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La pobreza de una final del mundo
After a brief account of the game, El Grafico takes time to criticize the foreign (English) press for exaggerating the physicality of the match…even as far as comparing English journalists to Goebbels!
Algo está pasando en el fútbol argentino
Helpful summary of the changes in Argentine soccer of the late 1960s
Basile con la bandera, Pachamé con su dignidad
Author makes note that "ugliness" and violence should be accepted by now when these two teams play
Grafodramas
Cartoon shows either fans riling up a player, or viceversa.
Letters from readers
Readers' perspectives about the tragedy and the commentary from Primera Plana.
Con Estudiantes en la Copa, con los ingleses en Inglaterra
"Savages", "fair play", "civility"…all come to question with the treatment El Grafico's writers claim to have received in Manchester Estudiantes are also held up as models of civility Propaganda
La verdad de Estudiantes
Multiple references to Alf Ramsey's "animal" reference in this article, that minimizes the style of play of Estudiantes as tough but fair (within the rules) and instead accuses the English of savagery "Animals" is as much a construction of the press,…
Violence is All Part of the Game Now
This opinion piece examines what the authors refer to as the "integral part of the current 'image' of professional football: violence, on and off the field. The authors go through a series of violent events at professional matches in Great Britain.…
¿Fué fatalidad ó negligencia?
Different overview of Puerta 12 than found in other sports magazines.
Fue un fiasco como expresión de fútbol
A more analytical account of the Intercontinental Cup
Los colegas ingleses y los 'salvajes de las pampas'…
Article is useful for taking into account a foreign lens
Ahora si podemos asegurar que tenemos el mejor fútbol
Worth noting the change in language and tone in this report of Estudiantes' victory
Nos preguntamos: ¿qué es esto?
The news of Puerta 12 is fresh and this article is mostly filled with images of destruction and grief
Captura para Carlos Bilardo: ¡A ése, a ése!
A helpful article to hear from Bilardo on why he plays so physical and if it is dirty play
Incidentes durante el partido por la final del campeonato Metropolitano de primera división, entre los equipos representativos de los clubes San Lorenzo de Almagro (campeón) y Estudiantes de la Plata, jugado en el estadio de River Plate
Police intervene in match between Estudiantes and San Lorenzo in 1968
La ciudad deportiva de Boca Juniors es ya un orgullo de Buenos Aires
Alberto Armando was a business executive who took control of Boca Juniors and shifted the club away from its roots as a club association and into a major business entity in Buenos Aires. This "sports city" is the most ambitious of the major projects…