The #NornIron's team flight to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup disappears through that wormhole over the Bermuda Triangle. So, we're on the phone to FIFA again for dispensation to replace the squad (don't worry, the original team all re-appear through a plot hole two weeks later)..


Wigan manager Bryan Hamilton, working as a pundit for ITV, ditches the shiny suit to step in as boss. He is assisted by captain and BBC pundit Martin O'Neill, who has only recently been beaten in his long fight against injury, so missing the tournament. Which 22 will they pick?

Step with me, if you will, through a worm-hole, back to 1982. #NornIron have qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 24 years, but misfortune hits on the Airplane flight...
#GAWA


The entire squad eats the fish, contracting food poisoning and are ruled out for the duration of the tournament. Danny Blanchflower, in Spain reporting for the Express newspaper, agrees to step in as temporary #NornIron manager, just three years after leaving the post.