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Some more pre-match reading.
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The national anthems. It’s been a long month, and we’ve been down this road many times before, so just to mix it up a bit, here are the anthems of Italy and Spain being played on the bagpipes. Listen closely and you may also hear the bottom of a barrel being scraped at Guardian Towers.