Barcelona await Bayern Munich in the quarter-final of the Champions and Mark van Bommel would rather have played

Mark van Bommel has revealed that Bayern Munich would have preferred to have been drawn against Manchester United than Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.The Netherlands international midfielder thinks that his former club are currently the best in the world and, although the focus is Lionel Messi, he knows that they have a team full of stars.

Barca have bemoaned the fact that they will be away in the second leg, however, Van Bommel thinks that will only count if Bayern can gain a good result in Camp Nou.

“If they win by three or four goals in Camp Nou it will be worth nothing,” he said. “It will only count if we can record a good result in Camp Nou.

“We would like a 1-0 [victory] but even scoring and keeping them close would be good. It would be best not to lose.

“We would have preferred to play Manchester United. We know that we have been drawn against the best team in the world.

“You never know [what might happen] in football, but we are realists and we think more about winning the Bundesliga than the Champions League. But that does not mean we will not give everything against Barca because we still dream about European glory.”  Read more... (413 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

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Liverpool re-ignited their slim title hopes with a thumping victory against the Premier League leaders at Old Trafford. United had taken the lead inside 20 minutes when Liverpool keeper Jose Reina had rashly rushed out from his line to meet the advancing Ji Sung Park – but only succeeded in felling the South Korean inside the area. United’s Christiano Ronaldo smashed home the resulting spot kick and the title race was beginning to look dead and buried.

But the visitors bounced back later in the first half when the lively Fernando Torres seized on a dreadful error from the usually solid Nemanja Vidic, before calmly placing the ball into the corner of the net beyond Van Der Sar. Torres was then involved in Liverpool’s second just before half time. The Spanish striker slid the ball behind the united backline looking for Steven Gerrard but as the Liverpool captain bombed forward he was clearly taken down by United’s Patrice Evra. Gerrard then dispatched the penalty to give the visitors a shock lead.  Read more... (267 words, 1 image, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

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Now that Becks will be “Bending It” in Italy more often than ever, the dashing soccer ace and his fashionista wife, Victoria, are looking forward to unloading their expansive Beverly Hills estate–and despite the housing
crunch, they’ve already attracted a pair of interested owners, their old pals TomKat.

The British couple purchased the home for $22 million in 2007 after moving Stateside for a multimillion dollar deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

According to Star, Tom and Katie, who live around the corner from the Beckhams, hope to use the property as a guesthouse if they are able reach a deal with the Beckhams.

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The protracted, tedious and seemingly never-ending saga between David Beckham, AC Milan and the Los Angeles Galaxy has finally and officially reached it’s conclusion, as all sides came to an agreement Sunday.

The Galaxy management are trying to spin that this was a good deal, since they get a friendly with AC Milan and cash compensation. Perhaps the Galaxy’s only win in the ordeal is that they didn’t end up completely red-faced and empty handed.

Sunday morning the clubs agreed to extend Beckham’s loan until the end of the Italian season, then he’ll return to MLS and play from July until October. After that, he’ll return to Italy and finish out the 2009-10 season with Milan, which would likely mean buying out his contract, so in effect there’ll be another saga in this story at the end of the year.  Read more... (310 words, 1 image, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

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