Rick Edwards

Like, we couldn't get a game.

Like, we had to have pickup matches with British guys, Irish guys, and South Americans in the parks.

There was no, there was, didn't there be, like, even at a local level, there was nothing you could go and watch.

But, I mean, the attendance figures for that tournament are massive.

It's like three and a half million people.

which I think is maybe still a record and that's more probably about the size of the stadiums but I wonder if you guys noticed anything about the kind of demographic makeup of the of the fans I'm kind of interested by who was there apart from the hardcore yeah who was who was filling those stadiums well there was there had been a recession in the 80s so enough out of

Irish people had emigrated to the major cities like Boston, New York, and in our case as well, around New Jersey.

We still had people we knew, maybe relations, whatever.

But everyone turned up.

And then, of course, I probably forgot to mention this, the whole OJ Simpson thing was going on during the World Cup.

Of course it was.

Yeah, so we were going... The day we arrived in Manhattan...

he was getting chased and it was on the screens all over the barrio.

In the Bronco?

Yeah, in the Bronco, yeah.

That was the day we arrived in Manhattan.

We were going, that's the guy from the police, the guy from Police Academy.

Yeah.

Because, well, Police Squad.

No, I think people more knew him outside of America for being in Police Squad than they do now.