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09-06-2018, 19:58
(09-06-2018, 18:25)Ska\dForLife-WBA Wrote: Lest we forget, Argentina '78 also saw the home nation bunging Peru to concede six goals so Argentina could go through.  A shadow hung over that whole tournament because of the country's regime, and I only hope it's not going to be the same in Russia this year.

Bloody good team though.
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09-06-2018, 20:17
Oh, absolutely. A tragedy really that they got tarred with the brush of the fascist government, because the players all hated the president and the military and wanted nothing to do with them.

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