Søren Lerby vs USSR. 1985 WC Qualification. All touches & actions

As reported in Rob Smyth’s Danish Dynamite, a superb homage to the Hummel-era Danes of the 1980s, Gehrs suggested the game was possibly the greatest World Cup qualifier ever played. But more than that, he said with reference to Heysel: “One week before, football died. The week after it stood up from the grave.” It’s hard to disagree.