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Mon 09 Sep 2007Three wise men in need of a miracleIreland in crisis: Eddie O'Sullivan clings to the mantra that Ireland were drawn in the "pool of death" and that, well, it was always going to come down to the last game against Argentina. What's more, his employers and everybody else knew this.Oh well then, everything's just where we imagined it would be.