25 days on

Twenty-five days after it was suspended following an explosive going off in the stands, the final of the Primera B Metropolitana championship playoff between Almirante Brown and Estudiantes de Buenos Aires was finished tonight in Junín, behind closed doors. The last 77 minutes of the match were completed, the original, in Racing’s stadium, having been called off [...]

Two deaths too many

This week the good people of Pitch Invasion have been kind enough to publish an article by me, reviewing some of the security and hooliganism issues of the Clausura just passed, which came to a grim conclusion on Monday evening with the death of a Tigre fan at the end of his side’s playoff victory over [...]

Venezuela 2 - 2 Bolivia

In an intense first match, the host nation claimed a point against Bolivia. The visitors have been in the headlines across the world for off-the-pitch reasons of late, but last night it was the quality of the play which was on a high level (sorry, sorry).

Uruguay 0 - 3 Peru

[Now updated with goals] 

The opening match of the Copa América on Tuesday night was a great one for fans of Argentine football. Oh, and Peruvian. Uruguay were hardly the sharpest tools in the box, and we all knew that, but they would have expected to qualify from this group along with (probably) the hosts. They [...]