World Cup 1986

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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To Mexico! We discuss the sanitary arrangements of England's group opponents, the correct pronunciation of 'jalapeno', cocaine-fuelled football and which is best out of rats and bats.

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0:00.0	And the The Oh, Hello and that music you heard was the BBC's theme tune for their coverage of the
0:42.8	1986 Mexico World Cup.
0:44.6	We've chosen that as our favorite of the two broadcasters themes, haven't we, Sam?
0:48.9	Yeah, it sounds rather like a more like a sort of an action show of the time such as
0:55.7	Night Rider or Street Hawk or Manimal one of them things
1:01.6	Air Wolf perhaps a wolf blue thunder but it them things. Erwolf, perhaps.
1:03.0	Airwolf, blue thunder.
1:05.0	But it sounds like it means business, doesn't it?
1:07.0	Yeah, it's no nonsense, but it doesn't really sound Mexican in any way.
1:11.7	Not at all. It's just more what that song's trying to say is
1:15.2	get ready for action, adventure and a non-stop thrill ride. And was that what we got
1:20.6	in the World Cup in 1986? I think so. I've got very fond memories of the World Cup in 1986.
1:25.8	Obviously it was as an England fan it had quite a few ups and downs and
1:31.6	and end on a big down. But there was lots of other good things about it
1:35.0	aside from England's adventures there was sort of memorable teams like the famous Denmark team
1:41.6	who I hope we're going to get on to.
1:44.0	Did you have a bit of a man crush on the Denmark team of the time?
1:47.6	I did, yeah, and Michael Lauter.
1:48.9	I think we all did, didn't we?
1:50.0	Yeah, they were just a sort of a fun-loving free-wheeling sort of a team.
1:54.4	The Holland of the 1980s.
1:57.2	They were, yeah, Michael Laudet was sort of my favorite player, I think.
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