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NNOOOOO! I come into work and find out that my gay TV husband and his TV wife are LEAVING POPWORLD! :(

DEFENSIVE NAIVETY COSTS ANGOLA DEAR

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Group D Initial Matches

Angola boss martinskidmore was left to rue his side's sloppy marking as their first Pop World Cup game ended in emphatic defeat to a rampant Iran. With the group stage only a third over there is still plenty of time for Angola to catch up to their other Group C rivals but the result confirms Iran as a team to watch: Angola could simply find no way past them, and at the other end Iran's controversial striker netted a brace to leave them sitting atop Group D. Commentators wondered, though, whether the Iranians had peaked too soon.

In the other Group D match a confident Mexico side had enough quality to beat Portugal, though it was a tight, tactical game with few chances at either end and Portugese manager thebopkids may well feel the result was unfair on his cosmopolitan team. The Mexicans meanwhile will be pleased with this bright start to the campaign and the forthcoming clash with Iran promises to be one of the games of the tournament so far.

(The initial reports are based on the first 8-10 votes. Vote here to influence the course of Group D.)

Friday Canon: Sugababes

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I can't deny it, consensus interests me: I like knowing what people like. I also like doing polls (never!!), so here's a new Poptimists 'thing', based on ILM's old POV (Pick only five) threads, which were fine but NOBODY EVER TABULATED THEM (and there wasn't a lot of discussion either).

(I would not have thought of this were it not for my getting drunk last night and forgetting to YSI the winner stays on tracks)

Here's the rules: from a list of an act's top 40 singles (UK), you pick your favourite five. No more than five, but you can pick less. That's it. What we get out of it - an idea of how the sample poptimists view the contours of a career, a list of top tracks to check out, and the opportunity to waste some of Friday afternoon talking about pop stars we like. HERE GOES:

( Sugapoll )