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PARTRIDGE: Well, it's going to be three weeks of non-stop action, and to help us along, and add a little bit of colour and fun to the proceedings, I've got with me a soccermeter. [He reveals a ludicrously complicated signpost affair, with swinging arms that point at matches painted on the studio floor] What's that, Alan? Well, I'll tell you - it's very simple. It's to explain the group system. Now first of all, all these long arms here, these long signposts, are the venues where the matches are being played. Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and so on. If you look at me from above, you can see that this is the group system. It's 14 groups, A B C D E F G H I J K L M and, er, N, and there are four rounds. There's round one, the red round, yellow round, blue round and red round again. That's my colour coding, not FIFA's, you won't find that with FIFA, just with me. So that's the basis of it, and as you can see they get progressively less - *fewer* - as they get towards the centre, the ultimate goal being the World Cup. All right, let's take an example. Okay, round one, owww [he catches his tie (and mike) on one of the signs], is Pasedena, it takes place at Pasadena between Chile and Paraguay, something like that, okay, and then through to round two, let's say it's San Francisco, not got much time here, San Francisco, and that goes through to Orlando, so let's take it round to Orlando there... [An overhead shot of Partridge fumbling with the signs, unable to find the one he wants] Just move those out of the way... where's San Francisco? I can't find San Francisco, where is it? There it is, right. San Francisco, played Orlando, and then we're through to round three, Los Angeles. [He can't find the correct sign] It's not written on that side. It should be, but it's bloomin' not. And then, whoever wins what, er, the, er, wins is through to the final, the World Cup. Who's that going to be? [He shrugs his shoulders]
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