Maracana Fraud
Blanke, Steven Michael Mr. Mitchell History as Fiction 11 May 2020 Maracana Fraud 5 June 1978 - London In all my time working for National Public Radio, I have not enjoyed any assignment greater than my time covering Great Britain. My time here has helped me rediscover my love of Great Britain and all of its intricacies, which I originally acquired in my high school years when my parents took a sabbatical and moved my brother and me to Britain with them for a semester. I have even been able to go to Stamford Bridge and watch Chelsea play for the first time in twenty years. It is a damn shame they don’t show football on television in America. A few days ago, I was in Southampton, I went to visit my old friend and high school headmaster, George Reader, at his home in Southampton. I am writing this story in my personal diary because it is not my story to tell to the public. It is a story that has been weighing on me, mainly because of my love of the game of football, but also...