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Ol' Big Ears is Back...
So it seems that England and Thailand are doing the mutually beneficial corruption thing - the English Premier League get Dr Thaksin Shinawatra to own a brand, and to offer inside knowledge regarding the underground Asian betting markets; Thailand get Peter Reid to manage their national team. Click to continue reading...

Portuguese trickster claims to have signed for a "big club" With Porto out of next season's Champions League - Uefa suspended them in the wake of allegations of bribery in 2003/04 - it seemed inevitable that Ricardo Quaresma would look... Click to continue reading...

Actually this dude is 1-in-140.

140 hooligans arrested the other day.

Ah, soccer...

• AC Milan opens Drogba talks.
  
  
• Arjen Robben might miss all of first round.
  
  
• Man City close on signing Ronaldinho and Jo?
  
  
• Jose says Figo will stay at Inter.

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Good morning all. Today is a busy day on the international soccer calendar as a full slate of matches are set to kick off, including USA-Poland, England-France, Spain-Italy and Argentina-Egypt.

Before we get to those games this afternoon, here are some soccer stories from today and Tuesday to tide you over this morning:

Rossi brace lifts Italy

American-born and raised forward Giuseppe Rossi scored a pair of goals to lift Italy to a 2-0 win against Azerbaijan in qualifying for the Under-21 European Championships on Wednesday.

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As you may know, for the last year or two there has been a series of investigations into allegations of what amounts to bribery going on in England. If I'm remembering right off the top of my head it was a year ago that a big list of managers, assistant managers who were being investigated for this came out.

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