Many things change between qualification and big tournaments, just ask Gary Waddock
Charlton said that dropping Waddock was “the biggest f**king mistake I ever made
Before a final training camp in Malta, Ireland played Turkey in Izmir. Waddock started, but was replaced early in the second half. He thought no more about it, until the squad landed in Valletta and Charlton pulled him aside at the luggage carousel in the airport. There had been a late change of plan: Waddock was no longer in the squad; Alan McLoughlin had been called up in his place.
Gary Waddock talks to the media after being informed by Jack Charlton that he was dropped from the World Cup squad for Italia 90. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Alan Kernaghan was another who was marooned on the margins of that tournament. He had been a regular in the team during the qualifying campaign, and having played schoolboy football for Northern Ireland, he endured vile abuse from the Windsor Park terraces on the night of the crucial last game. Leaving Belfast that evening he must have felt that he had earned his spurs.
“I asked myself if by leaving out someone who has been great for me all along, would I improve our chances of making progress in the World Cup and I decided that it wouldn’t. I wasn’t going to make changes just for the sake of seeing a fresh face.”
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