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Match Highlights – Manchester City vs Chelsea
The home team came to win and make the FA Cup quarterfinals. The away team? Maybe it believed that by having their manager speak more than anyone else they’ll somehow get by. Manchester City dominated this one from top to bottom, beating Chelsea 2-0.
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Mario Balotelli With the Most Important Goal for AC Milan This Season
The only way up since Clarence Seedorf took over as the manager of AC Milan, but it’s more than just his managerial skills that are going to save the season for this giant club, struggling in the middle of the table up to this point. Mario Balotelli hitting what might be the best goal this season in the Serie A falls under the definition of special.
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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Finding How to Make Steven Gerrard Useful Again
One of the best performances by Liverpool this season was their 5-0 win away against Spurs, which gave some indication that the club might be better off without Steven Gerrard playing. His return a few weeks later, and the team’s recent form, squashes that premise, although it did take some changes for Brendan Rodgers to make him important even without being the main set piece taker.
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Manchester United – David Moyes Continues to Misuse Juan Mata
An away draw at the Emirates isn’t a bad result, but given the wider context of Manchester United winning only twice in their last ten matches, of David Moyes not even being creative enough to make up new excuses and Juan Mata finding it difficult to understand why on earth would he be used as winger makes the result a lot worse than it would have been in previous years.
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Better Than the Cinnamon Challenge? Giving Someone a Birthday Cinnamon Bath
The Cinnamon challenge is passé. Giving someone a Cinnamon bath to celebrate his birthday. At least that’s how they do it in Denmark, as players of the Odense Boldklub gave Jeppe Hansen quite the treatment for this 25th birthday.
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Match Highlights – Fulham vs Liverpool
The atrocious defending and mistake making from Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure nearly cost Liverpool dearly, but a foolish slide from Sascha Riether gave Steven Gerrard a chance to win the match with a 90th minute penalty kick, as Fulham lead twice but eventually lost the match 3-2.
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Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Manchester United
For Arsenal it was about missing an opportunity to reach the top of the table, for Manchester United it was simply another match of disappointing ability and no win, as the two teams left everyone quite disappointed with the match and the 0-0 draw.
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Adidas Doesn’t Want Players Who Practice Scientology
The few people who do practice Scientology treat it as a religion, but it is considered a cult in many parts of the world, including Germany, which is why Adidas, a German sports clothing manufacturer, will cancel any sponsorship deal they have with a player if it turns out he has anything to do with the teachings and ideas of Ron L. Hubbard.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Breaks Records Every Time he Touches the Ball
Not the grandest of displays from Barcelona, but it doesn’t matter when you have someone like Lionel Messi on the team, who didn’t just help turn the match around and win it for his team, but also set a new record for goals for just one club in Spanish football, reaching 334 career goals for Barca, surpassing Telmo Zarra.
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Manchester United – Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie & Juan Mata Deserve a Better Manager
Who knows how many crosses Manchester United would have ended up with if the referee wouldn’t have blown his whistle? Setting new records aside, another disappointing result shows once more that David Moyes just isn’t the manager to get something special out of Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney and Juan Mata.