Dinner with Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini

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World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 found this 1/18/2008 on www.runofplay.com [flag]
This week’s Run of Play at Pitch Invasion feature finds me traveling to a suburban Red Lobster in order to have dinner with FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini. Our conversation touches on matters ranging from the cartographic largess of the American Denny’s to the break-up of the G-14. ME: So the big news this week is that you have crushed the G-14. ... [link]

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Daily Dose 1.18.08
Published 1/18/2008 by Daryl at World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010
Links, links and more links from around World Cup Blog, The Offside and the rest of this big old place we call the internet. More Elephant introductions (Cote d’Ivoire Blog) Ghana players are checking the hotel guide (Ghana Blog) Previewing the “Group of Death” (Mali Blog) If Ollie Kahn was a song he’d sound like this (The Offside) Dinner with Sepp and Michel (The Run of Play) Nigeria ranked no. 1 by FIFA, but not by bookies (Just Football) The ...

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