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| Queens Park Rangers chairman Flavio Briatore warned against talk of imminent promotion to the Premier League next season despite announcing Thursday a fresh cash boost for the increasingly wealthy London club. |
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| A Swiss court ruled Wednesday that FIFA failed to properly oversee marketing payments worth hundreds of millions of dollars in a case that revealed how sports officials received large sums for arranging sponsorship and broadcast deals. The three-judge panel said FIFA was aware of the financial difficulties of its now defunct marketing partner, ISL/ISMM, months before the company went bankrupt in... |
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Rangers manager Walter Smith insists the financial aspect of European football must not overburden them as they seek to reach the Champions League group stages this season.
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| The long, strange trip is over for the Kansas City Wizards -- and it might have ended in a most appropriate way. |
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Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor has signed a new five-year contract. The Scotland international had been linked with a move away from Ibrox this summer but is now committed to the club until 2013. |
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Andy Webster has vowed to repay the faith shown in him by manager Walter Smith as he prepares to kick-start his Rangers career. |
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| The strains of "Que Viva Espana" rang out across central Madrid Thursday as around 10,000 Spanish fans celebrated their team's 3-0 defeat of Russia in Euro 2008, which they watched on giant outdoor screens. |
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Russia caused a major upset when they beat Netherlands 3-1 in extra time in Basel on Saturday to clinch the third Euro 2008 semi-final spot and send home the orange-clad army of Dutch fans who had lit up the tournament. |
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| Tens of thousands of orange-clad
Dutch fans came to party in Switzerland on Saturday but only one
was left celebrating at the end of a gripping Euro 2008
quarter-final between Netherlands and Russia.
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| Russia caused a major upset when they
beat Netherlands 3-1 in extra time in Basel on Saturday to
clinch the third Euro 2008 semi-final spot and send home the
orange-clad army of Dutch fans who had lit up the tournament.
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