Atletico have not won at the Bernabeu in 10 years. The last time October 30th, 1999 when Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink with his brace and Jose Mari won a now historic victory. Sergio Aguero was 11 years old.

Hasselbaink was virtually unstoppable and so was Joan Capdevila, now at Villareal.

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This coming Saturday is set to be best pre-season friendly (and fun day) ever, in my opinion. Not only do Bolton Wanderers take on Scottish Premier League side Hibernian Football Club at The Reebok Stadium but there is a 'Legends Match' too.

Bolton Wanderers verses Hibernian is being billed as Jussi Jaaskelainen's testimonial.

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Time for you all to feel sorry for footballers without a home for the new season!

Footballers rarely deserve sympathy in today's cash-drenched game.
Fans are fed up with hearing of players being paid six figures for a week's work, especially when that involves pulling on their boots for a few hours each day.

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We've read through the massive list collated by the BBC - and though some are rubbish (see Dean Keates), some are verging on genius (see Temuri Ketsbaia). And some are so rubbish they're genius (see Julian Speroni)... Here it is in full:

Robinho on the bus goes round and round."
Man City fans celebrate Robinho's shopping trip on the bus.

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Bolton Manager Gary Megson

In October 1999 Sam Allardyce breezed into his office at the Reebok Stadium to take over a club at the foot of the first division table. Amazingly, he guided Bolton Wanderers to the play-off semi finals the same season as well reaching both domestic cup finals.

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Roy Keane begins his Ipswich career with a bang. The Tractor Boys pulverized Cardiff, 3-0. It was the last league match at 99 year old Ninian Park before they move to the new Cardiff City Stadium in the summer.

Keane's team is an interesting mix of veterans like Ivan Campo and newbies like Connor Wickham who on 11 April 2009 became Ipswich Town's youngest player to debut.

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Notable arrivals: Danny Shittu (Watford), Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: Blerim Dzemaili (Torino, loan), Abdoulaye Meite (West Brom), El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. What grade do you give them for this transfer... Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Danny Shittu (Watford), Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: Blerim Dzemaili (Torino, loan), Abdoulaye Meite (West Brom), El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Midfielder heads out on loan Jussi wants his teammate. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Danny Shittu (Watford), Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: Abdoulaye Meite (West Brom), El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. £8 million bid said to have been rejected Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Danny Shittu (Watford), Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: Abdoulaye Meite (West Brom), El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Gary Megson would like to bring Fulham midfielder Jimmy Bullard to the Reebok... Click to continue reading...

Ipswich have confirmed their intentions to reach the Premier League this season by signing ex Real Madrid and Bolton midfielder Ivan Campo. He completes a free transfer to the club after leaving Bolton at the end of last season. Famous for his afro hair style campo notched up over 150 appearances in Bolton helping them to qualify for European qualification on several occasions. Click to continue reading...

BOLTON WANDERERS Notable arrivals: Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Possibility: Abdoulaye Meite (Hull City, West Brom) West Brom are done chasing after defender Abdoulaye Meite. I'm very. Click to continue reading...

For everyone outside of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Arsenal, success in the Premiership can be fickle. We saw it last year with Tottenham, who wound up an extremely disappointing 11th after two straight 5th-place finishes. We saw it last year with Reading, a club that was relegated a season after finishing comfortably in 8th place. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Possibility: Abdoulaye Meite (Hull City, West Brom) Gary Megson could look to replace departed striker El-Hadji Diouf with Israeli international. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Possibility: Abdoulaye Meite (Hull City, West Brom) Gary Megson could look to replace departed striker El-Hadji Diouf with Israeli international. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Possibility: Abdoulaye Meite (Hull City, West Brom) Gary Megson could look to replace departed striker El-Hadji Diouf with Israeli international. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Mustapha Riga (Levante), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: El Hadji Diouf (Sunderland), Ivan Campo. Possibility: Abdoulaye Meite (Hull City, West Brom) Another offer could be coming from West Brom for defender Abdoulaye Meite. The... Click to continue reading...

Fabrice Muamba
He's young. Only 20 years old and he's earned 7 caps for the England U21 squad in the last year. Fabrice Muamba is our new defensive midfielder and he can fill in right where Ivan Campo left off. Campo spent 6 seasons at the Reebok and he was a welcome sight for just about every Trotters supporter over the years, but he got older and he got slower.

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BOLTON WANDERERS Notable arrivals: Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: Ivan Campo. Possibility: Abdoulaye Meite (Hull City, West Brom) Still brewing: Dutch winger Mustapha Riga, Reading midfielder James Harper and former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse are the. Click to continue reading...

BOLTON Notable arrivals: Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham City), Johan Elmander (Toulouse) Notable departures: Ivan Campo Still brewing: While Megson has trimmed the fat with releases, he also doesn't look ready to stop shopping with Simon Vukcevic and Reading's James Harper. Outlook:... Click to continue reading...

By JAMES CLARKAn occasional Pardew's Guardian feature leading up to the August 16th kickoff ...1) Will Mark Noble fulfill his potential in the heart of West Ham's midfield? The local East Londoner (pictured above, top) is one of the gems of Tony Carr's famed Youth Academy, and Hammers supporters warm to him even more than most because he was born and bred as one of them. Click to continue reading...

By: Chris C
Soccer City FC
It's not an uncommon sight at all for the Bolton Faithful to be waiting and wondering what's going to happen next during the summer transfer window. With the transfer funds seemingly in a perpetual void and the better players being linked with moves to teams that have the cash to splash, most Trotters' fans typically spend their summers wondering who we'll lose next, or what virtually unknown player will be suiting up in the White Hot colours next year. Click to continue reading...

With rumors spreading all around England about who will be where next season, it's easy to get forget which deals have really happened. Premiership Talk breaks down a list of all of the league's confirmed transfers:
Arsenal
IN: Aaron Ramsey (Cardiff) - £5 million
OUT: Mathieu Flamini (AC Milan) - free
Jens Lehmann (Stuttgart) - free
Aston Villa
IN: None
OUT: Luke Moore (West Brom) - £3 million
Patrick Berger (Sparta Prague) - free
Blackburn Rovers
IN: None
OUT: None
Bolton Wanderers
IN: Patrice Muamba (Birmingham) - £5 million
Johan Elmander (Toulouse) - Undisclosed
OUT: Ivan Campo (Released)
Adranik Teymourian (Fulham) - free
Chelsea FC
IN: Jose Bosingwa (Porto) - £16. Click to continue reading...

There are many reasons why Bolton will be relegated this season. Firstly, they reside in the bottom three of the division so they'll have to better the results of Birmingham and Sunderland to stay in the division. Secondly, they seem woefully short of goals since Nicolas Anelka departed for Chelsea during January and finally, because [. Click to continue reading...

Come on, let's stop dragging this out. The UEFA Cup, last 32, first leg between Bolton Wanderers and Atletico Madrid might well be over with Bolton emerging as 1-0 winners but Ivan Campo is not ready to let it rest. Atletico striker Sergio Aguero was sent off for spitting at one of the referee's assistants [. Click to continue reading...

Bolton's Ivan Campo, formerly of that little known club Real Madrid, has warned his opponents at the Reebok stadium tonight - Atletico Madrid - that they will have to fight for every ball. Campo reckons that European dilettantes Atletico will try and stroke the ball around, and if they do they will be in [. Click to continue reading...

Bolton Wanderers confront Atletico Madrid in a UEFA Cup tie and while most football pundits would rate the Spanish giants much higher than they would the struggling Premiership minnows, Bolton's Ivan Campo is convinced that Bolton can create a shock upset against Atletico. Goal.com reports the former Real Madrid player telling AS: It will be special to [. Click to continue reading...