(08 Jun 2015, 5:10 pm)Andreos1 wrote It's not quite the 2015/16 season, but a quick look down memory lane.Gazza was the main reason I became really interested in football...I had seen Murton and Sunderland play a few times since 1988, but Italia 90 was my first big exposure to the game...I remember Sunderland getting promoted in 1990 and one of the first home game of the 90/91 was Tottenham...As it was August and not a school night my granddad took me after I badgered him into taking me, I only went to see Gazza and Gary Lineker
It seems like yesterday.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/33025121
Gazza was my idol, what that guy could not do with a football was probably not worth knowing and in my opinion was the most naturally gifted British Born Footballer since the likes of George Best...When he got booked and cried, I think I cried with him, in fact I think millions probably cried with him. I always said that night in Turin was the night that changed his life and he never really got over it, as we would see over the next 25 years.
I still get goosebumps when I see highlights of the 1990 World Cup and will never forget that free kick he scored at Wembley in the FA Cup semi final...Of course that goal Wembley in 1996 is still one of the best goals ever scored there, he made Colin Hendry look like a complete tit...