George Hamilton

And we got to the outer corner of the Aztec Stadium and this guy with a machine gun, a policeman, was there ready to see us into the press car park.

And Tim engaged him in conversation which involved blurted words that weren't quite Spanish but making the case that we were much more important than the people who went into the press car park.

And this negotiation with the machine gun toting policeman actually worked.

And we were ushered through into the, not the VVIP, but the VIP car park.

And I was just agog at the brazenness of what he had just done.

And off the back of that, we get out of the car and we're right up by the stadium.

And I looked up at the Azteca Stadium.

I think, you know, we're going in here and in three hours time, the eyes of the world will be on this place and I'm going to be in there.

And it was just one of those pinch me moments.

My very first World Cup final and it was sensational.

That's exactly, you've summed it up.

Exactly.

That is, it's a wee man for the Craiger Road.

And he's about to go into the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City for the biggest game of the world.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I think it was either Terry Wogan or Eamon Andrews described it.

It's not actually nerves.

It's broadcast anxiety.

So there was a lot of broadcast anxiety going into the Azteca that day.