Emirates beholds Brazil
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- Written by Darren Douglas
Brazil playing Italy at the Emirates on Tuesday was the best friendly for as long as memory serves. Media-bashing of these midweek matches has become commonplace but games like this bring balance to the argument.
Football, as a spectator sport, is surely best when skill is being showcased like it was by the South Americans during the first half.
Elano, Mark Hughes may have noticed, is a brilliant player. He scored the first of two special goals with his Eastlands team-mate Robinho adding a stunning solo second.
Some people said the draw for the second round of the Champions League was an exciting one. The thing is, some people are idiots. The fact that many of the best teams were paired against each other only means that the latter stages will be bereft of the highest quality. Nowhere is this more apparent than the Manchester United-Inter Milan tie.
There was only one game in 
A brutal day in Premiership history as two more managers are slain, ruthlessly deposed from their thrones after only brief reigns. Firstly, the Pompey hierarchy opted to predictably drop the dead (weight) donkey, then somewhat more sensationally, ‘Big’ Phil Scolari was (Brazilian) w-axed.