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Portugal will come to a standstill on Sunday as the country’s biggest football clubs clash in what is dubbed the O Classico.
Portugal will come to a standstill on Sunday as the country’s biggest football clubs clash in what is dubbed the O Classico.
England travel to Basel on Monday night to take on Switzerland at St. Jakob Park as the Euro 2016 qualifiers gets underway.
The team that has upset the usual Barcelona and Real Madrid domination at the top of the table has been Atletico Madrid.
a tough task to retain their placed as they travel to Stamford Bridge to face third place Chelsea this weekend with rival’s United hosting bottom of the table QPR.
The English Premier league saga continues this weekend and the lunch-time kick off is an all London affair at the Emirates between Arsenal and their neighbours Tottenham Hotspur.
Both Milan clubs have had mini-revolutions with a mass exodus of legendary and prominent players from the San Siro.
It looks set to be the ultimate grudge match. Germany may be threatening Greece with exit from the euro (the official currency of the eurozone), but the debt-stricken country now has an unexpected opportunity for revenge against its biggest and most critical creditor – by knocking its football team out of Euro 2012.
With most teams not wanting to collect a first match loss in the Euro 2012 first round of matches, as expected in international tournaments, the opening matches saw many 1-1 draws.
The European countries are gearing up for the all important Euro tournament set to take place next year in Poland and Ukraine. This weekend sees to giants of world football go head to head as both managers look to make their final selections for the tournament.
The biggest club competition in world football will pit Spanish champions Barcelona against English champions Manchester United in a final that doesn’t get any bigger.
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million