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I turned up at an english pub in st gallen (remember when they kncoked chelsea out of the uefa cup a few years ago?) 15 minutes before kickoff to find that their SKY was not working. Cue mad dash down autobahn to Paddy O Briens in Winterthur to watch the match. Everyone watching the match was for Liverpool and all were Swiss except me.

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Award for Agger Not for his perfect physique though Award

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LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - Entertainment company Mansion pulled out of 70 million-pound ($120.9 million) sponsorship talks with English premier league soccer club Manchester United on Monday. In a statement Mansion said that United, one of the world's richest soccer clubs, had told it at the weekend that another company had been simultaneously agreeing a deal with the club. "We are very disappointed at the manner in which Manchester United has concluded these contract negotiations and are very surprised that the discussions were terminated at this late stage, in what we consider to be an unprofessional manner," Mansion's chief operating officer David Kinsman said. There was no immediate comment from United. Mansion runs an international casino, sports exchange and sports book business and said the deal with United would have been worth 65-70 million pounds over four years.

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its the latest way for clubs to make more money, simple as that why should impoverished national associations in Africa - and the FAI - compensate super-rich European clubs for players, thus slashing whatever player development budgets they have thus denying other promising players in their countries the chance to become top players and hence play for European clubs in the future

From this Guardian article http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1733713,00.html Drawing on viewing figures from the Euro 2004, the last such tournament Uefa organised, and comparative ratings from the same year's Champions League final, the governing body's director of communications William Gaillard stated that twice as many neutral fans had watched the European Championship final. Indeed, the Euro 2004 final between the hosts Portugal and eventual winners Greece was that year's biggest sporting draw for TV viewers despite it also being one in which the summer Olympic Games were held. It is the broadcast market, tapped through central agreements, that has been the biggest revenue generator for the tournament's organisers.

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UEFA still makes too much money out of the CL when it should be going to the clubs that make the competition what it is. B******s As it is all 32 clubs get 75 per cent of the Champions League revenue with 25 per cent going to develop the game at lower levels If G14 get all the money from their Champions league, this will only see more money going only to clubs and largely out of the game and to players and agents Also G14 want to dictate the competition rules so that their teams paly more matches to make more matches. That means more meaningless matches like the oh so exciting former second group stage

you can see why he got those injuries as he always goes in hard. and you're right, credit to him for never flinching a tackle now

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I actually commissioned this piece a few years ago. Derby must be gutted http://www.uefa.com/magazine/News/Kind=512/newsId=37975.html

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if we're starting champions manager speculation, then i'll put in my tuppence worth for Yakubu

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We all dream of this elusive 30-goal a season out and out striker but what worries me is that this is not Rafa's style. He likes players like Moro and Crouch who hold up the ball and link the play and play for the team. Is Rafa prepared to go back to the drawing board, abandon the "recreating Valencia" vision and adopt a more conventional attacking approach?

Benfica warming up with Ordinary Boys Boys will be Boys palying on the tannoy Petit is a huge miss for Benfica

On the other side, Benfica are missing Petit, by far their best midfielder, who picked up an injury in training yesterday Huge blow for them

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he has been the same for ireland too but was back to his best in the green last week against Sweden. He's stifled by Chelsea's tactics