GLOBAL BRITAIN
Let’s face it, the Fifa Club World Cup has never quite caught the public’s imagination here in Blighty. Not like the old Intercontinental Cup, which saw Celtic and Racing Club throw hands, and Manchester United exchange pleasantries with Estudiantes. Two thoroughly entertaining late-sixties donnybrooks that have gone down in sporting folklore, with the caveat that obviously nobody wants to see that sort of thing, won’t somebody think of the kids, etc. Still, come on. Bertie Auld refusing to leave after being one of six men to be sent off, instead playing the rest of the match? George Best bobbing and weaving in the middle of a comic-book cloud of fists and boots? You’d pay plenty of folding money for that sort of nonsense today, and throw in some coins too.
