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From: Remi Category: TV Date: 31 January 2007 Time: 06:34 PM Review: Watched Michel Platini's interview on being elected new president of UEFA which offered link to former glory in Spain 1982. Well, almost glory. Felt strange watching an old football match. Was it meaningless? I enjoyed it a great deal, but it was surreal seeing such a physical display of talent when I know that it's all lost in time. I was vainly trying to recapture that gaping moment. Amazing what used to happen on a football pitch. Harald Schumacher knocked Patrick Battiston unconscious; or when he subsequently dived early during the penalty shoot-out. Football cleaned up its act.