If - World Cup 98

Des Lynam reciting Rudyard Kipling's "If" over a montage from World Cup 1998

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Sports

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• Des
• Lynam
• Rudyard
• Kipling
• montage
• World
• Cup
• 1998

[OJones88]

Quite possibly the most beautiful thing ever.

[timtimtimtim83]

Brilliant. This is my favourite World Cup. The World Cup where my obsession was consolidated.

Many many fond memories here. Roll on South Africa 2010!

[warbury]

yeah this video is amazing & possibly the most inspiration quote there is. but also the 1998 was the 1st ever world cup i had ever watched as i'd just started going to bramall lane 6 months previous aged 8 as i remberer legging it back from junior school to watch the england v tunisia game that my mum had taped

[MrCrystalm8]

9 people are not men...

[grimTales1]

I'm sure I have a recording of this somewhere on VHS still!

[comedyneil1]

If you can reach a header when all about you are missing theirs and blaming you

If you can shoot yourself instead of passing but make allowances for the rebound too

If you can run when you are tired of running

Or being talked about but don't talk about others

Or being taunted but don't give way to taunting

and yet don't look too smart or talk too much

If you can dream of glory and not make glory your master

[joetavish]

Zidane, Djorkaeff.....yes!!

[trixwiz7]

@if5tatement Don't get me wrong, the military does plenty wrong. My own country, Australia, has been guilty of military atrocities in the past. As has Britain, where my family comes from, particularly in Ireland and India. And we need WikiLeaks and the likes of John Lennon to publicise such injustices. And sure teachers, doctors, priests, lawyers, everyday folk do just as brave, moral things as any soldiers do.

But I'm convinced large numbers of troops in WW2 obeyed Kipling to the letter

[if5tatement]

This is a good reading by Des Lynam. But what it's doing juxtaposed with footballers I have no idea.

[if5tatement]

@trixwiz7 what? few men obey these words. The military has no more of them men than any other organisation.

[jimb92]

@OJones88 You've not seen a lot of tits have you?

[trixwiz7]

It's funny how so many troops, navy personnel and particularly airmen from the Second World War seemed to have obeyed Kipling's instructions to the letter. Today's SAS trooopers do too. Maybe that's why they can do what they do...