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    All hail the entertainers!

    By Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger

    Thursday, June 22, 2006

    As enjoyable as this World Cup is, there have been surprisingly many mysterious games. I have already expressed incredulity at the Polish approach to their encounter with Germany. It was a match Poland had to win, yet they seldom ventured beyond the halfway line and then, afterwards, babbled something about having put up a great fight - as if they had just braved Holland Mk. 1988 or a Maradona-led Argentina. Next up was Croatia versus Japan, with the Asians in desperate need of all three po ...

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