article_snippet.sent: When Pele and Bobby Moore embraced, yielding perhaps the most famous of all images of sportsmanship on a football pitch, the final whistle had already blown.
article_snippet.sent: That was in 1970, at the end of a wonderfully hard-fought World Cup group match between England and Brazil, which the South Americans won 1-0.
article_snippet.sent: So loudly did the football world applaud such an exhibition of mutual respect between two giants of the game that all these decades later, the applause still resounds.
article_snippet.sent: That image of the applause is frequently flourished as a perfect example of what the game was, and is used to compare, unfavourably, with what the game has become.
article_snippet.sent: Bobby Moore famous hug with Pele in 1970 is often held up as the peak of sportsmanship .
article_snippet.sent: But was it really so different to that celebrated business in Guadalajara, Mexico, for which we don’t only continue to congratulate the England colossus and the Brazilian legend for their integrity and values, but also we, somehow, for knowing and loving the game when it still had a place for common decency?
article_snippet.sent: On Match of the Day 2, Danny Murphy agreed.
article_snippet.sent: Some of us might have wistfully fond memories of an age when English football was overwhelmingly populated by players from the British Isles, but us kid us if us think that the modern domestic game is divided by passports into those who give their all and those who don’t.