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Here is an article i read on soccernet.com:
Argentina spat, swore and hurled insults
Bitter Argentina players spat, swore and swapped insults instead of shirts after their defeat by England in Japan's Sapporo Dome on Friday.
And they singled out FIFA man-of-the-match Paul Scholes as a particular target for abuse. An FA source said: 'There was a lot of spitting going on out there but our players maintained their dignity and refused to get involved.'
Manchester United midfielder Scholes reacted sharply when two of the South Americans were heard to mutter 'bastardo' as they walked behind him while he was being interviewed in the mixed zone after the match, which England won 1-0 with a penalty by captain David Beckham.
Scholes responded with an icy stare as the pair walked towards their team coach, but refused to talk about the matter later. The FA source also confirmed that the Argentinians refused to exchange shirts with the England players after the game, as is the tradition.
'They weren't in the best of moods. They took defeat badly,' he said.
It is not the first time the usual shirt-swapping has not taken place after an England-Argentina match. When England won a tetchy quarter-final 1-0 at Wembley in 1966, manager Alf Ramsey physically prevented his players from following the convention and went on to condemn the Argentinians as 'animals'.
Despite some strong challenges there seemed nothing in Friday's game to justify a breach of the normal post-match etiquette.
But Argentinian sources insisted that ever since captain Daniel Passarella stopped his players swapping shirts after a 3-1 defeat by Brazil in the 1982 World Cup, their players had never followed the usual practice when beaten by their fiercest rivals.
The match against England was given exactly that 'derby' status, and in this context their refusal could almost be interpreted as a compliment. The Argentinians' foul temper lingered long into the night after defeat in this grudge match.
They boarded their coach quickly after the match and, after an unscheduled encounter with England's Trevor Sinclair, who mistakenly hopped aboard the wrong bus, were driven back to the Sheraton Hotel in Sapporo.
Once there, they snubbed a banquet arranged in their honour and retreated to the sanctuary of their two floors in the building.
Argentina spat, swore and hurled insults
Bitter Argentina players spat, swore and swapped insults instead of shirts after their defeat by England in Japan's Sapporo Dome on Friday.
And they singled out FIFA man-of-the-match Paul Scholes as a particular target for abuse. An FA source said: 'There was a lot of spitting going on out there but our players maintained their dignity and refused to get involved.'
Manchester United midfielder Scholes reacted sharply when two of the South Americans were heard to mutter 'bastardo' as they walked behind him while he was being interviewed in the mixed zone after the match, which England won 1-0 with a penalty by captain David Beckham.
Scholes responded with an icy stare as the pair walked towards their team coach, but refused to talk about the matter later. The FA source also confirmed that the Argentinians refused to exchange shirts with the England players after the game, as is the tradition.
'They weren't in the best of moods. They took defeat badly,' he said.
It is not the first time the usual shirt-swapping has not taken place after an England-Argentina match. When England won a tetchy quarter-final 1-0 at Wembley in 1966, manager Alf Ramsey physically prevented his players from following the convention and went on to condemn the Argentinians as 'animals'.
Despite some strong challenges there seemed nothing in Friday's game to justify a breach of the normal post-match etiquette.
But Argentinian sources insisted that ever since captain Daniel Passarella stopped his players swapping shirts after a 3-1 defeat by Brazil in the 1982 World Cup, their players had never followed the usual practice when beaten by their fiercest rivals.
The match against England was given exactly that 'derby' status, and in this context their refusal could almost be interpreted as a compliment. The Argentinians' foul temper lingered long into the night after defeat in this grudge match.
They boarded their coach quickly after the match and, after an unscheduled encounter with England's Trevor Sinclair, who mistakenly hopped aboard the wrong bus, were driven back to the Sheraton Hotel in Sapporo.
Once there, they snubbed a banquet arranged in their honour and retreated to the sanctuary of their two floors in the building.