World Cup's 50 Greatest Moments World Cup's 50 Greatest Moments

-I can't wait for the World Cup.

-Neither can I.

-So you going, Rio?

-Going where?

-Rio.

-Yeah.

-Right, so when you getting there?

-Where?

-Rio.

What? What is it?

Look, I'm just asking if you're going, Rio.

What are you talking about? I've only just got here.

Stop messing about and let's get on with the show.

Hi, I'm Olly Murs.

And I'm Rio Ferdinand

and you're watching The World Cup's 50 Greatest Moments, a countdown

of the best bits of what is quite simply the greatest show on Earth.

All right, you need to stop talking about my tour.

We're here to talk about the World Cup.

-That's right. The clue was in the title.

-It was.

OK, well, we've got a feast of World Cup magic in store.

We can boast more slick Brazilians than the cast of TOWIE.

-More shoot-out misery than the OK Corral.

-OK, here's a taster.

Pele... Oh, what genius!

I had one poster in my bedroom - it was Johan Cruyff.

He's scored a wonderful goal!

Yeah, it was a great moment.

Marco Tardelli!

Looking for the shot, Ray Houghton!

Everyone in the world wanted that to go in.

And it's there!

Gary Lineker, look, his head's gone.

That should get you sent off the pitch.

Well, it didn't hit Rivaldo in the face.

It's Zidane!

A moment of madness.

Oh, what a goal! Dennis Bergkamp!

It's things like that why people watch football.

What a save!

Maradona!

People are on the pitch. They think it's all over.

It is now.

And I said, "Jackie, our lives are never going to be the same."

Great stuff.

The World Cup's 50 Greatest Moments

and all picked by a panel of BBC experts.

I'm as excited as Geoff Hurst's agent is in a World Cup year.

Let's get on with the countdown.

-OK, we're kicking off.

-See, I love what you did there, Rio.

-Footballing, clever.

-Well.

At number 50, the only person to score faster than Russell Brand

in a nightclub, it's the World Cup's quickest-ever goal,

a Turkish delight from 2002.

Blink and you'll miss it.

I always think it's a shame when moments of history

and records are broken in the 3rd/4th play-off match

because, basically, it doesn't matter.

-COMMENTATOR:

-Korea in the red shirts, kicking from left to right.

Turkey are all in white.

And Bo who is immediately caught in possession.

What a start this could be!

And Turkey have the lead

and it's Hakan Sukur inside 15 seconds for Turkey!

Just a blunder, a defensive blunder from the Korean Republic.

It was just terrible.

You just don't get goals like that.

Usually, from kick-off, people are quite cautious,

want to keep the ball.

Keep it tight, 15-20 minutes, let's contain them,

let's look after the ball.

11 seconds gone, you're 1-0 down.

And that is the fastest-ever goal in World Cup finals football

and it's scored by the Turkish captain Hakan Sukur.

It happens and you go, "There's no way back from this."

Yeah, Hakan Sukur created history

but I still think Bryan Robson's is the fastest goal in World Cup

history because it was a goal that mattered.

MUSIC: "Nessun Dorma" by Giacomo Puccini

The 1990 World Cup - that's when music

and football tournaments became intrinsically linked and, you know,

this desire to have the great theme tune for every football tournament.

Ah, the awe-inspiring tones of Luciano Pavarotti

and Nessun Dorma - beautiful music for the beautiful game,

stirring memories of great goals, great plays, great drama and...

spitting?

Of course, I know the history of Holland and Germany

not liking each other from 1974

and whatever else went on and, I suppose,

they had their playing days playing against each other when they

both played in Italy so they didn't like each other so that happened.

Well, there's something going on between them.

It was quite an ill-tempered game.

And Rijkaard is cautioned

and he'd already been cautioned in the competition.

Both of them with their lovely head of hair.

Rudi Voller had this haircut, this mop,

like a mop on his head,

and Rijkaard, you could see that he was building up the spit

that was going to come.

Yeah, Rijkaard just spat into Voller's hair.

Did he spit at Voller as he ran past? Was that my imagination?

Let's hope so.

For him to spit at another professional was absolutely

horrifying, disgusting.

They kicked each other, they didn't like each other. We don't know what

he may have said. He spat in his hair

or whatever he did, and they got sent off.

Well, there's a bit of nonsense between Voller

and Rijkaard which could spoil this match.

Rudi Voller's absolutely incensed.

Well, it's a red card and Voller is off and that is extraordinary.

As they both got sent off, as they walked out, you can

see him like, as if he was building up his dinner from the last

four or five days, it was just going to come straight out.

Oh, and he... Well, there was no doubt about it then.

Rijkaard spat on Voller as he walked past him

and that is absolutely atrocious.

If you're going to spit on someone, spit in their face,

don't spit at the back of their head and run off, you know what I mean?

Like he was walking off and you could just see this loogie

just hanging at the back, which I just thought, "This is awful."

I guess if you asked Rijkaard about this moment,

it's probably one of the things he regrets the most.

From over here to over there. The World Cup went stateside in '94.

Ireland and Jack Charlton will be remembered in the USA

for touchline bust-ups, water fights and a goal at Giants Stadium.

That was in New Jersey and it was one of the hottest days of the year.

That whole Irish team in 1994, they looked like everymen.

A few of them has teeth missing, beer guts. It was a beautiful thing.

Coming from Queen's Park, not too far from Kilburn, which is

a highly-populated Irish area, the streets were just packed.

I'll never forget watching it with my dad.

I think I was 12 at the time.

No-one gave us a chance cos we played them four years ago,

we got beaten in Rome. This was kind of like our second attempt at them.

Knocked down by Houghton, he goes for the shot and he scores!

Ray Houghton!

Ray's goal was really, really good,

not just what it meant to everybody, but in the way he actually took it.

Pubs all around Kilburn kept replaying that

and what an amazing goal.

It was a phenomenal strike from a man who looked like...

You wouldn't be surprised

if Ray Houghton came round to do your plumbing.

We've just scored against Italy, this is amazing,

I can't believe we're 1-0 up after 11 minutes

and then the sudden realisation of we're now going to get battered,

we will now be battered by the Italians.

And then for 79 minutes, it was like an act of God.

Whatever Paul McGrath was drinking the night before that game,

nothing got past him.

They were good value for the win that day

and I think they really did surprise the Italians.

Our World Cup went downhill after 11 minutes.

That was the best 11 minutes we had.

At number 47, it's France against Kuwait

and the curious case of a World Cup work-to-rule.

1982, it was in Spain.

It was in the group stage, eh? I remember that.

Platini.

And offside, is he? No, he's not, it's Alain Giresse.

And that one counts.

Kuwait are appealing.

France had scored a goal but there was a clear whistle in the stadium

prior to the goal going in the net, not from the referee.

Kuwait are contending, presumably, the legality of the goal.

They all said that they heard a whistle.

And so the goal doesn't count.

It's the best way to get out of a goal ever.

Kuwaiti players threatened to leave the pitch.

"We're coming off."

And the sheikh came down and he had a conference with the referee.

The Kuwait guys, like the proper guys, came on and were like,

"Hey, there was a whistle."

I think the sheikh thought he could take on everybody -

FIFA, the world, France - and then he realised that, in actual fact,

it was a football match.

And I would imagine the head of the delegation has told

the Kuwait players they must continue the game.

Could you imagine David Cameron saying to Gerrard,

"Come off now - we're getting beat."?

And the referee is going to talk to his linesman.

And he's changed his mind!

The French are walking off. They're refusing to carry on playing.

Oh, it was chaos for about five minutes.

And here we have a situation where a World Cup match cannot continue.

Neither side will accept the referee's decision.

What an extraordinary scene here.

Off they all trooped, off they all came back

and then France scored anyway.

Those moments, you watch in football and you're saying to yourself,

"There's some crazy stuff out there."

Moving on, and at 46,

another moment from Italia '90 that doesn't involve phlegm -

England and Belgium, the last 16,

the match moments away from penalties.

Who would be the hero? Step forward Platt.

Well, a smile comes onto my face when I remember that goal.

That was...

I remember, you know, World Cups prior but only

because of footage that I've seen since, but 1990 was the

tournament that I just absolutely loved. I was ten or 11 at the time.

If I could go back to any time in my life, it might be 1990, cos I

remember everyone trying to recreate David Platt's goal against Belgium.

I think we were heading towards penalties against Belgium,

weren't we? And it was right towards the death.

And chipped in.

And volleyed in!

And it's there by David Platt!

England have done it in the last minute of extra time! Amazing!

Platt has done some incredibly nifty footwork,

almost like an acrobatic pirouette, and then just hooked it in.

Just to be able to follow that, the technique,

the skill to then put it into the top corner is unbelievable.

That turn and shot goes down as one of the most dramatic

goals in the World Cup and probably one of the best.

I just saw the ball hit the back of the net

and went off running up the street, so excited.

What a time to score.

I think that face says it all.

That's the biggest smile in world football tonight.

David Platt will long live in my memory for that goal.

-Ow! My face! Eeh!

-No, no, not like that.

You've got to be a bit more theatrical, mate.

Act like you've just been slide tackled

by my old team-mate Roy Keane.

-All right.

-Come on, let's go.

-Let's have another go, go on.

Ow, my leg! My head as well!

You're getting there but why don't we have a look at a real genius?

OK, good idea, that is.

Here is an Oscar-winning performance from Brazilian striker

Rivaldo at the 2002 World Cup.

I've always been a big fan of the beautiful game

and I really like Brazil, Brazil football, it's fantastic,

but what really let me down in 2002 was when Brazil were playing Turkey.

Turkish player kicks the ball in Rivaldo's direction for him

to take a corner,

it hits him clearly on the thigh,

at which point, Rivaldo has then decided,

"I can do two things in this situation - I can say,

" 'That's not very fair, mate, don't do that,' or I can overact."

Well, it didn't hit Rivaldo in the face.

The ball hits you quite clearly on the thigh

and you go down holding your face, it's just a bit embarrassing.

At the time, he was one of the best in the world and he's doing that.

Now, I don't know -

did he get an electric shock that went from his knee

all the way up through his waist and then straight up to his face?

Because I think that's probably what happened.

He then twirled over as well like a baby and you're thinking,

"Why are you doing this?" And then the Turkish guy gets sent off.

He did kick the ball at Rivaldo but it did not hit Rivaldo in the face.

I would have loved if a guy comes out and goes,

"The 2002 Oscar nomination goes to...Rivaldo."

I don't think anyone in the world would have gone,

"What do you mean, he wins the award?" It was beautiful acting.

I don't know what must have gone through his mind to do that

but I wonder if he sort of watches that back in a bit of shame.

You're feigning injury

and somebody gets sent off so that's not nice to see.

It is one of the best things, one of my favourite World Cup memories.

In fact, look, let's recreate it.

Throw this at me. Hit me here.

Ow! Ah!

Do you want to do it again?

RIO: Sweden in 1958 is the only time in World Cup history that

all four home countries have qualified for the same tournament.

England and Scotland bowed out at group stage,

leaving Northern Ireland and Wales to fly the flag for the UK.

My dad, when he was managing Wales in the early '90s

and came really, really close to leading that team to the World Cup

in '94, at that time, there was a lot of talk about the 1958

World Cup which was the last time Wales had qualified.

Northern Ireland and Wales

progressed further than you would have expected.

It was a very historic moment for Welsh football, I think.

Wales, with John Charles in the team,

who unfortunately got injured at a key time,

they did ever so well, came very close to reaching the semifinals.

Wales ended up being knocked out by Brazil with Pele playing.

The buzz around Wales at that time must have been so, so good.

The only World Cup they qualified for, but as a proud Welshman,

nobody's ever been able to achieve that feat again,

never mind a quarterfinal of a World Cup.

Danny Blanchflower led Ireland and Danny, of course, was a philosopher.

He used to say the game is not about winning, it's about glory.

You also have to mention Harry Gregg was in goal who'd come

out of the Munich air crash to play in the World Cup.

Blanchflower, and quite rightly so, chipping the ball

and what a goal!

Yes, yes, that's the goal.

And it's scored by that man, McParland, again.

Well, our tactics have always been

to equalise before the other team scored.

I think they scored first and then we equalised

but we equalised the second time before they scored.

Clashes of culture have long been a feature of World Cups.

East and West Germany met in 1974.

But perhaps the most significant encounter came in France '98

when the guardians of the free world

took on a member of the so-called Axis Of Evil.

Or USA versus Iran to you and me.

The game itself wasn't special but it was the whole build-up to it,

the clash of ideologies, the clash of cultures, East versus West.

MUSIC: "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

The arse-clenching that went around the world when they saw that

Iran were going to be drawn against the United States in '98.

The hate of the two nations was at its full maximum.

Well, you knew who Iran were,

they had Iran written quite boldly across their top.

I notice that the Iranians have all brought on flowers to present,

I think, to their opposite numbers.

That demonstration of the flowers was one of those occasions

when, despite everything that was going on, all the controversy,

all the chaos, they were able to put it on the shelf for a minute

and say, "Look, this is a field on which we can all come together."

And the first shake of hands between the two captains.

The atmosphere in the ground is extremely pleasant.

I think it was probably a really nice moment and a really good

display of what football can be and how it can bring people together.

We all watched and went, "Ugh, I hope this doesn't kick off."

Obviously, it did kick off cos that's football.

Regis trying to get back, Keller out to face him

and it's beautifully placed by Mahdavikia,

who confirms his position, for me, as man of the match.

See, I reckon the American president said to the players,

"Guys, I'm going to need you to lose this one, OK, because it's Iran,

"it's going to really help me out for the next election."

For them to win 2-1, I mean the world was just like...

HE WHISTLES

Before 1990, African football had played only

a bit-part on the world stage, but in Italy,

Cameroon and Roger Milla were about to change all that.

That opening game was just...

That's the World Cup at its very best.

Omam-Biyik.

Oh, and he's scored!

Disaster for Pumpido

and the Giuseppe Meazza stadium is an unbelievable sight!

What a beautiful goal.

I mean if there's any young schoolboys watching this,

you should put this in slow motion.

The technique, you know, I mean great football all round.

Makanaky got the flick-on and Pumpido made an absolute

hash of what should have been a simple save, poor fella.

If you watch the goal back, look how high Omam-Biyik

is off the ground, he's about 10ft off the ground.

But it'll go down as goalkeeper error.

Go on, son.

Rivelino, he had better feet than Nijinsky.

And it's going to be Rivelino or Paulo Cezar Lima with the kick.

Rivelino was the free kick master of his day.

And the Brazilians have put their own players in the wall again.

Rivelino.

1-0!

Obviously, a set piece,

they've practised that on the training ground.

Actually, it didn't really come off cos the idea was that he would

duck down behind one of the players and someone else would push him over.

I mean that's classy, that's classy.

A famous left foot right through the diving Brazilian player

and it's paid off again for Brazil.

To get it through that gap, not that size, it was about that size,

is incredible.

The goalkeeper clearly had no idea what was going on. What was that?

Who was that fella in the middle of our wall?

All of a sudden, he goes down, Rivelino finds the gap perfectly

and can go off and celebrate in beautiful Brazilian fashion.

Rivelino does what he threatened to do in the first half.

In Chile, they had a nickname called "Patada Atomica" which means

"Atomic Kick" which, obviously,

denotes the fact that he smashes the ball rather hard.

Drilled through the wall.

Struck with precision and power.

So, we've seen our first ten World Cup moments.

-Olly, how's it been for you, pal?

-Oh, mate, it's been great

but I'm struggling with a bit of cramp at the moment.

-You take the next link, I'll be fine.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah, yeah.

We've got Joey Essex downstairs if you don't fancy it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's all right, Rio, don't worry about that,

mate, I'm fine.

Yeah, I'm fine.

RIO: Spain '82.

Algeria surprisingly beat West Germany

and stood on the verge of qualifying for the second phase.

However, with no simultaneous kick-offs in the group deciders, both

the Germans and neighbours Austria,

meeting each other in the last match, knew a narrow German win would

send them both through and the Algerians home.

I think people had a feeling that they might just play out

the result that suited both nations at the start.

The header by Hrubesch

and West Germany are in front!

Nothing happened.

Obviously, there was a goal but in all honesty,

in the last half hour, nothing happened.

To think that West Germany's World Cup record is second only to

Brazil and they've allowed their good name to be tarnished.

Is it professionalism, what they did, or is it cheating?

You can't really say that it was a fix, but...

West Germany and Austria, you know,

some kind of alliance going on there, I don't know.

And it was very difficult to disguise it

and poor old Algeria just couldn't do anything about it.

It was a shame, it was a great Algerian side.

I think they could have gone on and won it, that Algerian side.

It's a World Cup tie and they'll call it a disgrace.

Since then, of course, it's been changed

so that the final group games kick off at the same time

so you're not going to have that sort of situation happening again.

You could still have it with three or four minutes to go, of course.

Whether it's Clive Thomas blowing for full-time as Brazil score

or Graham Poll's three yellow cards, who'd be a referee?

Imagine then the first minute of the 1974 World Cup final

in West Germany, the hosts against Holland.

Cue Johan Cruyff and the man in the middle from the Midlands.

There probably aren't two greater rivals in European football,

they absolutely hate each other.

And Johan Cruyff, captain of Holland,

the best team I'd ever seen.

Cruyff has come very deep indeed.

He's the last player in the Dutch side.

'And nobody liked West Germany.'

Jack Taylor was the referee, wasn't he?

Right through and brought down.

Penalty in the first minute of the World Cup and rightly so!

I remember the penalty kick and I thought Jack Taylor got it right.

Jack Taylor ten yards from the scene, no hesitation.

Doesn't matter when it happens - 30 seconds, 30 minutes -

you've got to give it.

But for some reason, it is a bigger decision early on in the game.

The mental strength that must have taken for him

to do that is phenomenal

and that's why he's widely

regarded as one of the greatest ever to come from these shores.

Beckenbauer complains, but that is pointless.

I could just imagine people all over Germany just throwing clogs

out of the window and pancakes, just building mountains,

"We'll have nothing with these flat-earth people."

Neeskens.

1-0.

The goal scored after 80 seconds and I'm not quite sure that any

German touched the ball in those 80 seconds.

At that stage, you know,

the Total Football of the Dutch,

you thought it was all over, but the Germans had a good side as well,

came back and won it in the end.

So here's the scenario -

the '78 World Cup in Argentina didn't have a knockout phase.

Instead, the finalists were decided by second round groups.

Once again, simultaneous kick-offs were not in place,

leaving hosts Argentina knowing that a win by four or more goals

over Peru would see them, and not Brazil, advance to the final.

Cue the conspiracy theories.

That whole World Cup,

there was a sort of underlying feeling of suspicion all the time.

Of course, the military junta, Videla was the president.

Kempes.

1-0.

I mean there's a lot of controversy about this team, Peru,

when they played Argentina.

Knocked in, Tarantini.

There was loads of speculation

and rumours about the Argentines having an influence over

the Peruvian goalkeeper who was Argentine by birth.

Kempes, Kempes,

3-0!

People will say the referees favoured them. I'm not

so sure about that, but then, of course, it was very political.

Very political.

Number 12, Larrosa.

Oh, it's...

And Luque!

I mean what do we know about Peru? Paddington Bear.

And the fact that all them players were wearing duffel coats,

a big floppy hat over their eyes

and carrying a suitcase whilst eating marmalade.

And he's really attacking the defence.

Right past him and Houseman scores.

And they went on and won 6-0.

Luque!

6-0!

Absolutely no controversy there for me(!)

At 37, Ghana stood on the verge of history in 2010.

Could they become the first African side to reach a World Cup semifinal?

Between them and the last four is a game against Uruguay.

Fate was about to deal them a bad hand.

We were all on Ghana's side.

For some reason, people just don't like Uruguay

and no-one really takes to them, and you know why?

It's cos of the behaviour of people like Luis Suarez.

It's there that he really came to the Great British public's

attention by acting like an absolute plonker.

Why is it South Americans always handle the ball?

Diego Maradona, now Luis Suarez.

Here we go, Boateng's there!

Keeper's lost it! Appiah's there!

Blocked on the line! Blocked on the line again! Has it gone in?!

Flag goes up and Ghana think they've got it! Ghana think they've scored.

And the officials are going to have to step in here.

He pawed that ball off the line and it was so blatant.

And the referee thankfully saw it, gave him a red card.

Ghana have got a penalty with the last kick of the game.

Oh, I do not believe it, what drama!

You felt he had to do it, it wasn't nice

but sometimes instinct takes over.

In Luis' defence, when you've got that will to win and you're

so desperate to keep it out, I think

it's just reactions took over rather than him actually thinking straight.

Everyone in the world wanted that penalty to go in.

Asamoah Gyan for Ghana.

Oh, and he's missed!

Oh, I cannot believe it!

Poor guy, the occasion was too big for him.

And then you see Suarez in the tunnel celebrating like he'd just

saved his team by being awful and it was just so horrible.

It was like someone coming to a dinner party

and taking a dump on your table

and then pissing all over your gran and being sick in your toilet.

I think, with Suarez, there was an element of him

being up to his usual tricks.

I understand why he got vilified for doing it

and I understand how everyone felt for Gyan.

But in that instance, you want to do whatever you can to

prolong your side's stay in the competition.

They were robbed in the last minute.

Went on to a penalty shoot out, Gyan scored,

but it was too little, too late.

Who says cheaters don't prosper, eh?

Let's say Rooney does that, Rooney does that on the line,

he gets sent off but we go through.

I don't think the press are going for him

in the way that they went for Suarez.

Next on the list is a man bearing the name of a Spartan warrior-king,

or Leonidas to his mum,

but perhaps he's best remembered for popularizing the bicycle kick.

Ah, the bicycle kick.

Right, I bet his bicycle kick is nowhere near as good

as my bicycle kick.

-All right, let's see what you've got.

-Yeah?

-Take that.

Right, you need to throw the ball in a second, let me just get warmed up.

-You ready?

-Yeah, let's go.

-OK.

One, two...

BELL RINGS

-Olly.

-You see?

-You're just too much of a joker, man, stop messing about.

That's right, that's right.

BELL RINGS

MUSIC: "Bicycle Race" by Queen

The overhead kick, the bicycle kick.

In Brazil, they will swear it's a Brazilian invention from

Leonidas da Silva, who was the top goal-scorer in the 1938 World Cup.

Leonidas, I think, would have been, if you like, the pre-war

forerunner of the Vavas and the Gersons and even the Peles in a way.

So, this was the man that allegedly invented the bicycle kick, or

he fell backwards and managed to kick the ball, you know?

Through adversity came triumph.

In 1938 in Paris just before the war, Brazil were hot favourites.

It was quite controversial then

because he was a black centre forward and brilliant with the ball

so we're told. Little bits of film have crept through down the years.

The Italian team, of course,

they were sort of, under Mussolini's encouragement, expected to win.

But anyway, in the semifinal, Brazil decided to leave Leonidas out

and as it happens with all those things, they lost in Marseille and

as a result of that, didn't get to the final of the World Cup

and Italy won it.

At 35 is perhaps one of the World Cup's lowest moments

but out of the darkness came light as the world of football united

in its condemnation of a horrible crime against one of its own.

Harkes looking for Stewart, he's turned it into his own goal!

The US take the lead with an own goal from Escobar!

It was a dreadful mistake by Escobar but I don't think anybody had

any idea at the time what the consequences of that

comedy own goal would have been for that player.

To Escobar, and his country, Colombia, it was no laughing

matter because they, ultimately, were out of the World Cup.

In Colombia, gunmen have shot dead a World Cup footballer who'd

just returned home from the tournament in America.

This was where Andres Escobar lost his life,

shot 12 times at close range outside a Medellin restaurant after

an argument with a group of three men.

One of them was heard to say, "Thank you for the goal."

It was an awful moment for football when we realised what had

happened to that poor lad who was just 27 years of age.

He'd made a simple mistake.

Everybody for 20 seconds just sat in stunned silence.

In Colombia meanwhile, one theory to account for the killing involves

revenge by drug traffickers who bet and lost on Colombia's performance.

For somebody to actually be shot

because they scored an own goal - madness.

Football is full of passion

and whoever said it's only a game clearly was not a Colombian.

Yeah, it just showed how people can go too far.

I mean that's one of the great World Cup tragedies.

That's just unthinkable.

And yet the haunted look on his face, you look at it now

and all sorts of thoughts come into your head.

No matter what nationality or era,

fans dream of their team scoring the perfect goal.

Perhaps there is no such thing.

However in 2006, Esteban Cambiasso

and Argentina attempted to dispel that myth.

2006, Argentina were very unlucky, actually, not to win the World Cup,

they had an amazing team, but they scored this amazing goal.

Kezman, beyond Mascherano. But he has it back again.

I think probably when coaches talk to little kids about teamwork

and good football and good ethos,

Cambiasso's goal is the one that they will be able to quote.

Mascherano. Riquelme.

Here's Ayala.

If ever you needed a demonstration that winning a game's

about all the players involved and not just the striker, that was it.

You know, the Argentinian goal was just the total team goal.

I think it was 24 passes and it was just patient, patient,

getting their movement around,

and then suddenly just switched up the tempo and it was just

one-touch, the back heel from Crespo and then bang, finish.

It was a total team goal, you know.

The manager's got to be proud of that one.

This is Saviola, flicked on by Cambiasso, gets it back

and that's a beautifully-worked second goal for Argentina!

At number 33, it's 1974, Brazil are playing Zaire

who are making their first and only appearance at a World Cup.

Brazil have just been awarded a free kick. So what happened next?

It was a thing that was totally unexpected,

you'd never seen it, I think, before in football

and you'll never see it again, it was just absolutely crazy.

Zaire's right-back, Ilunga Mwepu,

was basically in the wall waiting for Brazil to take the free kick.

And he's like, "I'm not having this, they're going to score from this."

"I'm just looking. Could I...could I score from here?"

REFEREE BLOWS WHISTLE

Well, what on Earth did he do that for?

I don't know. I'm still trying to work out what his thinking was.

Did he just get tired of waiting for Brazil to take the free kick?

What is he doing?

Everyone's looking in disbelief. The players' faces from his own

team are like, "What?" And you can't work out if he's just over-excited.

It's almost like a petulant kid.

Remember if you were losing at a game, like Monopoly,

you'd just flip over the board.

He hasn't got a clue about the rules,

but whatever it is, he certainly wrote himself into the history books.

And then he turns round and he gets a yellow card. He's like, "What?

"A yellow card for that?"

If anything, I'd have wanted a red card so I can have a break

cos I'm being assaulted here by the Brazilian forwards.

"Feck it, I've had enough, I'm just going to kick it away."

Completely unnecessary.

I just remember laughing and then again,

it's one of these clips that it's stood the test of time.

If you see it now, it is absolutely fantastic.

If in doubt, kick it out, even if it's their free kick.

Let's make up our own rules, Zaire. Do as you want.

-HORN BLOWS

-Yes, Rio,

the World Cup is coming and I've got my horn ready.

-Let me have a go at this.

-Whoa, be careful, it's my favourite one.

HORN BLOWS

Beautiful.

HORN TOOTS

What's up?

You just broke my horn.

-No, I didn't. What are you talking about?

-I just saw you do it!

-I didn't.

-Oh, mate, you just broke my...

-Look, there's only one way to sort this out.

-What's that?

-Modern technology.

-OK.

-Oh, you were right, sorry.

-Yeah.

-OK, cool.

Goal-line technology.

Goal-line technology.

Goal-line technology.

Goal-line technology, we need it.

South Africa 2010, I was in the pub watching England.

I'm there at the pub with pride.

And I remember watching that game with the lads.

I was at the pub for that game actually.

I was watching that game in a hotel.

I was at Glastonbury when it happened.

It was 2-1 just before half-time.

I was commentating with Guy, Guy Mowbray, and he kind of described it.

Milner, Defoe, that's a lovely touch.

Lampard! Brilliant!

Goes over the line, clearly a goal.

We didn't need a replay to see how far over the line that ball

-had gone.

-A metre, I mean, genuinely, a metre.

You know, two or three feet over the line.

Even Fabio Capello on the side was jumping up and down, clapped,

that was definitely a goal.

Even from where I was, over 120 yards away,

I could see that ball had gone over the line.

Everyone on the pitch, everyone in the crowd, everyone watching

it on TV can see that except for the clowns who were officiating.

That surely crossed the line!

It's not been given!

Simultaneously, everyone just clicked and went,

-"They haven't given a goal."

-I mean I lost it, I was very cross.

I remember the pub was just distraught, people were going crazy.

We couldn't believe it, we were robbed,

it was the goal that never was.

Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible decision.

-Oh, it's in!

-Awwwww!

-It's so far in!

It was a goal, and, you know, should've counted but, yeah,

referee's decision, they say.

You know, there's never been a better argument for goal line

technology, although I think Blatter, predictably,

just sort of said, "No, it's nice, this humour is nice."

Not really, actually, Sepp.

And then I think there was...

A picture of Blatter was cut up, and I just went into this mad rant,

but I wasn't too personal.

What is it FIFA don't want? Technology.

Thanks very much, Sepp Blatter.

I hope he's squirming in his seat, by the way.

Why you won't have technology at this level I will never, ever know.

And, lo and behold, technology, but it took a long time to come.

The more you're chasing the goal, you have to take risks

and leave spaces and against a good team you're going to get punished.

People say, "It wouldn't have changed the game,"

but goals change games. You just never know.

That was the turning point in that game.

If Frank's goal would have stood, who knows what would've happened?

Do you remember when goal celebrations were like this?

And this?

And this? Yeah, not a lot of variety there,

but then out of Africa came a man who was destined to change it all.

Everybody knows that African players

and birth certificates are a bit strange.

HE LAUGHS

Roger Milla was in his late 30s, wasn't he,

when he played in that World Cup? I'm sure he was.

I mean, no-one ever quite got to the bottom... I think he was about 50.

Was he? Was he 50?

And for some reason this guy could not stop scoring.

COMMENTATOR: Ooh, it could be another one! Yes, it is, two!

It's a very good goal.

And as soon as he scored he found a corner flag and did this sort of

wiggly dance round the corner flag, I can't remember what it was,

but he used to get the corner flag and start doing some sort of dance.

Roger Milla. I remember that.

Just definitely the Roger... Just doing a bit of that.

Like, shaking himself, kind of like this, or,

I think it was something like this.

It was pretty much the dance that your dad does at every wedding,

but it just had a little bit more G to it.

I mean, those hips, those hips could move,

and he sort of seduced the corner flag.

Erm, and it was great!

Roger Milla's dancing skills I could definitely use

when I was doing Strictly, that's for sure!

Erm, nice rhythm, good core, and a cracking goal.

And Andone's suddenly under pressure from Milla.

Milla! Oh!

Well, well, well.

Cameroon 1, Romania 0.

It was one of the first times that celebrations were done like that,

and I think he captured the imagination of everyone at the time.

Good finish, have to say that.

He'll go down in folklore, won't he, for that dance?

Ah, Beckham on live cam.

OK, so here we are at number 30 on the list.

And one of England's most dynamic midfield players.

Yeah, so lie back and watch as David Beckham goes from zero to hero

against the old enemy.

No, the old enemy's Scotland, you egg.

OK, sorry, mate. Erm, so this is David Beckham versus Argentina.

England, we love to hate people,

and then we love to feel sorry for the fact that everyone hated them.

Everybody knew him, he was at United, he had the fancy hair,

he had the girlfriend, and so he was kind of an easy one to dislike.

COMMENTATOR: He did move his right leg,

but it seemed to be something and nothing.

If you're going to have a go at someone, don't flick your leg up.

You know, properly assault them.

When I look at it now, it's so... It was so soft.

And a red card for David Beckham!

What an awful time to receive a red card.

Well, it's nothing. He's obviously not hurt the guy

but you're not allowed to do that and it's a red card.

To say that I didn't appreciate Diego Simeone at that time

would be an understatement, but, you know, that's football.

It just called his character into question for me.

I know you get frustrated and I know that you live on that edge,

but it has to be controlled and he lost it at that moment.

I was only a couple of yards from that incident, erm,

I could never blame him for what happened.

Things go on on a pitch that sometimes

you've got to forgive and forget. He regretted it, he apologised.

We were unlucky in that game, there's no question.

I mean, Beckham's sending off, yes, he was petulant,

and, and he was...

He was sort of taken advantage of,

but you can't do that sort of thing in a World Cup

and he would know that.

From there, Beckham's became Public Enemy Number One.

I remember picking up a newspaper the next day

and seeing the player ratings that they have.

It got down to Beckham and they had a massive zero and it just said,

"You cost us the World Cup."

It's like, "Come on, man, leave him alone."

The fans certainly made it clear what they thought about him.

They blamed him for everything, it was his fault.

It was David Beckham's fault.

When he came back they were burning effigies of him in the street.

I think in retrospect we were all a little unreasonable about that.

I mean, he was only a young lad, weren't he, 22?

Some of us were worried that he looked like he'd used a blow dryer at half-time.

He came back out, his hair looked like it had been done. But other than that...

I thought he handled the situation very, very well,

to come back from '98.

In the World Cup four years later it almost spurred him on as well

in terms of when I got brought down actually

for the penalty and he took the penalty against Argentina.

I'm just thinking how big was the pressure

when he was holding the ball on the penalty spot!

In such moments, you just think,

"I don't want to fail and I can't fail again."

It was like somebody in front of a parole board.

Four years of imprisonment could all be taken away

if he scores this penalty.

JOHN MOTSON: Hold the cups and the glasses back home.

You can smash them now, Beckham has scored for England!

44 minutes, and he's done it again!

David Beckham puts England in front against Argentina in Sapporo!

All is forgiven.

Did he redeem himself? He absolutely did,

and I think as he went away from that,

I thought that was part of his growing up process.

And he went from kind of there to there instantly

by putting that penalty away.

We obviously went on to win 1-0, and, erm, well,

you could say get our own back.

USA '94 kicked off with a bad penalty...

..and ended with one too,

as Italy faced Brazil in the first ever shoot out in a World Cup Final.

Here's 29.

Let's talk Roberto Baggio, 1994,

he was pretty much the best player in the world.

He had saved Italy throughout that tournament,

he was the player, you know, he was their number one player.

All I really remember about Roberto Baggio is that pony tail.

-It's like, what?!

-I want to say pony tail,

it was more like a sort of rat's tail, wasn't it?

It looked like maybe he had a tiny bit of Velcro on the back of

his head, and then just every time before a match, he was just like,

"I'm just going to put that on now."

If you had that haircut now you would be on a register.

There's no two ways about it.

The USA '94 final was probably the biggest anticlimax in the world.

Time pass, you don't score, you say,

"Don't know how this game will finish,"

but I think even that for us was

to break something that was very difficult for us, penalty kicks.

BARRY DAVIES: The Brazilian captain with the chance.

And scores!

When the pressure's on, it's a very difficult skill to master,

taking a penalty.

BARRY DAVIES: All the pressure now on Roberto Baggio, who has to score.

We can all do it in training

but once you get onto the big stage it can become more difficult.

BARRY DAVIES: The man who really has brought the team to the final

now has to save them.

And doesn't!

It's over the top!

Brazil have won the World Cup!

Amazing scenes, obviously costing Italy, or one of their best players

costing them the chance of winning the tournament.

To win a World Cup after 120 minutes and penalty kicks,

when Baggio kicked it out, and then it was time to celebrate.

BARRY DAVIES: No words can console one of the great players.

What a time to miss.

It was the pony tail. Just keep him off balance.

Really, if ever there was home field advantage, as they would say

in the NFL, Argentina made the most of it with the tickertape.

It is just cascading down, man, it was just crazy.

Teams come out, it's just pouring tickertape!

You actually watch the games, and half of you was going,

"This is an amazing game of football,"

and the rest of you was thinking, "Oh, someone's got to clear this up."

MUSIC: "Oh What A Circus" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice

RIO: 'Argentina, '78.

Home fans welcome their team onto the field with tickertape.

To a man they were acclaimed,

but one in particular received more attention than the rest.

He was Super Mario. Kempes that is.

The names that came out were Kempes.

They had Bertoni, they had Passarella at the back,

Ossie Ardiles, they were a real hardworking side,

and that's talking about the right balance.

They all seemed to have this long, curly hair.

They all looked similar, didn't they, and just very Latin.

Mario Kempes was sensational, played upfront with Luque,

and I remember the goal he scored against Holland

when he dragged it past the goalkeeper.

Luque, Kempes!

1-0.

So the superstitious Kempes strikes again!

Kempes got all the glory, as much as Luque did very well as well,

but that goes to show what people want

and what people remember, the silky skills.

Powering through, Kempes!

Oh, Jongbloed's claiming, and it's gone in!

They had to win. I didn't think Holland had a chance

when they played them in the final.

I just knew Holland weren't going to do it.

It's finished!

Argentina win the '78 World Cup!

So, Mario Kempes with his long flowing locks

and those tight shorts...

Doesn't get any better than that.

If you're a Northern Ireland football fan there's one

legendary player who stands head and shoulders above all others.

Yes, along with the dizzying ball skills,

there were the playboy good looks,

the model girlfriends and the partying.

-Of course, we're only talking about one guy.

-Yep.

No, not you, Rio. This is Gerry Armstrong, and this is him

scoring Northern Ireland's most famous World Cup goal in 1982.

-And I wasn't even born.

-Nor was I, mate.

The Gerry Armstrong goal that he never stops talking about.

Good old Gerry. Yeah, no, Gerry's one of the good guys.

Northern Ireland had to beat Spain that day, right,

to get out of the group. And they had to fight against Spain,

and one thing Northern Ireland is very good at is fighting.

Gerry Armstrong scores one goal for Northern Ireland against Spain

in 1982, and has built a career off the back of it!

He now works in Spain, he's a Spanish football expert, isn't he?

Mal Donaghy had been sent off early in the game,

they were down to ten men, nobody really fancied them, erm,

and then for Northern Ireland to score this goal was fantastic.

Gerry Armstrong, what a worker he is.

Striding away there with Hamilton to his right,

Norman Whiteside up on the far side of the area.

Still Billy Hamilton, he's gone past Tendillo.

And Arconada... Armstrong!

Northern Ireland have scored through Gerry Armstrong!

A mistake by the goalkeeper

and it's the 100th goal of this World Cup tournament.

He scores it,

Northern Ireland go on to get through the group against all odds.

And Dana sings a song about him.

I mean, there are not many World Cup anthems that go,

"When your man gets the ball, Northern Ireland score a goal."

It was brilliant, they managed to rhyme "ball" with "goal" fabulously.

It was like Northern Ireland taught Spain how to play football,

and they've taken on the Armstrong way.

And Northern Ireland have taken the lead.

To be fair to Gerry,

he's probably spoken at 3,000 dinners on the back of it.

Good luck.

Because of their part in the Second World War, Germany were

banned from the 1950 World Cup.

In 1954 in Switzerland, though, they were back,

playing as West Germany for the first time.

The Germans had already lost to Hungary 8-3 in the group stages

when the two met again in the final.

There could only be one winner surely?

Throughout the Cup series, Hungary had been the favourites,

and indeed it only took them six minutes to score.

A splendid goal by their captain Puskas.

This is something quite amazing because Hungary were unbeaten

over 30-something games, er, they had Puskas, Hidegkuti, Kocsis,

the great Hungarian side,

and they went fairly quickly in this final 2-0 up.

Only two minutes later the German defence fumble

and Czibor went through with another.

The Germans looked out of it.

"Well, I'll be schnitzeled!"

The Germans saw the rain coming down.

Sepp Herberger was the manager, but they had a man with them

called Adi Dassler,

and this was the first time any sort of technology came into football,

because Adi Dassler gave the German team longer studs

so that they could cover the ground more easily in the second half.

And blow me down, they came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

A long shot from Rahn gave the World Cup to Germany.

It seems strange to us now to think that that was a shock result.

But let's not forget that, you know, this was in Switzerland,

this was 1954, this was only a few years after the Swiss had

helped the Germans a lot!

It was significant politically

because it was only nine years after the War,

and this was Germany rebuilding.

RIO: Mexico '86, no wins after two games,

Bryan Robson injured, Ray Wilkins suspended,

England's campaign is on the slide,

leaving Bobby Robson with much to ponder.

How could he get the team back on track?

Where were the goals going to come from?

He put his faith in a crisp finisher from Leicester.

He was good-looking, he could score goals,

he was kind of like the George Clooney of football.

If you were going to go into war you'd follow Gary Lineker.

BARRY DAVIES: Lineker checking back when he might have gone straight on.

Trevor Steven is unmarked, Gary Stevens coming up on the right.

Four in the area, Lineker!

You know, I was under pressure going into the Poland game.

I was lucky to be picked, to be perfectly honest,

but Bobby Robson stuck by me and he dropped Mark Hateley,

and he could easily have dropped me.

Him and Beardsley in that game were just immense.

Beardsley looking very lively, what a lovely first-time ball.

Lineker far side, coming in on it now!

Magnificent goal!

With his arm all bandaged up,

I think I bandaged up me own arm when I was a kid as well.

"I like this bandaged-up arm thing that he's doing out there."

Sort of broke my wrist in a friendly against Canada

just prior to the World Cup, but thankfully they allowed me

to play in this sort of splint/bandage.

That became so iconic. Kids everywhere were going out,

breaking their arms, throwing themselves down stairs.

BARRY DAVIES: Mlynarczyk loses it,

and Lineker says thank you very much!

It was kind of a typical Gary Lineker hat-trick.

You know, sort of six yard box, goal poacher, you know,

getting those goals.

This lad from Leicester kind of launched himself onto

the global stratosphere with that hat-trick against Poland,

which then took England on through the tournament.

Maradona won the Golden Ball, didn't he, Player of the Tournament,

and Lineker scored more goals in a World Cup than anyone else.

Ooh! That's special, isn't it?

All of a sudden, having had a bit of a bad spell,

I score a hat-trick, two goals in the next game,

another one against Argentina,

and suddenly I was top scorer, I ended up winning the Golden Boot,

and then I moved to Barcelona

and I was known right throughout the world,

and things were massively different after that.

Everywhere I went I was sort of recognised.

It's Gary Lineker.

I mean, we know him now for Match Of The Day and crisps,

but back in the day he was unstoppable.

Everyone loves an underdog story.

In 1966, the World Cup was stolen

only four months before the finals in England.

However, just a week later, it was recovered

when Pickles the dog found it under a hedge in South London.

Ah, what a great dog.

With its safe return the tournament got under way,

and another underdog had its day

as a North Korean Pak-man ate the Italians.

I don't think he was ever the greatest player

but if you talk to people of a certain age about 1966,

somebody will mention Pak Doo-ik.

Certainly one of the most famous three-named men in football history.

Koreans, they're only about five foot four, most of them.

Pak Doo-ik...

Pak Doo-ik is the man who will always be

remembered for scoring that rather scruffy goal

which gave the Koreans victory, and the Italians came home to have

tomatoes thrown at them at the airport, and they had to almost...

They spent the next four years and more...

They still haven't lived it down completely, of course, Italy.

North Korea...

1966, we'll never see them at the World Cup ever again.

We'll never see 'em anywhere outside North Korea, will we?

It must be in the top three, that, of all-time football results!

Pak Doo-ik against the Italians, North Korea, in Middlesbrough,

most people miss that bit out, thank you very much.

-You know that my name isn't Olly Murs.

-No? What is it, then?

My real name is Edson Arantes Chiquamento Olly Murzinho!

Oh, right, like Pele, then?

Exactly like that,

and it's not the only thing I've got in common with him.

-Honestly, Olly?

-Yeah.

-I don't want to pry into your private life...

No, no, no, not that.

I'm at the best on a football pitch when I don't have the ball.

Here's the great man doing just that against Uruguay in 1970.

-It's my real name.

-All right.

-It is.

-I believe ya.

I was 15 and right into football

and watched every game in that World Cup.

The best dummy I've seen,

because he doesn't even touch the ball, it's just brilliant!

It's something you would dream about doing yourself.

Pele's racing into space,

and he's going to get a fourth!

Oh, what...what genius!

And he's missed it!

I think this one against Uruguay, the dribbling,

the feint that he invent in that moment,

and then for two centimetres goes out.

But then what annoys me is he does all that hard work and he misses.

The fact it didn't go in still makes it a great piece of skill.

It almost makes it better, to be honest,

because the audacity of the man to sell a dummy like that,

and the poor goalie, he must have been sweating buckets.

It disnae matter how many times you see that clip,

it is absolutely sensational.

After more than 1,000 goals,

I think we try to remember the goals he didn't score.

Incredible!

Look at this, how he runs across the ball!

And just puts it wide of the far post!

RIO: One of my favourite paintings is Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Well, at number 22,

here's the football equivalent from Argentina versus Greece in 1994.

Maradona was lighting it up, to be fair.

I thought he was the best Argentinian player.

I remember him scoring a great goal.

I remember the celebration.

All these little intricate one-twos, Maradona!

Yeah, it was, I mean, pretty obvious from his celebration

where he was just like, "Agh, a-a-agh!"

A-a-a-a-a-ay!

I don't think he was gurning that much into the camera,

I didn't think he was...

He just roared into the camera like, "I'm back, I'm the man!"

He just went crazy.

Pure passion and, yeah,

the anger and the passion came out in the celebration to the camera.

It was a bit like a cartoon and his eyes were bulging,

his face was puffed out.

I think at that moment probably everybody was like, "Yay! Ohhh..."

"Oh, he's happy, he's just having a great time!"

Then everyone suddenly went,

"He looks a little bit too happy, really.

"I mean, he looks like he's..." And people got suspicious.

If Simon from Accounts in the office did that,

you'd be like, "He's on drugs."

He looked like a guy who wanted another fix.

Ephedrine, as we found out. That's why he was playing so well.

Tonight, one of the most colourful

and controversial careers in football could be at an end.

That's the way to check them for doping

is, like, what their celebration is.

If you score and you're like, "Ur-r-rgh!" You're, like, gurning.

"Maybe we should check this guy out."

There's lunacy, and then there's lunacy

on a Maradona scale, isn't there?

What were you doing?

There are times in football when you just have to battle.

In this instance, from the 1962 World Cup in Chile,

the hosts and Italy obviously took that concept a little too far.

It's almost worth listening to the commentary of this match without

watching the match, because David Coleman gets more and more angry.

Good evening. The game you're about to see is the most stupid...

..appalling...

And there we go again.

..disgusting...

Ooh!

..and disgraceful exhibition of football

possibly in the history of the game.

It's almost like they've taken his beautiful game

and ripped it apart for their spectacle.

Just, just listen to the words he uses

and just listen to the rising levels of anger and disgust he has.

Yeah, Battle of Santiago, it was basically what would happen

if all of the characters on FIFA were Street Fighter characters.

Oh, we're getting a rugby match and a fight, everything going in there!

Some Italian journalists were casting doubts on the virtue of

Chilean women, and so the Italian side became Public Enemy Number One.

The national motto of Chile reads, "By reason or by force."

Such an aggressive motto for a country!

There's trouble already, there's a fight going on in the middle there.

I mean, we'll reason with you, but if not we're going to

kick your bloody face in, mate.

Oh, this looks like turning into a real battle.

There's two Chileans down on the field.

What a scene after just five minutes' play!

You see things in there, you see head-high tackles...

Ooh, and that was one of the worst...!

You see wonderful left hooks

that Henry Cooper would have been proud of!

You don't see a lot of football.

No attempt made to play that ball at all.

Urgh, don't you dare!

They've got that sort of, like, old-school boxing-ness about them.

And in fact I think the game is over,

Ken Aston on his way to the dressing room.

And the police are being called on, or the army, the police, in fact.

When you have to get the police and army on the pitch

you know you are going too far.

After seeing the film tonight,

you at home may well think that teams that play in this manner

ought to be expelled immediately from the competition.

-JOHN MOTSON'S VOICE:

-'Going down.'

-So that's it, we've reached

-half-time. You know what, Rio?

We've played well first half, but second we've got to push on.

-I'm with you.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Orange segment?

-No.

-All right, just for me, then.

-'Doors closing.'

-Nice.

-Mm, lovely.

Pausing the countdown for just a moment.

Time for a quick toilet break from 1990.

I wasn't very well.

I played the first half, I had stomach cramps,

I went to the loo and it was... It wasn't pretty at half-time.

I came out in the second half, the cramps started again,

I came across and tried to make some sort of tackle

which is quite unusual for me, to be perfectly honest, erm,

and as I slid across, I, I relaxed.

I relaxed too much

and had an accident.

It was sort of everywhere, really,

and the only way I could get rid of it

was to sort of like slide like a dog.

The pitch was quite saturated, so at least I could

clean my hands a little bit as I shovelled it off my shorts.

But I tell you what, after that I got more space.

No man-to-man marking then,

but no-one wanted to swap my shirt and stuff at then end.

I don't know why.

TOILET FLUSHES

Right, so here goes, the Top 20. What have we got first, Rio?

Well, what do you think most 17-year-old boys are doing?

Well, if they're like me, clubbing, chatting up girls,

-playing video games.

-OK, what d'you think a 17-year-old Pele was up to?

Exactly the same.

Clubbing, chatting up girls, playing video games.

No, he was announcing himself on the world stage

by helping Brazil win the 1958 World Cup.

OK, fair enough, so he'd be playing video games still, right?

-Olly, it was 1958, mate, what are you talking about?

-Oh, yeah.

No, Commodore 64, that was 19...

Television was only just creeping into people's homes

at the time, erm, so to see any footballer

from a different country was a unique, exotic thing for anybody.

I remember watching the World Cup that time, yeah.

You know, suddenly a 17-year-old kid burst on the scene.

We'd never seen anything like him, just incredible.

The legend.

He is absolutely a legend because no matter where you go

it's probably one name that would be remembered as the greatest,

Edson Arantes do Nascimento.

That's the one, that's Pele.

Pele.

And number three!

Pele had a bit of everything.

Pure Brazilian in terms of his skill and swagger, but he had a,

if you like, a European strength about him as well.

He was one of my early heroes with Muhammad Ali, you know,

you just, as a kid growing up, everybody knew Pele.

A young 17-year-old superstar

with the whole world and the future glittering ahead of him.

COMMENTATOR: Into Pele...

And he scores!

The reason he's the greatest for me is what he's done at World Cups.

You've got to lift the World Cup with your country

to be the greatest.

Pele, beginning a career that has made him the greatest

footballer of all time in one of the greatest teams of all time.

Nobody will have that sort of impact again on the world stage so young.

To take a tournament like that by storm was incredible.

At 19, the march of Ally's Army

ground to a halt in Argentina in 1978.

Only a victory by three clear goals against Holland would take

Scotland through to the next phase.

However, the Scots were about to give themselves

a glimmer of hope as an unlikely source began a run.

Scotland needed to score another couple

and when Archie scores the goal, not only are you thinking,

"What a goal that is,"

but Scotland are actually going to do it and qualify.

He beats about 15 men. It is sensational.

-DAVID COLEMAN:

-Gemmill.

Good play by Gemmill. And again.

3-1!

A brilliant individual goal by this hard little professional

has put Scotland in dreamland.

We were for a bit, because not only was it a great, great goal

but it gave us so much hope and optimism.

The most remarkable thing about Archie Gemmill's goal

isn't the beauty of it, isn't the sheer audacity of it,

it's that he managed to do it

while looking like a 54-year-old bloke who is playing snooker.

-COLEMAN:

-Gemmill. First one. Then two.

Then he faced his own player and another defender.

He was clear, and finishing like this is lethal.

I was only two at the time and my only real memory of the goal

is the scene in Trainspotting, when he pops the video on

and he's expecting a different video

and it's actually Archie Gemmill's famous goal.

"What a penetrating goal that was."

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978.

I always look at that and I think,

"I wish any of my sex life had been like that."

My sex life is more like Frank Lampard. "Is it in?"

It's possibly Scotland's greatest ever goal in a World Cup

and it nearly got us through to the next round, but it wasn't to be.

England versus Brazil, 1970.

Standout moments include Bobby Moore's tackling

and the winning goal by Jairzinho.

However, it is for another incident

that the game will perhaps be best remembered.

Here's number 18.

MUSIC: "Back Home" by the 1970 England World Cup squad

-HARRY REDKNAPP:

-That was the best World Cup I've ever seen, '70.

The save Banksy made from Pele was incredible.

Yeah, such a beautiful moment.

The best outfield player in the world

against probably the best keeper in the world,

producing just a moment of brilliance.

-DAVID COLEMAN:

-Oh, and he's left Cooper standing.

Pele!

What a save!

Gordon Banks...

It was a bit special because he was a great, great player

and they were a great side.

If you're taught to head a ball, you're taught to head it down

into the corner with power.