Oli Kay
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329 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Jun
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Often the opening game of a World Cup is a bit of a... Often the opening week of a World Cup is a bit of a slow burner.
But that tournament began with Argentina, the holders, in Milan, wasn't it?
Playing against Cameroon.
And being shocked, humbled by Cameroon.
Beaten 1-0.
And I just think it's one of the great World Cup episodes.
It's sort of repeated in a way by Senegal doing the same to France as holders in 2002.
But I think in 1990, there was probably... I mean, you go back to 2002, there were Premier League players in that Senegal team.
Whereas in 1990, it was...
I think probably a lot of European teams and a lot of South American teams probably still thought, despite Cameroon giving it a good go in 1982, Morocco in 1986, probably looked down the nose a bit at African football.
And it was a real shock.
And Cameroon at that World Cup.
with Roger Miller coming off the bench in the knockout round.
Cameroon were incredible.
They got to the quarterfinals, played England, should have beaten England, deserved to beat England.
So, yeah, Cameroon, from a more global perspective, a less sort of Anglo-centric perspective, I think Cameroon in 1990 were the real feel-good story of that World Cup.
Can I just say, 28 years later, never a red card, was it?
No.
It was very trivial.
I know people wanted to
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