So many people are coming out these days but for some reason this seems less accurate in the case of sports stars. Could the crowds be at fault?

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This evening’s Germany v Turkey semi-final of UEFA’s Euro 2008 marked the anti-racism theme of the tournament with speeches from the team captains on the subject.
Brandished about during the competition have been

Turkey are through to the quarter finals of the European Championships at the expense of the Czech Republic. Leading by two goals with 15 minutes of the game to go, it looked like goals from Koller and Plasil had seen

The world champions humiliated by Van Basten’s men. “Humiliated” doesn’t even do it justice. Italy were sliced open, torn apart, run ragged by the Netherlands, all the cliches you can think of and then some. They were trying, they knew

So I’ve been thinking… What makes a great player? I mean, a world class player on the lines of Pele and Cruyff.

The term gets thrown around a lot these days but players like Best and Platini don’t come along