Chainsmoking coach of the 1986 and 1990 Argentina teams, the tactician who got the best out of Maradona and the man who credits himself with inventing the 3-5-2 formation that became so popular after 1986 (although it has it's similarities with catenaccio etc.). Bilardo came up with the best quote of the tournament thus far, after decrying Maradona's promise to streak through Buenos Aires if Argentina won the World Cup "passe":
"I say this: the player who scores our winning goal in the final is free to enter me from behind."
I can't imagine Sir Alf Ramsey's (who was probably called Harold, Sid or Len) trainer in 1966 bending over for Sir Geoff Hurst, but then 1960's Britain was a far more repressed world.
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