The 1982 World Cup finals were played out within a hybrid 24 team format, and between horrible hybrid goal nets that were neither the L-supports seen at Argentina 78, nor the monstrous box nets we'd see in Mexico four years later.
The Poland - Italy semi-final was played at Barcelona's Camp Nou, but you wouldn't know that if watching on TV and seeing only these charmless and characterless goal nets.
This is all the more regrettable given Barcelona played out the 1981-82 season between the stanchions that had made Camp Nou instantly recognisable on TV.
In 1982 Pepsi was a major sponsor of Real Madrid. However, such is the power of FIFA that for the World Cup finals they replaced all Pepsi signage at the Bernabeu with the logo of their own major sponsor - Coca Cola.
If FIFA could remove Pepsi, getting shot of the old stanchions at the Bernabeu was no problem.
Madrid played out the 1981-82 season between the old curved stanchions of Puskas, di Stefano and Gento.
And though the Bernabeu went on to host one of the memorable World Cup moments...
By removing the old stanchions - the on-field signifier of Madrid location for everyone watching on TV - FIFA effectively took the game from the grass of the Bernabeu and uploaded it to a placeless cloud called 'FIFA World Cup.'
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