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:
“When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“When you’re alone in the middle of the night and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright
When you’re alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you in the head
You’ve had a cream of a nightmare dream and you’ve got the hoo-ha’s coming to you.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)