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    Stranger than fiction

    By Phil Ball

    Monday, April 28, 2008

    It goes to show you never can tell. Having predicted that Deportivo would go down this season after a wretched first twenty games and seventeen measly points, scrapping goalkeepers and an anonymous looking line-up, four months down the line they beat Barcelona to record their 32nd point from the 45 disputed since this column condemned them to the drop. Statistics proclaim them the best side of the second half of the season, still anonymous looking but a lot more effective. Xisco's beginn ...

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