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		<title>The plastic pitch question</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plastic football pitches were very much a 1980s phenomenon, largely associated with short, sand-laced Astroturf which liked lying cunningly in wait for naked knees.
However, they seem to be going the way of synthesisers and gaudy women&#8217;s t-shirts in making something of a comeback – and this time they are here to stay.
Red Bull Salzburg played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beautiful Barca brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the night before, it&#8217;s been pretty easy to find pick through the English press debris and find some praise for Barcelona in among the inquisition as to why Manchester United failed to make an impact on the game.
Wednesday&#8217;s 2-0 Champions League final result for the blue-and-burgundies was about more than a team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handball &#8211; a ref&#8217;s-eye-view</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/05/25/handball-a-refs-eye-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 09:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday Barcelona face Manchester United in the Champions League final to decide who will be crowned kings of Europe this year. But many Chelsea fans think their club, and not the Spanish champions, should be facing the red half of Manchester following several rejected penalty appeals for handball in a tempestuous semi-final.
Here English official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europa League under scrutiny</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/05/21/europa-league-under-scrutiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UEFA Cup slipped quietly into history on Wednesday night just as Jadson&#8217;s extra-time goal slipped excruciatingly through the fingers of Werder Bremen &#8216;keeper Tim Wiese to make it 2-1 to Shaktar.
It was a slightly-low key final curtain for a cup competition which produced so many thrills and shocks over the years. Not a whimper, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wholly ungracious in defeat</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/05/07/wholly-ungracious-in-defeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a surprisingly well-pronounced outburst from a French speaker who really should be concentrating on English phrases such as &#8220;take each game as it comes&#8221;.
After confronting the referee following his team&#8217;s last minute defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday, Chelsea striker Didier Drogba did his utmost to go out on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are English clubs bad for the CL?</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/04/29/are-english-clubs-bad-for-the-cl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the semi-finals of the Champions League now well underway, and three English clubs again involved, it seems sensible to wave the magnifying glass over the Premier League&#8217;s dominance of the competition.
So is it bad for business? The basic answer, if you are a fan of the three English teams who made it to the [...]]]></description>
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