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Mon 02 Feb 2007Not what we were led to believe would happen . . .Hmmm . . . This was not what we were led to believe would happen, writes Tom Humphriesin Croke ParkCroke Park hummed to the calls of a different species of sports person and though Ireland heaved, consolidated and got it together at second phase, the result came from a more familiar lexicon. They lost.