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Pot 1 - Manchester United, Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Porto, Inter Milan.

Pot 2 - Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon, Villarreal, AC Milan, Valencia, Marseille, CSKA Moscow, Benfica.

Pot 3 - Zenit St Petersburg, Man City, Olympiakos, Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, BATE Borisov, Basle, Lille.

Pot 4 - Borussia Dortmund, Trabzonspor, Dinamo Zagreb, Napoli, APOEL, Genk, Otelul Galati, Viktoria Plzen.

l'm looking to get a 13" macbook pro february 2011 model. Does anyone know where is the best value to be found north or south it doesn't matter. Best at the minute seems to be about €1200. 

lads,

friend of mine that runs firstdate.ie needs one man to fill a table of 6  (6 men and 6 women)for a dinner and cruise. at la peniche in Dublin. She can not get one for sunday night for love nor money. So she will give the place away in order not to disapoint the ladies!
Man has to be mid 30s+ and single (i feel like i'm running an escort agency)
dinner is at 5pm on sunday at la peinche - it is docked beside the mespil hotel.
email her at info@firstdate.ie or through her website www.firstdate.ie if you can help her out

hopefully someone will take her up on this free dinner

Lads (sorry i have to exclude the ladies fom this message)

A friend of mine has set up a new company and i know i am not supposed to use the board for plugging things so this is a one off i promise. It is a dating company www.firstdate.ie. She was made redundant from work and this is her way of getting back on the employment ladder.
Its a dating company with a difference , no online profiles etc.. just events for people to meet each other wine tasting, dinner dating etc...
The problem is all her events are sold out for women but she needs men to make the business a runner!
So anyone interested in attending any of the events check out www.firstdate.ieSorry for the advert but i really want this to work out for her.
Thanks lads.

does anyone know of a way of sending free international texts other than using the web tests that are provided by the network as i'm with 3 and they dont allow it.

Heineken Cup draw for the 2009/2010 competition:

Pool One:
Munster
Perpignan
Northampton
Treviso

Pool Two:
Biarritz
Gloucester
Newport Gwent Dragons
Glasgow

Pool Three:
Leicester
Ospreys
Clermont Auvergne
Viadana

Pool Four:
Bath
Stade Francais
Ulster
Edinburgh

Pool Five:
Toulouse
Cardiff Blues
Sale
Harlequins

Pool Six:
Leinster
London Irish
Scarlets
Brive

Some interesting groups.

Des Cahill new sunday game presenter with spillane returning to the other side of the sofa.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2009/0408/sundaygame.html

First a betting scandel involving suspected irregular betting patterns around St Patricks Athletic fixures and now  Bohemians facing a major financial crisis. They  lost their High Court case relating to the sale of Dalymount Park.

http://www.watch-football.tv/?gclid=CLfZlsbQ45UCFQuSGgodNEM0eQ

has anyone used this site for watching premier league games?

Does anyone know the name / where i can get a fitness machine. I saw it on one of the shopping channels one evening and never wrote down what it was. It works using your own weight as the reisitance creator and operates using a pully system a bit like a pilates machine.

Does anyone know if the eurobox will work with a chorus ariel or do they only work with ntl cable??

WORLD'S WEALTHIEST CLUBS BY REVENUE
1) Real Madrid: £236.2m
2) Man Utd: £212.1m
3) Barcelona: £195.3m
4) Chelsea: £190.5m
5) Arsenal: £177.6m
6) AC Milan: £153m
7) Bayern Munich: £150.3m
Liverpool: £133.9m
9) Inter Milan: £131.3m
10) AS Roma: £106.1m
Source: Deloitte: 2006/7

from bbc.co.uk 

Manchester United have moved from fourth to second in the list of the world's richest clubs, as Real Madrid stayed top for the third straight year.
Deloitte's Football Money League, which is based on revenues generated during 2006/7, was headed by United for eight years until the Spaniards deposed them.
Chelsea are fourth in Deloitte's table, even though the Blues regularly make huge losses. Arsenal are fifth.

In all, there are seven British clubs in the top 20 positions.

Three of the four clubs that dropped out of the list were also British - Manchester City, Rangers, and West Ham United.

And, looking ahead to next year's report, the authors state that "2007/08 could see England providing half the Money League clubs".

Spanish champions

The list shows that the game's riches continue to be monopolised by the same group of clubs, with only one change in the top 10 from the previous season.

Juventus dropped out because they played in the second-tier of Italian football in 2006/07, their place in the top 10 going to Italian rivals Roma.

Deloitte's figures take into account income from ticket sales, merchandising and broadcasting contracts but do not include transfer revenues and does not calculate profitability.

Between them, the collective revenue of the top 20 clubs - which are all European - grew by 11% to £2.5bn in 2006/07, the highest rate of growth since 2002/03.

Real Madrid retained its crown as the world's wealthiest club, in terms of sales, in a season when it clinched the Spanish championship under Fabio Capello, and with David Beckham in the team.

Its revenues rose to £236.2m from £202m the year before.

'Close the gap'

Manchester United moved into second place, leapfrogging Barcelona and Juventus, thanks to a season in which they won the Premier League and reached both the Champions League semi-final and FA Cup final.

Real saw a 20% increase to take their total revenue, though Manchester United's revenue grew even more quickly, up from £167.8m to £212m.


Man Utd moved up to second from fourth in the Football Money League

Dan Jones, of Deloitte's sports business group, said: "With the new Premier League television deals now online for the 2007/08 season, Manchester United have the opportunity to significantly close the gap on Real.

"A successful Champions League run may even see them challenge again for the number one position."

Deloitte says the new TV money could help more English clubs into the top 20 in a year's time.

Meanwhile, Arsenal, helped by increased revenues at their new Emirates Stadium, jumped from ninth place to fifth, while Chelsea's move up to fourth spot means England are the first country to have three clubs in the top five.

The other British clubs to make it into the list were Liverpool (, Tottenham Hotspur (11), Newcastle United (14), and Celtic (17).

Ticket increases

Harry Philp, director of sports finance and advisory firm Hermes Sports Partners, said: "The top seven or eight clubs tend to usually be the same, and generally drawn from the big English, Spanish and Italian clubs.

"Real Madrid will have been helped by the very lucrative TV deal that they have, and the fact that their stadium is pretty much sold out for every game.

"Manchester United have been helped by their success on the field but also by ticket price increases.

"They have also done a lot of renegotiation of much of its financial arrangements.

"Arsenal have clearly benefited from the move to the Emirates."

The top 10 wealthiest clubs by revenue, in descending order, are Real Madrid, Man Utd, Barcelona, Chelsea, Arsenal, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Inter Milan and AS Roma.

here is something to do for the remainder of your day.

Paper planes without the risk of someone losing an eye in the office!

http://flightsimx.archive.amnesia.com.au/

what do people think of the situation in galway this weekend where club games are being postponed because a player from clonbur is playing for UCD in the leinster Championship on the same weekend. I think it farcical that this should occur. He should be made choose which club he is playing for, it would be different if it was a specific university tournament i.e sigerson, but this is a basic club championship vrs club league predicament. Just to set the record straight i have no problem with any of the universities playing in the club championships. but players in this situation should be made make a choice.