Brazil will return to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in February for a friendly against world champions Italy.
The game will be the fourth time the Brazilians have played at the 60,000 venue in London, having already faced Argentina, Portugal and Sweden there.
Brazil and Italy are due to face each other on 10 February.
Brazil have several Premier League-based [...]
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Jay Simpson Arsenal
LONDON: Arsenal unveiled the latest product from their seemingly endless production line of talent on Wednesday night when Jay Simpson, a 19-year Londoner started for the first time and scored twice.
Strike partner Carlos Vela - also 19 years old, the average age of the side - added a third as Arsenal cruised past [...]
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F-1 Champ Lewis Hamilton
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday but was denied the world championship by title rival Felipe Massa, who finished second.
McLaren’s Hamilton led throughout for a straightforward win but he remains just seven points ahead of Massa, taking the championship to a dramatic final race in Brazil next month. [...]
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Arsenal Abou Diaby
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will keep faith with his young players for Tuesday night’s Carling Cup fourth-round tie at home to Wigan.
Emmanuel Adebayor (ankle) and Robin van Persie (suspended) are not available at the Emirates Stadium while goalkeeper Manuel Almunia took a kick to the head against Manchester United at the weekend and [...]
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Written on November 10, 2008 | Posted in
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Nicklas Bendtner is confident Arsenal can beat Manchester United and prove their Barclays Premier league title chase is back on track.
The Gunners host the defending champions at the Emirates Stadium in Saturday’s early kick-off and need victory to prevent their season from unravelling.
“We’re very strong and we have played well against big teams this season. [...]
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PARIS: Newly crowned Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton made an moving revisit to the McLaren headquarters and promised the affectionate workforce that he would stay with the team.
The factory, 32 kilometers south of London, shaped the car he drove in Sunday’s nerve-shredding finale in Brazil and the 23-year-old Briton at home in it to [...]
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CHELSEA slumped to a 3-1 loss at AS Roma in the Champions League today, while Inter Milan and Liverpool needed late equalisers to avoid embarrassing defeats.
While Barcelona and Sporting Lisbon became the first teams to secure a place in the next round, Liverpool needed a penalty by Steven Gerrard in the fifth minute of injury time [...]
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At the age of 23 years 301 days Hamilton becomes Formula One’s youngest planet titleholder.
Becomes only the second driver to win the title in his second year, equaling a feat achieved by Jacques Villeneuve.
Hamilton is Britain’s ninth world champion, subsequent Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Sir Jackie
He is McLaren’s seventh world champion [...]
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Anand of India once again won the chess world championship. The final score was as below.
Game 1 - Draw
Game 2 - Draw
Game 3 - Anand wins!
Game 4 - Draw
Game 5 - Anand wins!
Game 6 - Anand wins!
Game 7 - Draw
Game 8 - Draw
Game 9 - Draw
Game 10 - Kramnik wins!
Game 11 - Draw => Anand [...]
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Football legend Diego Armando Maradona has been appointed as the new coach of the Argentina national team.
Maradona had been in a four-way tussle with Carlos Bianchi, Miguel Angel Russo and Sergio Batista to take over from Alfio Basile, who resigned a fortnight ago after a World Cup qualifying defeat to Chile.
Earlier on Tuesday evening there [...]
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Written on October 29, 2008 | Posted in
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Pakistan sacked national cricket coach Geoff Lawson on Friday, just 15 months after the former Australian paceman took up the position, the Pakistan Cricket Board said.
The move comes just three days after new PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said Lawson’s contract would not be renewed next April, but that he could not be dismissed immediately for [...]
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Pakistan star batsman Saleem Malik won his battle against the life ban imposed on him by Justice Qayum. The civil court of Lahore verdit in favour of Salim Malik, Now he can participate in cricket activities.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had requested the government after the World Cup 1999 to hold an enquiry against former [...]
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