You've added this video with the title
"Classic World Cup Finals: West Germany 2-1 Holland 1974". To change this title, or add tags or comments,
click here.
Note to all football fans throughout the ages: the best World Cup finals all happened in the 1970s, not necessarily in terms of quality of football but the shear cool factor of the tournaments of 1970, 1974 and 1978 make this decade unbeatable in terms of world cup folklore. I’ll deal with ‘70 and ‘74 [...]
After the mega spectacles of the 1966 and 1970 tournaments, attendances and expectations were rather low. To almost single-handedly prove the phenomenon of global warming, the tournament, in contrast to the sun-drenched 2006 edition, was held mostly in bad weather, with the stadia having few protected areas. Relatively few western European nations had qualified, of [...]