The gunners face their toughest test of the season so far. Sevilla has won a number of cups in the last couple of seasons and they will be ready for this after having won 2 home matches on the trot by 4-1 in the La Liga. I feel they are the biggest threat to Real [...]

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The Champions League is upon us and tommorrow Man Utd will face Portugese club Sporting Lisbon, the former club of Nani,Cristiano Ronaldo and Sir Alex Ferguson’s assistant Carlos Queiroz.
Head-to-heads
Sporting CP and Manchester United have met each other twice in European Cup football.
In the 1963-64 Cup Winners’ Cup, Sporting eliminated the Old Trafford club in [...]

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Ok. it’s a lame title for this post (taken from Will.I.Am’s “I got it from my mama” song) but all the rave right now is about Manchester City’s goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel who of course is the son of United great Peter Schmeichel.
Here’s a video of Peter in his fantastic years with Man Utd and amazingly [...]

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It’s such a pity that 30-year-old Mikael Silvestre has sustained a cruciate knee ligament injury in Saturday’s 1-0 win at Everton.Personally i’ve never rated him as a defender, he always seems to make mistakes at the back although he’s pretty good coming foward, what makes this news even worst is that United does not [...]

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Wayne Rooney was fit again and was rumored that he was going to play a part against his old club but Sir Alex didn’t risk it as there’s Sporting Lisbon and Chelsea coming up this week and futhermore he didn’t need to as Nemanja Vidic scored the winning goal for Man Utd.

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Bill Turianski contacted me some time back with a link to his site where he has spent 17 years hand/computer-drawing maps of sports leagues all around the world.
For example he has drawn a Map of La Liga clubs and you can view it here.
There’s a huge bunch of maps of other league and other [...]

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25-year old Brazilian midfielder Kakà, who earns €6.0m a year is top of the hill in Serie A’s rich list with Roma’s Francesco Totti a close 2nd (€5.5m), followed by 3 Inter players (Patrick Vieira, Adriano, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, all with €5.0m).

Check out the full list here.
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UEFA have launched an investigation into the conduct of Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who appeared to punch a Serbia player at the end of the countries’ 1-1 Euro 2008 qualifying draw.Scolari threw a punch at Ivica Dragutinovic amid chaotic scenes of confrontation after the final whistle, but did not appear to make strong [...]

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