Louis Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 England have been drawn against Brazil, Colombia, Qatar and South Korea in Group B of the Toulon Tournament. Group A has China, Chile, Portugal, Mexico and hosts France. It's for U20 age group teams and the matches are 80 minutes long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 80 minutes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted March 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 I don't know why, but yes. The British press used to hide the fact according to Martin Samuel. There was one drawback. The 40 minutes each way. News editors were already green with envy having sent you on what they perceived to be an all-expenses-paid beano in the south of France. If they then found out that this tournament didn’t even play the full 90 minutes, well, that was your lot. And this is where the covert operation came in. If the reporters were smart, nobody need ever know about the missing 10 minutes. Match reports became exercises in obfuscation. The first half was fine. Sentences began ‘in the fifth minute, in the 17th minute, in the 38th minute’, just the same. As the game neared the end, however, descriptions became more creative. A goal scored in the 75th minute, was always described vaguely as having occurred ‘with five minutes to go’, a goal in the 80th minute was a ‘last-minute winner’. Romey 1878 and markjazzbassist 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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