Paul Radford was at that extraordinary 1966 encounter between the two teams when the unknown Koreans took a shock 3-0 lead and threatened to turn the sport's established order on its head.
I can still remember the look on Eusebio's face as North Korea took a 3-0 lead over his Portuguese team in the World Cup quarter-final at Goodison Park in Liverpool 44 years ago.
The Black Panther, as he was known, second best player in the world to Pele himself at the time, gathered the ball from the back of the net, turned and ran back to the centre spot with a look of grim determination which said: "That's enough now. I'm going to sort this out even if I have to do it all by myself."
I was sleeping on the floor of my brother's small flat in Manchester and having the time of my life. The sheer excitement of going for the first time to Liverpool, then in the full throes of Beatlemania, was a thrill of its own.
I had chosen the matches in Group 3 because I would be able to see almost all my then soccer heroes. In later times it would have been called the "Group of Death" with Brazil, Portugal, Hungary and Bulgaria in it together.
Brazil had the god-like Pele and Garrincha, a winger who could bend a ball with the outside of his foot. Everybody can bend it like Beckham these days but at the time it was a matter of fascination and had been dubbed "the Banana Shot".
I had anticipated Brazil would win the group and meet the runners-up in Italy's section - probably the Soviet Union.
