An Open Goal For Fascism: The 1973 Chile Vs Ussr Game That Never Was...

When the net bulged at Estadio Nacional on Nov 21st 1973, signifying Chile’s qualification for the 1974 World Cup, you could forgive the Chileans for their forlorn, awkward body linguistic communication. To elevator a phrase from clichéd football parlance, their opponents quite merely ‘hadn’t turned upwardly’. In this example, inward the nearly literal course. 


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