This is largely going back to Italia 90 and it’s not the best goals or players or anything boring like that, but the things we are all interested in.

Fouls, cheating, comedy own goals, that sort of thing.

10.

Roger Milla v Columbia

Roger Milla is a hero, for a start no-one knew how old he was, with 45 being the age banded around at the time of this goal.

I love this, I love that Columbia keeper Rene Higuita (later jailed for drug offences) fancies himself as a bit of an outfield player and I love Milla’s (or Miller, it appears no-one knows how to spell his name either) little dance when he scores.

Cameroon were the team of the tournament until they narrowly lost to England in the quarter final after they decided (understandably) they rather liked booting Gary Lineker up in the air.

Great Stuff

9.

Leonardo’s elbow

We’re back in USA 94 here, without England, who didn’t qualify because they had a manager who though Carlton Palmer was an international player rather than a man made out of silly putty.

This is a pretty vicious elbow on America’s Tadd Ramos. I like Kevin Keegan starting to say it was the wrong decision then backing down.

If you watch further Ramos was booked as he was being stretchered off.

8. John Aldridge’s swearing

My oh my, this man was angry, as was his boss Jackie Charlton.

For some reason, Republic of Ireland striker John Aldridge was not allowed on the pitch as a sub, leaving them playing with ten.

This resulted in an volley of savage swearing picked up clearly by the microphones, leading to a great laugh for the multi-billion English-speaking audience, “ya focking cheat” being a particular highlight

NB Why has Jack Charlton got a Geordie accent when his brother has a Manchester accent?

7.  Harald Schumacher’s flying elbow

This is more like something seen in WWE than on a football pitch as big-haired German keeper Harald Schumacher takes to the air to ensure Frenchman Patrick spent the rest of his life with as few teeth as possible.

Watch Battiston’s head snap back.

Schumacher wasn’t even booked and those bloody Germans went on to win.

6. Benjamin Massing vs Argentina

Our friends the Cameroonians again, in their odd-defying win over Argentina.

Their tactic was clearly “kick them very hard every time they get the ball” and Benjamin, brilliantly, ended up with a red card after trying to kill Argentina’s Claudio Canniga, possibly enraged by his hair.

I love the fact two Cameroon players previously try to boot him up in the air before the  foul, I love the fact his boot comes off and I love the fact a sneaky Argentine deliberately steps on his sock-clad foot prompting a comedy kick.

5.  Argie Bargy

The 1990 final was unbelievably boring, apart from this, the first ever sending off in a World Cup Final.

It’s a bit of a lunge by sub Pedro Monzon, but check out the Oscar winning performance from the notorious Jurgen Klinsmann to get him sent off.

I like Klinsmann’s final spasm.

Here’s the vid of the incident and also Fantasy Football’s “Phoenix from the Flames” re-creation.

4.

The Battle of Santiago

One for our older readers (dads) this one.

Chile V Italy in the competition held in the South American country in 1962.

It was basically a 90-minute dust-up between the two countries.

Listen to the over-the-top sanctimony from a young David Coleman.

I hope the viewer back in 1962 thought the same as I do when this stuff happens- “Brilliant”.

Look at the flying kick after 2 mins 18 secs, and the outrage of the commentator who says everything that happens is “the worst he’s ever seen”.

I think Italy lost as well.

3.  Worst decision ever

This is the infamous Welshman Clive Thomas deciding there is enough time to take a corner, but seemingly to only take it, as he blows the whistle the very second Brazil legend Zico heads it in to win the game against Sweden at the 1978 tournament.

There’s no English clip of this, but Baddiel and Skinner do a good job re-creating it again.

2.   Zaire V Brazil

I think most of us know what this is – the brilliant moment the Zaire defender legs out of the wall to boot the ball clear before anyone’s touched it.

It was their first World Cup, a great achievement, but clearly they played their whole qualifying tournament without ever facing a direct free kick.

Bless ‘Em.

1. The head of God.

It had to be didn’t it? Nothing else would do.

Zinedine Zidane, the greatest player of the modern generation, a genius, the scorer of some of the finest goals ever seen, a man who made the game look so beautiful and so easy, does something so mental in the World Cup Final – his last ever game -no-one will ever forget him.

Taunted by Italian centre back Marco Materazzi (who took the World Cup final back to the schoolyard by talking about Zidane’s mum), Zidane launches into his chest head first like one of those bone-headed dinosaurs, sending the Italian flying.

Confusion ensues, has he got away with it?

No, the eagle-eyed lino spots him and a red card is shown to the French maestro.

Extraordinary, but we’re all going to remember him now aren’t we?