Did You Know

* Michel Platini, a special talent in his youth and now the presidentof Europe's ruling authority, UEFA, said that he and the politicians must stop the selling of gifted children to the highest bidder.

* Roy Keane, the former Manchester United hard man who boasted in his autobiography that hedeliberately kicked Alf Inge Haaland, ending his career, in retribution for a severe foul he had received from Haaland four years' previously.
*Exactly one week before Eduardo da Silva, a Brazilian goal scorer employed by Arsenal, hadsurgery on a double compound fracture of his left shin on Saturday night, He was given a yellow card, for a tackle that caught the shinbone of Manchester United's Portuguese winger, Nani. Most observers gave Eduardo the benefit of the doubt, but later, when Nani indulged inshowboating against Arsenal, two men - William Gallas and Mathieu Flamini - kicked him in anger. (***)

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