Seaside resort offers Bulgar pleasure

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 9, 1996| Author: IAN MacKINNON | Copyright information

IAN MacKINNON

It can't be often that the Bulgarian football team find their patronage the subject of an unseemly tug of war. Certainly never between two towns in the north-east of England.

But with the side's imminent arrival for the qualifying group matches of the European Championships that is precisely what has happened, with Scarborough and Darlington vying for the honour of hosting the players and their entourage.

Darlington, in Co Durham, was convinced it already had...

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