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1 week agoScotland braced for big, brash World Cup draw after long wait
With Franz Beckenbauer cast in the role of glamorous assistant, Sepp Blatter, secretary general of Fifa, revealed the first non-seeded country out of the bowl at the draw for the 1998 World Cup - Scotland. Into Pool A with Brazil they went - and on went the draw. Not much messing about in 1998. Looking at it now, in a time of endless preamble and an on-stage banterfest that would test the patience of a saint, they moved at breakneck speed back then.
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