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THE popular opinion going into the 2019 World Cup is that it will be the “most open” tournament there has been.
It has been repeated so often that, less than a week before the opening ceremony on Friday in Tokyo, it has almost become a pundit mantra.
In one sense it is a nonsense, because, of the 20 competing nations, only six have a realistic chance of becoming world champions.
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