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.
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.
Part one focuses on Scotland's 1978 World Cup performance: their opening group game against Peru, their match versus Iran's Team Melli (their first WC), and their decisive last match versus Holland and the Archie Gemmill goal that nearly got them through to the second round.
After that, the spotlight turns to David Beckham, his fall from grace after France 98, and his subsequent comeback in England's do-or-die qualifier against Greece.
2nd part out of 5 in this World Cup Heaven and Hell episode.
Part two continues with Beckham, and then shifts towards Bulgaria's '94 performance - where they beat Argentina and Germany -, focusing on Letchkov.
Then it's on to 2002's Ahn Jung-Hwan and how his life changed after his golden goal against Italy, the land where he played his club football
Part 3 of 5 in this installment of World Cup Heaven and Hell.
Jürgen Sparwasser's goal in East Germany's first ever meeting with West Germany in the 1974 World Cup.
Then its Paolo Rossi's story before and during Spain '82, where he led Italy to its first World Cup championship since 1938.
Continuation of Paolo Rossi's story at '82; Maradona's two goals at the '86 game against England and his slow decline into drugs; Said Owairan's lone goal against Belgium at USA '94, putting his team into the Round of 16, and the life of fame that followed.
Finally it's the story of the 1986 Iraq team, ruled by the iron fist of Saddam Hussein's son, Uday Hussein.
Continuing with the story of the pressured Iraqi national team of '86, this episode about life-changing goals wraps up with the England '66 squad
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