Chile feels a burning sense of national pride as World Cup hosts, having suffered a traumatising earthquake in 1960, before losing their key organiser in the weeks leading up to the 1962 tournament. However, some Italian journalists have been disparaging about the host country. This leaves the Italian team in a difficult situation when they face Chile in the group stage. What follows is one of the World Cup’s most notorious matches – described by the BBC’s David Coleman as “the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game”.
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