That naive approach is one of many alternative explanations for the defeat. The coach, the German Sepp Piontek, said the Danish mentality kicked in, that subconsciously they were happy to have got through the original Group of Death in such style and were starting to get homesick. Some of the players say Piontek overtrained them to the point they had nothing left by the time of the Spain game. Even Diego Maradona had his say; he suggested “the manager went mad” when he replaced a defender with an attacker when Denmark were 2-1 down. It is a defeat that Denmark will never quite get over; last year, when a Copenhagen DJ played a song from 1986, he said it was “from the year we should have been world champions”.