WITH England's quarter-final versus Brazil now confirmed, be prepared for our television screens to be dominated by a scorching afternoon in Guadalajara 32 years ago, a simply breathtaking save from Gordon Banks, yet another Jairzhino goal and a cuddle between Pele and Bobby Moore.

Yes, Brazil's 1-0 win over England at Mexico 70 is the context which the TV companies will place Friday breakfast's encounter.

As football fans we would not have it any other way.

It is sentimental.

We love to place our heroes in the bracket of timeless legends. Will Ferdinand, Beckham, Owen, Rivaldo and Ronaldo cement their place amongst the gods?

On Sunday just gone two very different inductees of any Hall of Fame were celebrated with 'Maradona: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' (Channel 5) and 'Football Legends: Bobby Moore' (BBC2).

Of the latter you would not hear a bad word, England's only captain to hold aloft a major international trophy is remembered warmly by all, from ex-footballers to ex-wives.

Our Diego got a slightly rougher ride, which isn't a surprise.

Somehow Channel 5 managed to get an interview with the bloated Argentine who now resides in Cuba as a courtier to Fidel Castro.

Maradona's grizzly voice is a shock, perhaps because of his size I imagined him to be high-pitched but he sounded like the problem love child of Joe Cocker and Mariella Frostrup.

We went through the whole Maradona roller-coaster ride, of course everything was the fault of un-named 'they', 'those' and 'them'.

Diego believes the ref at the 1990 World Cup final was bribed, and that he was sent home from the 1994 tournament only after the CIA had tampered with his urine sample.

But there was enough footage on the pitch to remind us of why he is still reviled the world over.

Contributor Terry Butcher suggested he will be remembered by the English as a 'cheat', but for me Maradona remains the greatest of them all.