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What did the documentary say? I haven't seen anything about the game since I watched it. I remember practically dying inside when we were behind with 10-15 minutes to go (ah, the good ol' days when I cared about England results). I remember huge relief when we equalised. I don't remember if...

Me too, but Balogun was free.

Agreed. If Pele had said 'an African winner isn't hugely far fetched', we'd have agreed. He said they'd win it by 2000. That's naive. It's a really difficult tournament to win, and it also takes a long time to get a country to be good at football. China have more people and resources than...

No they weren't. We ended up going behind in the second half, and of course we were worried about being knocked out, but we were the better side, and once we equalised we knew we'd be favourites to go on and win. I'm not saying it was easy, I remember shitting bricks in that game.

Firstly, nearly getting to the semis isn't the same as winning. Secondly, that was after 2000. Nah. They weren't better than us. And even if they got to the semis, they'd have lost the next game. And finally, he didn't say they'd be in with a chance, he said there would be a winner before 2000...

Naive at best. Being able to kick a ball doesn't seem to equate to knowing about football.

Moses is such a diving cheat. Where could he have learnt his craft?