My favourite sports documentary – Fifa’s Match 64: The Inside Story of the 2010 Final

Our series of personally chosen films continues with chief sport writer Miguel Delaney’s selection of a film with a very personal association: Fifa’s film of the first World Cup final he ever attended, back in 2010 in South Africa. He’s not claiming to have been a neutral…

John Heitinga of Netherlands and David Villa of Spain at the 2010 Fifa World Cup Final (Rex)

If there is no feeling on a football pitch like scoring the winning goal in a World Cup final, there are few off it like the atmosphere of anticipation before such a game.

There’s just a crackle to the air, an exhilarating awareness that something that will go down in history is happening.

It was a feeling best articulated by Hugh McIlvanney, in his piece on that most cherished of finals, the 1970 showpiece in the Azteca.