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A groundbreaking defender and football’s best thinker

Franz Beckenbauer leads West Germany to second World Cup victory as captain and third as coach in 16 years – AP In the Monty Python sketch of The Philosophers’ Football Match, first published in 1972, two of history’s great thinkers go up against each other in a battle of wits. The Greeks – Aristotle, Epicurus,… Read More »