Paul Gardner

Soccer Talk

by Paul Gardner

This book brings to life something that you can hear from the way I’m talking, informed me as journalist, the World Cup in Argentina in 78. I genuinely believe that that tournament changed history. I think the generals, having repressed the people and had night curfews for I don’t know how long before we got there, simply couldn’t maintain that repression once they’d let the people out on to the streets.

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