WEEKLY WHINE

Win and lose at the draw

You can't wait for the draw, can you? That's okay. Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger can't either. He has already drawn the groups for the 2006 Men's World Cup, even though the ceremony is on FRI 09 DEC 2005 – and the rules haven't even been announced yet.

But if it won't stop him, it won't stop us. Thanks to the brilliantly slow work of our Javascript coders, you can do the draw yourself! All you have to do is select whom you want to seed, decide how you want to arrange the pools, and then draw away. As a special bonus, you can send your results to us at , and if you are able to recreate the exact results of this week's draw, you'll win a great prize: the satisfaction of a job well done.

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