As soon as the doors opened to this indoor footballing haven, we booked in and played the following week. |
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His footballing career has been almost as colourful as his business affairs. |
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In their headlong dash for cash, UEFA have reduced what was once a fine competition to an afterthought in the footballing calendar. |
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It's those Germans again, those familiar wreckers of English footballing dreams. |
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The site operates a multilingual portal for the professional footballing community. |
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They are a talented team with a varied brand of footballing skill and know-how. |
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A sportsman to his fingertips, the redoubtable John Joe has left many of us with some tremendous memories of his hurling and footballing feats. |
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With his footballing background and business acumen, he seemed the ideal choice for this highly prestigious position. |
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Navy sides have proved a breeding ground for footballing talent in the past, especially in the post-Second World War era. |
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Hitherto hopeless footballing nations suddenly emerged from obscurity and started to make a bit of a name for themselves. |
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Draped with some of the world's finest footballing jewels and still Italy have failed to truly sparkle. |
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Their next work is the soundtrack for a film about French footballing genius Zidane. |
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Two nations, not known for their footballing prowess, prepare to host the world's biggest sporting event. |
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The football website also has a vibrant African Nations Cup wallchart and calendar featuring the images of African footballing stars. |
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He was the outstanding success in our generally lackluster footballing performance against Holland. |
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He's too passionate and willful to half-ass anything in the footballing world. |
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They maximise their strengths with a combination of superb execution, footballing nous and street wisdom. |
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Brazilian footballing legend Socrates has helped turn humble Garforth Town into the most talked-about non-league team in the world this week. |
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Wembley has a lure all of its own, and many come here on a footballing pilgrimage. |
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The united front that saved York City from extinction has achieved national recognition with a major footballing prize bestowed on the club. |
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The 1970s dawned and Alf was uncomfortable with the new age of the footballing superstar. |
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This week another footballing figure showed that mixed metaphors don't have to abide by the usual principles of the human anatomy. |
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I woke up this morning white as a sheet after one of the greatest footballing nights of my life. |
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In my entire school footballing career, I scored a grand total of two goals. |
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He's persuaded footballing legend David Beckham to join him in stripping down to his grundies. |
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The council's own footballing heroes successfully defended their title in the European Municipal Cup in St Malo, France. |
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On Saturday, against Rangers, he will come up against the latest generation of footballing talent. |
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We drew the game 1-1, but they are an excellent footballing side and I'm not surprised to see them up near the top of the table. |
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The name of Archbishop Croke will forever live in the annals of GAA history because of the remarkable footballing cathedral which bears his name. |
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Elsewhere in his team he has an abundance of footballing riches at his disposal. |
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Whereas we still harbour reasonable hopes of ending 38 years of footballing hurt, English tennis seems beyond salvation. |
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He scored four times and thrilled the footballing world with his audacity, his fearlessness, his youth. |
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I want to put this club on the map and, hopefully, turn Molesey into a footballing name. |
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Chelsea FC, that London footballing institution, is well on the way to being Russified in the wake of the buyout by a billionaire. |
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We are supposed to get a scalp-tingling rush of euphoria as the West Germans win big on the footballing field of dreams. |
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Perhaps they're attempting a footballing version of Muhammad Ali's famous rope-a-dope? |
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Mikey Sheehy, one of Kerry's footballing legends, has eight All-Ireland medals after his exploits in the Green and Gold. |
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Our footballing exaggerations are not as big as theirs but then neither is our level of success. |
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There is something almost balletic about Cristiano Ronaldo's play that transforms mere possession of the ball into a footballing pas-de-deux. |
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Sony does just that, so that you can share those amazing footballing moments. |
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The match was postponed in February, but it is hoped the fixture will go on to become a permanent fixture in the local footballing calendar for years to come. |
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The footballing authorities had decided not to observe a minute's silence amid fears it would likely be met with jeers and a showing of disrespect. |
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The footballing star has recently been voted the best celebrity dad. |
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Mourning the lack of opportunities which have thus far presented themselves, the funereal hue seems appropriate in the current Scottish footballing climate. |
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He won many other honours in his glittering career at club level, and of course donned the county jersey in different footballing grades countless times. |
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It was argued that it is no good earmarking funds for footballing academies if the fear is that clubs are about to lose a generation of supporters. |
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Now, a European has risen to the challenge of providing the Lions of the Caribbean with nourishment to satiate their footballing hunger. |
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In terms of footballing credentials, O'Leary has got the lot. |
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Finland 2003 has lived up to its billing as a showpiece for some of the brightest young stars in the footballing firmament. |
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Ledley King luxuriated in the supposition of a palatial footballing future. |
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It all makes for a fascinating tussle between two sides with very distinct footballing philosophies. |
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While criticism of his on-field performances have been rare, there are those who believe his megastar celebrity status detract from his footballing abilities. |
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Suarez, at heart, is a disrupter and a pest, a footballing teaser and taunter. |
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But if the Spanish have become Europe's footballing superpower, which country has inherited its old mantle of underachievement? |
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But what of those footballing idols who risk it all by accepting that oft-poisoned chalice: the national team job. |
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Stockholm's footballing temple provided the launchpad for the international career of one of the world's greatest footballers. |
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Our look at the clowns of world football would not be complete without a stop in England, home to countless zany footballing jesters. |
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Ferguson knows that even if he decides to become a hermit on some oil platform in the North Sea for the rest of his life, his place in footballing history is secure. |
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In the space of a few short weeks, Germany's new generation have binned the old stereotypes and radically recast their footballing image. |
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But on current form the country's top players are rank amateurs compared with their footballing colleagues. |
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Others would see that as impressively optimistic. India can, to some extent, blame cricket for a lack of footballing success. |
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But the Brazilian newspapers, always near to hysteria when it comes to footballing matters, are already in a lather of anxiety. |
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In footballing terms, we would say that there is no point in changing a winning team. |
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The footballing world is a man's world: the reality inside the grounds shows this. |
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We also jointly with the school organize the Footfest tournament, in which we are more busy with the footballing side. |
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It has brought the game, in footballing parlance, into disrepute. |
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The pair are clearly a comedy double act off the park, but it is the understanding and appreciation of each other's footballing talents which underpins the relationship. |
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The footballing front man was able to portray an image of being a friendly supplier fulfilling a social need, rather than being a dealer in a web of potentially lethal drugs. |
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For that he has been richly rewarded with a piece of footballing history. |
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To continue the footballing analogy, it is like asking footballers to sign a formal declaration before each game that they will not cheat and will always play fair. |
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Due in part to his dearth of footballing talent, he lived vicariously through the campaigns and conquests of his schoolmates and friends of greater sporting capacity. |
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For the Swede still remains 15 goals shy of the total the supreme Rangers marksman racked up in matches between Scotland's footballing leviathans. |
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His footballing genius was never questioned, but back home he was known as an egomaniac who was undisciplined, uncontrollable and prone to flights of folly. |
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It was the nastiest moment in countless unpleasant footballing encounters. |
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My Group's amendments give recognition to the distinctive footballing histories of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, and simply recognise the reality that the UK has no single national' team. |
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In footballing terms, Juve could indeed claim lordship over their city. |
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Where FC Barcelona celebrate their successes and where a puffing Pochettino, continuing a long tradition of footballing superstition, pleaded with the virgin to save the region's other, often forgotten club. |
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How Manchester United's talisman had to wait quite so long to be accepted into the snoozy sponsors' hall of footballing fame is beyond reason. |
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Jean-Philippe likes to sum the situation up with a footballing analogy. |
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It could – perhaps at a stretch – even be argued that this, too, is a footballing point: why should the French team confine itself to one type of football? |
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Thursday's semi-final was more a test of wills and intestinal fortitude than a footballing spectacle as Argentina put three past neighbours Chile in a tough test in Toronto. |
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My footballing nation, Scotland, is playing Italy, the world champions. |
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Partly because that summer's Euros saw the coming of the Age of Rooney, an English footballing era now almost certainly ended by the stout-hearted Icelanders. |
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The win ensured their progress through to the next round because the tie is played over one leg, due to the lack of a stadium facility in the Comoros, Africa's newest footballing nation. |
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Already a successful name in the footballing world, the brand was honoured today on the pitch at the famous Estadio Azteca for its latest creation in the Mexican colours. |
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Contacts between police forces in different countries involved in a footballing event shall be coordinated and, where appropriate, arranged for by national football information centres. |
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The oil boom in the small African state, which is made up of a parcel of land on the central western coast of Africa and an island in the Gulf of Guinea, has led directly to massive improvement in their footballing fortunes. |
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Switzerland can look back proudly on its long footballing history. |
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But its scorer didn't turn up at the awards ceremony, for which he was lambasted by one newspaper columnist, citing him as an example of a spoilt footballing ingrate. |
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His footballing path began in Paris, but it was in moving away from home as a 17-year-old to Marsala in the Italian third division that his horizons were widened and his strong mental outlook was forged. |
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Each national football association has one vote, regardless of its size or footballing strength. |
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It is also required that a club exiting administration agree a Creditor's Voluntary Agreement, and pay in full any other footballing creditors. |
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Further relegations down the footballing ladder have ensued for several clubs unable to cope with the gap. |
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One of the first footballing celebrities was former Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer George Best. |
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He also notes that Charles is the only footballing great to be world class in two very different positions. |
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I'll be joining the queue of fellow footballing Anglophobes who'll be cheering on anyone against the Auld Enemy. |
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Though a mere 50km separates Amsterdam and Alkmaar geographically, the bustling metropolis and the idyllic resort on the North Sea are worlds apart in footballing terms. |
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The German footballing world feels the future is bright, based on a fundamentally reappraised approach to the game, and drawing on rich reserves of experience from a glorious past. |
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He was a fine crosser of a ball too, with a change of pace that would leave the best defenders bewildered, and a never erring first touch of the ball, as the footballing world would discover to its cost a few years later. |
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Escalante has focused his efforts on developing both his side's footballing and mental strengths, motivating his players to the extent that they felt the equals of their rivals in the qualification tournament. |
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Drifting inevitably into extra-time – a very unwelcome half an hour for United – there was just one last slice of bad luck to be dished out by the footballing Gods. |
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They were two goals down before the hour and seemed destined to pass into footballing history as the most uninspired of losing World Cup finalists. |
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I think Mr Tannock will understand a British footballing analogy. |
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Unfortunately for them, Rous was part of a cosy cartel, happy to keep those fledgling footballing nations at arm's length. |
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But another Azebaijani legend is also part of footballing history: Tofik Bakhramov was the linesman who played a crucial role in the 1966 Final, when uncertainty clouded England's third goal. |
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When he arrived in Germany for his first FIFA World Cup? in June 1974, Wladyslaw Zmuda was not only unfamilar to the footballing world at large, he was also something of an unknown quantity in his own country. |
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Nonetheless, the inauguration was a festive occasion attended by a broad array of footballing and political dignitaries, among whom was the Surinam Minister of Education and Community Development, Walter Sandriman. |
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Its wage bill a dully accurate predictor of footballing success is two-thirds Chelsea's and half that of Manchester City, which is owned by an oil sheikh. |
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Though the Canarinhas fleetingly hinted at doing justice to their country's weighty footballing reputation, thanks in large part to attacking prodigy Ketlen, without ever unleashing their full potential. |
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But hope springs eternal, and Werder's hopes of turning the corner now rest on a man who once abandoned the club to go in search of fame and fortune in the wider footballing world, namely Claudio Pizarro. |
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He talks a lot about growing up in Northampton as the mincingly unsporty son of the local footballing hero, Graham Carr, a Northampton Town player and manager. |
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May: Sunday best birthday wishes to a prominent footballing trio today. |
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Walter spent the whole of his footballing career with his local club, Kaiserslautern, and remained in the town after retirement running, at various times, with his Italian-born wife Italia, a cinema and a laundrette. |
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Mirko Josic's superb side deservedly lifted the trophy after regaling the crowds throughout the competition with a fanciful and effective display of footballing genius. |
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The doe-eyed keeper made his name at the 1990 FIFA World Cup Italy? with a string of athletic penalty saves, earning himself a place in the pantheon of Argentinian footballing heroes in the process. |
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Best is not the only footballing personality with a nice line in quips, as Chile coach Orlando Aravena showed at a press conference during the 1989 Copa America. |
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Shamrock Rovers FC, FK Rabotnicki and OFK Beograd earned dates with European footballing royalty as the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round concluded on Thursday night. |
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He is undoubtably a nice guy who has gone through a terrible time, but in purely footballing terms he was a poor manager and a pretty poor player for us. |
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In the best traditions of footballing superstition, the midfielder is keeping faith with the jockey shorts which have seen Rovers unbeaten in Europe. |
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In April 1961 Ron Greenwood took over as manager, and drastically changed team training by putting a focus on footballing skill rather than physical fitness. |
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Newcastle had won both their previous fixtures in 2011 but were terribly disappointing at Broadhall Way against opponents 73 places below them in the footballing ladder. |
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The City of Liverpool is the most successful footballing city in England. |
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For UEFA footballing records purposes, the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League are considered the same competition, with the change of name being simply a rebranding. |
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Escapologists, stilt walkers and footballing free-stylers who normally perform in London's prestigious Covent Garden will be travelling to Birmingham in August. |
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Victories over footballing royalty such as Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur followed as the club topped the league on several further occasions. |
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