And it feels harsh for Madrid.

are definitely harsh on Madrid because I think, as you said, you know, this is probably on paper the easier game they've actually played so far.

If you think you've played Napoli, Porto, the defending champions, and Bayern Munich, you didn't get a PSV, you're probably thinking, oh, that's a bit of a relief, and, you know, you didn't get knocked out.

So I don't know if that's complacency or maybe it's the fact that you've turned, I think this is the other side of Christmas, isn't it, this part, you know, so you're in the final run of the season, fatigue maybe is coming in, setting in.

Yeah.

You know, maybe Spain have got one eye looking at Euro 88.

Hardly unlikely, but maybe that comes into play as well.

And both go through.

And the crowd in the Azteca Stadium stand to him.

I think the point you made about the surface, you know, a lot of the England players say, you know, this pitch was like a patchwork quilt almost.

It was moving.

It was not a proper pitch.

So the fact that you could... do that level of skill, that level of running on that surface was unbelievable, let alone the movements and the body, as you say, on the actual goal itself.

And of course, I think it's important to note that he did something similar against England in 1980, but he went to flick it past the keeper.

And this time, he went round the keeper because he missed that time at Wembley.

But when you look back, Michael, over the whole of that game and certainly England's approach to it, did England just get what they deserved at the end of the day?

And looking back at that team, Michael, going into this first game, where did this England side rank alongside some of the others in the tournament?

That's a really good question.

I think that that front of the first 11, if all fully fit, because you've got to say that obviously with Brian Robson and to a lesser extent Gary Lineker because of his arm.

I think that they're going to be behind France and Brazil personally.

I know Franz Beckenbauer sort of almost writes his own team off with West Germany, but I still think that West German team is a really strong side.

Italy, as I mentioned a bit earlier on in the previous episode, I think that's a team that's on the wane.

It's got a lot of young players that they're just not allowed to be unleashed, apart from Vialli, who actually has a shocking World Cup, to be honest.

Vindication for Robson and the changes that he's made.

mark hateley and trevor francis now this would be i would say mark will probably the biggest test for bobby robson's england for for a little while in terms of the quality of opposition that they come up against and the game is played in a good spirit considering the events that had surrounded it and the two sets of players showed a good respect for one another on the pitch

Definitely, you know, England were basically told, you know, you've got to be fair, you know, handshakes.

I think Terry Britcher, I think at one point, you know, I can't remember if he did a robust challenge or whatever, but, you know, he didn't kick off or anything like that.

It was very much handshake, just down, sorry.

And it was almost like, this is an ambassador game in which you've got to be ambassadors for the English game.

And it was very much a, a sensitive issue and game in light of what happened.

In terms of the opposition, you're quite right.

But before that, Michael, I want to touch on a young Romanian player called Georgi Hadji, who is only 20 in this game, but he catches the eye and in this match almost scores a