BISMILLAH! IRAN HOLD ON TO DUMP MEXICO OUT

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Group D Results

Ten-man Iran fought a fierce rearguard action to hold a lead against Mexico last night and emerge from Group D as winners. The Iranian bandwagon had looked in serious danger of faltering after a shock defeat to Portugal, and tensions were high before the match. Iran scored early but had their goalscorer sent off for a provocative celebration in front of the Mexico fans. When play eventually restarted Mexico laid siege to the Iranian goal but could not find a way through. Controversial boss dubdobdee will face Serbia and Montenegro in the next round, while Mexico gaffer Victor faces a long flight home.


A Mexico fan sits stunned after defeat to Iran.

The Mexican team were in despair after reports filtered through of Portugal's last-minute equaliser against a gutsy Angola side, a result which put the Iberians through on goals scored. The draw was no more than Portugal deserved - they were unfortunate to fall behind and controlled much of the game thanks to the dazzling skills of their US-born playmaker. Angola boss martinskidmore will chalk this one up to experience and certainly his boys enjoyed the World Cup party. thebopkids meanwhile will be planning his strategy against another African team, Cote D'Ivoire, in the round of 16.

Results In Full

IRAN - 124 points (Qualify as winners)
PORTUGAL - 119 points (Qualify)
MEXICO - 112 points
ANGOLA - 104 points

Pop World Cup - Updated Schedule

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Just to dispel any confusion as to who's playing when.

Feb 15th (ie TOMORROW!) - Group E (Czech Republic, Ghana, Italy, USA)
Feb 22nd - Group F (Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Japan) - this looks like Group Ov Death II to me, get those mindgames going!
March 1st - Group G (France, South Korea, Switzerland, Togo)
March 8th - Group H (Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tunisia, Ukraine)
March 15th - Germany vs England
March 22nd - NO MATCH cos I'm on holiday, results of G vs E will go up but not a new game.
March 30th - Cote D'Ivoire vs Portugal - on a Thursday not a Wednesday, cos I'm still on holiday on the Weds.
April 5th - Trinidad and Tobago vs Ecuador
April 12th - Iran vs Serbia and Montenegro

The Official Poptimists Valentines Day Consumer Guide

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If music be the food of love....is a CD a pie?

If you're thinking of snuggling up to a special person tonight then you will need an appropriate soundtrack. No, not Cat Power. Pop songwriters have turned to the topic of WUV for countless years so you'd think they'd have written some good songs about it by now. But which CD should you choose for the soundtrack to those 'beautiful moments'? LET'S SEE.

My science method: type "love" into the popular music bit of amazon.co.uk, examine bestselling compilations. Look at first track - on the basis that we decide if a mate is suitable within 3 picoseconds of meeting them (or something). Look at best and worst track. Look at most apallingly inappropriate track. ASSESS.

( The science results )

By this point the listings are filling up with My Chemical Romance albums (plus I need to get back to work) so we'll call it a day - what can we conclude? Mostly that love albums are generated by flinging a bunch of completely disparate stuff together and hoping bits of it stick. Also that there's no real idea as to whether the songs on such an album should be sad love songs, or happy love songs, or both - but who would require both? And finally, who actually buys these things? Not a lot of people, looking at sales rankings for all bar Acoustic Love, but the labels keep flinging them out anyway. Oh well.

And hey - happy V-Day everyone!

POP WORLD CUP - ATTENTION JAMES B!

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If you are James B ( or if you know James B) - your Czech Republic track and team talk are needed TONIGHT!! Thanks! Can you email freakytrigger@gmail.com or reply to this and let us know it's on its way?

(sorry for shouting)