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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/24/sweden-jan-olsson-joan-cruyff-turn-holland-1974-world-cup Full-back played top-level football for 18 years but is best remembered for being left standing by Holland’s brilliant No14 at the 1974 World Cup by Press Association Jan Olsson, the Sweden defender fooled by Johan Cruyff’s brilliant dummy at the 1974 World Cup, has revealed how he and his team-mates exploded into laughter after witnessing the Dutch forward’s most famous skill. Cruyff’s mesmeric turn at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund has gone down in history as one of football’s most stunning moments as he feigned to go one way but twisted the other, leaving a befuddled Olsson staring into space. Cruyff died of cancer on Thursday, aged 68. The Group Three match finished 0-0 but the “Cruyff turn” would become a defining image of that Holland side, who lost to West Germany in the 1974 final and are considered one of the most exciting and inventive teams of all time. Ol...

https://www.amazon.it/FUGA-DAGLI-SCERIFFI-Saronni-ciclismo/dp/1087075408/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= IN FUGA DAGLI SCERIFFI Oltre Moser e Saronni: il ciclismo negli anni '80 Rainbow Sports Books by Herbie Sykes  I first met Simone Basso at the 1999 Giro d’Italia. He turned up wearing an old Système U jersey in deference to Laurent Fignon, and he saw Pantanismo for what it was. Simone, who seldom forgets anything, had forgotten more about cycling than I would ever know, and he alone refused to subscribe to this pandemic of catholic idiocy. This was the age of Epo and Pantani, brilliant climber or otherwise, had a very low natural haematocrit. He was an extremely good rider, but ultimately nought but a clown. He’d neither the intellect nor the emotional ballast to cope with the circus they were building around him, and how could he? A needy, cloying media, a delirious and deluded public in need of a sporting David, all those classical Ita...