Jonny Owen on Maradona, Brazil ‘82 & The Greatest World Cup Ever

Yeah, it is.

I think, you know, I read something the other day that, you know, your first real World Cup you remember as a kid.

It's like the feeling you get when you're a kid when you listen to a song.

It's a much more intense thing.

And I often think back to sort of my life sort of like being dictated by World Cups.

Like I remember, you know, I got a quick flash memory of 74, but I very much remember 78.

I was going to ask this.

I was going to ask your

first World Cup, actually.

Yeah.

yeah what year were you born so i was born

in 71 and then i got a

weird

one of my first set of memories and i don't know if it's because i've seen it so much but i've got a i've got a little flash that i'm watching something in a room with all my fathers my brothers and my uncles and the rest of it family and it's the white of germany and the orange of holland and i think that's the 74 world cup final so there's i'm in a room and everybody's watching this television set i got that sort of memory but the one i remember when i'm or my seven or eight and I'd play in football and be like, is Argentina, is Argentina? So I remember, I

remember,

I remember us not qualifying because of Joe Jordan's handball and I cried.

That's a family story.

I couldn't believe it happened.

And then obviously I remember then that World Cup and us all sort of going out and re-enacting the Mario Kemp best goal and all

that.

That's what used to happen.

I remember, you know, as soon as my first World Cup, I was 81.

I missed, I didn't really see 86, but 1990 was my first one.

And everybody would be doing the goals from the World

Cup.