| | SI.com - Writers - For love of the game (cont.) - Friday December 16, 2005 1:41PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | On Wednesday, São Paulo -- a team full of stars that won the Intercontinental Cup twice here -- played the champions of Asia, the Saudi club Al Ittihad, and the stadium wasn't even half full. |
 | | It's hard to tell why on earth the two local sports papers, Nikkan Sports and Hochi Shimbun, prefer to print a whole page on motor-skiing and the arrival of a female golfer rather than the fact that all-star Liverpool is in Japan. |
 | | You can't find consistent coverage of this tournament on a daily basis -- some days a quarter of a page, some days nothing -- and no one seems to know why. |
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