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The World Cup’s dirtiest game?

The World Cup’s dirtiest game?

  • June 26, 2026
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There are matches remembered for goals, for genius, for glory. And then there are matches remembered for control lost entirely. Common consensus has it that the dirtiest World Cup game ever seen was the 1962

The Battle of Santiago

The Battle of Santiago

  • February 7, 2021
  • 65

The most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game”. Those were the words used by British commentator David Coleman to describe the group game between the hosts