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| 1. | Proud Hughes trains his sights on Europe (Times Online) | | | | | RAISING THE BAR. IT IS ONE OF THOSE phrases that has slipped comfortably into the footballing vernacular and is now, along with “hitting the ground running”, being uttered dozens of times a day by managers and coaches eager to emphasise the objectives for their players for the new season. |
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| 3. | A new era (Evening Leader) | | | | | WREXHAM will tomorrow kick-off a new era in the club’s history with a mouth-watering pre-season friendly against Liverpool. |
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| 4. | WENGER'S AGE OF THE SUPERKIDS (Daily Mirror) | | | | | ARSENE WENGER has sounded the bell for next season's title fight by declaring he can't wait to pitch his talented young Gunners A against their reinforced Premiership rivals. |
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| 5. | Denizli finds answers for Fener at home | | | | | Turkish Daily News - ... because Britain imposes the requirement that a player from outside the EC must have appeared in 75 percent of his country's international matches in the two years preceding the issue of the permit. Tugay fell just short of that mark. The Blackburn ... |
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| 7. | A new era | | | | | Evening Leader - ... understandably excited about the visit of Rafael Benitez’s side, with Craig Bellamy, a £6 million purchase from Blackburn ... Pre-season matches are training sessions and you have to accept that. It’s about trying things and the lads getting match ... |
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| 8. | Kaiserslautern consolidates lead | | | | | Turkish Daily News - Blackburn ended a run of eight matches without a win when they beat third-placed Chelsea 1-0 thanks to a 48th-minute goal by Kevin Gallacher from short range following a bad error by the London side's French defender Frank Leboeuf. In another League ... |
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| 9. | It's Yanal -- almost | | | | | Turkish Daily News - In that competition, his team hit the headlines not only in Turkey but across the world this season by eliminating Blackburn ... team from Fatih Terim in 1996, he continued as coach of Kocaelispor for a time and Turkey has no competitive matches coming ... |
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