The Football Ramble HISTORY Specials: Cameroon beat Argentina in the opening match of Italia 90
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
For the first of our HISTORY specials we take a look back at the opening game of Italia ’90, when an unheralded and unknown Cameroon shocked the world by beating the World Cup holders, the Diego Maradona-inspired Argentina…
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the first of the Football Rumble World Cup Specials in association |
| 0:20.0 | with history. We've got five of these World Cup Specials starting today, where we go |
| 0:24.7 | way back to 1990 with Cameroon's incredible defeat of World Champions Argentina and finish with a |
| 0:30.5 | look at the time of 23-year-old David Beckham was sent off for that naughty little kick out at |
| 0:35.5 | Diego Simione in 1998. These five World Cup Specials are brought to you by History Who, |
| 0:40.7 | in celebration of the World Cup, are broadcasting 24-7 football documentaries for two weeks starting |
| 0:46.2 | on 28th May. You can watch History on Sky Virgin, BT or Talk Talk. My name is of course Marcus |
| 0:52.6 | Bellar, I'm joined by Luke Mojim Campbell and Pete Donaldson. Hey, how exciting. It's World Cup |
| 0:58.0 | time gentleman. It's memory lane time. Yes. Well, Cup memory lane. It's quite a lot of |
| 1:02.3 | concern. The World Cup game starts here. Is there any final lane than World Cup memory lane? |
| 1:08.2 | No, it's not. Yeah. I can't remember. And for the young listeners, our memories are better than yours. |
| 1:15.6 | Depend the on who you are. That's true. But Cameroon BT Argentina and the only match of Italian 90 |
| 1:21.6 | was very much the shock result of that tournament. I've never... I mean, I was only... |
| 1:28.3 | An uncharacteristic understatement from Mark. It was. And I'll tell you why because |
| 1:33.5 | this is the first time I fully remember. Had you heard of Cameroon? Well, not really. And I think |
| 1:38.0 | this is really important to the point I'm going to make, which is that it's very easy to forget |
| 1:44.4 | these days because the world's a lot smaller. We've got the internet, we've got connection, |
| 1:47.4 | everyone knows everything. Back in 1990, the only time realistically you'd see players who weren't |
| 1:55.6 | playing in England and we'll talk maybe we'll talk a bit about Exeter Football Italy when we talk |
| 1:59.5 | about Italian related by these later in the series. Is that a World Cup or a European tournament? |
| 2:05.6 | And it was impossibly exotic to be able to watch World Champions Argentina from 86 against |
| 2:12.6 | Cameroon in Italy, opening a World Cup 90. I remember my heart beating a million miles |
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