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The Nations Championship is a very 21st century sort of sports tournament, which is why the Pacific nation are playing on Merseyside not Suva Suva’s
The Nations Championship is a very 21st century sort of sports tournament, which is why the Pacific nation are playing on Merseyside not Suva Suva’s changed. I mean, I think Suva has changed.
I’ve never covered one of Fiji’s home games before. Maybe there are always this many Liverpudlians around the place. The views of the Irish Sea were definitely better than I expected.
There were more pictures of Brian Labone and Howard Kendall up around the stadium, too. The really odd bit was that every time the stadium announcer tried to get the 50,000 fans inside the ground to shout “Go Fiji” everyone just sat there and ignored him.
Almost like they were supporting the opposition. Continue reading...
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