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Which is your favourite World Cup?
Maybe it’s the first your remember, the first you attended or the one when you had nothing better to do but watch every minute
As Cat Stevens (and PP Arnold and Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow) nearly put it, the first cup is the deepest. It’s hard to recreate the magic of the first World Cup you remember, no matter how many times older fans tell you the tournament had more charm back in their day.
Italia 90 was so dull that it led to the new back-pass law but, start talking about great World Cups to fans in their late 30s, and you’ll hear about Gazza, Pavarotti and Totò Schillaci. So what that the tournament has the lowest goals-per-game ratio in World Cup history.
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