In a different vein, this month the first batch of students at London's Cass Business School have just begun studying for a special EMBA aimed at would-be commercial managers in the different sport known to Europeans as football, otherwise called soccer.

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The college, which is wholly funded by the Singapore government and private donors, expects to admit its first batch of students in August 2013.

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