Thibaut Courtois Cleared To Play For Atleti Against Chelsea -
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Thibaut Courtois has been cleared to play in the Champions League Semifinal
for Atlético Madrid against Chelsea.
Courtois is on loan to Atleti from Chelsea and has been one of the best
goalkeepers of the tournament.
Courtois signed a five-year contract with Chelsea in 2011 chaussure
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Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay said the goalkeeper's eligibility to face
his parent club "was never in doubt".
He added: "Regarding the Uefa statement, we'll evaluate it over the next 24
to 48 hours. As far as we're concerned we complied with loan rules. He can play
against Chelsea - if selected."
Source Yankees Finalizing Deal With Rivera - RealGM Wiretap
The Yankees are finishing off a contract with Mariano Rivera and expect the
deal to be done by Friday, according to a baseball official.
The two sides have agreed on a one-year deal, and spent Thursday trying to
finalize the details of Rivera's salary and incentives.
The veteran reliever is expected to take a pay cut from the $15M he earned in
2012, and is likely to be guaranteed a salary in the neighborhood of $11-12M.
锘? In last week's column, I outlined the contact that ComeOnBoro's sister
site FansOnline.net had had with a company called Crimeproofing Ltd. who were
representing Leeds United with regard to copyright of the phrase 'Leeds
United'.
Unbelievably, said company have been contacting various publications
and attempting to ban them from using the offending phrase in their articles.
Click here to read all about it.
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successful resolution to this situation.
The editor of Leeds United
FansOnline drafted a letter which was sent to the club and to their credit, they
responded immediately and conceded that the approach was inappropriate and "over
the top". The complete response has been reproduced here.
And with that,
let's move on to the football.
The standout result of the weekend must be
Oldham Athletic's fantastic win on Saturday. Stop laughing at the back please.
It isn't right to mock the afflicted!! But yes, I do appreciate that it appears
that even at this early stage of the season, Leeds are destined for another
season outside of the top two flights. What a shame.
And it would appear that
up here on Teesside, we are very much on the up with what is our first opening
day win for eight years. We could have put much more than two past Spurs and it
looks as though last season's goal-shyness has all but vanished. This can only
bode well for the rest of the campaign.
It's too easy to get excited after
one good win. After all, nothing is decided in the first week of the season but
the feeling of optimism in the town is very evident and that can only help the
team.
Is Europe a distinct possibility? If we can take points at Anfield next
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Gareth Southgate
may well have 'arrived' as a manager now and the future is looking brighter than
it has for some time. But it is, of course, very early days yet...
When the
fixture list was announced back in June, the most obvious thing that was missing
was a mid-week fixture in between the first two Saturdays of the season. This
was a major disappointment as for many years, this fixture has been as much a
part of the English football season as a scandal at St James' Park.
And as
you are almost certainly well aware, the reason why there is no mid-week fixture
this week is because we are being inflicted with one of those god-awful
international schedules. Really, I ask you chaussures salomon
soldes , what on earth is the point?
I cannot name one person
within my circle of contacts who looks forward to or enjoys the international
breaks and to scrap the first mid-week fixture in favour of an England bore-fest
just beggars belief really.
I won't be following the England game at all. I
have withdrawn my support of the national team as I cannot deal with the fact
that we have an Italian managing us.
I find this situation preposterous,
unacceptable and completely out of order. As Gareth Southgate said last season,
the England team should be completely English, all the way down to the tea
lady.
What is the point of international football if a country's
representatives are from a different nation?
Oliver Hardy look-alike (and
act-alike) Brian Barwick stated that Capello is a "winner with a capital W".
Well, I think Barwick is a "wanker with a capital W" for making the appointment
in the first place.
Until the time comes when Capello goes home to his
tomatoes and Barwick (Hardy) steps down, I am pledging my allegiance to Scotland
the Brave. I will be supporting them wholeheartedly all the way to the 2010
World Cup Finals.
Talking of foreign places, I've always wanted to go to a
place called Megiddo. So in June salomon trail pas cher ,
that's exactly what I did.
The original and real name of Megiddo is
Armageddon and those of you who are familiar with the book of Revelations will
know that it is where the battle that will signify the beginning of the end of
the world is scheduled to begin. If you believe all that kind of stuff.
If
you are familiar with The Omen films, you will also know that The Seven Daggers
of Megiddo are the only thing that can kill the Anti-Christ, so this place has
always held a fascination for me.
So I hired a car and drove north for three
hours from my Tel Aviv base and reached the turn off from the highway.This put
me into the middle of nowhere. I got stopped by armed Israeli soldiers who
wanted to know why I wanted to go to Megiddo.
"Well I just do." said I. "It's
a very rock 'n' roll type of place."
They then proceeded to give me the
twenty questions routine that I had got at the airport (see last week's
column).
I.