Jul 2, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
They think it’s all over, it is now! There have been some UNBELIEVABLE games throughout World Cup history but some simply take your breathe away and in this episode Mark and Marcus step back in time…
Mark PougatchHost
Marcus BucklandHost
Well, one of them very easily because it's a World Cup final, the last one, and I was there.
And I remember thinking to physically be in the ground in, in Lusail in Qatar and see...
Well, it, it, i- if you t- if one says he's the greatest player of all time, that's your opinion.
But Messi's certainly in the top three greatest players of all time, isn't he? Personally, I think two of them are Argentinian, him and Maradona.
But to see him win the World Cup was, was extraordinary in and of itself, but to see him win it in that manner, and to see another modern-day great who may bec- a modern-day star, I won't say he's a great yet, Mbappé score a hat-trick only the second in a World Cup final, um, was just absolutely phenomenal, I mean, the excitement of that.
And the other one, i- 'cause I'm a bit of a history buff, obviously, which is why we love doing these shows, is before my time and your time.
But the 1970 World Cup exploded into people's living rooms around the world because it's the first World Cup in color.
Yes, you will have seen color pictures of England winning the World Cup in 1966, but that's color film.
That is not turning your television on in 35 Acacia Avenue and seeing the game England in red shirts.
But 1970 is the first time that we properly had color television in, in the UK.
And when you watch that back, and you see the yellow of the Brazil kit, you see the green of the grass, you see the, the vivid sharpness of television pictures from the other side of the world.
People turn on their televisions, you're watching the World Cup, whether it's here or in Canada or Mexico.
Well, one of them very easily because it's a World Cup final, the last one, and I was there.
And I remember thinking to physically be in the ground in, in Lusail in Qatar and see...
Well, it, it, i- if you t- if one says he's the greatest player of all time, that's your opinion.
But Messi's certainly in the top three greatest players of all time, isn't he? Personally, I think two of them are Argentinian, him and Maradona.
But to see him win the World Cup was, was extraordinary in and of itself, but to see him win it in that manner, and to see another modern-day great who may bec- a modern-day star, I won't say he's a great yet, Mbappé score a hat-trick only the second in a World Cup final, um, was just absolutely phenomenal, I mean, the excitement of that.
And the other one, i- 'cause I'm a bit of a history buff, obviously, which is why we love doing these shows, is before my time and your time.
But the 1970 World Cup exploded into people's living rooms around the world because it's the first World Cup in color.
Yes, you will have seen color pictures of England winning the World Cup in 1966, but that's color film.
That is not turning your television on in 35 Acacia Avenue and seeing the game England in red shirts.
But 1970 is the first time that we properly had color television in, in the UK.
And when you watch that back, and you see the yellow of the Brazil kit, you see the green of the grass, you see the, the vivid sharpness of television pictures from the other side of the world.
People turn on their televisions, you're watching the World Cup, whether it's here or in Canada or Mexico.
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