Trick or spice? How the ‘nutmeg’ came to dominate the soccer world

Circa 1790: plants used in commerce, including nutmeg, tea and cotton plants. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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You may know nutmeg as an item that lives in your spice cabinet. But did you know its colorful verb form?

“You get nutmegged on the pitch — it’s actually psychologically damaging,” Solomon Tesfaye, 33, said on a muggy spring Monday at a pickup soccer game at Randall Field in Washington, D.C.

He was referencing a killer

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