Gabriel Gatehouse

And he's like, never mind about 1966.

Do you know about what happened in 1970?

So I'm like, no, I do not know about what happened in 1970.

So he tells me the whole story about favorites to win, Brazil, the rivals, granddad getting ill, crashing out.

And he says, well, you know, granddad always used to say he thought something fishy went on.

I was nobbled.

But Ed is like, wow, we never really took it that seriously.

Gordon Banks died in 2019.

But a few years later, Ed meets a guy who says to him, do you want to know the real story of what happened to your granddad at the 1970 World Cup?

And it's like, well, what?

And the guy says, well, the real story is your granddad was poisoned by the CIA in order to help Brazil win.

So I was like, I mean, I basically had two simultaneous thoughts.

My first thought was, okay, classic conspiracy theory territory, right?

It's got the CIA in it, some kind of slightly dubious motive.

My second thought was...

If this is even just plausible enough to investigate, we might uncover some really interesting stuff about sports and spying.

So I said to Ed, look, send me an email, write down everything you know about this story and I'll have a look into it.

Thinking basically this will go nowhere.

Three years later, Gordon, here I am.

I have been down a series of incredibly deep rabbit holes.