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Gabriel Gatehouse

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The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

Funnily enough, he falls asleep after the first half, at which point England are 2-0 up.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

And then he's woken up by Alex Stepney, the reserve goalkeeper, who comes into the room after it's all over.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

And Gordon's like, how much did we win by?

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

And Alex is like, no, mate, we lost.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

So, you know, the thing is that they obviously they took precautions.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

There's this question mark over a bottle of beer, which Gordon Banks himself sort of identified as the culprit.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

But as I said, the obvious explanation for this is you just get ill.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

So for me, short of finding a memo where the CIA orders this dastardly deed to be done, which I always knew we wouldn't find because, David, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not the way it works.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

So really, once I sort of established that the motive helping Brazil was kind of more or less plausible because of what we knew about what was going on in Brazil at the time and because of that memo that I'd found...

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

in the archive oh and by the way did you know that nasa was helping the brazilian team to train so so so the english uh to prepare for the altitude um go to columbia and get embroiled in this scandal about a bracelet um the brazilians just get nasa to help them and they get the guy um he's called um

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

What's his name?

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

Hold on a sec.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

Kenneth.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

Hold on.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

His name is Kenneth Cooper, and he is the inventor of aerobics.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

He invented aerobics.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

But in 1969, he was working for the US Air Force, and he'd been seconded to NASA to devise the fitness program for the Apollo astronauts.

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164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

But on the side, he was helping the Brazilian team to prepare for training at altitude.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

And they got the Brazilian fitness trainer over to the States where they hosted him at NASA facilities.

The Rest Is Classified
164. Did the CIA Poison England's World Cup Goalkeeper? (Ep 1)

So I was like, OK.