Best and worst of football fandom firmly on display this past week in Brazil

Chile's Union La Calera showed nothing but pure class in their Copa Sudamericana tie with Chapecoense. The passions that football engenders have a huge capacity to bring to the surface some of the best and the worst of the human being. The game can forge international friendships, and it can turn neighbours into enemies. Both sides of the balance sheet have been on show in Brazil in the past few days. On Sunday, a local cup final in Rio de Janeiro turned into an object lesson of the dangers of adults acting like children, and a warning of what can happen when teams see each other as enemies rather...

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