WHAT A DAY! Brazil’s Cesar Sampaio celebrates the first goal against Scotland and left, John Collins scores from the spot to equalise in 1998

I, like all football lovers, have gleaming memories of every World Cup since childhood seared into my mind. Crying down the side of the sofa aged six after Brazil sent Scotland home in 1990, Pavarotti’s Nessen Dorma stirring the pain, is probably my first. Ray Houghton’s goal for Ireland against Italy at USA 94 stands out as another
But by the time France 98 came round, when I was 14, football was my world. S...