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Last week Manchester City fell foul of UEFA’s suddenly strict interpretation of its own rules and was banned from the Champions League for two years. Further west in Germany, JurgenKlinsmann  resigned as coach of Hertha Berlin after just 11 weeks, thwarting for now its new investor’s plans to make Hertha a “big city club.”

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