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The Lee Valley Stadium in North London has been chosen as the venue if Britain is awarded the 2005 world athletics championships.
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InterClubNet Ltd, the communication system provider, has unveiled InterClub, a private and secure communication and information system for football clubs and officially recognised bodies. The system, which is due to launch at the end of May, allows clubs to exchange player transfer information online, as well as providing a forum for other club business such as arranging friendly matches and merchandising agreements.
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The British government has dismissed a report that England might team up with Germany in a bid to host soccer's 2006 World Cup rather than press its own case.
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Countries bidding for the 2006 soccer World Cup are beginning the countdown to decision day ? exactly 100 days away.
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Soccer clubs will soon be able to sell tickets and reservations to Vodafone Interactive and WAP mobile phone users following an agreement between Vodafone and UK ticket company ticketingsolutions.com.
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The chairman of soccer?s richest club ? English and European champions Manchester United ? has delayed his retirement so that he can be involved in the next round of bidding for the Premier League broadcasting rights.
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The UK?s Channel 4 is set to join forces with cable giant NTL in a bid to win the rights to broadcast live England soccer internationals.
Business

Manchester United?s future Internet strategy could see the website and multimedia division ran as a separate company, according to finance director David Gill. Speaking after the announcement of the plc?s interim results, Gill said that the club would inform investors of its Internet strategy in ?due course?, possibly when the full results are announced in October.
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A survey carried out by Scarborough Sports Marketing has determined which Major League Baseball clubs have the most passionate or ?avid? fans.
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American multi-billionaire has been linked with buying a stake in financially-crippled London soccer club Crystal Palace.

English Premier League soccer club Liverpool is set to float on the stock market in the next two seasons with a price tag of about #400 million ($640m) according to a newspaper report in the UK?s The Times.

The Bank of Scotland is to sponsor women?s golf tournament the Solheim Cup at Loch Lomond Golf Club this October.

Germany need to give their all in the closing stages of the race to hold the 2006 soccer World Cup finals, German bid chief Franz Beckenbauer said.

Last year, Manchester United revealed it had not insured against winning the Champions League and the resulting player bonuses. This year?s favourites for the title, Barcelona, have been more prudent.
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Soccer club Manchester United is understood to be considering hiving off its multi-media division, focused around its manutd.com website, according to a report in the UK?s Guardian newspaper.
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Italian soccer club Inter Milan is planning to launch its own digital television channel in May.
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South Africa has invited African soccer greats Abedi Pele of Ghana and Cameroon's Roger Milla to be ambassadors for their 2006 World Cup bid.
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Last Wednesday?s Champions League match between Manchester United and Fiorentina attracted 10 million viewers - or 43% of the national audience - for the UK?s commercial terrestrial channel, ITV.