Category: World Cup

The world cup final of 1998 in France is always on my mind as one of the weirdest games ever. France against Brazil in a game that stayed in the history for all the wrong reasons.

It’s a tough place, Aberdeen.  The Granite City.  Home to just under a quarter of a million inhabitants, the iced wind blows in from the North Sea, and helicopters still transport hardened workers to the diminishing oil fields nearby.  And whilst it might now be home to the highest concentration of millionaires in Britain it…