MVO: Alan, she said, let me hold your hand. Your lovely, warm, soft hand. The hand that gave me the ring, and touches my cheek with the lightness of a feather. The hand I'll always love holding. The hand I trust with my life. The hand that.......
SFX: FOOTBALL CROWD
MVO: (DOUBT CREEPING INTO HIS VOICE)... seems calloused. Grass stained. Riddled with guilt.
SFX: MUSIC
The hand which, on that day under the Mexican sun, during the 1986 World Cup Quarter-Final in the Azteca Stadium, didn't play by the rules and broke the heart of a nation.
Alan, she said, let me hold your hand. Your sneaky, slippery hand. The one I'll never forgive or forget. Argentina 2, England 1. The hand that spoiled every other hand after it.
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