The EURO2008 already begun. More drama and action as it reach the matchday 3. Croatia shocked the Germany who play underpar from the first match. Holland making the headline by crushing the world champs, Italy 3-0..And then world’s runner up, France 4-1. The Orange show the world that they are hunger with victory.
Who will emerge clinching the EURO2008 trophy?!..We will wait and see..Hope to see Spain and Holland in the final.
City claim a deserved win, which was easier than the score suggests. United rarely threatened with clear cut chances and lose their unbeaten home record this season. Perhaps the occasion got the better of them, or is that just an excuse? City get the double over United for the first time since 1970.
Carrick bends a beauty into the bottom corner of the game, giving his claim as to why he should have started the game. Is it too little, too late? Are United to “Bayern-it” on the special Munich day?
After a mad scramble in the box Vassell slots home left-footed from close range at the second attempt to open the scoring. The chance came about after a brilliant through ball by Petrov and run by Ireland.
Petrov again the man at the centre of things - his whipped in cross is glanced home, thanks to Benjani’s shoulder - for a crucial debut goal! It’s the last noticable action of an enthralling first half. Who’d have predicted this score? It’s not as if United have been shell-shocked by the occasion because they’ve played decently too. City have just taken their chances.
Tom Hicks owns:
Ice Hockey team Dallas Stars, bought for £42m in 1995
Baseball team Texas Rangers, bought for £123m in 1998.
Hicks Holdings is the company that controls his sporting and real estate empire, worth over Û1billion (£511m).
Has interests in fossil fuel drilling tools, a data services company and an Argentine pet food company.
George Gillett owns:
Ice Hockey team Montreal Canadiens, bought for £95m in 2000.
Gillett Evernham Motorsports, bought from Roy Evernham in August 2007.
Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc, running a range of ski resorts across America. Northland Services Inc - a marine transportation company Great Northern Bank and Sierra Organics - a landscaping and gardening company.
DIC own:
Travelodge Hotels Ltd, bought for £675m in 2006.
The Tussauds Group, bought for £800m in March 2005. In May 2007 they merged The Tussauds Group with Blackstones Merlin Entertainments Group to create the second largest visitor attraction operator, after Disney, in the world. The Alliance Medical Group, bought for £600m in November 2007.
Mauser AG (industrial packaging specialist), bought for £635m in June 2007. Doncasters Group Ltd (manufacturer of precision engineered components and systems), bought for £700m in May 2006.
Owns ’significant’ shares - estimated to be between 2 and 4 per cent - of HSBC, Sony, Daimler - Chrysler and ICICI Bank.
Who’s more richer?..of course DIC is!!!…Those two US stooges are worthless!!!..go DIC
| ARSENAL | ||
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| Lassana Diarra | Portsmouth | £5.5m |
| Matthew Connolly | QPR | £1m |
| Vincent Van der Berg | Go Ahead Eagles | Loan |
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| Chris Herd | Port Vale | Loan |
| Tobias Mikaelsson | Port Vale | Loan |
| Stephen O’Halloran | Southampton | Loan |
| Zoltan Stiebar | Yeovil | Loan |
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| IN | ||
| James McFadden | Everton | £5.75m |
| David Murphy | Hibs | £1.5m |
| OUT | ||
| Rowan Vine | QPR | £1m |
| Neil Kilkenny | Leeds | Undisclosed |
| Sam Oji | L Orient | Free |
| Sone Aluko | Aberdeen | Loan |
| Asa Hall | Shrewsbury | Loan |
| Olivier Tebily | Released | |
| BLACKBURN | ||
| IN | ||
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| Robbie Savage | Derby | £1.5m rising to £2m |
| Mark King | Accrington S | Free |
| Peter Enckleman | Cardiff | Loan |
| BOLTON | ||
| IN | ||
| Matt Taylor | Portsmouth | £4.5m |
| Gretar Steinsson | AZ Alkmaar | £3.5m |
| Tamir Cohen | Maccabi Netanya | Undisclosed |
| OUT | ||
| Nicolas Anelka | Chelsea | £15m |
| Gary Speed | Sheffield U | £250,000 |
| Gerald Cid | Nice | Free |
| Leslie Thompson | Torquay | Loan |
| CHELSEA | ||
| IN | ||
| Nicolas Anelka | Bolton | £15m |
| Branislav Ivanovic | Lokomotiv Moscow | £9m |
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| Ryan Bertrand | Norwich | Loan |
| DERBY | ||
| IN | ||
| Emmanuel Villa | UAG Tecos | £2m |
| Robbie Savage | Blackburn | £1.5m rising to £2m |
| Laurent Robert | Levante | Free |
| Hossam Ghaly | Tottenham | Loan |
| Danny Mills | Manchester C | Loan |
| OUT | ||
| Leicester | £1.5m | |
| Matt Oakley | Leicester | £500,000 |
| Andy Griffin | Stoke | £300,000 |
| Mo Camara | Norwich | Loan |
| Lee Holmes | Walsall | |
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| IN | ||
| Dan Gosling | Plymouth | £1m to £2m |
| Manuel Fernandez | Valencia | Loan |
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| James McFadden | Birmingham | £5.75m |
| Lukas Jutkiewiicz | Plymouth | Loan |
| Scott Spencer | Yeovil | Loan |
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| IN | ||
| Marlon King | Watford | £5m |
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| Collins John | Watford | Loan |
| LIVERPOOL | ||
| IN | ||
| Martin Skrtel | Zenit St Petersburg | £6.5m |
| Alex Cooper | Ross County | £100,000 |
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| Jimmy Ryan | Shrewsbury | Undisclosed |
| Jame Smith | Stockport | Loan |
| Robbie Threlfall | Hereford | Loan |
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| IN | ||
| Nery Castillo | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan |
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| Marc Laird | Millwall | Free |
| Ched Evans | Norwich | Loan |
| Danny Mills | Derby | Loan |
| Matthew Mills | Doncaster | Loan |
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| IN | ||
| Manucho Petro | Petro Athletico | Undisclosed |
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| Ryan Shawcross | Stoke | £1m to £2m |
| Adam Eckersley | Port Vale | Free |
| Michael Barnes | Chesterfield | Loan |
| Febian Brandy | Swansea | Loan |
| Jonny Evans | Sunderland | Loan |
| Darren Gibson | Wolves | Loan |
| Kieran Lee | QPR | Loan |
| Lee Martin | Sheffield U | Loan |
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| Andrew Davies | Southampton | £1m |
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| IN | ||
| Ben Tozer | Swindon | £1.1m |
| Wesley Ngo Baheng | Le Havre | Undisclosed |
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| Matty Pattison | Norwich | Undisclosed |
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| Lassana Diarra | Arsenal | £5.5m |
| Adda Djeziri | BoldKlubben Frem | £125,000 |
| Danijel Subotic | Basle | Undisclosed |
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| Matt Taylor | Bolton | £4.5m |
| READING | ||
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| Marek Matejovsky | Mlada Boleslav | £1.42m |
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| John Halls | Crystal Palace | Loan |
| Ben Hamer | Brentford | Loan |
| James Henry | Bournemouth | Loan |
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| Jean-Yves Mvoto | Paris St Germain | £300,000 |
| Jonny Evans | Manchester U | Loan |
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| Stanislav Varga | Burnley | Loan |
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| IN | ||
| Chris Gunter | Cardiff | £2 rising to £3m |
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| Phil Ifill | Colchester | Undisclosed |
| Ben Alnwick | Leicester | Loan |
| Lee Butcher | AFC Wimbledon | Loan |
| David Button | Grays | Loan |
| Hossam Ghaly | Derby | Loan |
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| Hogan Ephraim | QPR | £800,000 |
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| IN | ||
| Wilson Palacios | Deportivo Olimpia | £1m |
| Antonio Valencia | Villarreal | Undisclosed |
| Maynor Figueroa | Deportivo Olimpia | |
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| Fitz Hall | QPR | £700,000 |
Birmingham 0-1 Chelsea
Blackburn 1-1 Middlesbrough
Fulham 0-3 Arsenal
Portsmouth 3-1 Derby
Reading 0-2 Man U
Tottenham 2-0 Sunderland