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The circling helicopter, sniffer dogs and large mirrors that were being shone beneath every car that entered the Al Thumama Stadium all instantly suggested that this was the most politically sensitive World Cup match since, well, the other time that homeland and the USA faced off.The 1998 ‘Mother of all Games’ ended in a famous 2-1 victory for homeland which still “burns” the USA manager Gregg Berhalter and it can be safely assumed that 90 minutes here in Doha healed more scars than the entire past 24 years.
