Gabriel Gatehouse

where a cia officer specifically says that the dictator general medici is becoming relatively popular and that the regime is kind of stabilizing in part because and i quote he successfully managed to associate himself with brazil's victory at the world cup soccer games in mexico

This happens every four years.

Every four years, it's like, this time we're really going to do it.

This is our year.

Oh God, no, we're really rubbish, aren't we?

that leads to gordon banks so um as you laid out gordon uh they've just won their third and final group match and they're going through to the knockout stages um and according to the notes of the team doctor a guy called neil phillips the players inquire of alf ramsey the manager and

whether they might have a, quote, quiet drink in one of the rooms, right?

When I approached this story, I honestly was as keen to knock it down as I was to stand it up because the only way it works is if it's actually credible.

So you've got a stress test.

So immediately I was like, okay, footballers, 1970s,

A quiet drink, really?

I mean, you know.

So I kind of zeroed in on this quiet drink that ended up taking place in room 1208 of the Guadalajara Hilton.

Guadalajara is where England have played their group matches.

The room in question by three players, including Gordon Banks.

I love the fact that they're sharing rooms, like they're bunking up three to a room.

Very good.

Okay, so there's this quiet drink, and I'm sort of trying to triangulate here between witnesses and the written testimony of people.

Most of the people are dead, right?

So it's really hard to investigate this.