There will also be expert analysis from BBC football pundits Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson.

BBC: World Cup coverage

Rafa Benitez, Roy Keane, Robbie Fowler, Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson were also at the service, along with former Everton managers Joe Royle and Howard Kendall.

BBC: Footballing greats remember Gary Ablett

The familiar team of Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson and Jimmy Hill will join Desmond Lynam on World Cup 98 Live, with special guest presenter David Ginola.

BBC: TV at the heart of France 98

The team will be able to boast 13 Cup winners' medals between them, with Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Peter Schmeichel and Mark Hughes joining Gary Lineker in the studio.

BBC: has the Cup final covered!

Alan Hansen was talking to BBC Sport's Tom Fordyce.

BBC: Alan Hansen's column

Alan Hansen was talking to BBC Sport's Phil McNulty.

BBC: Alan Hansen on Liverpool v Manchester United

Among the well-known names from the world of sport who will be involved are footballers Sir Bobby Charlton, Alan Hansen, Johann Cruyff, Marco Van Baasten, Gianluca Vialli, Kenny Dalglish and Gary Lineker.

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It will go down under the heading of 'things you wish you had never said' - alongside Alan Hansen's 'you don't win anything with kids' comment on Match of the Day eight years ago.

BBC: Wenger's word games backfire

But when they included strikes of the quality of the first and last against Leicester at Filbert Street - part of a hat-trick which Alan Hansen described as the greatest he had ever seen - who cares?

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