Blood on the Crossbar : The Dictatorship's World Cup Tottenham Hotspur and of course to Madchester

and of course to Madchester

Under the leadership of General Jorge Videla

Mexico 1970* The infamous Hand of God

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Blood on the Crossbar : The Dictatorship's World Cup Tottenham Hotspur and of course to MadchesterBlood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cup of all time. When Argentina both hosted and won the World Cup in 1978, just two years after the coup d'etat that ousted Isabel Peron, it was against the backdrop of a brutal military dictatorship in the country. Under the leadership of General Jorge Videla, up to 30,000 citizens, categorised as subversives, 'disappeared'. Dogged by allegations