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    The game in Spain: Of cabbages and kings

    By Phil Ball

    Monday, December 22, 2008

    First the vegetables. It was rather nice of the Spanish Federation to choose Recreativo de Huelva's new ground 'El Nuevo Colombino' as the venue of last week's friendly between Spain and Mexico. However, they should really have sent a delegate down to deepest Andalucia a few weeks ago to check out the state of the turf, because the cabbage patch the pitch resembled - or 'patatal' (potato field) as the papers called it here rendered the game all but meaningless. They might as well have pla ...

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