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    Mar182011

    "THE BRAZILIAN WAY" - Waterlogged, Woeful and Winning 1-0

    Waterlogged pitches are something of an unfortunate standard issue that faces most teams up and down the country, stopping them to play during the winter months. Not really much to speak about - if a game does go ahead, its nothing special, watching 22 hungover lads slip about on a pitch which looks like an old pudding and sounds like your nan trying to eat Haribo.

    When it becomes a story, though, is when the referee decides to play the game despite the pitch being part submerged in water - something that happened in Brazil last weekend when the referee decided that the Carioca Championship Serie B match between Itaperuna and Aperibeense should go ahead.

    Amazingly, both teams splashed and doggy-paddled their way through the whole 90 minutes near Rio, with Itaperuna even managing to win the match 1-0.

    Not surprisingly, Aperibeense's director of football has appealed the result, saying that his players were left scratching themselves after the match. "They even had to take alcohol baths because the rain water had mixed with overflow from the streets and sewers."

     

    Well, quite.

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