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FRANK JOHNSON

LONDON—We realize here that one of the points on which Americans differ from the rest of the human race is that they are not interested in the World Cup. This will make the next World Cup, in four years’ time, the oddest in the competition’s history. Itistobe held in the United States. But one of the similarities between you and the rest of us is that we all like a good tune. And on BBC television a good time has dominated the World Cup.