**
An edition of Observer Sport Monthly featured a small item about a
Moroccan parachutist. The one who, at the opening ceremony for the 1988
African Nations Cup in Casablanca, watched by royalty and the most
important men in world football, delayed kick-off by missing the pitch
and getting tangled up in the floodlights, where he hung upside down
for 45 minutes.
**
During the last Nations Cup in Mali two years ago, there was a
full-scale punch-up on the pitch, involving a Cameroon coach and Malian
soldiers. The coach, a former World Cup goalkeeper, had placed a charm
in the Mali net. Witchcraft, juju; call it what you like.
** My
favourite was the tale of the South African team which drove out of
town, walked backwards and barefoot off the team bus into the the bush
until they found a termite mound, urinated on it, then walked backwards
to the bus again - and still didn't win the league.
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