When SuperSport came to town
Every 15 minutes, after the game had ended at Rufaro, Mukamba’s moment of magic was replayed, on the SuperSport Blitz channel that captures the highlights of the day, and – for a long run on Wednesday night and Thursday morning – Denver’s magical goal was being shown side-by-side with Andreas Iniesta’s wonder goal.
Joe Frazier, also known as Smokin’ Joe, became the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world on the day I was born, February 16, 1970, after Jimmy Ellis failed to come out for the fifth round at the Madison Square Garden on New York.
Having been battered with two fourth round knockdowns, Ellis’ trainer Angelo Dundee decided his fighter could not take any more and Smokin’ Joe, the boy who rose from grinding poverty in a huge family in South Carolina to become Olympic champion, was now the new world champion.
It was also the year Pele won his third, and final, World Cup crown with an immortal group of Brazilians – widely acknowledged as the finest collection of footballers brought together – with a stylish, if not humiliating, 4-1 thrashing of Italy in Mexico City.
That World Cup, the first to be shown in colour on television, dwarfed everything that happened in sport in 1970,
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