Gabriel Gatehouse

But we've got the doctor's notes.

We've got Gordon Banks' autobiography and what he told his family.

And we've got this player, Alex Stepney, who was the second reserve goalkeeper for the England team and who was also sharing a room with Gordon Banks on the fateful day that he got ill.

So the timeline, as far as I understand it, is that they beat Czech Slovak in the final group game.

They have the, quote, quiet drinks in the room.

And at some point after that, Gordon Banks says he begins to feel unwell.

Now, there is a slight discrepancy in the timeline here because the doctor says the quiet drinks happen on the Thursday.

Gordon Banks says there were drinks on a Friday, at which point he says he's handed a bottle of beer.

And in his autobiography, he writes, I don't know if the bottle of beer I was handed was open or not when I got it.

But what I do know is that about half an hour later, I started to feel very unwell indeed.

Absolutely.

All the players were given a little rule book.

They were told what they could and couldn't do.

And a lot of it was about food.

So this team doctor was very conscientious.

He did a lot of prep.

He got all of the England team's food flown out from the UK.

He sort of contracts this frozen food company, Findus, which to Brits of a certain generation is kind of redolent of crispy pancakes and fish fingers.

So they fly out all the food to Mexico.

He flies out 15,000 bottles of Malvern mineral water, which he cools in batches in the bathtub of his hotel room with ice in it.