The beauty of that Caniggia challenge was that the second “tackle” ( in reality, GBH) came from a defender who was off screen so you had no idea it was coming. It’s one of my favourite non Villa moments and an absolutely glorious passage of play
Circumstances at the time add so much to football. I watched that match in a spit and sawdust boozer in Newcastle having just that day done the last of my final exams at university. Watched the match surrounded by pissed up single-toothed Geordie piss heads.
One of them kept on walking around the pub, shaking people, pointing at the telly and saying "It's the Cameroons (sic) man, they're better than Brazil!".
Ever since that day, 36 years later, every single time I hear Cameroon referred to in the context of football, in my head i hear a Geordie voice saying "They're better than Brazil!".
