Barry Glendenning
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Because it doesn't, it's quite blinding on television, if you're watching on television.
I don't know what it's like in the stadium.
I don't know.
nick ames was there writing curacao journalist went absolutely crazy in the press box here when that went in huge beams all around to be felt an incredible moment it was just brilliant yeah um livano coming chow was the goal scorer he will go down in history he'll never have to buy a pint in curacao again
Or a pint of Curacao in Curacao.
Quite heavy, if you think about it.
That's the blue stuff.
It is, yeah.
I wouldn't drink a pint of it, I have to say.
Not even me.
But...
It's an incredible thing just for them to score at a World Cup and it's something they'll never forget.
Like I always remember Ireland's first goal at a major competition, it was Ray Houghton against England in Stuttgart in Germany in 1988.
No one who saw that who's Irish will ever forget it.
And this would be a similar thing for Curaçao, a country with a population of 178,000 or something.
It covers 170 square miles.
It's an incredible thing.
And obviously, yeah, they went on to get battered, but...
I thought they did really well I think Alexander Seferin the UEFA president has been I wouldn't say complaining but he has said that this expanded format is going to lead to real mismatches and
There are teams in the tournament, he said, that would not have won a single game in European qualifiers.