  We consider the collapse of a global "Hopf" texture and examine the
conjecture, disputed in the literature, that monopole-antimonopole pairs can be
formed in the process. We show that such monopole-antimonopole pairs can indeed
be nucleated in the course of texture collapse given appropriate initial
conditions. The subsequent dynamics include the recombination and annihilation
of the pair in a burst of outgoing scalar radiation.
