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Which football lover cannot instantly put the following 45 words into context? None worthy of the tag.  Rushing off his line intent on claiming the descending ball, England’s Peter Shilton got to it before Maradona’s head. But not first, not before Dieguito’s fist. The gifted midfielder’s hand went up, striking …

This report was initially written by Lasana Liburd for the Trinidad Express newspaper and published there on 25 November 2004: It was not, as Birmingham City chairman David Sullivan pointed out, the ‘crime of the century’. The British Soccernet website claimed that the Blackburn Football Club, the site of the …