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p8 Having won the first leg 3-0 in Milan, Internazionale drew 0-0 against Argentina’s Independiente in the return to claim the Intercontinental Cup. But the game was not without incident as home fans threw objects at the visiting side. “I was knocked down by a dirty great rock,” revealed Inter’s Brazilian winger Jair. “After that I was too scared to go near the touchline.”

p14 Gordon Jeffrey suggested that following the club’s victory in the European Cup-winners Cup earlier in the year, England could do worse that look at “several West Ham players [who] should join Bobby Moore in the reckoning” ahead of next year’s World Cup. He picked out “Martin Peters, John Sissons and, recovered from injury and the consequences of injury, Ron Boyce and Johnny Byrne”. There was, however, no mention of Geoff Hurst...

p27 Australia were due to meet North Korea for a place at the 1966 World Cup, but Andrew Dettre reported that the twolegged play-off was in danger of being cancelled as the Koreans “didn’t have the slightest intention of sending a team” as “their season was over and forgotten”. How Australia must have wished that had been the case, as North Korea went on to win 9-2 on aggregate.

p39 In Belgium, Liege players Gerard Sulon and Guy Delhasse were sent off in a game against local rivals Tilleur and banned for three months each for arguing with the referee and appealing in vain “for a penalty which, according to the press, was ‘blatant’ and obvious to everyone in the ground”.