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“Scumbag” Maradona and the Blackberry Bruiser
Maradona, despite being in his dream job with a tasty enough team just a month before the World Cup, finds himself in a strangely weakened position. Gone is the rancourous, vituperative Diego of Uruguay gone the scorn king, the prince of put-downs. Enter Mr Maradona, august professional, driven to the pen as his peers’ lapdogs plot against him! Continue reading
Boca Juniors v River Plate, without using the words ‘super’ or ‘locust’
Moreover, besides being saddled with the sense of fatigue a false start brings, even the fact that both teams are free to play mid week is another sharp yank of their collective balls: for neither qualified for the Libertadores this year (a difficult feat for you have to be consistently poor under the karmic system in place). Like some kind of mendicant philosopher caught in the nets of his own twisted logic and/or metaphors, however, all of this begs the question as to whether the superclásico is all that super. Continue reading
