Northern Ireland football manager Billy Bingham spoke to Jackie Fullerton of UTV ahead of the crunch game against Brazil at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. When the draw was made this glamour tie against the game’s most famous practitioners had seemed appealing. However, with only a draw and a narrow defeat from their first two games against Algeria and Spain, Northern Ireland were now in the unenviable position of having to get some form of positive result against a team featuring the superstars of Socrates and Zico.

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