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Hero: The Official Film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup
18/07/09 14:39 Filed in: Football

The mid-80s wasn't a great time to be an armchair football fan. Live matches on TV were kept to a minimum due to the Football League's fear that it would stop people going to the games and the few highlight programmes which were shown were bland affairs, a million miles from the CGI-heavy ‘The Day Today on stimulants’ coverage that we’re used to today.