STAND-UP COMEDIAN AND NON-LEAGUE FAN

IN THE MONEY! Iran players celebrate reaching the World Cup Finals in France
PICTURE: PA Images

In 1998, I had the summer of my life, helping Iran in their World Cup jour ney. It’s a strange story, which is all on film. We’ll start with the day I had £250,000 riding on a football match.
After England’s passage to the semi-finals in 1990, then having failed to reach the 1994 finals, everyone in the media was desperate for a free trip to France once Glenn Hoddle’s England qualified for1998.
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