Tim Vickery

And then, especially because Mexico 70 is the first one that's televised on any grand scale around the world.

And then every World Cup subsequently is kind of in the shadow of Mexico 70.

And our story ends there.

with Lionel Messi rising to the challenge of history in Qatar in what were Pelé's last conscious days on earth.

I mean, that's something you couldn't script it, I think, the way that Pelé is crucial to the arc of the tale that we're trying to tell in Mundiales.

Well, there's one.

This is a little bit niche, I think, because not many people are old enough to remember Uncle Arthur from It's a Knockout and Jeux Sans Frontieres.

Uncle Arthur, Arthur Ellis, he was kind of an avuncular figure who was a kind of official, but he'd made his name as a football referee.

And in 1954, he became the most hated man in Brazil.

Because he refereed Brazil against Hungary in the quarterfinal.

It was the Battle of Bern.

It just degenerated into chaos and fisticuffs.

And he gave a penalty against Brazil.

for which Brazil launched an official protest, accusing Uncle Arthur of blowing his whistle in the service of the Kremlin and international communism.

Godless communism.

A quite extraordinary accusation for Uncle Arthur.

And I found on good quality footage, I found the penalty.

It's handball.

And I found it on grainy footage.

You can't see it, but on good quality footage, you can clearly see the handball by, by the Brazilian center back.