Forty thousand people watched a ball that would not bounce, and the best passage of play came from a side that stopped trying to pass. It rained from the first minute. By the second half the centre circle was a puddle, and the only team that looked comfortable was the one that had trained that week on the patch of dirt behind the club. This week I go through the goal that decided it, talk to the groundsman who told me at ten in the morning it would be a draw, and make the case that the pitch deserves a place in the match report. Plus: your messages about the new kick-off times, a short note on the commentary booth’s worst chair, and the one tackle I still cannot decide about.

The fans who cross the country every other weekend, and what they told me about the club they love and the fixtures they don’t.

It started in Rosario and spread to the capital. A short history of the most copied idea of the year.

I found fourteen of them. Three play professionally, two coach and all of them remember the same cold morning.

He arrives at six, sets out the cones himself and has a theory about mate and stamina that he would like you to hear.

You sent 210 questions. I answered ten, including the one about the 3–0 I called with total confidence.