timesonline.co.uk - 12/17/2008
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Fifa calls its tournament the Club World Cup, but by the time Manchester United arrived at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, at 4pm local time on Monday, a third of the world was on its way home. Oceania, an entity the governors of world football barely think exists, considering its continued ...
uefa.com - 12/21/2008
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uefa.com —
December 21 --- UEFA.com: Manchester United FC were
crowned FIFA World Club Cup champions after a Wayne...
Rooney goal gave them a 1-0 victory over Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito at the International Stadium in Yokohama, Japan on Sunday night...
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Match Recap: FIFA Club WORLD CUP Final --- LDU v ...
fifa.com - 12/18/2008
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fifa.com —
December 18 --- FIFA.com: Official highlights from the
event website. --- Eight goals were scored in this...
semifinal on Thursday night. --- This was a better game than the one between Urawa Reds and AC Milan a year ago. --- It was a taste of the Premier League just south of Tokyo.
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Video: FIFA Club WORLD CUP Semifinal --- GAMBA OSAKA v ...
worldcupbuzz.com - 12/17/2008
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... Lastly, Martin Samuel attempts to inject some common sense into the Club World Cup by explaining how the competition needs to be reformed to gain graviotas. “Six teams, two groups of three, winners only going through to a final, so each club play two games minimum, three maximum in a competition spread over 12 playing days… Three sets of seeds (Oceania/Africa, Asia/Central America, Europe/South America), with one seed from each pairing in a group, the top two seeded clubs always scheduled to meet last, probably having won a group game each, to avoid ...
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... Martin Samuel of the Times writes about the mess that the CWC can seem to be. You know it's all about money and FIFA ego's right? ...
WSC Pays Tribute To The Rich, 8-Year History Of The FIFA Club World Cup
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
Cynically suggesting that Manchester United’s participation in the dubious Club World Cup is yet another exercise in peddling shirts around the globe, When Saturday Comes Daily compares and contrasts the lucrative Japan tournament with the progress of Blyte Spartans (second round victors over Bournemouth yesterday, as seen in the clip above) in the World’s oldest knockout competition.
Spartans now face Blackburn, and their new manager, in just over a fortnight. ...
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