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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Gregg Bakowski

And we thought Stoke was the most inhospitable place to play football

An aerial view of the football pitch in the Teoca volcano crater.
It could do with a sprinkler system but it’s still nice. Photograph: Claudio Cruz/AFP/Getty Images

THE RING OF FIRE

It turns out 11 July is not ripe for football news stories that we can satirise in four piping hot paragraphs to top off the latest edition of Football Daily. Wimbledon and the Tour de France are on for goodness’ sake! And we have nothing funny to say about Ashley Young. He’s just growing old gracefully and hopefully Everton won’t ruin that. Oh. So we’re trying something a bit different this Tuesday. The reason is that we stumbled across some photographs which we couldn’t stop looking at. And while our editor might be wary of where this is going, we want to share them with you, because they’re truly fascinating.

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