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...resentment among fans over the ways top clubs manage their money. The world's richest soccer competition by measure of revenue, England's Premier League also tops the table when it comes to debt: 18 of its 20 teams owed a total of $5.2 billion in 2008 according to UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe - more than all the clubs in the continent's other top divisions combined. (Debt-ridden Portsmouth, one of two Premier League teams not included in UEFA's sums, in February became the top flight's first franchise to fall into bankruptcy.) The leveraged...
...increasing number of fans say yes. But both FIFA and its European pillar, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), have repeatedly rejected using video. Both bodies have threatened European pro leagues with dire consequences if they even test the use of replay. FIFA officials and the UEFA president, former French soccer great Michel Platini, advance a slim list of unconvincing reasons for slapping video down. The cost of such technology, they argue, would mean leagues in poorer countries wouldn't be able to use video, dividing soccer into haves and have-nots. They also claim that the time taken...
...pictures of the UEFA Euro 2008 Soccer Championships...
...With such gallant countries as co-hosts, it would be nice if more folks got an invitation. Although ticket demand is at an all-time high, according to UEFA, the nature of the venues guaranteed a scaled-down Euro2008. With just over a million tickets available for all 31 matches (a third of them for the general public), there clearly weren't enough to go around, although it does seem like there are a million Dutch fans in Berne. There are some benefits to smaller tournament. It's certainly tidier. The opening ceremony in Basel's St. Jakob-Park...
...skill they showed. But whatever happens at the tournament, Russian football has already strung together a run of small successes, rekindling memories of some terrific teams - at both club and national level - from the 20 years after World War II. On May 14, Zenit St. Petersburg won Europe's UEFA Cup tournament - only the second time a Russian side had won a top prize. The next week, Moscow hosted the Champions' League final between Chelsea and Manchester United. The sparkling event came off with no hitches, defying predictions that Russia's capital wouldn't be up to staging the sport...