With Franz Beckenbauer cast in the role of glamorous assistant, Sepp Blatter, secretary general of Fifa, revealed the first non-seeded country out of the bowl at the draw for the 1998 World Cup - Scotland. Into Pool A with Brazil they went - and on went the draw. Not much messing about in 1998. Looking at it now, in a time of endless preamble and an on-stage banterfest that would test the patience of a saint, they moved at breakneck speed back then.
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