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| | The Observer Sport Euro 2004: Special report |
 | | Football is the game of the poor, the game of the masses, which is why it is increasingly a game of colour: whites, after all, make up less than a fifth of the world's population. |
 | | Football offers a level playing field for the poor - and so, while Africa is denied in virtually every other field of human endeavour, in football it promises to be the nursery of some of the greatest players in the world. |
 | | Football's distinctive quality, its special brand of magic, is that it both reaffirms the global pecking order and at the same time subverts it. |
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