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Real Madrid 1-0 Racing SantanderReal Madrid continued their fine start to the Primera Division season with a steady if unspectacular home win over Racing Santander.Gonzalo Higuain scored the only goal of the game in the 22nd minute as Real made it 28 points from a possible 33 from their 11 games so far. It was not the most (Read More)
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Halfway through a 50-year project to raise football's profile in America – and on the day David Beckham plays in the MLS Cup final – the men in charge are delightedThe American investors who are investing abroad should invest here." So said Sepp Blatter last summer when the Fifa president visited the United States and saw t (Read More)
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Athletic Bilbao 1-1 BarcelonaBarcelona will head into El Clasico next weekend in second place in the Primera Division after being held to a draw at Athletic Bilbao.Pep Guardiola's side kicked off the clash at San Mames having relinquished top spot to Real Madrid, who beat Racing Santander 1-0. The Spanish and European champ (Read More)
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After an uneventful opening, things are hotting up in the Champions Leaguethe name Aleksandr Ryazantsev does not ring too many bells. In case you need a clue, he was the man who scored the most astonishing of all the goals in the Champions League so far this season. It came in the Camp Nou, 75 seconds into a match Barcelona (Read More)
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Thierry Henry's handball against Ireland capped a miserable sporting year of shameless cheatingIt was another Frenchman, Jean‑Paul Sartre, who cooked up the phrase "by any means necessary" as a war cry to eradicate class in Gallic society. Then along came Thierry Henry to invert its purpose as the strong stamped on the weak (Read More)
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African version of Spitting Image has delighted big audiences by ridiculing corrupt politiciansA rapping president describes himself as "a real bad dude"; a prime minister and vice-president fight over lavatories; and a set of parliamentarians suffer from a brain disease called "corruptophaelia".Welcome to Kenya, as seen an (Read More)
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When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for everIt might count as one of the most remarkable writing collaborations in the history of publishing. A man and a woman, a couple, (Read More)
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My four-year-old says he wants to be baptised, but my ex-husband feels he's too young to decide. Should I nip this in the bud or embrace our son's spirituality?The dilemma When our sons were born, my ex and I decided to allow them to choose to be baptised (or not) when they were older. I was raised a Catholic while my ex wa (Read More)
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She's funny, she's had a boob job and she's just written a book that could see her thrown out of her church. But, as Elna Baker tells Louise France, it's too late nowIf I told you that Elna Baker had written a frank and self-deprecating memoir about dating which is unlike any other frank and self-deprecating memoir about d (Read More)
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She's funny, she's had a boob job and she's just written a book that could see her thrown out of her church. But, as Elna Baker tells Louise France, it's too late nowIf I told you that Elna Baker had written a frank and self-deprecating memoir about dating which is unlike any other frank and self-deprecating memoir about d (Read More)
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Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint julepsThe man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of the way; the receptionist croons Someone to Watch Over Me as I check in, and in one of the city's e (Read More)
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• Los Angeles Galaxy to face Real Salt Lake• Midfielder's right ankle hampered by bone bruiseDavid Beckham will have a painkilling injection in order to be fit for Sunday's MLS Cup final, the Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder said tonight. Beckham, 34, has been struggling with a bruised bone in his right ankle during the Galaxy (Read More)
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• Carlo Ancelotti says Kakuta is best teenager he's seen• Ban for allegedly breaking transfer rules lifted by FifaCarlo Ancelotti may today hand a Premier League debut to the best teenage footballer he has ever seen, a player who until now has been synonymous only with controversy. A spate of injuries to established regular (Read More)