Footballs Are Round!

Boca beats River Plate in “brawl” marred game

I added quotation marks to “brawl” because it was more like a grade-school slapfight. The Boca ‘keeper was bleeding from the nose and cheek . . . from scratch marks. I kid you not, a River player grabbed Abbondanzieri’s face and raked his nails across it like a little girl might.

I hope this is not indicative of the general state of Argentinian manliness. Grown men scratching each other?

You know, somebody could lose an eye that way.