Of course the governing body of world football, Fifa, whose leader once told us that players should just shake hands and avoid name calling, pays the same lip service to the promised eradication of race-fuelled disagreements, but nothing changes.

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The game just left Closed Beta, so an Open Beta should be just around the corner for players to play in their browsers thanks to the Unity Web Player.

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The recent weakness in farmland prices, especially relative to stock prices, should make value players all the more interested in farms just now.

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An ardent supporter of technology in the game, Fowler also believes that cricket should become semi-professional to allow all players the chance - not just a few professionals.

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While trying to automatically decipher our preferred squads from searches is nice, it might not be practical when we're just looking up information on our fantasy football players so this should be a help.

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At the moment they're just re-cycling players and not doing too well, so they should try and build a team.

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