by its brutish indifference to *This was not for want of trying.
opening ceremony French, But Lery is a Jewish same TV leam was demonstration by relatives of those who have disappeared.
some good comments from French players, tators are prone at the best of times final was disgraceful.
in seeing their team win.
political rights.
home team were proved dramatically wrong. a victory for burbarism.
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(Delete If not applicable] NAME ADDRESS Send to Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper St. London N1, SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 29 June 1978 page 2 BRIAN CLOUGH put his finger on it, minutes after the end of the World Cap final. Mario Kempes must be a bit pissed off, he said, with old General Whatsisname hogging the limelight. What better political plutform could he hope for, for the Argentiniun It was a brief moment of sanity in a mediu spectacular murked what was really going on i Argentina. Those who Imagined that this publicity could be we in highlight the vicious record of the Videla dictatonship wete Two West German commentalors made critical remurks about the regime during the and found themselves confined to their French journalist Bernurd-Henri Levy was arrested as soon as he arrived in Argentina. Police said to him: You say you are "He was only allowed to stay four days and had to stay at a hotel chosen by the junta. A French prevented from transmitting • report of • Even more successful initistives, such as the Swedish team's support for a demonstration by relatives of the disappeared and passed almost unnoticed amid the mindless hysteria to which foothall commenMany people feel that the Argentiniun team were unworthy winners. There are question marks over muny of the refereeing decisions throughout the tournament und their behaviour in the The politicsi tragedy and the footballing injustice are obviously linked. The built-in advantage for the bome team is magnified in a right-wing dictatorship where the regime has a political Interest The nationalism which permeates all football is taken to the nth degree under a regime like Argentina's. Nationalism is their justification for torture, assassination and the deprivation of all The scenes after Argentina's victory — presented as just quaint South American good fun —were u victory for that nationalism. Those Argentiniun oppositionists who called for a victory for the The World Cup was a defeat for the Argentinian working class;