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Tottenham Hotspur 5-0 AS Roma

AS Roma were convincingly defeated once again after a trip to England. They seem  to have learned no lessons after their 7-1 Champions League thrashing against Manchester United 2 years ago. Tottenham Hotspur  won 5-0 against the Italians from Roma, runners up in the 2007-08 season in Serie A.

 Spurs saw  top pre-season goalscorer Darren Bent score twice.  David Bentley had opened the scoring in the 4th minute and scored again just before  half time.  Lennon added another and completed a good day for  Spurs and their supporters.

Shame it wasn’t for real !

Check out the highlights below!

Newcastle 2-1 Valencia

Newcastle gained a late 2-1 win against Valencia in yesterday’s pre-season friendly played at  St. James’ Park. The visitors opened the score in the 38th minute. Damien Duff equalized for the Magpies in the 77th minute, while Milner scored the winning goal in the last moments of the match.

Check out the highlights below.

FC Porto 0-1 Celtic

Celtic beat FC Porto in Portugal with a late 88th minute goal scored by Jan Vennegoor . The Dutchman headed the ball into the net after a courageous jump.

Check out the highlights below.

Steaua Bucuresti 3-1 AS Roma

AS Roma started their pre-season friendly games with an away game against top Romanian  team, Steaua Bucharest. The Italians were beaten comfortably and were weak tactically.

Steaua,  scored three times against the runners up in the Serie A  last season.

Dayro Moreno  scored first in the 8th minute after chipping  Roma’s goalkeeper. Bogdan Stancu made it 2-0 in the 75th minute with a close range header after a corner kick  Adrian Neaga made it 3-0 for the Romanian side. A surprise this as on paper the Italians were a far stronger team.

Mirco Vucinic scored the consolation goal for AS Roma in injury time with a  long range free kick . Check out the goals below.

Ronaldo not going to Real Madrid ???

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon is now expecting Cristiano Ronaldo to stay at Manchester United next season.

The Spanish champions have spent the summer trying to sign Ronaldo, who has  admitted it is his ‘dream’ to play for Real.

Ronaldo has yet to announce his future and is due to havesurgery on an ankle , which could put him out of playing for at least six weeks.

United are determined to stop Real’s interest in Ronaldo and complained to Fifa earlier in the summer.

Calderon has frequenlty stated that he wanted to sign  Ronaldo, but has acknowledged United’s continuous statements that the 23-year-old is not for sale.

Still time

The Real supremo now seems to feel that the time may be past for a summer signing. 

“Ronaldo has said he would like to play here, that it is a dream, that he would be excited to come to Real Madrid, but it is a desire of the player which can not be carried out without Manchester’s agreement,” Calderon told Marca.

“Manchester has to want it. Once they decide to sell him and communicate this, we can say we are talking about a possible transfer. But as of today that is not happening.

“Theoretically we still have time, there are still two months left until the end of August if Manchester gets in touch with Real Madrid and makes an offer.”

Calderon also said that the most ‘probable outcome ‘as of today’ is that ‘Cristiano Ronaldo will continue to play for Manchester United next year’

Watch all Ronaldo’s 42 goals last season in the great ten minute video below.

Europan Football Championship 2008 Ten best goals.

A  Youtube compilation with what are considered to be the best 10 goals of  EURO 2008. In these highlights, Wesley Sneijder’s brilliant long range effort during the group stage match is the best goal of the European tournament.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is ranked second in the video with his beautifully struck long range shot against Greece. Another Dutch goal is third, as  Wesley Sneijder(again !) finished off a fluent Netherlands attack against Italy. Buffon is beaten by the shot.

The rest of the top 10 from number 4 down to 10 is: Nihat Kahveci (Turkey 3 - 2 Czech Republic), Michael Ballack (Austria 0 - 1 Germany), David Villa (Spain 4 - 1 Russia), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Poland 0 - 1 Germany), Semith Senturk (Turkey 1 - 1 Croatia), Lukas Podolsky (Germany 2 - 0 Poland).

Ronaldo’s move to Real Madrid rubbished by Manchester United

Cristiano Ronaldo is not going to Real Madrid say Manchester United on the   verge of the new football season.

Ronaldo is expected to undergo surgery on an ankle early next week after he was seen by a specialist on Friday and may miss the start of the new season. United, meanwhile, have been angered by a report on Friday claiming that the 23-year-old will sign for Real within a matter of days. A Manchester United representative  said: “It is utter nonsense and totally laughable. Cristiano Ronaldo is not for sale.”

Despite Ronaldo’s reported desire to move and a huge fee of around £70million being on offer, United  believe that selling the player would cause major disruption to the club.Apart from the effect on the team’s playing style and formation, it would also send a signal that United are  a lesser club than Real Madrid.

The Glazer family bought United because they viewed it as the biggest club in the world so they cannot afford to been seen as weaker than Real Madrid, one of their biggest European rivals.The message chief executive David Gill has given to the Glazers is that if they stand firm on Ronaldo and neither sell him nor give him another big new contract then it will strike a major blow against player-power and have long-term future benefits for the club.If they considered selling him, United manager Sir Alex Ferguson would argue that he would need all the £70million fee as transfer funds to replace his most valuable player.

Mea nwhile confirmation of Ronaldo’s operation comes after a specialist agreed with the views of medical staff from both United and the Portuguese FA that the ankle injury required surgery.He could be out for up to six weeks, and could be out for the start of the season.

Will he injury put real Madrid off signing Ronaldo- no way. As the best player in the world today Real Madrid want him and he wants to go there to realise his ambition to win the world player of the year award, something no one has done while playing in London.

 

Joey Barton of Newcastle United arrested

Joey Barton has been sentenced for assault after attacking a man  in May last year, in Liverpool. Newcastle’s player has already served  6 months in jail  for the attack. The judge has recently released the video footage of the attack filmed by CCTV. Watch the video of the attack below.
You can see how Newcastle’s player is beating a man during the night on the Liverpool streets.

Joey Barton has also recently admitted that he assaulted a former teammate while playing for Manchester City. Ousmane Dabo was also Barton’s victim, Joey himself admitting it after first claiming that he acted in self defense. A picture with the results of Barton’s attack on his former Manchester City teammate can be seen below. Barton was sentenced to 4 months suspended for the Dabo assault.

“You are constantly in the public eye. Being an idol brings with it responsibilities which you have to carry with you all the time” said, Judge Mushtaq Khokhar.

Spain 1 Germany 0: European Championship final

Germany were completely outplayed in the European Championship final of 2008 by a more exciting and skilful Spanish team. Torres put Spain ahead in the 33rd minute but there should have been at least 2 more as the Germans were rarely in the game.

Spain were deserved winners of the tournament and have installed themselves as one of the favourites for the World cup in 2010.

Congratulations Spain !

Germany their route to the final

Watch this great video with Germany’s goals en route to the European Football Championship final on June 29th in Basle,Switzerland.

Germany are the first side that qualified for the EURO 2008 final with a dramatic 3-2 semi-final win against Turkey.  Low’s squad gained 4 wins but also lost against Croatia in the group stages.It all started with a 2-0 win over Poland. The second match was a 1-2 defeat against the Group B winners, Croatia. The  1-0 win against Austria was decisive for qualifying to the quarter-finals.
Then a quarter-final 3-2 win against Portugal, the  favourites of the competition at that stage.

Then Turkey and now the final.

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