When football becomes history’s battlefield
One of the many novelties at this Soccer Super Bowl is the entire squads stand on the pitch for the national anthems before kick off. Until now, only the starting eleven did.At England vs Argentina, opposing fans booed and hissed each other’s hymns. A poignant start to the match that had been endlessly hyped through the preceding days as the mother of all sporting rivalries.
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