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Soccer-mad Swede makes his house a World Cup shrine

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man gripped by World Cup fever painted his whole house in the blue and yellow colours of the national flag while his wife was at work.
 
“I knew she would say no, so there was no point in asking her about it,” Janne Petterson said on Thursday.

“It was really fun to see her face when she got home.”

He decided to paint the two-storey building, in a suburb of Stockholm, as a tribute to the Swedish team and win a newspaper competition for tickets to the World Cup final.

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