Argentina was accused last night of whipping up more tension over the Falkland Islands by naming its forthcoming football season after the General Belgrano.The country’s domestic league, which kicks off on Friday, will be known as the Crucero General Belgrano First Division.
In a further twist, the league’s winners will receive a trophy named in honour of an Argentine who murdered five Falklanders.
It will be called the Gaucho Rivero – after Antonio ‘El Gaucho’ Rivero, a Falklands resident who killed a group of British settlers in 1833.
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