Good Article on USA '94 Qualification

France should still have had enough to get a draw against Bulgaria, who shouldn’t have even had their full team. The Bulgarian federation had somehow forgotten to apply for visas for Emil Kostadinov and Luboslav Penev. A creative – and illegal – solution was required.

“The story sounds like a legend now but it’s true,” teammate Zlatko Yankov revealed a few years ago. “They needed help from our keeper Borislav Mihaylov and midfielder Georgi Georgiev, who were playing for the French club Mulhouse at that time.

“They deliberately chose a border-post with low security. Kostadinov and Penev sneaked across the border between Germany and France in a car driven by Georgiev.”

:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
France should still have had enough to get a draw against Bulgaria, who shouldn’t have even had their full team. The Bulgarian federation had somehow forgotten to apply for visas for Emil Kostadinov and Luboslav Penev. A creative – and illegal – solution was required.

“The story sounds like a legend now but it’s true,” teammate Zlatko Yankov revealed a few years ago. “They needed help from our keeper Borislav Mihaylov and midfielder Georgi Georgiev, who were playing for the French club Mulhouse at that time.

“They deliberately chose a border-post with low security. Kostadinov and Penev sneaked across the border between Germany and France in a car driven by Georgiev.”

:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
And they combined to score the winner....
I thought Houllier's comments regarding Ginola were a bit extreme, even if he felt let down by him.
 
Republic v Northern Ireland game isn't something I remember at the time, but reading that now shows how times have changed in so many ways.

Always thought Taylor was a little unlucky, tough group with Dutch, Poland and Norway when you look at some of the groups his successors had.
 
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