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Sat 11 Nov 2009Time for Trap to endure white-knuckle ride

SIDELINE CUT: Football logic needs to be turned on its head tonight and again on Wednesday evening in Paris if our World Cup dreams are to be realised

THE FRENCH football team can be forgiven for believing that they will beat Ireland because they are the French football team. That is what the rest of the football world believes. Deep down, it is what everyone here fears.