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“currently in the process of being extended to 15,000 through the addition of two new stands”
“CARLOS TEVEZ celebrated the completion of his £25.5m move to Manchester City yesterday”
“As the sports writer Jim White put it, “The average Premiership footballer is about as charitable as Italy’s defence.” What has changed since then? Only that the salaries of the real cream of football’s Premier League have risen from £20,0…”
“Salt Lake City, Utah as the chosen host city for the 2002 winter lympics.”
“Of the 15,000 permanent seats, which the expanded stadium will ultimately hold, some 6,000 will be under cover”
“The Argentina international joined a rare bread of players to cross the Manchester divide after rejecting United’s offer to upgrade his loan deal to a permanent move in favour of a five-year contract with City.”
“And it is thought that when David Beckham and other Manchester United stars start their next round of contract negotiations, their target may be £100,000 a week”
“The use of a further 10,000 temporary seating places can then increase the maximum capacity to 25,000 seats when needed”
“The fact that I am not staying at United is not because of the fans, it is because Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill did not do enough to keep me there”
“Or is it? That £10m a year will probably last only a decade at best – and probably somewhat le”
“The two new stands have to be delivered by 18 June for a one day international between England and Australia on 22 June”
“I was there for two years and Sir Alex never called or sent any text messages in that time.”
“crowds of 80,000 under its retractable roof”
“The stadium expansion allows the Rose Bowl to become a Category A status stadium, one fit for hosting England Test match and one day internationals.”
“Adebayor’s signing would take City’s summer spending to £80m following the captures of Tevez, Gareth Barry and Roque Santa Cruz – the kind of business which convinces Tevez that he made the right move in opting for City. [...] Adebayor, wh…”
“53,000 deliriously happy”
“Jerome Valcke said only 40,000 tickets have been sold in countries in the continent outside of South Africa.”
“Adebayor’s signing would take City’s summer spending to £80m following the captures of Tevez, Gareth Barry and Roque Santa Cruz”
“50 per cent greater capacity than the old Arms Park”
“Over 2.5 million tickets have been sold out of 3 million available for the World Cup, which begins in three weeks.”
“There has been discussions between ourselves and Arsenal,” Hughes said. “It is not the right time or place to discuss it but yes, there has been contact and possibly there is a deal to be done. It has not been concluded as we speak.”
“crowd of 60,000 that watched Wales defeat Samoa (50-6)”
“While tickets in South Africa were offered at a lower price, fans in other African countries had to pay the standard amount - with the cheapest costing $80 (£54).”
“City are also expected to launch an estimated £40m bid for Chelsea captain John Terry this week”
“Over the past decade, the ten-second barrier in the 100m has been broken 200 times – but not once by a white athlete.”
“Taking place from 1 to 3 October at the Celtic Manor Resort, the eyes of the golfing world will be on Newport.”
“Real have shelled out around £200m this summer and plan to spend more”
“Kalenjin athletes have won more than 70 per cent of Kenya’s Olympic medals at running events”
“With sell-out crowds of 45,000 expected on each of the three days of the tournament, and thousands more on the preceding three practice days, Mr Shore agrees that it will give Newport and Wales a substantial economic boost.”
“City, backed by Sheikh Mansour, reportedly offered Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o wages of £250,000 per week”
“and all but one of all Kenyan-held world records.”
“Wound up in 1989 due to financial turmoil, and exiled from the Football League ever since, last season it was promoted back to the Blue Square Premier, just one division away from stepping back up from non-league football.”
“Benitez blames such extravagance for creating an inflated market in which he was forced to pay over the odds for £18m Portsmouth right-back Glen Johnson”
“The top 60 times in the 3,000m steeplechase were all set by Kenyan athletes”
“With sell-out crowds of 45,000 expected on each of the three days of the tournament”
“City snared long-time Benitez target Gareth Barry earlier in the summer”
“who also hold more than half the top times at 5,000m and 10,000m.”
“and thousands more on the preceding three practice days”
“I don’t think Alonso or Mascherano will go. Alonso came from Real Sociedad and nobody had heard of him outside Spain, he did well and we renewed his contract because of that,” said Benitez. “Mascherano came from West Ham where he had not b…”
“The American Basketball Association is 80 per cent black”
“Across Wales' approximately 200 golf courses”
“Alonso came from Real Sociedad and nobody had heard of him outside Spain, he did well and we renewed his contract because of that... Mascherano came from West Ham where he had not been doing well”
“60 per cent of American footballers are black.”
“last season it was promoted back to the Blue Square Premier”
“Wilkinson, 30, was recalled to England’s elite 32-man squad on Tuesday for the forthcoming autumn internationals.”
“France won the football World Cup of 1998 and Euro 2000 with teams in which more than a third of the players were black.”
“His most recent film is Offside, which won the 2006 Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear award”
“Coach Martin Johnson feared a backlash, however, as Wilkinson was ordered to meet up with the squad on August 9-14 – clashing with the start of Toulon’s Top-14 campaign.”
“60 per cent of American footballers are black”
“Fifa has said it will not comment on any specific or potential threats to the World Cup.”
“Wilkinson was ordered to meet up with the squad on August 9-14 – clashing with the start of Toulon’s Top-14 campaign. But bosses of the French club insist they will allow the World Cup-winning fly-half, who signed a two-year deal at the cl…”
“129th Open Golf Championship”
“As part of its drive to build a more solid base around the women's game, this spring Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) launched a search for a sponsor for its National Women's Cricket Team. The idea was that cricket "can be strengthened and the game…”
“Wilkinson has not played a competitive match since dislocating his shoulder playing for Newcastle back in October, but Boudjellal is happy to delay his eagerly-awaited debut.”
“Today it has seven”
“"Some of the funds that are freed will be invested in bringing international teams, coaches and trainers to Sri Lanka so that our female players can have the facilities and opportunities to be competitive on the world stage," the sponsor d…”
“Wilkinson joins Riki Flutey as the only France-based players in elite performance squad.”
“one of which comprises nine holes”
“"I hope that ICC would increase the number of international matches we play as we do not have the facilities of countries like Australia and New Zealand," she says.”
“The striker, who made his name on the world stage with a stunning goal against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup, is almost certain to be recruited on a “pay-as-you-play” deal, due to his recent fitness difficulties. The diminutive forward w…”
“The Kingdom of Fife has a total of 42 golf courses.”
“"India, for example, have played new Zealand before [the tournament], but the last time we met New Zealand was the Twenty20 World Cup in England last year," she points out.”
“Owen, whose career has been blighted by injury of late, is a free agent after his contract with Newcastle United ended on Tuesday”
“36-hole golf course”
“Sri Lanka's women lost against India and New Zealand in the preliminary round after securing a nail biting one-run win over regional rival Pakistan at this year's ICC Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean.”
“Two of last year’s promoted clubs, Stoke and Hull, have gone public with their intention to sign Owen”
“Some 42,000 rounds can be played on the Old Course annually”
“"The ICC actually offered teams ranked 5-10 [which includes Sri Lanka] invitations to compete at the Women's Cricket Challenge in Dubai in October 2010, but Sri Lanka was the only team to turn the offer down," ICC communications officer Ja…”
“the void at Old Trafford left by the departures of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid and Carlos Tevez”
“The ICC actually offered teams ranked 5-10 [which includes Sri Lanka] invitations to compete at the Women's Cricket Challenge in Dubai in October 2010, but Sri Lanka was the only team to turn the offer down," ICC communications officer Jam…”
“Based on this statistic alone, I’m happy to back whatever leads the market come race time. Based on previous stats the favourite is the most likely winner in the Coral Distaff. The stats say that 44 per cent of favourites win non-handicap …”
“"Internationals sponsors, advertisers and broadcasters are mainly interested in the Indian team," he points out.”
“National women's coach, Harsha de Silva, says the women's squad is offered more opportunities and facilities since the team were taken under the management of SLC nearly a year ago.”
“"Yes of course there is still a disparity compared to the men's national team but the things are gradually being improved," he says.”
“Playing on home ground has given host nations six wins out of 18 contests”
“PWC says Cameroon and Nigeria should do relatively well this year, and the host nation, South Africa, should do much better than its Fifaranking of 90th suggests.”
“The tournament, in South Africa, features 32 teams.”
“England's first World Cup game against the United States kicks off in South Africa on 12 June, after the final strike has ended.”
“The awarding of both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be decided by Fifa's executive committee in the Swiss city of Zurich in December.”
“after what would be 28 years since they hosted it in 1994”
“Japan and South Korea have submitted single bids after jointly hosting the event in 2002.”
“Mr Norman himself spent more than 300 weeks as the world's number one golfer in his heyday in the 1980s and early 1990s.”
“The authorities are particularly active to build up golf now that it is an Olympic sport... he says that the Chinese authorities envisage a total of 30 million players by 2020.”
“The tournament, in South Africa, features 32 teams. It starts on 11 June, with the final match played on 11 July.”
“The German government's official report into the way it organised the 2006 event reveals that as many as 170,000 foreigners were given permits to work in the country as part of the competition.”
“The Brazilian government, already awarded the 2014 World Cup, has just agreed that Fifa and its partners can be exempt from taxes on any goods and services related to the tournament for five years; from January 2011 until the end of 2015.”
“The final round of stoppages is planned for 5-9 June - just days before the football World Cup in South Africa.”
“Football fans planning to fly out to the World Cup in South Africa could also be affected, with the last of the five-day stoppages beginning on the first weekend of the tournament.”
“However England's first game against the United States kicks off on 12 June, after the final strike has ended.”
“Only last month, the eight-year ban from European competition imposed by Uefa on Macedonian club FK Pobeda for match-fixing was upheld.”
“Eight of the team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, were accused of taking money from gamblers to throw the World Series.”
“Riverside needs to be developed out to a 20,000 capacity, as an Ashes Test in 2013 is looming.”
“Raddy Majewski has just signed a three year contract with Nottingham Forest”
“He has just signed a three year contract with Nottingham Forest Football Club after months of speculation.”
“Raddy Majewski arrived at the club a year ago on loan from Polonia Warsaw.”
“Qatar is pitching to host the soccer World Cup in 2022.”
“The top-tier sponsorship deal means Sainsbury's will be one of two sponsors to take advantage of the limited branding allowed during the games.”
“They [Sainsbury's] will go out to the whole of the UK through its 850 stores and its colleagues and get out to Britain the importance of the Paralympic Games in 2012.”
“No women earned enough to make the top 100.”
“He was part of the team that won the Le Mans race in 1988, though most of his riches come from land he has inherited.”
