Yahoo! Sports, with a hat-tip to Brian Tuohy on his Twitter:
Argentina's 1978 World Cup win against Peru was fixed in a brutal political deal, former senator says
To wit I have to say that that's about as much a surprise to me as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West.
Why? Ten years ago, in South Korea, one of the greatest frauds in the history of the World Cup was perpetrated with the co-hosts from South Korea advancing with a suspicious round-of-16 win over Italy and an even more suspicious quarterfinal win over Spain.
Especially with the Koreans being the most-advanced Asian team in the history of the Cup (and the first Asian team to advance to the quarterfinals since 1966), one has to take a look at the allegations of Declan Hill in his book The Fix to see what probably went down.
NOTE: Videos and further commentary on the knockout wins by South Korea will be added at another time, hopefully within the next day or two. Too many on the (non-home) network to access videos here at this point.
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