Quizzed on whether England would have prevailed against Argentina that day, preventing Maradona from going on to lift the World Cup, had video assistance been in operation, ex-England goalkeeper Shilton – speaking in association with Lynx Fine Fragrance and their ‘The Official Makeup’ campaign – told GOAL: “Well, at the time I thought we could have gone on and won the tournament and I think that’s why I had such a grief about it for so long.
“With VAR, I think both goals would have been disallowed from the Argentinians. The second one, Glenn Hoddle was tackled wrongly. If VAR had been around it would have been a totally different thing.
“I know it’s not everybody’s cup of tea but I just wish it had been there on that day. It was hard to take because I think we could have gone on, we’d just come into form, we had some great players and the rest is history so to speak.”
