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MY AFFECTIONATE LETTER TO ARGENTINA…
Sorry here certain Argentines but a majority of mainstream Blighty could not give one of those flying things today for ‘las malvinas son Argentinos.’ Have all the bad wine you can stomach boys and girls. Don’t though let it drown out what is yet another moment in the World Cup’s finest and fiercest rivalry. This one a very first Semi Final between two of world football’s founding fathers. Don’t believe me, then please go visit the UK, feel the pulse of a nation. England that

Noel Butler
Jul 1510 min read


AZTECA & WORLD CUP DEMONS EXORCISED. SORT OF.
Plus the Monday morning feels after that [expletive removed] Sunday night before It’s well established in football folklore the superclásico at la Bombonera is akin to a religious experience. When two of the grandest club sides on planet futbol, Boca Juniors and River Plate go at it hammer and tong for 90 minutes of pulsating football on the pitch. Buenos Aeries is ironically divided in half by the world's widest estuary; la Río de la Plata. It is also marks the dividing l

Noel Butler
Jul 64 min read
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