>>>All right, football experts, here is your chance to shine! How do you see the rest of the World Cup playing out?
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>>>Just to get the ball rolling, and given that my original prediction of Brasil is already wrong, here are my picks.
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>>>Italy over Germany
>>>Portugal over France
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>>>Portugal over Italy
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>>Italy, Germany, Portugal & France all disqualified for match fixing and referee influence peddling. Holland wins 2006 World Cup by default :)
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>that would be funny! how come SA didn't qualify, i thought that you guys had a good football team.
>~M

The SA team is not so hot at the moment. They performed poorly in the African Cup as well. Cameroon and Nigeria also failed to qualify. Ghana deserved to go. They did well, good for them.