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This week’s Video Of The Week is a curio from the 1980s. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is a video that features… every goal of the 1986 World Cup. At the time, FIFA’s official films of the tournament were still relatively big business. After the success of “G’olé” (narrated by Sean Connery) in 1982, FIFA really went to town in 1986 with the Michael Caine narrated “Hero” in 1986, which fused occasionally artistic footage of matches with a synth rock soundtrack. Twenty-three years on, “Hero” retains a cult following, but “Every Goal Of Mexico ’86″ is a somewhat more prosaic affair. Narrated by Martin Tyler (who had been involved in a similar production four years earlier), it runs through each of the groups one by one, before going on to the knock-out stages.
The music is as bad – if not worse – than that on “Hero”, but it doesn’t go away from the occasionally florid language used in “Hero” – some of Michael Caine’s script in which crashes through a tape with “pretention” written across it in big, bold letters – and sticks to the action. Tyler (who wrote the script that he narrated) is a decent enough commentator to keep things going along without the viewer losing too much interest and, of course, the tournament itself provides enough excitement to sustain itself over ninety minutes. As it is on YouTube, it is divided into handy ten minute segments. Perfect for those amongst us that wish to waste a little time at work on a grey Monday morning.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
I’ve got the 1982 version. As I recall it does indeed give you all the goals, but nothing else – hence for instance no Schumacher/Battiston.
GOAL!!
They’ve done these for every World Cup since 1982. The 1990 one had Brian Moore talking about, but not commentating on, the goals with a rolling title along the top informing the viewer which match/goals they were watching.
The 1994 one started off with “The Best” goals scored, which in fact took up the majority of the tape, then ended up showing the rest, almost as an afterthought, although one of the goals might be missing (Sweden’s penalty v. Russia, if I remember rightly). They also showed some saves as well near the end.
1998 went back to showing the goals match-by-match chronologically, with false commentary for some goals, i.e. Barry Davies/John Motson commentating on a goal from a match that the BBC didn’t show during the tournament.
2002 was almost the same, with false commentary again. The 1982, 1986 & 1990 tapes didn’t have commentary for the goals, just Martin Tyler & Brian Moore telling you the context of the goals etc.
2006 I haven’t seen, so I can’t describe it!
The 1996, 2000 & 2004 European Championships also had these “All the Goals of” tapes.
cool, thanks. vintage maradona, vintage lineker, vintage fonts.