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Showing posts with label Burnton Simon. Show all posts

20/06/2010

Click on the Link If You Don't Get the Joke

15 min: [...] I guess the players know that defeat means almost certain elimination at the group stage, and thus that a draw might suit both parties. I wonder if Algeria could play out a mutually convenient stalemate without dying of irony.

Simon Burnton, "World Cup 2010: Algeria v Slovenia - as it happened"