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PLACEPOT PETE
THE thing with strategies, as Montgomery might have said after Al Alamein, is to tweak them from time to time, stick to the main points but throw in the odd surprise like, say, the Cruyff turn in football.
Apparently, the defender who first fell for it still leaps out of bed from time to time at night to search for the ball.
I can’t come up with that degree of magic for the Placepot, but ...

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