Barcelona produced a sublime performance to beat Manchester United 3-1 in the Champions League final at Wembley. Goals from Pedro, Lionel Messi and David Villa punctuated a mesmeric team display as the Catalan side lifted club football’s biggest prize for the fourth time. Wayne Rooney fired a superb first-half equaliser for United, cancelling out Pedro’s [...]
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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The masterful Argentinian causes havoc and takes his first goal on an English pitch as Barcelona dispatch Manchester United 3-1. So, Lionel Messi has finally scored for Barcelona on an English pitch. And how typical that it should have been conjured out of nothing. The little man was 30 yards from goal when he picked [...]
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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Despite displaying the adventurousness of their forbears from 1968, Manchester United cannot resist the dizzying brilliance of Lionel Messi and his Barcelona team-mates. A measure of Barcelona’s brilliance is that many Manchester United supporters left Wembley feeling guilty pleasure. They applauded their own team as their players stepped through the rubble of this defeat but [...]
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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Arsène Wenger wants to sign Lille’s Ivory Coast striker Gervinho this summer but he faces competition from Liverpool. The Arsenal manager is a long-term admirer of Gervinho and he has placed him prominently on his list of targets. Wenger has said that “for the first time in a while, I will be very active” on [...]
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Sir Alex Ferguson has acted quickly to replace the outgoing Edwin van der Sar by smashing the British transfer record for a goalkeeper and agreeing the signing this summer of David de Gea from Atlético Madrid for a fee believed to be in the region of £17m.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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