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...Meanwhile in American male major league sports, teams are actually getting younger for a variety of reasons. In other words, Benzema et al are outliers....
...How Chelsea and City broke the old elite’s grip on the Champions League final The Uefa Champions League, the pinnacle of European club football, is the trophy every player wants to win....
...“The European Super League thing is a farce,” Feng Xun, a 28 year old football addict in China told Scoreboard. “There is an industrial chain....
...More than 91 million people tuned in to watch Tom Brady win his seventh Super Bowl in the National Football League in February, in what will probably be the highest-rated broadcast of any kind in the US...
...What I love about English football are the historic rivalries: Liverpool v Manchester United, Arsenal v Tottenham and now, erm, Qatar v Saudi Arabia....
...Taking part in the tournament brings huge pride, says leading football commentator Hassan al-Mistikawi, because Egypt has had a lot of “bad luck” in trying to reach the World Cup....
...Council Abdullatif al-Zayani....
...Sturrock et al also finish high in the league relative to their clubs’ wage bills. Yet their overachievement mostly goes unnoticed. Beck and Moore currently don’t even have clubs....
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...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The pattern is similar elsewhere: in 1994 the Syrian Assaf al-Khalifa became the Russian Premier League's first player from outside the former Soviet Republics; last season there were 114....
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