.

Was it Brazil who smashed Spain fairly recently?

comment by Poetry in Motion - Don Fabio Borini (U10635)
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Was it Brazil who smashed Spain fairly recently?
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Yeah, but Spain always turn it on for the major tournaments. Can't see past them for the trophy again this year.

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Why did you delete that comment OP?

comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 13 minutes ago
1994.
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Indeed. 94 stunk.

Last WC was bad, truly bad. But USA 94 was a whole new level of awfulness.

comment by Reincarnated Red (U1176)
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comment by Detective Vic Mackey (U19237)
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comment by Reincarnated Red (U1176)
posted 24 seconds ago
2010 was better than 2006. At least 2010 had a few surprises like Italy and France going out early doors. 2006 was pretty much predictable, dominated by all the big teams and with barely a memorable moment to speak of.
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Apart from an unfancied French side getting to the final beating Brazil on the way, the Zidane headbutt, and a lot of amazing goals including that brilliant team goal by Argentina
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I'm not saying 2006 was terrible, but I just consider it largely forgettable. 2010 wasn't exactly good, but I think it gets unfairly panned and actually had more memorable moments: Italy finishing bottom of a weak group, the French collapse, England's controversial elimination, the drama of Uruguay-Ghana, and of course we also had a new winner with Spain.
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The football in general was terrible tho, cant think of one side that excited me.

My favourite moment was before the England Germany game when Lineker, Shearer and Hansen all dismissed the young Germans because they "Had never heard of half of them" their faces at full time were a peach

2010, remember falling asleep through matches. Spain were horribly boring, the most drama in the tournament was Suarez's handball on the line to deny Ghana.

There were no group stage shocks in 2006, from what I remember.

2002 we had Argy and France, the two favourites. 2010 we had France and Italy, the previous finalists.

What do we think will be this one? One of the previous finalists could go out I suppose.

Despite the patrotic fervour which swept the country at the time, Italia 90 wasn't particularly special. Lowest goals per game rate of any World Cup, and even England's run to the semis only entailed beating Belgium and Cameroon in the knockouts - not all that special in hindsight. But I suppose that memories of Gazza's tears and Schillaci's eyes keep the nostalgia flowing on that one.

Think Holland could struggle

What do we think will be this one? One of the previous finalists could go out I suppose.
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Germany, Holland