"The hype surrounding this game doesn't surprise me. The memory of July 9 is still within all of us," Italy forward Alessandro Del Piero said, recalling the date last year when Italy beat France on penalties in the World Cup final.
Banned for accusing evil Italians of once bribing the referee in a match against his French Under-21 team, Raymond Domenech will watch Saturday's vital Italy-France Euro 2008 qualifier from the San Siro stands. A Uefa snoop will sit with him to make sure he doesn't take a feather out of Jose Mourinho's woolly hat and devise some surreptitious way of sending messages to his staff - but his absence may make no difference to France.
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