Comments on: Animated Histories of European Football

Animated Histories of European Football

hoyland — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:03:21 -0800

In advance of Euro 2012, the Guardian has made animated histories of six of the competitors: England, Spain, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Germany and France. (Autoplay video in last six links.)

By: josher71

josher71 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:06:38 -0800

Been watching these on the way to work in the morning. They are all really, really, great.

By: kendrak

kendrak — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:20:57 -0800

I wish James Richardson was my cool uncle. We could eat cakes. The Spain one reaffirmed my contempt for Franco.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:51:20 -0800

I really wish I knew why I clicked on this expecting them to be history of the countries, rather than their teams. Still, if James Richardson wanted to narrate an animated history of the Reconquista I would watch that.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:59:50 -0800

Go Ireland! But Germany will win.

By: ob

ob — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:09:59 -0800

These are great.

By: kendrak

kendrak — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:17:48 -0800

I'm really waiting for the Netherlands. I just watched the 74 World Cup Final, and it was really something special. I also recently watched the 90 World Cup match between W. Germany and the Netherlands and it was the exact opposite. World Cup 90 was pretty bad, wasn't it?

By: oddman

oddman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:56:29 -0800

These are so good, I wish they'd make one for every country.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:17:32 -0800

It's been 20 years, Denmark will take it again! Oh who am I kidding, we won't even make it past the group stage. I hope Germany does well.

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:51:50 -0800

That was great, thanks for sharing! And I will still be cheering for England even though I know it's hopeless...

By: Seeba

Seeba — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:15:44 -0800

54, 74, 90, 2012...

By: fallingbadgers

fallingbadgers — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:47:51 -0800

"The Brazil of Eurovision" - love it. Will cling to that line after our trashing starts with Croatia this Sunday

By: Twang

Twang — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:23:01 -0800

I clicked on this expecting them to be history of the countries, rather than their teams. I know. Hope springs eternal.

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:38:25 -0800

Hah! Just started with the English one, and wow, so well done! I loved the integration of drawing and animation, like when he draws the simple little tv and it immediately comes to life with static and images. Thanks for posting!

By: MartinWisse

MartinWisse — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:51:14 -0800

It's been 20 years, Denmark will take it again! Don't remind me. You lot only got in because Yugoslavia got chucked out and you cost us the title that year... I so hope we can get revenge for the botched Worldcup final in 2010 because we'd never been closer to the title, not even in '74 (bloody Germans) or '78 (bloody Argentines fixing the matches but we shouldn't have been there anyway and at least Cruijf had the good sense not to go.)

By: hoyland

hoyland — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:13:46 -0800

54, 74, 90, 2012... They had better win, else the song will stop scanning.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:02:26 -0800

How did you watch a match from 74?

By: kendrak

kendrak — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:16:56 -0800

Brocktoon, I stumbled upon it on Youtube. There are quite a few historic matches on there, like the sort of thuggish rematch between the Germans and the Dutch in the 1990 World Cup. I need a new hobby.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:26:04 -0800

Well I'd love a way to watch them on my TV. Not sure if the Wii supports YouTube though.

By: hoyland

hoyland — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:41:46 -0800

Football Weekly leads me to believe you can get these things on DVD. Admittedly, that would cost money, which is displeasing unless you have a desire to rewatch matches repeatedly.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:14:07 -0800

Well there are certain games that are just great to rewatch. The MUFC Arsenal pizza game is one that I can think of off the top of my head.

By: kendrak

kendrak — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:16:14 -0800

There are several sites that specialize in old footy matches for DVDs or tape trade. (I know ESPN classic sometimes shows them as well.) MeMail me if you have questions.