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While the rest of the country will be concerned only with the possibility of an England victory, there is one individual who will need somehow to remain mostly impartial during the huge World Cup clash against Senegal. 

As a seasoned TV anchor, however, Mark Pougatch is almost conditioned to put the story before patriotism and insists he will have little difficulty retaining some measure of decorum on Sunday night.

Instead the tub-thumping - or God forbid, breast-beating - will be left to Ian Wright and Gary Neville, his punditry colleagues inside the Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar.