Some reading matter

Posted on Tuesday, 18 March 2008 by hastaelgolsiempre

My latest piece for Pitch Invasion looks back on the black weekend Argentine football has just experienced, and explains some of the issues behind the security operations, and what might be considered by the Argentine media in the coming weeks. There’s also a really rather good photo (if I say so myself).
‘Olé’s front page on [...]

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Three versions of a killer

Posted on Tuesday, 18 March 2008 by hastaelgolsiempre

The circumstances surrounding Emanuel Alvarez’s death whilst travelling to see Vélez Sársfield take on San Lorenzo in the Nuevo Gasometro are being slowly pieced together. In the last two-and-a-half days there has been, though, no shortage of disagreement about who exactly the killer was - an Huracán barra? A San Lorenzo ‘fan’? Or a lone [...]

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