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Sheva signs for Chelsea

 

Andriy Shevchenko sealed his £30million transfer to Chelsea on Tuesday night after flying into London to agree personal terms on the move from AC Milan. Meanwhile, Hernan Crespo could be set to go in the opposite direction after admitting he would welcome a move back to the San Siro from Stamford Bridge.

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the guy who i quoted was looking for a european team... and he happened to include poland in the list... i was just reminding him where poland is located...

 

i know my geography...

Pare, I hope your geography isn't as bad as I think ;). Poland is in Group A with Germany, Costa Rica and Ecuador.

 

<_<

 

and mourinho's next target... check this out... real madrid leftback roberto carlos...

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Sheva signs for Chelsea

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Man Utd bank £12m as Chelsea sign Mikel

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - English champions Chelsea have signed teenager John Obi Mikel after agreeing to pay £12 million ($22.4 million) to Manchester United who were also chasing the Nigerian midfielder.

 

The wealthy London club completed the deal on Saturday to end an 18-month battle over the talented player.

 

Chelsea said they would also pay Mikel's former club Lyn Oslo £4 million. Half of the payments to United and Lyn will be paid in a year's time.

 

Mikel's future has been uncertain since he said he wanted to play for Chelsea, with whom he trained in 2004, despite signing for United in April last year.

 

The Nigerian international, who had been due to join United in January from Lyn, said he had been put under pressure to sign for Alex Ferguson's side. For several weeks last year at the height of the dispute, Mikel went missing from Lyn.

 

United asked FIFA to invervene more than a year ago but soccer's world governing body said it would await results of legal proceedings in Norway.

 

Chelsea said the financial settlement put an end to the affair. The payments, they said, had been made solely to allow Mikel to resume his career and United would support them in any work permit application that was necessary.

 

Mikel joins a powerful Chelsea squad, strengthened in midfield by the signing of Germany captain Michael Ballack last month.

 

With England stawart Frank Lampard, France's experienced Claude Makelele and the powerful Michael Essien already in Chelsea's first-choice midfield, the 19-year-old will have to work hard to get a start.

 

Chelsea, bankrolled by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, have also signed Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko from AC Milan and 20-year-old Feyenoord forward Salomon Kalou in the last week.

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AUSSIE..AUSSIE..AUSSIE..OI!!!!..OI!!!..OI!!!!! :thumbsupsmiley:

 

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=104992

 

Dogged Australia hold Dutch to draw :boo:

 

Monday Jun 5 05:29 AEST

 

Australia showed the world how to stop the Netherlands at the forthcoming World Cup with a battling 1-1 draw on Sunday.

 

The Dutch took a first half lead through Manchester United forward Ruud van Nistelrooy but the Socceroos hit back after the break with Tim Cahill smashing home a rebound after Mark Viduka's penalty came back off the woodwork.

 

They even survived the 61st minute red card of Luke Wiltshire to continue to frustrate their talented opponents right to the final whistle.

 

Australia employed rough tactics, teetering on the limit of legality, to nullify the more seductive football produced by their opponents to gain a flattering result.

 

Australia's Dutch coach Guus Hiddink was delighted.

 

"What a great match, with a great physical level that proves our players are ready even if they were tiring at the end," he said.

 

"Tactically we have come up against one of the best teams in the world and we matched them.

"The progress we have made is amazing in several short months compared to the Australia of six months ago."

 

Marco van Basten's men went on the attack from the first whistle and were ahead after just nine minutes after Mark Schwarzer parried a centre from Dennis Ooijer straight to the former PSV Eindhoven player's feet.

 

The Netherlands remained in the ascendancy with Schwarzer troubled into keeping out efforts from Wesley Sneijder, Mark van Bommel and van Nistelrooy.

 

But that all changed after the break as Sneijder limped off and then Giovanni van Bronckhorst brought down Viduka to give the visitors a lifeline.

 

Viduka missed from 12 yards, as he had done in the successful World Cup play-off shoot-out against Uruguay in November, but thankfully Cahill was following up.

 

Soon after, Wiltshire was given his marching orders for assaulting van Nistelrooy and the injured party, along with attacking partners Robin van Persie of Arsenal and Chelsea's Arjen Robben, went close to snatching victory but found Schwarzer in inspired form and the Netherlands were forced to content themselves with a draw.

 

"Our performance was not perfect," moaned van Basten. "There are many things we need to improve, that's for sure.

 

"But at least we played very well, created a lot of chances."

 

Van Basten had no complaints about Australia's physical approach despite injuries to Sneijder, Phillip Cocu and van Bronckhorst.

 

"This was a match for men. It is more enriching to play in a match like this but unfortunately three of my players are now injured.

 

"I hope it is not too serious."

 

For Australia it was a morale-boosting result on the territory of FIFA's number three rated country, but that could not mask the gulf in class at times.

 

In the first half, Viduka cut a lonely figure up front on his own with midfielders unable to reach him quickly enough to offer support.

 

Australia could not match the speed of the Dutch wingers, nor the creativity of a midfield superbly marshalled by the excellent Sneijder.

 

But Schwarzer played a blinder and could have earned himself a start ahead of Zeljko Kalac in the June 9-July 9 showpiece.

 

The Netherlands have been paired with Argentina, Ivory Coast and Serbia and Montenegro in Group C while Australia face Brazil, Japan and Croatia in Group F.

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hindi 'tol.u can access the website from any location in the world.there are to versions of the website though. best to use the uk version instead of the int'l version to get full access.

hindi ata available sa lahat bro, check this out..

 

 

BBC website shows World Cup games

 

All of the BBC's 2006 World Cup matches will also be broadcast exclusively live on the BBC Sport website.

 

The service will be available to UK broadband users and will mirror terrestrial and interactive coverage.

 

In addition there will be four-minute highlight packages from every single game of the tournament on demand.

 

Head of Sport Roger Mosey said: "The World Cup on broadband is our biggest commitment yet to bringing people major events where and when they want them."

 

All of the BBC's group games will be covered live on the internet as well as all the subsequent games the BBC has in the knockout stages, including England's second round and quarter-final games, should they reach that stage.

 

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i followed unvwalkalone and subscribed to skycable for all the games (live and delayed)

you can even pass it through the VCR and record the games in case you can't stay up that late

it cost 6000 but for all 62 games that around 97/game. assuming i only watch half it's still cheaper than going to the bar or hotel...

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