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		<title>Togo, not Terry, is real story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the British football and news media have gone into meltdown over England captain John Terry&#8217;s alleged dalliances with a lingerie model, a truly outrageous football story is yet to fire their imagination.
Page after page of newsprint and hour upon interminable hour of airtime have pored over Terry&#8217;s behaviour and spewed out moral indignation, yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2010/02/04/togo-not-terry-is-real-story/</link>
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		<title>Football&#8217;s grumpy granddad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex Ferguson has always been a blustery, grumpy and scarlet-tempered presence on my television screen. In many ways he has defined the modern English game &#8211; for as long as I have liked football, Ferguson has managed Manchester United. For as long as he has managed Manchester United, they have won things, often a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/10/28/footballs_grumpy_granddad/</link>
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		<title>The weekend preview</title>
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Spain – La Liga: Champions Barcelona are off to La Mestalla to play Valencia. The Catalan club are sweating on the fitness of midfield playmaker Xavi, who came back injured from the international break. Star striker David Villa is out for the home team.
Real Madrid are at home to Valladolid and are expected to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/10/16/the-weekend-preview-12/</link>
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		<title>Destiny Day for Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything, from his surprising appointment to his disastrous team selection against Brazil, has seemed to inevitably lead Diego Maradona to tonight&#8217;s match.
Argentina fans have little to cling on to but blind faith in the national side&#8217;s coach and the concept that he has perhaps screwed up so many things in the past, he&#8217;s pretty much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/10/14/destiny-day-for-diego/</link>
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		<title>Voluntary banishment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The issue of top European clubs snapping up South American talent before it&#8217;s fully cooked is not a new one, but seems to have reached a new nadir this season with Barcelona striker Keirrison.
Snapped up in July from Palmeiras for 14 million euros, he was promptly farmed out to Benfica on loan by the Catalan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/10/11/voluntary-banishment/</link>
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		<title>Slow grassroots progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I dragged myself away from the keyboard to do a bit of football coaching at my local primary school.
&#8216;Coaching&#8217; being a flexible phrase here &#8211; I was only helping out and am only qualified by virtue of the fact I&#8217;ve played football more than most eight-year-olds.
Nearly ten years ago I had a regular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/10/01/slow-grassroots-progress/</link>
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		<title>The weekend round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spain &#8211; La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid both kept up their 100 per cent records, Barca thanks to a 2-0 win at Malaga and Real with a 3-0 win over Tenerife, with Karim Benzema scoring twice.
Valencia drew 2-2 with Atletico Madrid at the Mestalla on Saturday, with Maxi grabbing a last-gasp equaliser for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/28/the-weekend-round-up-13/</link>
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		<title>The weekend preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spain &#8211; La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid are now the only two sides left with perfect records after Athletic Bilbao went down in midweek. Real are at home to Tenerife on Saturday and Barcelona travel to Malaga on the Sunday.
Both Ronaldo for Real and Lionel Messi for Barcelona have started the season in frightening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/25/the-weekend-preview-11/</link>
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		<title>Goal of the week: Messi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be fair any of Barcelona&#8217;s four goals against Racing on Tuesday night could have made the grade but Messi&#8217;s second effort wins the golden letter opener this week.
Watching it back again, the defending does look suspect, but with the little Argentinian it&#8217;s not always what he does, but how fast he does it.
Racing know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/24/goal-of-the-week-messi/</link>
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		<title>Ronaldinho&#8217;s endless panto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh yes he is&#8221; followed by &#8220;oh no he isn&#8217;t&#8221; have been the words ringing inbetween Ronaldinho&#8217;s ears for quite some time now.
The AC Milan midfielder is constantly the subject of debate as to whether or not he will recover his best form and fitness &#8211; which now seems a pointless exercise given how long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/23/ronaldinhos-endless-panto/</link>
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