Tag: Football
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A Cannon on Our Chest, Armour in Our Souls: An Arsenal Fan’s 22-Year Odyssey
From the Heart of an Arsenal Fan There is a special kind of loneliness that accompanies having a cannon stitched onto your chest for twenty-two years. Not the clean, tragical loneliness of a team crashing into the abyss, or the quiet resignation of supporting a club that never expects to win. No, the loneliness of…
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Re-birth of the football tradition
When Diego Aramando Maradona was asked in 1998 who would win that year’s soccer World Cup being played in France, he said, “Countries organize the World Cup to win it,” thus suggesting that France would be the winner. And it was. The same thing could be said for this year’s World Cup in Brazil. For…
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