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f o l l o w s outw eigh trouble B r i t a i n By MICHAEL FARBER The Irish might be the gentlest For Southam News and friendliest of the supporters, ROME (AFP) — Ever since it ROME — A group of Austrian who, given the alcohol ban on won the World Cup in its own fans stood in front of the Stadio game days, appear to have come backyard in 1966, England has Olimpico last Saturday, singing, to paint the town beige. The flattered only to deceive on the waving flags, and catching the at Czechoslovaks, revelling in their international soccer stage. tention of at least one portly Ro elections and their freedom to Failure has followed failure in man who was waddling into the travel, seem the most giddy. The World Cup and European champi Italy-Austria match. Italians are the most fervent, do onships, despite the healthy state "Hey, Ouuuustria,” the man ing a five-times-around wave of the domestic game. growled and thrust out his middle around Stadio Olimpico — fast- Brian Clough — one of the finger. The Roman wasn’t saying, food burgers arc not America’s most successful club managers of “ We’re No. 1,” either, as he of only pernicious export — that the last 20 years with Derby and fered a reminder that soccer isn’t even included swells in the VIP Nottingham Forest — sums it up the only international language. seats. concisely. The Austrians laughed at the The Romanians are the luckiest, “ I’ve never felt that our nation salute and waved in greeting, and Italian cities having paid the way al side has mirrored the excel the Roman smiled and nodded his for 1,000 of them so their team lence of league clubs,” he says, head. They had made their sepa would have support. The Brazil adding, “ I don’t know why. Go rate peace, one that would not ians are the most fun, as you ask Bobby Robson.” have to be enforced at the muzzle probably would expect from any Robson has enjoyed “ carte of an automatic weapon. country where they are wont to blanche,” says Clough, but has “ This is a party for us,” said take off their clothes if a goal is yet to produce results to match Martin Kainz, a 30-year-old bank scored. The words Englishman the immense promise of the team. er from Styria who, at this mo and hooligan are not synonymous, “ People used to trot out that ment, had red-and-white Austrian even if, on a distant continent, it we don’t have time to prepare,” stripes on his face. (“ Do I feel seems that World Cup stories Clough says. silly? Of course I feel silly.” ) should be running on the page “ That’s a load of bull. We’ve On Sardinia, a Jets vs Sharks with the police blotter. got enough good players. Pick the rumble supposedly has been Indeed, at the end of the 20th right side and we’ll compete with scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday on the century, soccer is the only thing anybody.” outskirts of Cagliari between imaginable that can again make Robson’s side, substantially the some Dutch nasties called The all roads lead to Rome. same squad he employed in Mexi Under Fives and an all-star team Sometimes there are moments co, plumbed new depths two years of English idiots who represent in this whirlwind of countries, ago in West Germany, losing all groups such as the Arsenal Goon- matches, days when the chants, three European championship ers. (Don’t look for this match on banners and painted faces begin to matches. your TSN schedule.) be as oppressive as the closets Yet England embarks on its lat In Milan, Germans picked a that masquerade as hotel rooms. est campaign unbeaten in 15 pre-game fight with Yugoslavs You wish all the tifosi — the matches and with a wealth of tal that led to some injuries and ar fans, a word that shares its root, South Korea’s Joo-sung Kim won this ball, but it was the Belgians who won the game 2-0. ent. rests. appropriately enough, with typhus Now the burning question is: In Genoa, the authorities de — would get a life. Will England fail again? ported English fans who had been Then you consider the fun they The answer is simple. Yes! Un caught with a spray-can of sleep arc having and it dawn§ on you: less Robson can overcome that ing gas and arrested two Dutch they already have one. G lass slipp er fits E gypt very English insularity which ig men with 37 grams of hashish. Italy has been a kind, generous by Canadian Press lost 1-0 Monday to tiny Costa matter of life or death.” nores the fact that England is no If you go looking for trouble host to the Mondiale. Cagliari has longer a major soccer power. Egypt became the third Cinder Rica. Egypt’s tying goal may also among fans at the World Cup, been an exception at times — a Certainly, on paper, England ella team of the World Cup in It “ If, with the talent we have, have owed something to luck as maybe you’ll find it, maybe not. Canadian stumbled on a hotel we cannot win a match like this, Dutch sweeper Ronald Kocman has the players to win the World But on your way, you are rush room at 3:15 a.m. yesterday after aly when it held the mighty Cup, but will Robson have the Netherlands to a 1-1 draw Tues then it is a debacle,” Kieft said. appeared to drag Hossam Hassan ing past an awful lot of good. perhaps 25 Englishmen had been “ Such a team (as Egypt) can down outside the box. But he fell courage to pick the team for the For every clash, there is a day, baffling the European cham job? refused it — nor have thieves only play well when we play in the area and Abdel-Ghani’s group of freshly scrubbed Ameri stopped working the Termini-rail pions with some surprising soccer The main question is whether sorcery. badly.” spot kick was wildly greeted by a cans who ducked under a banner way station in Rome. he will bow to the enormous pub Unawed by the reputations of South Korea tried the opposite Sicilian crowd that had come to outside Stadio Communale in Flo But the small, human kindness lic pressure and include Totten Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten approach to the Egyptians’, shorapplaud Dutch style and ended rence predicting a 5-0 Czechoslo es have won out. A Florentine ing up their defence in their ham’s Paul Gascoigne in his mid- vakian victory and flashed a and company, the Egyptians de cheering North African enterprise. woman agreed to do an Ameri group E encounter with Belgium. After the game, in Cairo, fire field lineup. There have always good-natured thumb’s down. can’s laundry but not his under cided to stress offence in the been question marks over Gascoi Group F game and the strategy Though the South Koreans held works flashed in the skies as For every epithet hurled at Irish wear — she said she would be gne’s temperament and applica worked. on until halftime, spectacular thousands of soccer fans poured fans by the English, dozens of too embarrassed. A security chief long-range goals early in the sec into the streets, chanting, honking tion, though his skill has never fans from both countries mingled Substitute Wim Kieft gave the been in doubt. in Cagliari, a man with a lot on Netherlands the lead in the 58th ond half from Marc Degryse and car horns and waving flags to happily at the Cagliari airport his mind, drove a stranded Cana Michel De Wolf gave the Bel celebrate the efforts of the first England docs need the skill and yesterday moming. minute but a penalty converted by vison of a ball-playing midficld dian to the centre of town. Magdi Abdel-Ghani seven mi gians a 2-0 win at Verona. Egyptian team to qualify for the These things never appear in man to add breadth and variation “ The World Cup, in Italy, in nutes from the end gave the “ It was a well-deserved, rou finals in 56 years. match summaries. to an otherwise rigid, disciplined Rome — the greatest event in the Egyptians a draw they richly de tine victory, although I would Egyptian President Hosni Of course, a bank strike is set have liked to have seen two more Mubarak sent a telegram to the unit. Gascoigne deserves his greatest city in the country with served. chance, but he must realize that for today. The railways were sup goals,” said Guy Thys, Belgium’s players. the greatest football. How could In the end, it was the Dutch international recognition brings you not want to be here?” asked posed to begin a 24-hour walkout team that went off the field in veteran coach. at 2 o’clock this afternoon, but responsibility. Provided he works Brendan Byme, a 38-year-old ac Palermo relieved to have earned a Today, Spain plays Uruguay at Yugoslavia plays Colombia at that has been postponed. You Udine (11 a.m. EDT, TSN) and 8 a.m. Thursday on TSN (cable on his application problem, he is countant from Dublin who had point and not to have suffered the a potential match-winncr. come with 55 friends. "This is a need a little local color at the humiliation of defending-champi- Argentina faces the Soviet Union 16). Italy plays the USA at World Cup. celebration. on Argentina, beaten 1-0 by at Naples (3 p.m. EDT, TSN). noon Thursday on TSN. Cam Robson has at his disposal one “ The English fans? They don’t Italy is just being Italy, a coun Cameroon on the opening day Carlos Bilardo, Argentina’s eroon plays Romania at 4 p.m. of the best squads an England worry me. Some of my best try that shouldn’t work but seems last Friday, or of Scotland, which coach, said his team’s game is “ a Thursday on TSN. manager has ever been able to as friends are English.” to do just fine. semble. Johnson, Bowman Pistons pow er head up Penguins past P ortland PITTSBURGH (AP) — The re “ very positive and very enthusi vamping of the Pittsburgh Pen astic — a guy who enjoys going PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — what you’re doing. We’ve done guins continued Tuesday with the to the rink, who enjoys his work.” Beating the Trail Blazers three that.” appointment of Bob Johnson as head coach and Scotty Bowman consecutive games in Portland is They also have rushed into the He said the Penguins are going as director of player development tough. So is winning two consec Portland Memorial Coliseum to have to play “ faster and better utive NBA titles. without worrying about what hap and recruitment. than the opposition” if they’re General manager Craig Patrick The Detroit Pistons can do pened there before. going to become Stanley Cup said he had been considering both with one more victory. Not since Oct. 19, 1974, when contenders, but declined to com Isiah Thomas made a champi none of the current Pistons were Johnson for the post since taking ment on individual players or give on the team, had Detroit won the reins in December, when gen a general assessment of the team. onship celebration Thursday night eral manager Tony Esposito and there. Twenty consecutive losses “ The one thing I’m sold on is a possibility in a building where coach Gene Ubriaco were fired. the Pistons, until this week, followed. That streak was the chemistry of the team,” “ He’s a great teacher, a great hadn’t won in 16 years. His 32 snapped Sunday in a 121-106 Johnson said. “ The 20th man on communicator, great motivator,” the hockey team is extremely im points led Detroit to a 112-109 rout. Until Tuesday night’s game, Patrick said of Johnson, the for Portland hadn’t lost two consecu portant.” victory Tuesday night. mer Calgary Flames coach. “ He tive home games this season. The Blazers must make history has great knowledge of every as “ How about this?” Detroit — no team has survived a 3-1 pect of the game.” deficit in the final — to stop the coach Chuck Daly said. “ We won two games in this building.” The Penguins finished the sea INTERIOR Pistons from becoming only the son in fifth place in the Patrick third NBA franchise to win con “ The home-court advantage is great,” Portland’s Clyde Drexlcr Division with a 32-40-8 record, O F F R O A 1 ) secutive titles. missing the playoffs for the sev said. “ The fans give you a lift 1594 NICHOLSON ST. “ We’re one win away, but wc emotionally, but you still have to enth time in a decade. 5 6 2 - 6 7 6 0 don’t take anything for granted,” come out and play well.” Johnson, 59, had been executive Detroit’s Mark Aguirre said. director of USA Hockey since re j m a Detroit won Tuesday night de signing as coach of the Flames in “ We’re happy to be up 3-1, butspite Drcxler’s 34 points and Jer (Portland) never seems to quit.” 1987. He spent 15 years and won ome Kersey’s career playoff-high three NCAA championships at the Between the Boston Celtics’ ti 33, despite blowing a 16-point University of Wisconsin before tle in 1969 and the Los Angeles third-quarter lead and despite joining Calgary in 1982. Lakers title in 1988, 18 years had front court foul problems. Johnson led the Flames to the GROUND EFFECTS passed without a repeat champi■ Chris Ford was named the new Stanley Cup final against the on. Now, Detroit is surviving the coach of the Boston Celtics Tues Montreal Canadiens in 1986. pressure of opponents’ determinaday. Bowman, the winningcst coach tion to knock off the king. Ford, a former Celtic player in National Hockey League histo m i n They are doing it because they and an assistant coach in Boston ry, won five Stanley Cups as shove the ultimate prize into the for the past seven years, was coach of the Montreal Canadiens C A R S A N D shadows. named to replace Jimmy Rodgers, and also had coaching stints wilh “ Wc go into every game say who was fired after the Celtics the St. Louis Blues and Buffalo LIGHT TRUCKSfNOWI ing we want to win this one,” were eliminated from the playoffs Sabres, where he left behind a AVAILABLE • Aguirre said. “ Then we got into in the first round for the second rich legacy of draft choices who the next one saying we’ve got to straight season. have become solid NHL players. SPOILERS, WINGS, win that. “ Something inside tells you AIRDAMS, SIDE SKIRTS “ When you do that, I think Game 5 begins at 6 p.m. this is the place to be at this Bill Lalmbeer grabs away the ball as team grabbed the win you can concentrate more on Thursday on KIRO (cable 7). time,” Bowman said. THE EXPERTS! Johnson described himself as i