On a sticky midwestern night at Arrowhead Stadium, football history turned in on itself. Forty-four years after the "Disgrace of Gijón" - th

On a sticky midwestern night at Arrowhead Stadium, football history turned in on itself. Forty-four years after the "Disgrace of Gijón" - the suspicious 1-0 win by West Germany over Austria that eliminated Algeria from the 1982 World Cup - the Desert Foxes found themselves on the other side of a two-team pact. Only this time, there was nothing suspicious about it. This was a six-goal, breath-to-breath thriller that exhausted everyone who played in it and shattered everyone who watched from afar. Call it the "Missouri Compromise" - the Guardian’s Alexander Abnos did, and the name fits. Algeria and Austria...