There are certain things that English football fans just “know”. They know Pele was the greatest player to ever play the game, that Bobby Moore captained England to the World Cup in 1966, and they know that the Busby Babes died in the Munich Air Disaster of 1958.
 
Anyone in England with the vaguest interest in […]

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By hailing young players as world beaters there is a real danger all the hype will get to them.
AC Milan’s Brazilian teenager Pato has scored four times since joining at the start of the year and already he has been compared to Andriy Shevchenko and Brazilian Careca among others.
Inter’s 17-year-old striker Mario Balotelli scored a great double in […]

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As if winter storms and hundreds of thousands of stranded holiday travelers wasn’t enough, China Railway Construction Corp has been ordered to put its $4 billion IPO on ice. Sources say the securities regulator told the railway builder to postpone its Shanghai and Hong Kong dual listing to keep a deluge of supply from further […]

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