Or used as a beer mat, strung up with others as a bird-scarer or sent to a recycling scheme.

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The game went to extra-time - Steve McManaman hit the post, Paul Gascoigne came within the width of a beer mat of sliding home the winner and Sandor Puhl, the excellent Hungarian referee, even ruled out a Kuntz header.

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