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BLOND ARROW WHO FIRED IMAGINATION

JAMES LAWTON pays his special tribute to Alfredo di Stefano (1926-2014) who won five European Cups in succession with Real Madrid

And then there were two – at least if you believe the identity of the best footballer who ever lived can be traced only by his impact on the World Cup.
Accepting this argument is also to agree that when Lionel Messi, the virtuoso of his age, failed in Brazil last month in his third attempt to significantly influence the game’s greatest competition, it left us with a question that could well be eternal: Pele or Maradona?
Yet there is one imposing...

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