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Champions League Round Up - 23 February 2006

... it looked as though 13/10 Juventus would come out victorious with goals from Pavel Nedved and David Trezeguet. However, Bremen were not discouraged and levelled through Tim Borowski with three minutes to go and found a stoppage time winner in Johan Micoud.

A free kick from Brazilian midfielder Juninho was enough to earn 9/5 Lyon an away victory against last seasons semi finalists PSV Eindoven.

European giants Bayern Munich and AC Milan could not be separated in Germany. Michael Ballack gave 13/10 favourites Bayern the lead but Andriy Shevchenko equalised from the penalty spot.

Finally, Inter Milan battled back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at Ajax. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Mauro Rosales gave 23/10 long-shots Ajax a dream start but Dejan Stankovic and Julio Cruz levelled for the Italians.more

FIFA World Cup 2006 england Glory - 1966 / 2006

...weetly from the right, Frank Lampard bulldozing through the middle and Mr Sven Goran Eriksson not doing his usual trick of messing with formations and pulling off players at the wrong moment. In fact, england hasnt had such a brilliant compilation of players in years; its whether they can gel at the right time and do what the england rugby lads did in 2003.

One thing is certain though and perhaps will never change; anyone and everyone faced with england, ups their game rate by a noticeable margin. It seems that everyone wants to beat the Auld Enemy; hardly surprising beings as the c...more

top 30 Politics Quotations

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1. "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
   -- Albert Einstein

2. "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
   -- Ambrose Bierce

3. "Man is by nature a political animal."
   -- Aristotle

4. "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
   -- Charles De Gaulle

5. "The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."
   -- Claude D. Pepper

6. "Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."
   -- Dalton Camp

7. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
   -- Ernest Benn

8. "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb ...more
   

   Star Footballers Eye Start Properties

   ...ke Cheshire or Surrey.

   Country Life, a rural set magazine, annually analyses prime country homes that are sold for more than 2m. But the point to notice is that 40% of such properties are bought by entrepreneurs, 20% by people employed in the service sector and 20% to professional footballers.

   The top end of the Cheshire property m...more
   

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