Video games, foreign players hit soccer in Britain
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Foreign players, video games and a lack  of coaching are behind the current shortage of young talent in  British soccer, national managers agreed on Tuesday.
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The favorite sports of the U.S. and the U.K. share a name. But how football fans on either side of the Atlantic put their fervent allegiances to action and enjoy the game are vastly different.
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Madrid - Staging the Spain v England friendly match at Real Madrid&#39;s Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Wednesday couldn&#39;t have been more appropriate as both teams expect to field players from the Real ranks.
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A Pop Idol type competition is being held to find UK gamers to take part in a $1m tournament.
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English Premier League clubs are being bought by overseas investors because they offer potentially huge returns thanks to their large regular incomes, lucrative television revenues and international brand values.
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Plans to stage English Premier League (EPL) games overseas are not a good idea, according to Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez.
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It's not just work that's being outsourced from wealthy nations to poorer ones. These days, online gamers in developing countries are being paid to earn virtual goods that wealthier players are too lazy or unskilled to win on their own. By Laila Weir.
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Will the passel of American businessmen who have bought clubs in England inevitably become emotionally involved in their teams and the game of soccer? Businessman Dan Jones thinks so.
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Initial impressions from the NFL's first regular season game in London have been very positive and the league is looking to stage more games in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Mexico.
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Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas has suggested the lack of English players trying to improve themselves abroad may be just as harmful to the English game as the steady influx of foreigners in the Premier League.
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Looking to rebound after poor showings in Euro 2004, England and Germany won tuneup games Wednesday in preparation for qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup.
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The English Premier League's controversial plan to host matches abroad is both a response to globalisation and a deliberate attempt at cementing its worldwide dominance, its chief executive said.
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Official condemnation of the racist barracking suffered by England footballers in Spain this week cannot hide the fact that xenophobia is on the rise in a country now Europe&#39;s biggest magnet for immigrants, Spanish anti-racism campaigners warned yesterday
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The fact that racism in European soccer is not a dead issue became painfully obvious in Spain during the past week, with members of both England&#39;s full international
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When English soccer fans take to the  terraces next season, there&#39;s every chance they won&#39;t just be  watching the game, they&#39;ll be being watched watching the game  too.
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For all of soccer&#039;s worldwide popularity, its biggest prize has long been the property of two continents.
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A raft of football games are aiming to score with gamers , but which top the league and which are heading for relegation?