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Pretty sure all the Australian games were live at the 74 WC. The qualifying decider against Sth Korea was live. I remember watching it. Also got up for both the East and West Germany games.
I remember the Sth Korea game played in Hong Kong as it was in our time zone at night.
 
Yeah but how much coverage was there, and were 10 year old kids get up at 2am? I was 10, and I can remember more from Munich Olympics 1972 than Germany 1974 because there was bugger all coverage and replays in 1974 compare to 1986 when SBS took over.


There must've been games on the ABC because that's all Woomera had in 1974. TV was only black and white then, but I remember the Socceroos yellow and green strip, so maybe I saw that later on the Newsreels at the pictures.
 
There must've been games on the ABC because that's all Woomera had in 1974. TV was only black and white then, but I remember the Socceroos yellow and green strip, so maybe I saw that later on the Newsreels at the pictures.
The ABC had the rights, and they showed the games live, mid arvo Europe time, but I don't think they played the replays in prime time. I didn't watch the games live. I can't remember watching any replays. I remember edited packages.
 
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The ABC had the rights, and they showed the games live, mid arvo Europe time, but I don't think they played the replays in prime time. I didn't watch the games live. I can't remember watching any replays. I remember edited packages.

If Germany was on summer time then a 2.00pm start would've been at 9.30pm in South Australia, so yes, probably too late for 10 year olds ;)
 

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If Germany was on summer time then a 2.00pm start would've been at 9.30pm in South Australia, so yes, probably too late for 10 year olds ;)



Group 1
15:00​
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Chile
18:30
GDR
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Australia
15:00
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Germany
18:30​
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GDR
15:00
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Chile
18:30​
GDR
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Germany


Daylight Saving Time (DST) Not Observed in Year 1974​

Germany observed Central European Time (CET) all year.

DST was not in use in 1974.

 
Pretty sure all the Australian games were live at the 74 WC. The qualifying decider against Sth Korea was live. I remember watching it. Also got up for both the East and West Germany games.

I remember watching the games we played against Israel as well but not sure if they were live.

watched all the Australia games and a few others including the final. As a Pom who came out here in ‘68 it was great to see the final live as we had almost no coverage of the 1970 tournament. My only memory of that was a Scottish mate waking me up with glee after Brazil beat England.

Its the only final I haven’t watched live since 1966.
 
To be fair, I'd be wanting to play for a team that actually has a shot of winning silverware too and where players who do win cups are deified by the public. He'll know by the 2024 Euros if he's going to have a shot with Italia.
Call me an idiot... Bit I would follow my heart.
 

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This a tweet thread I have just vomited:

This is Brazil now.
Since 2006, this is what we have become. I don’t know how many times more this needs to happen for us to search our soul.
We have taken a bad turn and we haven’t done nothing to right the ship. NOTHING!
It’s FIVE World Cups.
That’s two generations of players. That’s one generation of Brazilians.
They only know defeat in Quarters or the 7-1 against Germany. I don’t know how to describe how bad this is.
It may feel silly, but one must know the “Stray-Dog Syndrome” to understand it.
If we aren’t good at this, then what are we good at?
We are great in plenty of stuff, but we fail to see. Soccer helped us against it.
It’s more than football. We didn’t simply lost on PK’s.
This is a DEEP cultural crisis we’ve been unable to deal with.
If we can’t deal through soccer, how can we expect solving it in other areas?
It’s been 20 years.
 
A soft, pathetic penalty. Take nothing away from two sublime passes from Messi that got the first goal and almost a second a while earlier. Or his cold clinical delivery of the shot. But jeezuz H what an utterly appalling sport it is that imitates life’s unfairnesses, dirtiness and corruption so closely.


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