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BARCELONA V REAL MADRID IS MUCH MORE
THAN A FOOTBALL MATCH
The European Cup semi-final between Barcelona and Real
Madrid is not a football tie, it's a war going back to the
1920s. Although Real have more than drawn first blood in the
Nou Camp, Wednesday's second leg will be another bitter battle
in Barça's quest to vanquish nationalist Spain. Chris
Nawrat reports
THE EUROPEAN CUP LOOKS LIKE MAN
UTD'S LAST HOPE OF A TROPHY
Wednesday is D-day for Manchester United if they are not going
to end the season without a single trophy. They host Bayer
Leverkusen in the first leg of the European Cup semi-finals,
while Arsenal entertain West Ham. Chris Nawrat reports
IS THE SPANISH LEAGUE THE BEST
IN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL?
Spain went into the European Champions League quarter-finals
with three clubs teetering on the brink of elimination, and
in a fit of panic. Two survived and Spain is now guaranteed
a place in the final in Glasgow. Chris Nawrat reports
THE FAR-FLUNG SPANISH TEAM THAT COULD
END UTD'S SEASON
On Tuesday night Manchester United travel to Deportivo
La Coruna in the first leg of their European Champions League
quarter-finals. This is the team United feared most in the
competition. Chris Nawrat reports from the western-most tip
of Northern Spain
IF SEPP BLATTER GETS THE FIFA PRESIDENCY,
EUROPE COULD DEFECT FROM WORLD BODY
The bitter battle for the presidency of Fifa could spell the
death-knell for football's world governing body and the World
Cup as we know it. Chris Nawrat reports
FIFA INTRODUCE BLOOD TESTING
TO COMBAT DOPE
Within days of the Winter Olympics finishing, Fifa's medical
commission reacted swiftly to the emergence of another sinister
drug in sport. Last weekend Fifa's executive committee announced
that, for the first time, there will be blood-testing at this
summer's World Cup. Chris Nawrat reports
ABSURDITY OF PISTOL SHOOTING
IN A 'GUNLESS' COUNTRY
In July Mick Gault will be defending his four Commonwealth
titles. But with one hand tied behind his back. He hasn't
been able to practise with the key tool of his sport since
August. Gault is a pistol shooter, and hand guns are banned
in mainland Britain. Chris Nawrat reports
BRITAIN GOT WHAT IT PAID FOR
IN SALT LAKE CITY
(IE VERY LITTLE)
The negative headlines in the press said it all. "Winter
wasteland" and "Waste of cash is snow joke" were just two.
So should Britain have even bothered to go to Salt Lake City
for the Winter Olympics? Chris Nawrat reports
ENGLAND LOSE THE FEAR OF LOSING
It's barely a year since Sven Goran Eriksson arrived to find
England in utter disarray. Now he's the toast of country.
What's his secret formula? Chris Nawrat reports
NO BUSINESS LIKE SNOW BUSINESS
Most Brits are unmoved by the prospect of 90 hours of
BBC TV coverage of the Winter Olympics over the next fortnight.
Who cares? they say. Well they should do. Because it's all
our fault reports Chris Nawrat
THE BOOT BOYS NEVER REALLY WENT
AWAY
The crowd violence at the Aberdeen-Rangers match was the
fifth highly- publicised example of football hooliganism in
a fortnight. Are the hooligans back? No, reports Chris Nawrat.
They never went away
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