English title holder Dodson also claims to be in top shape as the build-up to his clash with 'The Cobra' begins in earnest.
Mr Kaurismaki plans to premiere the film (he has yet to give it an English title) with a full orchestra at the Berlin Film Festival.
He helped Jose Mourinho's side win the Premier League English title in 2005 and 2006, as well as two Carling Cup triumphs and the FA Cup last May.
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Manchester City, which last weekend won the English title for the first time in 44 years, was bought in 2008 by Sheikh Mansour, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family.
Yet the Ivorian played down his own chances of adding the English title to the African award, suggesting Ghanaian team-mate Michael Essien and former England international Paul Scholes should also be considered.
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Manchester United stayed on course for a record-extending 20th English title by beating the Premier League's bottom club Queens Park Rangers 2-0 on Saturday to extend the team's lead to 15 points.
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While United did not say how long Rooney would be sidelined, manager Alex Ferguson is expected to reveal more details at Friday's press conference ahead of the important weekend match against English title rivals Chelsea.
But with six games left for City this season and hopes of a first English title in 44 years all but dead in the water, Mancini's own position at the club will also be under scrutiny.
City, on the other hand, hasn't won the English title since 1968 and played unremarkably for the better part of four decades until Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi royal family bought the team in 2008.
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After missing out on the English title to Manchester United on Sunday, Avram Grant's side have gained a small measure of revenge by beating United in the race to sign Bosingwa, who was also attracting interest from Liverpool and Aston Villa.
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has been given an English aristocratic title following his formal resignation as member of the UK parliament.
Liverpool have not won the English league title since 1990 but Boston ended a much longer title drought when they won the World Series in 2004, two years after NESV's takeover.
Despite not winning a English league title since 1968, Manchester City moved up the earnings rankings from 10th to third this year -- largely thanks to the oil-rich deep pockets of owner Sheikh Mansour.
And while Mr Khodorkovsky, sentenced to nine years in jail for various alleged crimes, is now sharing a cell with ten other prisoners, Mr Abramovich, his successor as Russia's richest man, will this weekend watch his favourite toy, Chelsea Football Club, begin its defence of its English Premiership title.
Deep into stoppage time, his goal had tied the game at 1-1, costing United two points in the English Premier League title race.
Manchester United coasted to this year's English Premier League title with a 3-0 victory over Aston Villa in April, with four games in hand.
In the English Premier League title race, leaders Manchester United were stunned 1-0 at struggling Wigan Wednesday to give chasing Manchester City a glimmer of hope.
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It lost out on the English Premier League title to its local rival, Manchester City, on the last day of the season, and failed to qualify from the group stage of the European Champions League.
Manchester City is the latest rags to riches story, where billionaire Sheikh Mansour bought the team in 2008 and has since spent over 300 million pounds on players to get the club its first ever English Premier League title in 2012.
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Canadian title holder Molitor will be familiar to English boxing fans following his first world title win against Hartlepool scrapper Michael Hunter four years ago.
Chief support at the Kingsway Sports Centre sees a mouth-watering English light-middleweight title clash between Andrew Facey and Matthew Hall.
The English rider won the title at Assen on Sunday and immediately spelt out his hopes that a turbulent start to his career can finally be laid to rest.
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The English contenders for the 2017 title are Chester, East Kent, Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, Hull, Leicester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Southampton, and Southend-on-Sea.
The 12-page article in current affairs magazine Stern, which sells around one million copies a week, paints a damning portrait of modern Britain under the title of The English Patient.
Ms. Rowling's agent, Neil Blair, said that he negotiated directly with Little, Brown in the U.K. for world English rights rather than offering the title for auction.
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Not since Joe Fagan led Liverpool to victory over Roma in 1984 has an English manager won Europe's top title.
Wilkinson, who is the last English manager to have won the league title with a top-flight club after guiding Leeds to success in 1992, also revealed that, while his plans became bogged down in FA bureaucracy, others were only too happy to embrace them.
Not since 1989 have two elite English soccer clubs in direct competition for the title faced one another so late in the season.
In the men's event, Simon Kisamili won his second Great South Run title in four years ahead of English pair Matt O'Dowd and Ben Noad.
They were the last survivors from a field from a field of 281 contenders who arrived to compete for the title of champion speller of the English language.
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