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Football / Biggest upset in world Cup history involved England
« on: January 10, 2006, 11:22:08 AM »
The Engliand football team is still credited with suffering the bggest upset in World Cup history. After refusing to participate in the earliest Wcrld Cup competitions because " the tournament was beneath them " England entered in the first one staged after the war in 1950 and fell to the lowly USA. The minnows USA made up largely of immigrants scored through a haitian immigrant named grosjean and won by a margin of 1-0.
What follows next will certainly remain in the annals of football as the english press at home published a score of England 10 Usa 1. It was more plausible than the 1-0 to the USA which came through on the wire. There must ave been a mistake ! So the press inserted the missing 1 before the zero and credited England with the victory. That sort of thing is impossible today, where live coverage is possble, and so remains a part of world Cup history that England wants to put behind them.
If Trinidad and tobago produces a victory or even a draw against England that might rival the greatest upset. Is it possible ?..it has happened before ....
What follows next will certainly remain in the annals of football as the english press at home published a score of England 10 Usa 1. It was more plausible than the 1-0 to the USA which came through on the wire. There must ave been a mistake ! So the press inserted the missing 1 before the zero and credited England with the victory. That sort of thing is impossible today, where live coverage is possble, and so remains a part of world Cup history that England wants to put behind them.
If Trinidad and tobago produces a victory or even a draw against England that might rival the greatest upset. Is it possible ?..it has happened before ....
