Har har!
I've never been a footy fan, although even I got a bit carried along with the World Cup that year.
It was the year that a friend of my boss, the Chief Metallurgist in lab at the Steel Works where i worked, came back from the USA with a copy of Avalon Hill's 'Afrika Korps', a type of 'map and counter game' that was virtually unknown over here at that time.
He found that it was not the sort of game that he thought it was, but my boss knew I was interested in WW2 and the game soon came into my hot sticky hands, and I played it endlessly. It was a few more years before other such games made their way to the UK.
I still have all the components and the map, although the box gave up the ghost a few years ago during a house move.
“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'