Argentina Football League Renamed After Sunk Warship General Belgrano

Argentina has decided to rename its top flight football league after a warship sunk by the British Royal Navy during the Falklands conflict.

When the season begins on Friday the Primera Division will be known as the Crucero General Belgrano Primera Division, according to regional press sources.

The General Belgrano was controversially torpedoed, with the loss 323 men, by the submarine HMS Conqueror on 2 May 1982.

Margaret Thatcher's decision to sink the Argentinian ship provoked outrage in some quarters as it was outside the exclusion zone Britain had imposed around the island....