• A brutal experience for Mexico's Chucky Lozano
    by Paul Gardner on Jul 26, 2:21 PM
    Brutality? In soccer? Not very often, I would think. I don't ever remember using the word myself, and am pretty sure I haven't ever heard it from soccer people.
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  • Quite a weekend -- Italy wins at Wembley and Messi's Argentina triumphs in the Maracana
    by Paul Gardner on Jul 16, 2:24 PM
    There has always been a lot of the "cometh the hour, cometh the man" about the Italians -- remember Paolo Rossi in 1982? or Andrea Pirlo in 2006?
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