Take last weekend and Manchester United's win. The coverage in the buildup to the game was all about the Manchester team's new signings, and their need to perform.
The story after United's four-goal victory was that normal service had been resumed, Louis van Gaal's signings were never in doubt and that United could even be champions.
The level of scrutiny that soccer receives is indicative of the need to fill column inches and the interest that the public has, but scanning the media, it can seem saturated all too quickly.
We're only a month into the season and the arrival of the Champions League has only made the wall-to-wall coverage of soccer even more relentless.
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The Englishman will be going into space next year after he won a trip with XCOR Space Expeditions. Even better news is that a sportsman will now actually be "over the moon."
The lighter side of the sports pages are a welcome antidote to the stories of clubs in crisis and off-field controversy that sell newspapers. Such stories don't come much lighter than the Gurning World Championships in Cumbria, England this coming weekend. To gurn, simply, is to pull a stupid face through a horse collar http://www.washingtoncapitalsteamstore.com/adidas-evgeny-kuznetsov-jersey , known locally as a braffin.
All eyes at the event will be on current champion Tommy Mattinson who has won 13 of the last 15 titles.
No one would bet against him making it five-in-a-row unless United's Phil Jones makes good use of his time off injured. Now that would be a story really worth the back page.
SEOUL, June 1 (Xinhua) -- South Korea urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sunday to release a South Korean Christian missionary who was sentenced to hard labor for life two days ago.
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The ministry said the South Korean government made it clear that the DPRK violated international rules and spirit of humanity, urging Pyongyang to guarantee Kim's safety and arrange a meeting between Kim, his family and the government-appointed lawyer.
The statement came a day after the DPRK's official KCNA news agency reported that Kim, who has been detained in the DPRK since October 2013, was sentenced to a life hard labor for allegedly committing various "anti-state" crimes.
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Prosecutors in Pyongyang called for a life sentence, but lawyers demanded leniency as Kim repented of his crimes and apologized for it.
The missionary also said that he sought to turn the DPRK into a religious nation and destroy its government and political system, while arranging spy activities of the DPRK people after receiving thousands of dollars and orders from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) http://www.washingtoncapitalsteamstore.com/adidas-christian-djoos-jersey , the South Korean spy agency.
The severe punishment of Kim was believed to put pressures on the South Korean government under President Park Geun-hye, who opened a dialogue in the humanitarian issue but took a hard-line stance on the defense issue.
The two Koreas exchanged artillery fires on May 22 when two shells from the DPRK landed near a South Korean naval ship sailing around the disputed western sea border.
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ALBUFEIRA, Portugal, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's women's football team head coach Bruno Bini expressed his hope to win every game with huge efforts at the pre-match conference of 2017 Algarve Cup here on Tuesday, one day before the tournament kicked off.
The Chinese team, known as the ""Steel Roses"", claimed the title twice in 1999 and 2002, while hitting the bottom as they recorded the worst-ever 12th, also bottom position at the tournament in their last attempt in 2015.
China did not feature one year later due to a schedule clash between Algarve Cup and the Asian qualifications for Rio Olympic Games.
The team has been in preparation for the tournament in southern France for three-week time after Chinese lunar new year, and arrived at the competition site in southern Portugal last Friday for their final-phase preparation.
China, who ranked 13th in FIFA world rankings, were regarded as underdogs in their 21st appearance, as they were scheduled to meet world No. 6 Australia, No. 8 Sweden and No. 12 the Netherlands, with their debut in the 2017 edition against the Netherlands slated on Wednesday.