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 [Asian Football Business Review by Football Dynamics Asia] Real Madrid overtakes ManU as world richest... : "The report shows that Real Madrid have overtaken Manchester United as the world's biggest earning football club - that is not necessarily to say that they are more profitable, however, since the report makes no allowances for costs or expenditure," Richard Hunter of Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers said. For example, United have sold their replica shirt rights to Nike, and earn around £20 million annually from the deal without any manufacturing or distribution costs.

[ Hottest Pro Male Athletes News] Hot athlete news: Operation Slap Shot, Shaun... : After Cheek won the 500-meter Gold Medal yesterday, he announced that he would give his $25,000 bonus from the USOC to Right To Play, an organization that provides recreation programs to underprivileged children in 20 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.” Cheek, citing the “U.S. government’s finding of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan,” also said that he would ask his not only his sponsors, Nike and Oakley, but all of the Olympic sponsors to match his donation.” Cheek said that if he wins the 1,000-meter race on Saturday, he will donate that $25,000 as well.

 [NoHoldsBar] Best of NoHoldsBar in 2005: As you know, everything in Singapore has to be ranked, from schools to toilets. Therefore, I have pick out 10 of the best entries of 2005.

 [Redaffairs.blogspot.com] About Manchester United: In the main group of Saturday afternoon matches, the standout game is obviously at Old Trafford as third placed Manchester United host the much improved Tottenham Hotspur who are currently lying in a well-deserved second spot. United have been stuttering a lot recently due to a bloated injury list, now even longer due to the mid-week fracture of Welsh winger Ryan Giggs' cheekbone by a French elbow, and will be desperate for a victory over the new second best team in London.

 [Msn.foxsports.com] FOX Sports - England - End of an era at Manchester United?: Most of them would trade the irritation of the bourgeoise for the kind of Continental football Chelsea and Arsenal can now display. But at United, religion and a strong connection to a working-class base made the team the de facto team of protest.

[Newley.com] Newley Purnell » Blog Archive » More on Soccer and America: A star of the English soccer season now ending has been Norwich City’s main shareholder, Delia Smith, a celebrity cook, who made headlines by delivering an alcohol-assisted speech during a half-time interval urging fans to get behind the beloved team that she once rescued from the brink of bankruptcy. A more pertinent example for Manchester United fans is Chelsea’s devoted owner, Roman Abramovich, a Russian oil billionaire, who has spent a large chunk of his controversially gotten gains to assemble the team that easily won this season’s English Premiership title.

[Irishblogs.ie] Irish Blogs » Blog Archive » Why Are American Troops Just Like ...: Cole and Clichy are both out of Arsenal's home match against Chelsea on 18 December, although Cole will hope to return when the Gunners host Manchester United on 3 January."Gael Clichy had surgery on Wednesday night," Wenger told Arsenal's official website. "The only thing I can say at this stage is that the earliest it will be is three months,...

 [Blogcritics.org] Blogcritics.org: Manchester United 1 Chelsea 0: Thirty minutes in, United's combativeness pays off when a sweeping fluid cross park ball is swung back in from the left by Ronaldo and Darren Fletcher, of all people, sends a looping header over Cech and a despairing Chelsea captain John Terry into the top right hand corner of the Chelsea net and it's a GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL for United to take a deserved early lead. Now we'll see how good Chelsea really are at coming back from behind, as manager Jose Mourinho has been boasting recently.

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