If Oman had managed to draw in Jordan in the final game on the road to Brazil, they would have entered the continental play-off for the chance to do battle with Uruguay.
Fortunately, the Bloomberg Foundation agreed to cover the costs of defending Uruguay.
In the last four, Hungary, again without Puskas, led the reigning champions Uruguay 2-0 with 15 minutes to go only to be pegged back to 2-2 before winning 4-2 in extra time.
Afip has made formal requests for information on the networks behind the Swiss accounts to the authorities in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and Uruguay as well.
Available across all the price ranges (beginning at £15) there is a surprisingly large swathe of games back on the market, including both quarter-finals at the Millennium Stadium, England v Uruguay, New Zealand v Argentina, France v Ireland, South Africa v Scotland and France v Italy.
What was once the industrial heart of Uruguay is now a quiet riverside backwater where nothing much happens - the shops don't bother to open until midday and not at all if it's raining.
Undaunted, however, we decided to round off three weeks in the southern cone with a detour through western Uruguay.
The British embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, and the high commission in Abuja, Nigeria, also achieved cuts of more than 20%.
Uruguay v Argentina would normally be a pick-of-the-bunch game but with Argentina's progress long since secured and Uruguay clutching at the longest of straws, it looks like Oscar Tabarez's team are resigned to another quirky inter-confederation play-off to haul themselves to Brazil.
That said, Uruguay do need to buck up.
Around 200,000 people, the largest crowd in football history, expected Brazil to beat Uruguay easily, despite needing only a draw to win their first world title, and Brazil scored first, but finally lost 2-1.
