World Cup Heaven and Hell was a 2006 documentary that appeared on ITV as part of their build up to that year's World Cup. It examines various aspects of the tournament's history, most often focusing on the balance between the good and bad elements. The documentary was divided into five parts as follows.
1) 40 Years of Blame
Examines all of the excuses for England's failure to add to their solitary World Cup win on home soil in 1966.
2) Red Hot Matches
Examines the World Cup matches that had both the best and worst of football.
3) Divine and Damned
Examines talented, yet controversial figures in World Cup history
Team sheet:
- Goalkeeper: René Higuita (Colombia)
- Defence: Paul Breitner (Germany), Franz Beckenbauer (Germany), Claudio Gentile (Italy), Daniel Passarella (Argentina),
- Midfield: Garrincha (Brazil), Johan Cruyff (Netherlands), Sócrates (Brazil), Stefan Effenberg (Germany)
- Forwards: Roberto Baggio (Italy), Romario (Brazil)
4) Dirty Rotten Scandals
Goes through the World Cup's most controversial moments.
5) Goals That Shook The World
Examines goals in the World Cup that not only had dramatic effects on the competition but changed the players entire lives.
Famous quotes containing the words world, cup, heaven and/or hell:
“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
—Jacques Attali (b. 1943)
“I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.”
—Cynthia Paine (b. 1934)
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)