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Other champs league results:
Bayern Munich 0-2 Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifa 0-1 Juventus, Besiktas 0-3 Vfl Wolfsburg, Manchester United 3-3 CSKA Moscow, AC Milan 1-1 Real Madrid, Marseille 6-1 FC FC Zürich, Apoel Nicosia 0-1 FC Porto, Atlético Madrid 2-2 Chelsea, Fiorentina 5-2 Debrecen, Lyon 1-1 Liverpool, Rubin Kazan 0-0 Barcelona, Dynamo Kiev 1-2 Inter, Sevilla 1-1 VFB Stuttgart, Unirea Urziceni 1-1 Rangers, Standard Liege 2-0 Olympiakos.

Juventus recovered from losing 3-2 at the death against Napoli at the weekend to beat Maccabi Haifa. The Milan-Madrid clash was sumptuous again but resulted in a draw. Man U levelled off 3-3 after initially going down 3-1. Owen started n scored. (It makes me happy when I see the old names who have had injuries do well. Welcome back again Joe Cole.). Atletico Madrid-Chelsea was weird. It had stayed tied till the 82' min when substitute Aguero broke the deadlock with a half volley while Carvalho was temporarily distracted. Drogba was not going to take it lying down though, and came up with 2 goals in the 86' and 89' min on his return to the Champs League following a 3 match ban. Aguero was to have a final say, curling a sumptuous freekick in deep in extra time to tie things. Chelsea automatically qualify with 10 pts. Liverpool thought they'd shaken off their nightmares when Ryan Babel scored in the 83' min, but Lisandro Lopez shrugged off his 'defender' (teammate Cris) to beat Reina in the 90' min. Liverpool now have only 4 pts from 4 games. Tough times at Anfield. Rubin Kazan again held Barcelona at bay. I unfortunately missed this game (work...). Inter managed to beat Dynamo at the end. Legendary Shevchenko had scored in th 21' min, but Diego Milito (86' min) and Sneijder (89' min) wrapped the game up. Unirea, another 'minnow' in this competition held Rangers at home.

Premiership:
West Ham United 2-1 Aston Villa
Maybe Villa were distracted by Champions league like the rest of us, but I don't know how they lost to a West Ham side that has played good football recently but struggled to pick points. I've seen Zavon Hines play though (usually as a sub) and he looks good, lots of energy. He had the winner in the 90' min. I need to go watch that.

FIFA U-17 World Cup:
Arg 2-3 Col, Tur 2-0 UAE, SUI 4-3 GER, ITA 2-1 USA.

I was only able to catch the end of the Arg game and it was 2-1 when I started watching (lunch break) with about 8 mins left. Araujo had scored again. Then, kid called Blanco comes on and grabs the equalizer, from a move he started himself and a couple mins later, Colombia had the 3rd. To be honest, the few mins I saw, Argentina looked like they deserved it. Granted, they were a man down, but they looked so lackadaisical in the closing mins. Something they exhibited against Nigeria also, but in their defense then, it wasn't their 1st team playing and they'd qualified.

Till tomorrow, when Nigeria faces New Zealand...

Thanks to DirecTV for all the games I can watch (all champs league except Setanta's showing). I pay but it's worth it...