Vile and disturbing Sofia spectacle will live long in sporting infamy | Barney Ronay

England should take great credit for their response to a toxic atmosphere that led to two stoppages for racist chanting on a wretched night for football

Welcome to the new world. We came expecting a football match. What we got was a miserable occasion on a miserable night in a miserable stadium against miserable opposition played out to a miserable backdrop of recrimination and bad blood.

By the end this did not feel like a sporting event at all. It felt like an open sore, an affront to the basic idea of nations coming together to exchange flags, in a stadium transformed into a well of poison.

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