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By Bantu Kivai
Kenya: A story is told of Bela Guttman, the coach of the all-conquering Portuguese football club Benfica of 1961 and 1962. When he asked for a pay rise from his seniors and was ungratefully rebuffed, he was so infuriated that he quit and reportedly delivered the (in)famous Guttman curse: “Not a hundred years from now will Benfica ever be European champions”.
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