INTERNATIONAL SHOCKS IN 10

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NORTH KOREA 1 ITALY 0 (World Cup 1966) – Adopted by the Middlesbrough fans because they played in red, the North Koreans swept aside an Italy team fancied to win the tournament to the delight of Ayresome Park.

ENGLAND 2 SCOTLAND 3 (Home Internationals 1967) – Scotland’s celebrated Wembley win over the newlycrowned World Champions was a massive surprise at the time.

FRANCE 0 SENEGAL 1 (World Cup 2002) – The World Cup holders losing the tournament opener to a team making their Finals debut was a stunner.

NORTHERN IRELAND 1 SpAIN 0 (World Cup 1982) – The Miracle of the Mestalla. One of the greatest nights in Northern Ireland’s history with Gerry Armstrong the goalscoring hero.

pORTUGAL 0 ALBANIA 1 (2014, Euro 2016 qualifiers) – Portugal had no Cristiano Ronaldo and no excuses for this shock defeat.

FAROE ISLANDS 1 AUSTRIA 0 (1990, Euro 1992) – The Faroes first ever competitive match – which had to be played in Sweden – was a warning of what was to come for Ranieri’s Greece.

pERU 3 SCOTLAND 1 (World Cup 1978) – Nearly 40 years on, still enough to provoke a shudder in any of the Tartan Army who can remember the night when Teofilo Cubillas & Co dismantled the country’s collective dreams of glory.

CAMEROON 1 ARGENTINA 0 (World Cup 1990) – Diego Maradona and Dundee legend Claudio Caniggia on the wrong end of another opening-day shock.

BRAZIL 1 GERMANY 7 (World Cup 2014) – The outcome wasn’t too much of a surprise but the margin of the victory certainly was as the hosts crashed out.

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