Italian race shame overshadows UEFA Cup
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PARIS  - Newcastle United booked their place in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup but the latest round of group matches was overshadowed by another depressing outbreak of racism on European terraces.
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The Republic of Ireland&#39;s World Cup qualifying tie in Switzerland hardly needed an extra edge but Clinton Morrison added to what is being billed as a revenge match with accusations of racism against Alexander Frei.
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At the end of yesterdayâs match against Real Madrid, a sad Luigi Delneri reflected on what has been a terrible Champions League campaign for the Giallorossi.
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Benfica beat Beveren 3-0 and Alkmaar of the Netherlands defeated Rangers 1-0 to advance in European soccer&#39;s UEFA Cup. Italy&#39;s Lazio was eliminated.
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SPANISH football fans shamed their country again last night by hurling racist abuse at Bayer Leverkusen players during the Champions League fixture at Real Madrid.
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Sport: Red half of Merseyside seething after Uefa declares them the worst fans in Europe.
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Partita con la Dinamo Kiev persa 0-3 a tavolino e prossime due partite casalinghe di Champions League a porte chiuse. Questo Ã¨ il verdetto dell&#39;Uefa per la Roma. Squalifica di due giornate infine inflitte
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The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head butt in extra time, and then went down 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
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Italy and the United States  slugged out a bruising 1-1 draw in the most controversial match  of the World Cup so far in which three players were sent off in  their Group E clash on Saturday.
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A headline in a Lisbon newspaper called Portugal's soccer team "Europe's Laughingstock." Italy, France and the Netherlands also came in for stinging criticism after embarrassing weekend results in qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup.
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Lazio&#39;s miserable UEFA Cup campaign petered out on Thursday when the Rome side failed to get the win they needed to keep their hopes alive of progressing from the group stage.
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The French national team went all the way to the World Cup final again in 2006, but a shooting outside a Paris stadium has forced a reckoning with the violent racism of some of its fans
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Nyon, Switzerland (Sports Network) - UEFA, Europe&#39;s soccer governing body, is investigating allegations that fans at the Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen Champions League match at the Bernabeu racially abused players.
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Spain&#39;s government and soccer federation have condemned racist chanting during a friendly in Madrid between Spain and England, blaming a small group of fans for behaviour that has caused outrage in Britain.
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European soccer&#39;s governing body is opening disciplinary cases against Hungarian champion Ferencvaros and Czech club Banik Ostrava for racist abuse and missile throwing in their respective UEFA Cup matches this week.
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LONDON - English Premiership clubs Newcastle and Middlesbrough fought their way into the group stages of the Uefa Cup on Thursday, but their celebrations were overshadowed as the spectre of hooliganism involving English fans returned to haunt the continent
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Italy must not just win- they must triumph- against Belarus on Wednesday in Parma in order to redeem their humiliating loss at Slovenia suffered last weekend.