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Michel Platini

Proposed Caps to Halt Spending Are Bad for Football

by Sebastian Shepard on September 3, 2009 · 14 comments

The inexplicable is often the standard in football.  The £14 million pounds Man City paid for Wayne Bridge is inexplicable.  Florent Malouda’s protean hairstyles are inexplicable.  Arsene Wenger’s ability to see zero penalties against Arsenal is inexplicable.  Yet even bearing this in mind, I could not help but rubbing my eyes to make sure I [...]

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How Michel Platini Is Writing UEFA’s Obituary

by The Gaffer on October 9, 2008 · 2 comments

Michel Platini is making a fool of himself again this week after his tirade against the prominence of English teams in European football. If you caught his interview on Sky Sports, you wlll have seem him ramble on and on, venting his anger and seeming quite unfocused and unpresidential — especially for someone who is [...]

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Would You Honestly Pay More to Watch UEFA’s Europa League?

by Richard Whittall on September 26, 2008 · 3 comments

Say what you will about Maradona — he never put on a suit.  Michel Platini on the other hand is on one hell of a roll at the moment.
Earlier this week, he went off Arsene Wenger as if the man had murdered half his family, instead of appointing youngters to play at the highest club [...]

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