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...Alan Durban, manager of Stoke City in the English First Division, who served up this tasty little remark to the assembled postgame press after attempting to play for a boring 0-0 draw away to Arsenal (losing only to two late goals) during the 1980-81 season...
Coaching an inferior team inside a hostile stadium. Durban figured that he was better off playing conservatively, even boringly, if that would give his side the best chance of a favorable result at the end of the day. And if you remember the 1990 World Cup, this doctrine was the rule rather than the exception in Italy, where a team like Argentina could reach the finals by playing to win penalty shootouts at the end of 0-0 or 1-1 draws, as happened twice...
...African Defense Force, where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome. Once, after he took the side of a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called him a kaffir-boetie ("nigger lover") and beat him up. In 1980 Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after he lost his job, he swallowed scores of sleeping pills, pain-killers and rat poison. He survived. He returned to the S.A.D.F. to finish his service...
Neither the terrorists' bombs nor the confusing logistical snarls had a significant effect on the voters' turnout or their enthusiasm. The night before she went to vote, Gladys Mswele, 60, a farmer in the hilly country north of Durban, did not sleep well. "I was thinking about this all night," she said, as she rose before dawn to walk the two miles to the main road, where she patiently waited for transport to her polling place. "This is our day." Seven hours later, she made her X next to the party of her choice. Voting, she said, as she rested...
...country they have won. It is up to Mandela and his comrades to set the course. They must finish the task of dismantling the apartheid structures, reforming bureaucracies and constructing a unified, multiracial South Africa. "We are starting a new era," said Mandela, after casting his vote outside Durban, "of hope, of reconciliation, of nation building...