When Frank Lampard wheeled away in celebration after scoring what appeared to be a crucial goal in the 2010 World Cup against Germany, another controversy was about to erupt between these two great footballing nations.

Diego Maradona's Hand of God goal in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup is still remembered in England as the most infamous goal in modern football history.

When Zinedine Zidane turned and headbutted Italy's Marco Matarazzi in the 2006 World Cup final, a glittering career came to an ignominious end. France's talisman, their greatest player since Michel Platini, possibly ever, had succumbed to a moment of madness on the biggest stage in World Football.

When Diego Maradona danced his way majestically through a flailing and despairing English defence to score his second goal in the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup the world witnessed at once, in the space of five chaotic minutes, the devilry and genius of the Argentine number 10.