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The Pop World Cup this week brings us a much-anticipated clash between Serbia and Iran, both minnows in the pop world but both managing to negotiate tricky groups and aiming here for a place in the quarter-finals against Trinidad. Serbia helped see off Holland and Argentina with the help of a shouty man, and Iran topped its group thanks to techno-diva DJ Maryam. This game sees both teams switch tactics for what promises to be a closely-fought match.

The tracks are currently available by right-clicking the links under the cut and saving the MP3s - if you click the links directly they won't work, sorry. They will be up on http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/popworldcup/ tonight though. Check the end of the post for the new voting deadline details!

( TEAMSHEETS )

So how will the match be decided?

( The rules...and THE POLL )

We're working to a new schedule this week - matches up on Monday (or Tuesday if it's a bank holiday), and results out on Friday - which means you have until NOON on FRIDAY to vote. There will be daily updates as to the score, tacked onto the end of other Poptimists posts most likely.

I need the tracks and talks for Ghana and Brazil by the end of this week, too.

The History Of Pop Part 37 aka The Panic The Vomit

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This seemed to take forever to type out - it marks probably some kind of personal nadir in terms of my enjoyment of pop, or at least the degree of attention I was paying it. But of course for some of you this may be an Elysian pop idyll, so it's over to you in the comments and I'll stop my grumbling.

White Town's "Your Woman" scored a pretty convincing win in the Now 36 poll, beating the Chemicals and Prodigy by around 6 votes. Well done Jyoti M.

And onwards into the vale of tears that was mid-1997...

( Keep planting to find out which one grows )

VOTEY VOTE.