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Monday, November 3, 2008

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Christiano Ronaldo Interview After FIFAPro World Player of the Year Award




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English Premier League Standing November 3, 2008

2008/2009 English Premiership
Overall Home Away
GPWDLGSGAWDLGSGAWDLGSGAGDP
1 Chelsea 11 8 2 1 27 4 3 2 1 13 3 5 0 0 14 1 23 26
2 Liverpool 11 8 2 1 16 8 4 1 0 8 4 4 1 1 8 4 8 26
3 Man Utd 10 6 3 1 19 8 4 1 0 13 4 2 2 1 6 4 11 21
4 Arsenal 11 6 2 3 23 12 3 1 1 12 7 3 1 2 11 5 11 20
5 Aston Villa 11 6 2 3 19 14 3 2 0 9 5 3 0 3 10 9 5 20
6 Hull 11 6 2 3 17 18 2 1 2 5 11 4 1 1 12 7 -1 20
7 Everton 11 4 3 4 15 19 1 2 3 6 11 3 1 1 9 8 -4 15
8 Middlesbrough 11 4 2 5 11 16 3 1 2 7 9 1 1 3 4 7 -5 14
9 Portsmouth 11 4 2 5 11 17 3 1 2 8 6 1 1 3 3 11 -6 14
10 Man City 11 4 1 6 23 18 3 0 2 15 6 1 1 4 8 12 5 13
11 West Ham 11 4 1 6 15 19 3 0 2 10 8 1 1 4 5 11 -4 13
12 Stoke 11 4 1 6 13 19 4 0 2 10 9 0 1 4 3 10 -6 13
13 Blackburn 11 3 4 4 13 20 1 2 2 3 8 2 2 2 10 12 -7 13
14 Newcastle 11 3 3 5 14 18 3 1 2 9 7 0 2 3 5 11 -4 12
15 Sunderland 11 3 3 5 9 16 2 1 2 5 6 1 2 3 4 10 -7 12
16 Fulham 10 3 2 5 8 9 3 1 1 6 3 0 1 4 2 6 -1 11
17 Wigan 11 3 2 6 13 16 1 1 3 3 8 2 1 3 10 8 -3 11
18 Bolton 11 3 2 6 10 13 2 2 2 6 5 1 0 4 4 8 -3 11
19 West Brom 11 3 2 6 10 18 2 1 3 8 11 1 1 3 2 7 -8 11
20 Tottenham 11 2 3 6 13 17 2 1 3 6 6 0 2 3 7 11 -4 9
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Vidic vows to learn

Nemanja Vidic says the Reds will learn valuable lessons from Saturday’s 4-3 win over Hull City.

United claimed all three points but the visitors became the first side to score three times at Old Trafford in 92 games (Chelsea beat United 3-1 in May 2005).

“The most important thing is that we took the three points,” Vidic conceded, “but we made a few mistakes and lost a few goals, which is not good for us, especially the defenders.

“We can learn from the game. We made small mistakes that cost us three goals, so I hope we can improve on that so it doesn't happen again.”

Hull’s third came via the penalty spot in the 82nd minute. It lifted the visitors even further and although the Reds didn’t quite enter panic mode, there were certainly a few nervy moments before the final whistle.

Vidic conceded United were “under a little pressure” in the closing moments but insisted the players wouldn’t dwell on the match.

“We need to forget this game but not how we conceded the goals. That way we can make sure it doesn’t happen again. We have a few days to work on that [before Celtic] and to improve.

“The first goal was from a set-piece and the third came after we had a corner and we were out of position, so they were able to counter-attack. These are small mistakes that don’t usually happen with us.

“We need to learn from our mistakes but we don’t need to be too worried.”
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United forced to take centre-stage

When Manchester United beat Palmeiras to win the Toyota Cup in Japan in 1999, they were away for six days all in, travelling and playing. When they play the absurd FIFA Club World Cup next month it will be nine days away. As Sir Alex Ferguson knows so well, it is the small things that make the big differences over the course of a season. The FIFA Club World Cup, conceived out of the embarrassment of the abandoned World Club Championship in which United played in 2000, is another project built on the vanity of Sepp Blatter. Not content with allowing UEFA, with its work on what was once the European Cup, to be the only major governing body which has cocked up a perfectly good cup format, the FIFA president had had a go at it himself and came up with a corker.
This ridiculously bloated competition has taken the place of a perfectly good one-off game – once the Intercontinental Cup, latterly the Toyota Cup. It was simple: the European Cup winners against the winners of the South American equivalent, the Copa Libertadores, which was played, from 1980, in Japan. It was a strange game but pleasingly exotic, given the South American opposition, with a few Japanese quirks thrown in, too.
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