BRISBANE, Australia — It would have to rank among the more curious sights of all the stadiums in all the world: a tiny old cemetery, tucked behind a steepled little chapel, smack up against the modern, 52,500-seat, 21st-century Lang Park, or Suncorp Stadium, or Brisbane Stadium, or “The Cauldron” by nickname. It might even spawn failed attempts at jokes. That’s where the Broncos of rugby league bury their victims. Ha.
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It holds 21 gravestones, none signifying anyone who died after 1875. Lately they sat calmly, as they do, while the stadium filled night upon night for a World Cup of women’s soccer that qualified as landmark.