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...regulars at the rickety Stonebridge Road stadium welcome their numerous new owners, any more than if a Russian or American billionaire had swooped in as at some Premier League clubs - after all, they didn't vote for democracy. One posting on BBC Radio 5 Live's 606 online forum, opines that non-league fans, "don't care about the Premier League or winning the FA Cup. It's about being involved in the community. MyFC doesn't seem to understand that. We are just a small club in Kent, and that is OK with us." At worst that...
Then, before a sold-out crowd and scores of media members at Harvard Stadium, Harvard launched one of the most unlikely and thrilling comebacks in the history annals. Champi drove the Crimson the length of the field, at one point converting a third-and-long with a lateral to one of his linemen. The home team punched it in with 42 seconds left, made the two-point conversion, and recovered the ensuing onside kick. As the final seconds ran off the timer, Champi found Vic Gatto ’69 in the endzone for a score, and a moment later...
...many humiliating defeats for Yale...on and off the field. Over at the first ever tailgate, seven Harvard students were arrested for public drunkenness. Hell yeah. A few years later, the traditional game took a violent turn. This game, held in Springfield, Massachusetts, prior to the construction of Harvard Stadium, resulted in more than one casualty. Dubbed “The Springfield Massacre,” the game resulted in a broken leg, a broken collarbone and...a possible death. Don’t worry: it was just a brain contusion. After this bloody battle, the Game was suspended...
...idea was born because so many fans left instructions before they died to have their ashes scattered on the playing field of La Bombonera (the "candy box," as the Boca football stadium in the city of Buenos Aires is known)," says Boca press officer Laura Acosta. Inspiration also came from a widespread custom of club fans of adorning the gravesites of relatives in other cemeteries with Boca-inspired decorations...
...Fans who buy plots at prices ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 have been promised that grass from La Bombonera's playing field will be replanted at the cemetery. "At least once in their lifetime, Boca fans have to visit the Boca stadium," said Father Jose Luis Monzon when he blessed the Boca cemetery at the opening ceremony last year. "Now they have a place here, and have of course, another in heaven...