WHEN POLITICS AND SPORT WEREN’T KEPT SEPARATE...

EL SALVADOR and Honduras went to war in 1969 after rioting at a World Cup qualifier. The fighting exacerbated tensions between the countries.

IN 1968, the apartheid South Africa regime declared the inclusion of Basil D’Oliveira in the MCC touring party unacceptable — they designated him ‘Cape Coloured’ — resulting in the tour being cancelled.

AT the height the Cold War, the USA boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics in protest at the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The USSR boycotted the Los Angeles Games four years later.