The road petered out in an area with little valleys, ridges, hills, and peaks, but it was not the contours of the land that created the uneven surface but, rather, the layers of things that had been thrown away: everything that the consumerist city had used up and expelled so that it could immediately enjoy the pleasure of handling new things had ended up in this unprepossessing neighborhood.

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Your goal is a relatively flat surface, but don't worry if it's a little uneven it will be concealed inside, with the stuffing.

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Sutton had a great chance to put Motherwell two up but he sliced the ball 12 yards out after Clarkson's square ball bobbled on the uneven surface.

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But Konkola stadium itself looks like a relic from the 1950s, with rundown concrete bleachers and an uneven playing surface that left inspectors from world governing body, Fifa, distinctly unimpressed.

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