At the other table, after the same first round of the auction, McAllister (North) prudently passed out three spades, a contract that went down two.
At the other table, after the same first round of bidding, with North's two-club response being natural and game-forcing, East overcalled two diamonds.
Afghanistan and Scotland are the other teams in the same first round group, with the top side joining South Africa, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka in Group B in the second round, starting next week.
Blues played Villa three times in that final season in the top flight, 2010-11, drawing both league games but also in between beating Villa 2-1 athehe same third round stage at St Andrew's, thanks to a late winner from striker Nikola Zigic.
All the players are finally back on the same second-round leader board.
Woods and McIlroy also signed for the same second-round score of 70.
Defending champion Real Madrid and A.C. Milan, winners of a combined 14 Champions League titles, were drawn into the same second-round group yesterday.
It is the fourth consecutive World Cup in which the teams have been drawn into the same first-round group.
He shot a two-under-par 70, the same first-round score he had when he won in 1997, 2001 and 2002.
According to the rules of the draw, neither Mexico nor Canada, the two other countries from the Concacaf region, could be in the same first-round group with the United States.
Even crazier, the Tampa Bay Lightning find their Greatest Team Ever status in jeopardy as they've fallen behind 0-2 thethe same Columbus Blue Jackets — okay, this one is better because of trade-deadline enhancements — that had the Capitals in the same first-round predicament last year.
