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YES, TEARS FOR SOUVENIRS BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE…

PATRICK JOHN defends a World Cup that’s remembered for all the wrong reasons

IT was widely derided as the worst World Cup of them all. A record low average 2.21 goals per game, a then record 16 red cards and a first (and second, for that matter) dismissal in a World Cup final.
Then there was the diving, the spitting, the mullets and the bloody Germans winning again.
You can argue whether a tournament that heralded the modern money-orientated, big business, fan-alienating game was a good or bad thing, but here, in proper Top of the Pops countdown fashion, are 10 reasons I reckon ...

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