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Champions League: Victory for Tito

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Milan, Italy – FC Barcelona won at San Siro in Milan after a superb match with five goals beautifully scored, the Catalans dedicating the victory to their Assistant Coach Tito Vilanova, currently hospitalized. Nearly 80,000 fans stood blown in Milan at the best match of the fall in the UEFA Champions League. Catalans have played [...]

Villas-Boas rues loss

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Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has rued his clubs luck, as the London side went down 2-1 to Bayer Leverkusen after an injury time goal by the Germans. The Londoners will now have to beat Valencia at Stamford Bridge in their final Group E game to progress to the next round of the UEFA Champions League. [...]

Rovers confirm contract revision for Kean

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  Struggling Blackburn Rovers have announced that they have made revisions to the contract of manager Steve Kean, as speculation intensifies that the under fire boss is all set to sign an improved contract with the club. Rovers sit second from the bottom in the Premier League with only one win this season, a surprise [...]

Blatter insists race row is over

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  Under fire FIFA president Sepp Blatter has insisted that the race row he caused is now over and he also reassured the media that he is fully committed to zero tolerance on racism. The 75 year old came under fire last week when he claimed that there was no more racism in soccer and [...]

Champions League, Group B: Lille Breathes Again

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Moscow, Russia – French champions managed a 2-0 win away at CSKA Moscow and returned in the fight for qualification in the knockout phase of the Champions League. Lille was going to the Russian capital, one in which the temperature fell seriously below zero, in order to play its last chance to qualify into the [...]

Champions League, Group A: The Magician Ribery

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Munich, Germany – The Frenchman showed an exceptional form in front of Villarreal, leading Bayern to the victory that ensures winning Group A. Bayern Munich shot two birds with one stone in the match at the Allianz Arena: rehabilitated after the defeat in the championship against Dortmund and booked the first place in the group [...]

QPR cruise past Stoke City for a brilliant win

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Stoke went ahead early on through Jon Walters, but Heidar Helguson equalised in the 22nd minute and Luke Young then struck at the end of a flowing move before the interval. Fit-again pair Matthew Etherington and skipper Shawcross were restored to the side, while Danny Higginbotham also made his first league start of the campaign. [...]

Everton cruise to a sweet win over Wolverhampton

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It must be recognized many more walked past disinterested, some of them muttering less than supportively about the protesters. In the battle for the hearts and minds of Everton Football Club, there may be no winner, just the debris of a divided fan base with different theories about how to achieve the same goal. If [...]

An action packed game but ends in a draw

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Blackburn had surprised the home defenders when Morten Gamst Pedersen seemed to take a corner to himself and charged towards the area before drilling a slow cross over for Hoilett to score. Everyone in the ground, including referee Andre Marriner, had assumed Yakubu had touched the ball before heading to the penalty area but replays [...]

West Brom defeat Bolton

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A testy game between two under-performing sides put pressure on the officials with Albion frustrated by the offside flag early on. Captain Gary Cahill led the Bolton players in their appeals to the assistant referee but any seeming wrong was redressed just minutes later when Thomas clumsily barged into Fabrice Muamba in front of goal. [...]

Deadlock draw for Sunderland and Fulham

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Fulham came close to scoring at the start and finish of the first half, Mousa Dembele skipping past two tackles only to shoot straight at Keiren Westwood, while Lee Cattermole cleared Dickson Etuhu’s header off the line in stoppage time. In the minutes between, Sunderland were the better side, although a lack of creativity in [...]

Arsenal in top form as they bear Norwich

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There is a calm assurance about the captain now he is fit and flying which this youthful Arsenal really need. Especially after the calamitous start yesterday when they could have been about 4-0 up but found themselves a goal down in the 18th minute thanks to some comedy defending from Per Mertesacker. Wenger has been [...]

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