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Jere Longman has an optimistic assessment of the Czech team this morning, suggesting that they are too old, too injured, and too defensively brittle. I confess that I've thought all those things over the past year, but I also fear that I could be dead wrong. The combination of Nedved and Rosicky will be the toughest part to handle.

Meanwhile, as John Nicholson reminds us, everyone's World Cup prep has sucked in some way.