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The Ring-master has returned to the circus. Florentino Perez, the man who both inspired and bank-rolled Real Madrid's infamous galácticos era, has returned to the Madrid presidency.
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Jens Lehmann has had an encouraging season between the Stuttgart sticks, keeping more clean sheets than anyone in the top-flight this term. The former Arsenal stopper shelved plans for his autobiography, “Warum eigentlich immer Mich?” (Why always me?) with sights set on regaining his German number one jersey before South Africa 2010 – part of the build-up to his 41st birthday celebrations.
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Champions League
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Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Two world class strikers, separated by just a single year in age, but rarely have two forwards been less alike in playing style.
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Champions League
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Seeing Anderson and Carrick being schooled by Spanish masters Xavi and Iniesta the other week got me thinking. It was an undoubtedly poor performance from United and man for man they simply didn’t match up to the Catalan giants.
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Champions League
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As the clock wandered towards midnight in Rome, fans of Manchester United and Barcelona wandered through darkened streets heading to coaches, trams and shuttle buses with highly differing thoughts. The Catalans were purring over the displays of the talismanic Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta and jovial about their unique achievement of clinching “the treble”, while supporters from the red half of Manchester contemplated on what might have been.
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