Jack Charlton was an angry manager at the World Cup in 1994. He didn't like that matches were being played in the middle of the day, in the hot American summer. He fought with the referees and Fifa officials about his Irish team not being allowed to stop for water breaks.
And then there was the John Aldridge incident. Aldrigde was waiting to come on as a substitute in the group match against Mexico. As Aldridge explains it in the video, Ireland had taken two players off but a Fifa official didn't allow Aldridge to go on. So for a few minutes Ireland were playing with 10 men. In that time Mexico scored a second goal. Aldridge let his feelings known to the overly officious official, as did Charlton.
Aldridge went on and scored, of course.
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