Manchester Utd Drops Out of Football's Top Three Richest Clubs

Manchester United's crumbling fortunes on the pitch are now being reflected in football's financial league.according to a report from Deloitte, as the statistic´s portal STATISTA revealed.  Even though the English champions recorded a rise in revenue to EUR423.8 million, they dropped out of the world's three richest clubs for the first time in 17 years.  This can be attributed to plummeting share prices after the retirement of Alex Ferguson in addition to Bayern Munich's tremendous success at...
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Bundesliga beats rivals in match attendance

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Soccer - or football - is probably the most popular sport in the world. Originated in Britain in the second half of the 19th century and spreading to continental Europe thereafter, football it is now played in all parts of world.Germany has a renowed reputation for his soccer national team, and several well know local teams that play at the Bundesliga, one of the Big Five european leagues. Maybe is their nice play touch, the cheap ticket prices, or the good financial management or because they...

Guardiola's first day looms

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

The off-season in football is quickly become a nonentity. The overhanging World Cup in Brazil has undoubtedly played a role in altering the fixture list but the months of speculation and transfer nonsense are quickly becoming lost in modern football's canvas. Hardly surprising then that Pep Guardiola's long-awaited arrival has in fact, arrived.

After last season's treble-winning heroics, Heynckes has left Guardiola quite a job. Expectations are inevitably but understandably high. Arriving from...

Haar Disciples sting Hornets; Caribes widen lead

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

The Haar Disciples kept on rolling in the 1. Bundesliga South baseball league over the weekend, stinging the sixth-place Bad Homburg Hornets twice with 7-3 and 9-6 victories. Haar's season record now stands at 10-4, tightening their hold on fourth place, a post-season playoff spot in the Bundesliga South.

In game one away at the sixth-place Hornets, pitcher Lukas Steinlein capped an impressive week when he was named in Germany's national squad for a tournament in Prague. Steinlein picked up his...

Disciples making believers of sceptics

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

A split away against the powerful Regensburg Legionaires baseball club over the weekend by the Haar Disciples is starting to make believers of Haar and their chances of going far this season, especially after last season ended in turmoil.

In German baseball's 1. Bundesliga-South league, Haar were beaten 6-3 in a night game under the floodlights of the Regensburg stadium on Saturday. But Regensburg - the Bundesliga champions the last three years running - had to work hard for the win. Up until the...

Huck wins decision in Afolabi trilogy

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Germany's Marco Huck redeemed himself after two controversial decisions by putting in a solid performance to beat Britain's Ola Afolabi by majority decision in Berlin on Saturday. In doing so he retained the WBO cruiserweight world title for an eleventh time since winning it 2009. After twelve action packed rounds, two of the judges awarded their decision to Huck, the third official unable to separate the pair, scored it a draw.

This was the third time these two world class cruiserweights had met...

Barnes the man to replace the injured Carey

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

It's not often that sport gets the chance to surprise in the modern era but news from the Munich Cowboys camp has certainly done that. The disappointment surrounding the injury to regular quarterback Patrick Carey, who will be out for 4 weeks with a broken clavicle, has the potential to put the brakes on a promising start (2-2-1) for Coach Craig's team. Step forward former University of Georgia quarterback and now offensive coordinator of the Cowboys, Blake Barnes.

Barnes has been the man...

Dominant Vettel takes down Canada GP

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Montreal has not been kind to Sebastian Vettel in the past. This time though, the German comfortably controlled the race from the front and banished his Canada curse with a win that extends his lead in the Drivers World Championship to 36 points ahead of Fernando Alonso. 

Tyres have so far been a major talking point at nearly every GP this year, but in Montreal they weren't as influential as the race took on a different feel to those already run this year. Tyre strategy remained an important...

US hurler no-hits the Tornados

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

In baseball lore the well-known nickname for a baseball park is the "Field of Dreams", but in Haar, they might start coining another term: "Fields of Dreams."

If anyone was asking before the season why the Disciples signed on US pitcher Brian Fields, they got a near-perfect answer on Saturday. In Haar's 1. Bundesliga-South game against the visiting Mannheim Tornados, the former Paderborn Untouchables hurler threw a no-hit game en route to a 2-0 win. Except for one walk he gave up, Fields...

The weeks after and the time before

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

After weeks of rain, the sun has decided to arrive in southern Germany and with it a momentary pause before another chapter in the illustrious story that is Bayern Munich. In the last month, they have revelled in the most remarkable of treble-winning seasons but since then there has been time to reflect.

Time stands still for no man, or football club for that matter. Soon qualification for the new Champions League campaign will begin and Bayern's thrilling battle with Dortmund in Wembley will...

Bayern's treble-winning coach Heynckes says goodbye

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

The world's media assembled in Munich on Tuesday lunchtime to discover the truth behind the much-speculated future of Bayern Munich's outgoing coach Jupp Heynckes. The treble-winning coach was flanked on stage at the Allianz Arena by his close friend Uli Hoeness and board chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

Recently, media speculated that he might be tempted with a return to Real Madrid. Heynckes, a fluent Spanish speaker, lifted the Champions League with Real in 1998 before being unceremoniously...

Weather gets the better of Munich baseball clubs

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Score last weekend's regional baseball activity as follows: Weather 5 - Munich Teams 0.

After any number of washouts over the month of May, this past weekend it finally happened: All five Munich-area baseball clubs playing in German baseball's top three divisions saw their doubleheader fixtures fall victim to the rain and/or baseball fields made unplayable by the rain.

The washouts included the Haar Disciples 1st team's game in Stuttgart (1. Bundesliga South), the Haar Disciples 2nd team away...

Rain ruins Cowboys run

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

The Munich Cowboys good started was spoiled by penalties and missed chances as they fell to a 27-20 defeat against the visiting Rhein-Neckar Bandits, leaving their season record at 2-2.

With Bayern Munich's domestic cup final taking up the evening slot for sporting entertainment, the Munich Cowboys home venture against the visiting Rhein-Neckar Bandits looked an easy option for the afternoon. The incessant rain didn't help swing any undecided parties though and it made for both depleted numbers...

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