I'm still not over it. People still talk about it, you know. It really was like "they sat around a table and decided to throw us out". I remember being furious when Italy was kicked about, but being even more outraged after Korea had played Spain. Till then I had been thinking it was such a disgrace against Italy that they wouldn't dare to do it again. That world cup was sold. Italy and Spain were robbed. It's probably the biggest WC scandal ever.
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Interesting that no one seemed to have noticed the date I chose. How great people become irrelevant a few generations later...
Chosing a number two is tricky. Some frontier time (maybe among the first explorers in New Zealand?) or something really different (Aztecs or Rome at it's peak).
Or even Ancient Greece, also known as ' the dawn of civilised man'. But it depends on how early Ancient Greece you choose to live in, if you want to be a contemporary of Plato/Aristotle in the post 400BC, or about 900 BC in earlier civilisation in which Homer was supposed to of lived in.
Damn I forgot this thread. Looking back at my post, I feel like slapping myself lol.
Although I wouldn't trade my Pakistani background for anything else; I think I'd pick Gibraltar during the time of the Islamic Empire of Spain or 50's New York.