EPL 2007-08 / Richmond FC Fantasy League V2- On Now

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Last night results:

EPL

Blackburn 0
Aston Villa 4

Champions League (good night for British clubs)

Liverpool 4 - 1 FC Porto
Rosenborg 0 - 4 Chelsea
Celtic 2 - 1 Shakhtar Donetsk

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Last night results:

EPL

Blackburn 0
Aston Villa 4

Champions League (good night for British clubs)

Liverpool 4 - 1 FC Porto
Rosenborg 0 - 4 Chelsea
Celtic 2 - 1 Shakhtar Donetsk

and the Greek club

Lazio 1 Olympiakos 2

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Overnight EPL results:

Chelsea 1 - 0 West Ham
Blackburn 3 - 1 Newcastle
Portsmouth 0 - 0 Everton
Reading 1 - 1 Middlesbrough
Sunderland 1 - 0 Derby
Wigan 1 - 1 Man City

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Aston Villa 1 - 2 Ar_senal
Liverpool 4 - 0 Bolton
Tottenham 2 - 3 Birmingham

The 3rd round of the FA Cup has been released:
http://soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com/news/story?id=486959&cc=3436

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Liverpool 4 - 0 Bolton

The best news from this is Kewell is in the starting 11 of a in-form Liverpool side and playing a key role. Hopefully he now stays injury free (touchwood) by the time the World Cup qualifiers come around.

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Man Utd 2 - 0 Fulham

OER Table

1 Fluffy by sea            43   745
2 Mark of Respect III  53   680
3 10 Flags                  52   671
4 LondonTigers           75   632
5 RayHall>>>Gibbs    30   621
6 Valley Vikings U10's 26   590
7 mighty hammers      27   585
8 Thrylos Tigers           52   576
9 Sandstorm               40   504

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Last game for the week was this mornings fixture

Newcastle  1    Arsenal  1

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Premier League Results from last nites fixtures

Aston Villa 1 Portsmouth 3
Chelsea 2 Sunderland 0
Man Utd 4 Derby County 1
Everton 3 Fulham 0
Newcastle Utd 2 Birmingham City 1
Reading 3 Liverpool 1

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Reading 3 Liverpool 1

LOL. That'll teach them for starting Kewell on the bench.

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Overnight EPL results:

Middlesbrough 2 - 1 Ar_senal
Bolton 4 - 1 Wigan
Tottenham 2 - 1 Man City
Blackburn 0 - 1 West Ham 

Ar_senal now just one point ahead of Man Utd.

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Not EPL but all 4 pommie sides got through to the final 16 of the Champions league.

England: Ar_senal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool
Scotland: Celtic
Italy: AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma
Spain: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla
Greece: Olympiakos
Germany: Schalke
France: Lyon
Portugal: Porto
Turkey: Fenerbahce

Only 4 changes from last year.

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Overnight EPL results:

Birmingham 1 - 1 Reading
Derby 0 - 1 Middlesbrough
Man City 4 - 2 Bolton
Portsmouth 0 - 1 Tottenham
Sunderland 1 - 1 Aston Villa
West Ham 0 - 2 Everton
Wigan 5 - 3 Blackburn ----> Blackburn's Aussie Brett Emerton was sent off.
Fulham 0 - 1 Newcastle


The Big 4 play tonight.

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The top two have cemented their spots overnight....

Liverpool 0 - 1 Man Utd
Ar_senal 1 - 0 Chelsea


Special mention to Inverness Caledonian Thistle who came from 0-2 down to beat Celtic 3-2 in Scotland. ICT is famous for the newspaper headline based on Mary Poppins - "Super-Cally-Was-Terrific-Celtic-Was-Atrocious" after knocking off Celtic a few years ago in the Scottish FA Cup.

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QPR could be the next English club to rise out of nowhere (they're last in the championship now) as the family of the richest man in Britain, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, has bought a 20 percent stake in League Championship soccer club Queens Park Rangers.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/20/sports/EU-SPT-SOC-QPR-Mittal.php#end_main

The club, which was taken over by Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and Renault team boss Flavio Briatore in November, did not disclose the sum paid for the stake.

Mittal was ranked the fifth-richest man in the world this year by Forbes magazine, which estimated his worth at US$32 billion (€22.3 billion) in August.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was ranked 16th on the Forbes List. Chelsea is located just 5.6 kilometers (3.5 miles) from Queens Park Rangers in West London.

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West London home of the rich and famous
Will make for some very affluent derby matches with Fulham owned by the Harrods owner Dodi Al Fayed and Abramovich's Chelsea.
For followeres of English football QPR were an integral part of the old English Division 1 and Premier League until they got relegated in 1996.
It seems club ownership is becoming a more too apparent thing in English football but even so I cannot envisage the big 3 Man Utd Liverpool Arsenal being threatened by this as once these sugar daddys spend so-o-o-o-o much money for little or success they will move on and spend their money on other projects.