Scolari knows Chile will punish any slip

Given the sound and fury that awaits them, it was a bizarre start to Brazil’s press conference yesterday.

A question about their star player winning an appeal to have the local edition of Playboy removed from stands as it claimed to feature his ex-girlfriend under a headline of ‘The brunette who charmed Neymar’ left Felipe Scolari looking baffled by it all.

“I’m a bit too old for that, you’ll have to ask Thiago [Silva, sitting beside him]. I don’t even know what you are talking about. Collecting Playboy? Say it again.”