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I predict a riotNow this may come as a surprise to some, but I have always been something of a football fan (note to US readers - the kind with the round ball). Ever since my own days as a nimble inside right in the all-conquering St Bride's Academy under-16 team I have had a fondness for the game, whether it be occasional participation in a veterans' match or drunken revelling with my Catalan cousins in celebration of Chelsea's likely demise at the hands of Barcelona. So I was more than interested to read in my latest copy of Eurex Xpand newsletter (I hide it inside a gentlemen's pictorial on the train to work) that the exchange is rewarding participants in the Buxl future of which it is so proud with the opportunity to win tickets to the forthcoming World Cup in Germany. Again for my American...