Algeria eye revenge in first match against Austria since ‘shame of Gijón’

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H ow long do football grudges last? It has long been argued that Brazil never truly recovered from the Maracanazo, or, if they did, it took decades. The same might be said of the English football community and Diego’ Maradona’s “Hand of God”. In Algeria, the national wound was inflicted at the 1982 World Cup and has been universally referred to as “the Shame of Gijón”. Almost exactly 44 years later, a potential reckoning for that arrives when Algeria play Austria in their final group match, with