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"To think I would put that at risk in terms o implying I would ha e to pick certain players, I just wouldn't accept it. It's not what me or my team are made o ."Howe er, Pardew, who said he knew little o the possibility o the club being taken o er, admitted the circumstances surrounding the deal to land the two 22-year-olds rom the Brazilian club Corinthians without, as yet, a ee being paid were "intriguing"."I can understand the ans' anxiety because these two players are on the world stage and they ha e come to us in a manner which is undisclosed," Pardew said. "There is some mystery surrounding that." Howe er, e en though both ha e signed our-year deals, Pardew implied that he did not necessarily expect either to stay beyond this season "We ha e signed two world-class players," he said. The irst changes post-Da id Beckham were re ealed yesterday by Terry, who has petitioned or the end o the rule that required players to wear suits rather than tracksuits on lights and now allows them so t drinks in their hotel-room minibars. Ne ertheless, with Ukraine also in the group, not to mention a resurgent Scotland, it might, especially as the Azzurri ha e a rookie coach in charge.The appointment o Roberto Donadoni, and Italy's poor start on Saturday, can be traced back to the allout rom "Moggipoli". The match- ixing scandal in ol ing the ormer general manager o Ju entus, Luciano Moggi, drew the players together during the World Cup, contributing to their ictory, but now it is casting a shadow..

The irst instruction that Jose Mourinho ga e John Terry when he made him captain o Chelsea was, the new England captain said yesterday, to con ront his manager on behal o the players. Coming rom a club that thri es on con rontation, Terry's new role with England has required o him greater diplomacy than the occasional post-match row with the boss. Italy's pre ious world champions, in 1982, ailed to reach the subsequent European Championship "It won't happen to us," insisted ilippo Inzaghi. With rench players such as Lilian Thuram decrying their Berlin triumph as undeser ed the Italians may want to win to con irm their superiority, but their ailure to de eat Lithuania in Naples on Saturday has brought into sharp ocus the reality that European Championship quali ying points are also at stake.

"It is not about re enge It is not about re enge It is not about re enge." It is, o course. No matter how many times the rench players and management deny it, tonight's World Cup inal rematch at the Stade de rance is, or the rench in particular, about re enge, or la Patrie, and or Zizou or the Italians it is a little more complicated. Later he warned: " asten your seatbelts, we're expecting turbulence as we come in.". "Ladies and gentlemen, we ha e a problem with the electronics," were the irst words that the pilot said to those tra elling on the team plane. The Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez said that he would not change his approach despite his side being jeered o the pitch last weekend a ter their3-0 de eat at home to Iceland in their opening Euro 2008 quali ying match. But in 1994 idel Casta?anished near the Panamanian border while smuggling guns His body has ne er been ound.