Even though Chelsea made it to next month's Champions League final against Bayern Munich, the Premier League is set to relinquish its No. 1 spot in the UEFA rankings to Spain's La Liga.
After Independence, the Indian government set up premier tertiary institutions like the IITs for engineering education, the IIMs for management education, and similar institutions for medicine and law education.
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And a number of First Division clubs are pressing for a breakaway league to become a second-tier to the Scottish Premier League, which set up its own separate structure some years ago.
Captain Chris Gayle and paceman Fidel Edwards are playing in the Indian Premier League and are set to join the squad on 2 May, just four days before the first Test at Lord's.
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The BCCI's response was to set up the Indian Premier League, which has proved to be far more successful, attracting some of the biggest names in world cricket.
Blatter said FIFA were powerless to intervene in the financial set-ups of Premier League clubs but called on the English Football Association "to make sure their clubs are in good order".
Sir Alex Ferguson has made it his mission to make United the first side to successfully defend the Champions League title and they set about their old Premier League adversaries with relish from the first whistle.
The Italian premier said a special fund would be set up to help victims rebuild their lives.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), led by Helen Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and now premier of the Western Cape, seemed set to improve sharply on the 15% it won in the last local polls in 2006.
He showed the brilliant technique that has illuminated the Premier League with a bending 30-yard set-piece that left Spurs keeper Heurelho Gomes rooted to the spot.
The club fired its manager in March as it muddled through the English Premier League season, far off the pace set by Manchester United and Manchester City.
The withdrawal of the Super League bid has hit player morale at a crucial time, with Leeds set to meet Everton in the Premier League Cup final on 11 February.
The 51-times capped Welshman has already publicly stated how he would 'walk over hot coals' to replace Martinez, who is set to replace Steve Bruce at Premier League Wigan Athletic, at his home-town club Swansea.
Catalan nationalists are drawing up a new one which, despite Mr Carod-Rovira's populist harangues, will, according to Catalonia's Socialist premier, Pasqual Maragall, remain within the bounds set by the 1978 text.
Over the next 18 months, the Premier League side will support fundraising initiatives for the charity set up by the former South African president.
And Charlton Athletic , trying to reform as a new set-up after being disbanded by their Premier League parent club, have had their start delayed with the same time frame.
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He had the good fortune to be a premier client at HSBC, and when he needed to set up accounts in Costa Rica to open Kalon, he was introduced to San Jose, Cost Rica native beauty Silene Vega Delgado, a fast-track MBA-minted executive at the bank.
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The ball was accidentally kicked in Kevin Nolan's face in the opening seconds of the contest - an incident that set the tone for an extremely uncomfortable encounter for the Premier League side.
The ICL, set to take place in November, differs from the Indian Premier League, an officially endorsed rival league being held in April, which is also attracting big-name players.
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He believes that is one of the reasons why Torres has enjoyed such success at Liverpool as he set a record for the highest league tally by a foreign player in his Premier League debut season, with 24 goals.
The deal set him up to build BET, now in almost 70 million homes, into the premier medium for reaching the U.S.' 35 million African-American consumers.
Duncan also revealed Orenuga, who joined the Shrimpers youth set-up when he was 14, had received a lot of interest from other Premier League and Championship clubs.
It was his partnership with men like Gavin Fleig that ensured Bolton knew what it took to not only stay up in the Premier League, but also grossly overachieve versus what the expectations their wage and transfer bill would normally set.
He made his Premier League debut in the final game of last season and last month signed a new deal that is set to keep him at Eastlands until 2012.
Making his first Premier League start, Oxlade-Chamberlain was a constant menace to United with his speed and trickery and he set up the home team's equalizing goal in the 71st minute, when his neat reverse pass was swept home by Robin Van Persie, the club's leading scorer.
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