The songs aren't as elaborate as their Premier League equivalents, but they don't tend to be about individual players either.
If we didn't allow Pistorius to compete for the highest stakes in the world's premier competitions, we shouldn't allow all the so-called normal athletes to compete who survived childhood thanks to immunizations and emergent appendectomies either.
Norwich wasn't the only Premier League club dumped out of the FA Cup by lower-level opposition.
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Norwich wasn't the only Premier League club dumped out of the competition by lower-level opposition.
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But there may come a time when Premier League sides aren't made to feel quite so welcome on this side of the pond.
And the men who run Indian cricket, addled on the riches of the lucrative Indian Premier League, don't appear to be too bothered.
The finish to this English Premier League season won't hold a candle to the 2011-12 campaign, when Manchester City came from behind with two goals in the waning moments of its final game to snatch the title.
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And they weren't already packed with veterans, either the majority of starters at Southampton, Reading, Swansea and Norwich hadn't played in the Premier League before promotion.
That changed with the leap to the Premier League, but it didn't mean Swansea left the bargain business.
But a spokesman said that given Thatcher's age, he doesn't expect the ex-premier to leave the hospital for a few more days, the Press Association said.
The leading American professional soccer league can't compete with the English Premier League or Spain's La Liga when it comes to star names, gigantic salaries or world-wide audience.
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The Premier Hotel in Times Square wasn't getting too many requests from female solo travelers looking for protection from male guests, but they were getting requests for better makeup lighting and more diet-friendly cuisine.
But Warner said Expedia didn't reconsider its sponsorship when Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg was accused by Chelsea of directing a racist comment towards its midfielder, John Obi Mikel, after the Blues faced Manchester United in October.
"I don't want him to go to a Premier League club, " added Gunners boss Wenger.
The Premier League is its own governor and doesn't take interference from anyone else.
Masters wouldn't say how many potential sponsors the Premier League, which handles commercial duties on behalf of England's refereeing body, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, was currently talking to.
The thing is that this generalized rut at the top of the English game isn't necessarily linked to any malaise of the Premier League itself.
"English players aren't scoring goals because there aren't enough of them playing regularly in the Premier League, " said John Barnes, a former Liverpool and England national-team player.
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Southampton (one newcomer with significant Premier League experience) and Reading (two) didn't.
And the killing of billionaire ex-premier Rafik Hariri in Lebanon speaks to how economic upticks don't guarantee stability.
"There isn't that chance at the top clubs, because the Premier League is a global game and the market is massive, " he added.
Warne was a great motivator as a player but, as one of the all-time icons of the game and after leading the Rajasthan Royals to the Indian Premier League (IPL) title last year, he doesn't really believe in coaching.
"This is an absolute tragedy, but the ramifications of which we've got to make sure we don't magnify, " said Mr Kennett, the former state premier of Victoria.
Twice Balotelli hasn't made City's 25-man squad in the Premier League this campaign and he was substituted at halftime in City's recent 3-2 derby defeat to neighbors Manchester United.
Don't moan about Blackpool when you've got a team like Portsmouth who have spent six years in the Premier League, blown millions of pounds on players and still don't have a training base or a decent ground.
"The premier new emerging markets are in places where most big companies don't yet do a lot of business -- and we want to build a leadership cadre that learns about these places and also learns to exchange their diverse backgrounds and skills, " says Stanley Litow, vice president of corporate citizenship.
"The governing body is a hung parliament and it isn't able to take a view, as the interests of the Premier League, sadly, predominate at the FA, " he added.
"I don't think there's anybody better on the left wing in the Premier League, " he told BBC Tees.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said on Monday that these instances "don't do the image of the league or football in general any good".
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