Lessons in geography etc.

Posted on April 17, 2009, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Newspapers.

guardianA Champions League football report said yesterday: “As Liverpool seized a two-goal lead inside 28 minutes, we were back in the remote moonscape of the Ataturk Olympic Stadium to the west of Turkey’s capital, an unlikely setting for a magical transformation” (Defiant Liverpool shine a light in the dark of sorrow, page 2 and 3, Sport). Magical indeed, as a reader noted, as Ankara is Turkey’s capital, not Istanbul where the stadium is. Link

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  • Hardrada

    Well, for what it's worth, the stadium is in fact to the west of Turkey's capital… maybe 300 miles or so, but maybe that's splitting hairs.

  • Hardrada

    Well, for what it's worth, the stadium is in fact to the west of Turkey's capital… maybe 300 miles or so, but maybe that's splitting hairs.

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