If tensions were high before this crucial game at the bottom of the Dutch football league, the mascot doing the coin toss beforehand served to bring a little light-heartedness to the whole affair.

Even in the lengthiest English-language book about the history of Italian football — John Foot’s 600-page work entitled Calcio — there are only two sentences about Italy’s 1968 campaign ...

If tensions were high before this crucial game at the bottom of the Dutch football league, the mascot doing the coin toss beforehand served to bring a little light-heartedness to the whole affair.