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    Never Mind the Penalties: The Ultimate World Cup Quiz Book
    Never Mind the Penalties: The Ultimate World Cup Quiz Book
    Never Mind the Penalties: The Ultimate World Cup Quiz Book
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    Never Mind the Penalties: The Ultimate World Cup Quiz Book

    By Phil Ascough and Kevin Kilbane

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    84 years since the first tournament, 48 years since England won it, the World Cup has its critics, but time stands still when your team plays. Hope and horror, passion and pain—and that's just the draw for the final groups! This is the ultimate collection of World Cup teasers, pulling together the highs and lows, the match-winners and the madness, the bizarre and the beautiful, from soccer's greatest tournament. Test your mates in the pub, liven up the pre-match warm-up, deliver a little half-time entertainment, and create your own penalty shoot-out. Keep a copy in your pocket as you count down to Brazil 2014—it's an essential part of your World Cup build-up. Author and journalist Phil Ascough has trawled through his own memories, picked the brains of fellow followers, and produced a compilation designed to furrow a few eyebrows and also raise a smile. Get your FIFA thinking caps on—it's quiz time!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateMay 5, 2014
    ISBN9780750958592
    Never Mind the Penalties: The Ultimate World Cup Quiz Book

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      Never Mind the Penalties - Phil Ascough

      This book is for my family, who are typical of so many people from these shores in that they endure the World Cup until the crucial last kick in England’s penalty shoot-out. It is a journey of tolerance, giving way to hope and even occasional flashes of passion and excitement until one of our players kicks high, wide or straight at the keeper, misery kicks in and the iPods and iPads come out again. It’s also for people who make really big TV sets.

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      Foreword

      by Kevin Kilbane

      As a young boy growing up in Preston, football was my life. Like so many other kids worldwide I would play whenever or wherever I could, whatever the weather. It would sometimes mean scaling fences with my older brother, looking for somewhere to play without interference.

      One of the few things that could interrupt our pursuit of becoming the next Ian Rush or Kevin Sheedy was the next best thing to playing football – watching football.

      We always had Match Of The Day, but there were relatively few live games on TV during the 1980s. The only time we saw foreign footballers was if a British club made it to a final in one of the European competitions.

      That’s why Mexico 86 will always feel like the perfect time in my childhood. We had Michael Laudrup, Michel Platini and Zico, Josimar, Hugo Sanchez and the incredible Diego Maradona. These were names I’d heard little or nothing about at that time, yet there they were – the best players in the world on the TV almost every day for a month.

      I was gutted to have to wait another four years for the next tournament, but when Italia 90 came round it was even better because Ireland had qualified under Jack Charlton. Although I grew up in Lancashire, England, my dream was always to play for Ireland, the birthplace of my mum and dad.

      Ireland had a tough group with England, Holland and Egypt but managed to qualify to play Romania – with the brilliant Gheorghe Hagi – in the last 16. Watching Packie Bonner saving the penultimate spot kick in the shoot-out to help Ireland reach the quarter-final was the big high for me during that tournament.

      Ireland qualified for USA 94 and although I was on the verge of the first team with Preston North End I didn’t really believe I’d ever get the chance to represent my country in a World Cup. But my dream came true and I was fortunate to play every minute for Ireland during Japan and South Korea in 2002.

      I’ll cherish the memories of that month, the highlight of my playing career. We played Cameroon, Germany and Saudi Arabia and then met Spain in South Korea for a place in the last eight. We went out on penalties, with me feeling heartbroken after my shot was saved. I felt we should have beaten Spain, but that’s football. My best and worst memories are about penalty shoot-outs, and while I’ve never been big on swapping

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