Tonight at age 50 I suddenly feel more than a bit old as I read that Dutch footballer Robbie Rensenbrink has passed away.
I have quite a lot of football memories before this, but the 1978 World Cup in Argentina was my first experience of live football on nearly every day for a month or so.
Probably more vivid because of course we played Holland (as I am sure they were referred to then) in THAT game, where Robbie scored, and they were of course the eventual runners up.
Rest in peace Robbie.
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25-01-2020 10:38 PM #1
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Robbie Rensenbrink passes away
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25-01-2020 11:30 PM #2
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What a shame, he was part of a team that thoroughly entertained the world with it's style of football - RIP Sir !
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26-01-2020 10:29 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
No way he could be 50. He played in the 1974 World Cup.
Then I read the OP again. It's the poster who's 50. Do'h!
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26-01-2020 12:22 PM #5
One of the familiar names from that era.
Netzer, Neeskens, Breitner, Kempes, Gentile, Zoff. Great times for football.
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26-01-2020 12:28 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Like the whole Dutch team of that era his name is etched in my brain, felt so sad when they lost 74 final and 78 was no better, loved that team
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26-01-2020 12:42 PM #7
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26-01-2020 12:43 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Sad to hear about RR that team was great to watch.
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26-01-2020 01:59 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Scored some absolute screamers.
In those days with limited TV coverage it was the Dutch and Brazilians who lit up the television screens with dipping forty-yarders or Exocets that ripped the netting from the stanchionThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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26-01-2020 02:09 PM #10
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How Holland managed to avoid winning the World-cup in the 70's is one of life's greatest mysteries ........ and tragedies !. They were an absolute joy to watch - and Cruyff was just out of this world !
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26-01-2020 03:53 PM #11
One of the unsung heroes but a vital part of that Holland team in the 70s.
RIP Robbie.
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26-01-2020 04:49 PM #12
When fitba was fitba, no gonna see games and teams like that anymore.
Each team (almost) had so many great talents they were a joy to watch. With Holland more than most.
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26-01-2020 06:17 PM #13
Magical times as a boy, that Holland side meant everyone wanted to be them in the backies. Made the first batch of sticker collecting an absolute joy too with their brilliant names. R.I.P. Robbie.
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27-01-2020 06:31 AM #14
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Its long forgotten now but in the World Cup Final of 1978 with the score at 1:1 and the game in second half injury time Robbie Rensenbrink hit the post.
An inch from sporting immortality for still a supremely talented player.
Argentina won in extra time 3:1.
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28-01-2020 08:09 AM #16
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Having scored early, they proceeded to take the pee out of West Germany. This lack of professionalism came back to bite them on the backside, as it eound up the Germans.
Simon Kuyper put this down to the fact that they wanted revenge for the invasion of Holland. He went further and said that when Germany equaliser, it totally deflated them and old inferiority complex came back to haunt them.
They were a superb team, and in their defence it appears there was a lot of dirty tricks leading up to the final. One was to put a rumour out that Cruyff was having an affair. His wife's arrival on the eve of the game must have been unsettling, to say the least.
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