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Posted by Blue Sky on 13 June 2010 - 2:51pm.
The worst World Cup onfield "incident" I can recall.
It's the apparent lack of concern from Schumacher that troubles me.
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Ah, the 'good old days'...
A tackle worthy of being hauled up in front of the Hague, yet the officials see nothing much wrong with it.
Here's Skinner & Baddiel's re-enactment:-
A happy ending, though.
I've believe that Schumacher apologised later and the two men became firm friends with one being the best man at the other's wedding.
Truly sickening
And France were unjustly eliminated.
Horrendous.
Not even a yellow card if I remember correctly. Saw Schumacher on telly a few years back defending it and saying he played the ball??!
Not even a freekick or penalty
A goal kick was given
Gole!
According to Wikipedia Michel Platini thought Battiston was dead, because "he had no pulse and looked pale".
In his autobiography five years later, Schumacher "maintained that his actions did not constitute a foul and that he was only trying to get the ball". Battiston held no grudge against him.
Good to see that the whole of "Gole", the official movie of the Espana '82 World Cup, narrated by Sean Connery, is on YouTube (in 10 parts):