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Sat 12 Dec 2009France handed plum draw
ANYONE WHO still clings to the notion that crime doesn’t pay might want to look away from their television sets on the evening of June 11th next year. That is when the French will kick-off their World Cup campaign against Uruguay in Cape Town after which there will be games against Mexico and, most significantly, South Africa, who are ranked 77 places below any of the other seeded countries in last night’s draw on Fifa’s world ladder.
Having been denied a seeding by dubious means earlier in the week, however, the French were effectively handed all the trappings of one in last night’s draw.
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