George Hamilton
speaker
741 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
George Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now it's just a laptop.
But I poured over that book for...
evening after evening after evening, of course, and all the history that I could find about the World Cup.
And I was very fortunate because RTE had decided that they would cover it geographically.
So Jimmy McGee was in Buenos Aires and District Philip Green was in Cordoba.
Billy George was kind of based in Buenos Aires, but travelling a bit near the capital.
And I was in the far west in Mendoza.
So I had six matches in four weeks.
And who were the teams that I covered?
There was Poland, there was Iran, there was the Netherlands that I'd done in 76, there was Scotland, and there was Brazil.
I did Brazil at my very first World Cup.
Yeah, that was the goal that put them out.
They were on a hiding to nothing really because they had, as you say, blown it before that.
And it was going to take this remarkable result to kind of put them through.
But try as they might and score a goal like that as they did.
It just wasn't enough because the Netherlands came back and ended the dream.
But to have the opportunity to commentate on a goal like that, as you can imagine, is something else.
And Jimmy McGee had the same kind of thing happen in Argentina, England in 86, when Maradona got the ball around about the halfway line and beat one player, a different class, beat another player, a different class.
And by now he's about to shoot and he shoots and he scores, he's in a different class.
I mean, just wonderful, wonderful commentary.
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