Sporting Week: Champions League Set for Vieira's Duel with His Successor Fabregas
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SCOTLAND's interest in the Champions League ended later than usual this season. That might have been the cause for some congratulation, were it not for the indignities that attended its close, specifically a few lager-fuelled punch-ups on the streets of Benidorm, and the usual dumb ugliness of the sectarian chanting in El Madrigal stadium. Thus the green shoots of an initially competitive SPL and a few glimmers of recovery for the national team are trampled on by the old, old Old Firm bovver boots.
Failing to waste much time sighing at the absence of Rangers, the Champions League moves on into an intriguing quarter-final stage where the highlight appears to be Patrick Vieira's return to Highbury. He comes back as a key ingredient in a Juventus side that has dominated Serie A with the same cool efficiency Chelsea have shown in the Premiership, and not dissimilar tactics. Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger's cheaply-acquired colts have risen above the criticism that greeted their stumblings in the first half of the season, and now appear the most fluent and entertaining team in England (sadly for some the transformation appears to have coincided with the absence of the team's two token Englishmen, Ashley Cole and Sol Campbell).See the full content of this document
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Sporting Week: Champions League Set for Vieira's Duel with His Successor Fabregas
Vieira, pictured below, will come face to face with his putative successor, the prodigious Catalan Cesc Fabregas who is young enough to be his, well, nephew. T...
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