© Getty Images With the 1990 FIFA World Cup just minutes from kicking off, this Cameroon supporter looks to be a lone figure. He would certainly have arrived at Milan’s gleaming, newly renovated San Siro in hope rather than expectation, knowing that his team – comprised largely of little-known journeymen – were about to face the world champions, and the great Diego Maradona.
Even Cameroon’s own players seemed to accept the outcome as a foregone conclusion, with striker Francois Omam-Biyick – one of several then plying his trade in France’s lower divisions – striking a downbeat pre-match tone. “The gap between the two teams is too big to breach,” he said. “I don’t believe in miracles.”
Goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell had been gloomier still, and was dropped after claiming in a newspaper interview that his team had “no chance of coping with Argentina, or any other team” and would “go out in the first round without much glory”.
Nothing, of course, could have been further from the truth. I..
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