Mallorca and Málaga occupy the top two places in the Liga after earning slender 1-0 wins
against Real Sociedad and Real Zaragoza respectively. Their stay at the summit may not last long as
a host of teams, including Barcelona, play later in the weekend, but both are enjoying an unbeaten
start to the season.
Like the hellish finale from one of Marko Marin's recurring nightmares, a
member of Sevilla's medical staff was subjected to the horrors of being struck by an empty water
bottle, chucked absent-mindedly at him by Pep Guardiola during Barca's 2-0 win at the Sanchez
Pijuan yesterday evening.
Cristiano Ronaldo struck his sixth Liga hat-trick of the season as Real Madrid came from behind
to beat ten-man Levante 4-2 and go ten points clear of Barcelona at the summit.
FC Barcelona were shocked 3-2 at Osasuna on Saturday, but Gustavo Cabral gave Levante an
unexpected fifth-minute lead it looked like Madrid would miss out on the opportunity to push their
lead into double digits.
Ajax catapulted themselves to the summit of the Eredivisie by tonking five unanswered goals past
NAC Breda at the weekend with Tulani Serero putting a rather spiffing finishing touch on a
five-touch passing move to score Ajax's fourth of the evening.
Whilst it has been widely reported that Ajax and Newcastle United have now agreed a fee for Toon
target, Vurnon Anita, allegedly around €8.5 million (around £6.7 million), There is still some
way to go. It has also been reported that Anita's next move (besides thrashing out personal terms)
will be to seek a summit [.
Last Wednesday Bradley Wiggins' big yellow Tour de France victory parade passed near to a town
synonymous with its greatest ever champion – Mourenx, site of the coming of age of the
indomitable Belgian, Eddy Merckx. From the moment his breakaway victory there on the 17th stage
of the 1969 Tour, people spoke in hushed tones about Merckx's achievement.
The nine year rise of Wimbledon Football Club from Division 4 to the English game's summit is a
story of such remarkableness that it's often forgotten just how much of a yo-yo club the Dons were
in the years immediately following their ascension to the Football League in 1977. Indeed, the
club's first two spells in the third tier lasted a single season each – they were relegated under
Dario Gradi in 1979-80 and then suffered the same fate in Dave Bassett's first season in charge in
1981-2.
It's the Monday morning after the nightmare weekend before and not only are we facing up to the
reality of no Champions League football, there is the gloating of West Ham supporters whose team
climbed the mighty summit of finishing third in division two and scraping into the top tier.
Inboxes across the country have actually been flooded with such gloaters from West Ham, Chelsea
and Arsenal and it has been a tough couple of days.
Newcastle held another transfer summit yesterday with Derek Llambias, Alan Pardew and Chief
Scout Graham Carr all in attendance. Cheick Tiote in action against Arsenal earlier in the season
With Chelsea surprisingly making the Champions League final last night, when they beat Barcelona in
the semi-finals, it could be that Newcastle don't know what competition they will be playing in
[.
Shakhtar Donetsk won the Ukrainian Premier League again earlier in the week, with a victory
over Oleksandria on the final day of the season putting them four points clear of Dynamo Kiev at
the summit. As is the convention with these kind of things, a couple of the Shakhtar players
drenched coach Mircea Lucescu with the nearest available liquid a couple of bottles of water
though, rather than enter into the spirit of the occasion, Lucescu stood there with a face like a
slapped backside, clearly baffled and angered by the whole ordeal.
Just a quickie to keep you abreast of the latest wranglings North o' the border, in so far as,
thanks to an outstanding tax bill of somewhere around the £49-million mark, Rangers have now
officially entered administration as of this afternoon meaning the club will be immediately docked
ten league points.
So, as well as Neven Subotic giving Arjen Robben the old 'Keown' treatment
after a spaffed penalty, it seems that Bayern Munich 'keeper Manuel Neuer was also subjected to a
bit of antagonisation during last night's clash at the Bundesliga summit - finding himself
engulfed in a banana blizzard at one point.
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Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that despite his confidence about guiding Manchester United to a
20th league title, goal difference remains a concern for him.
United's slender 1-0 win over Fulham at Old Trafford yesterday moved them three points clear of
Manchester City at the summit.
However, the second-place Citizens have scored 72 goals and conceded only 22, helping them get a
goal differential of +50, which is three better than United's +47 (74 goals scored to 27
conceded).
Arsenal overcame the APL's form side away from home, Spurs and the Baggies shared the summit of the
top-scorers podium and the bottom five sides are closer than ever. Sunderland slipped from the top
of the form table after losing ...
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Arsenal overcame the APL's form side away from home, Spurs and the Baggies shared the summit of the
top-scorers podium and the bottom five sides are closer than ever. Sunderland slipped from the top
of the form table after losing ...
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Whereas I'm pretty sure it would have still gone in on the other side of Joe Hart's goal, Darron
Gibson's heavily deflected winner against Man City last night saw his old club Manchester United go
level on points with their rivals at the summit of the Premier League pretty much making his goal
last night the best thing he ever did for United, indeed they were chanting his name 30 miles away
at Old Trafford when the news broke.
It's not been a good few days for Manchester United? Four days after slumping to a home defeat
against lowly old Blackburn, United found themselves on the end of a relative 3-0 tonking at the
Sports Direct North East Regional Distribution Centre which gave their title aspirations yet
another toe-punt in the undercarriage.
The flabby bull has finally, if only by the smallest of margins, been squeezed from the summit of
Serie B. After a run of 114 days as league leaders, Torino's second 1-1 draw with Cittadella was
enough to see Sassuolo claim top spot on goal-difference and il Toro pushed back into the pack. Â
It's taken brilliant consistency from the Neroverde and Verona and another blast of victories from
Pescara.
The Serie B seesaw has tipped and the slow descent to the end of the 2011/12 season has begun. Most
onlookers had Torino pegged as certain for automatic promotion if not the title after ten wins, two
draws and a solitary defeat cemented their position at the summit of the table. The superstitious
amongst us might gape at the beginning of their demise, after the thirteenth game, and puzzle over.
A fortnight ago, I wrote effusively of Oxford United's strong start to the season; Chris Wilder's
charges having reached the summit of the League 2 table with a win over Plymouth. But with Wilder
installed as the bookmakers' favourite for the vacant Coventry City job, York City having ended the
Us' unbeaten run last Saturday and Exeter City plundering a terrifically impressive 4-2 win at the
Kassam at the weekend, the situation is now less rosy for the Thames Valley Club.
David Beckham confirmed he will have a role in the opening ceremony of the Olympics
after he met sporting great Muhammad Ali at the Beyond Sport summit in London on Tuesday night (the
boxing legend's presence appeared to enhance the chances of the 70-year-old playing a part in
Friday's curtain-raiser at the Olympic Stadium).
When the whole Seattle Sounders Alliance was created it was clear that not everything was going
to happen immediately, but things have happened. There's some governing documents, non-supporters
are able to get designated tickets to Cascadia Away matches, we ran the Supporters Summit, there
are recognized supporters groups chosen by a fan organization rather than by members of the front
office and we're not done.
The Chicago Red Stars, led by Lori Chalupny, host the Boston Breakers today in a match between a
pair of undefeated WPSL Elite squads. The Breakers include US WNT midfielder Heather O'Reilly and
Kristine Lilly is an Assistant Coach.
Gametime is 5pm and the Red Stars are offering a live Webcast of the match.
The Juve legend might be moving to Canada and becoming a Quebecois. If that happens he will join
Marco Di Vaio, the former Bologna and Juve striker who became the Impact's first designated player.
The Gazzetto Dello Sport is reporting Del Piero is vacationing with Joey Saputo, the Impact owner
in Florida.
Grrr...we hate when we have to watermark pics like this, too. We're all suckers for a man with a
baby, but day-um, when it's a shirtless Fernando Torres on an Ibiza beach with two kids his son,
Leo, and daughter, Nora there is no higher (or hotter) 'ballers and bubbas summit. Honestly, could
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TweetLiverpool have sacked boss Kenny Dalglish after the Reds endured a miserable league campaign
despite winning the Carling Cup and reaching the FA Cup final. The shock news was broken on
Wednesday afternoon with the decision coming just two days after Liverpool owners John W. Henry and
Tom Werner held a showdown summit with Dalglish [.
Several weeks ago, a concerned season ticket holder for the New England Revolution spoke to me
about all the frustrations his fellow fans were having with the organization. This person was new
to the area and proud to support his team, but put off a bit by how out of sorts the fans were over
their treatment in past years.
As was announced in the notes of the Dark Clouds supporters summit, if you live within the Metro
Transit area you will be able to ride free to the Stars FC home opener at the Metrodome on April,
7. The Minnesota Stars FC announced officially today that they have partnered with Metro Transit
and all [.
An article from Cincinnati has this quote from one of the draftee's High School Coaches.
"Austin will probably go in the first, according to his interviews," said Summit coach Barnard
Baker. "I see him going to Portland, but there seems to be indications of a lot of trades, so that
is a guess on my part.
