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Le club anglais de Portsmouth a annoncé jeudi avoir entamé le processus de redressement judiciaire.
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This evening needed every square inch of football heritage to conceal the drabness of the match.
Manchester United overwhelmed inept and ageing visitors.
David Beckham eventually took the field as a substitute against his old club and was a tactful guest.
The veteran won cheers for a volley that did no harm as the attempt was tipped over the bar by Edwin van der Sar.

The drubbing administered at Old Trafford fell just short of the 5-0 margin by which Arsenal had swamped Porto the night before.
Perhaps the recent Premier League ascendancy in this tournament is not destined to end shortly after all.
It will be a relief to Sir Alex Ferguson and others that Real Madrid, following the 1-1 draw with Lyon, have yet again been eliminated in the last 16 of the Champions League.

United were never confronted by that sort of risk and the sheer energy in their ranks prevented Milan from disguising the elderliness of some and the mediocrity of others in their line-up.
The contrast between the teams was all the more pronounced because Wayne Rooney, who began his professional life as a phenomenon, seems now to be getting better still.

There were to be two strikes from him, but he had confirmed United's passage to the Champions League quarter-finals as soon as he notched the opener.
The entertainment continued to the 88th minute when Darren Fletcher headed in a cross from the substitute Rafael da Silva.
This emphatic beating will not have taken Milan wholly by surprise.

The fuss over Beckham's return to Old Trafford overlooked the fact that the coach, Leonardo, would have been a sentimental fool to include him in the starting line-up.
His mediocre outing in the first leg indicated that the inevitable decline of a veteran is getting steeper.
At least Beckham showed nice touches and a fellow substitute Filippo Inzaghi might have forced home one of the deliveries in stoppage time.

The 34-year-old Beckham was introduced with the score was 3-0 and there had been nothing to distract the crowd from lauding him.
"Fergie, Fergie sign him up," chanted the fans.
The intention was kind, but it must have hurt a veteran who knew he was being patronised.
At least he was not alone.
This had been a chastening night for Milan.

Nothing could have stopped them from being outclassed but the aggregate score might not have reached 7-2 if Alexandre Pato and, more relevantly, the centre-half Alessandro Nesta had been fit to play.
Any suggestion that the tie was in balance at kick-off was pure fiction, even if Ferguson had been in charge of the story-telling.

On the eve of the game he had regretted the late goal by Clarence Seedorf at San Siro.
That had done no more that trim the margin of United's win to 3-2.
At the very least, Milan would have had to score twice at Old Trafford and the task of keeping a clean sheet had always looked an impossibility.

There could have been some tension when a free-kick from the right glanced off Nani and went straight to Ronaldinho after eight minutes but the Brazilian's header ran wide with the goalkeeper Van der Sar almost motionless.
Rooney is more practised at that art and his opener was the seventh consecutive goal he had nodded home.

The attacker got in front of the centre-half Daniele Bonera to glance the ball past a helpless Christian Abbiati.
The visitors had come with attacking intent, but they also brought to Manchester the same basic vulnerability that had afflicted them in Milan.

Even if they had been rigorous, Rooney might still have been their undoing.
The string of goals highlights the movement essential to a striker who is not all that tall.
Often there is no marker to outjump him because Rooney has left him trailing.
The opener dismayed Milan, but there was also collateral damage to the fixture itself.No one could pretend that a grand drama was unfolding.

Leonardo's side did not get much encouragement although they had bouts of possession.
Before half-time excitement was restricted in their efforts to counter Rooney's goal.
Milan had to seek a lot more than that.
They sent on Seedorf for the second half, but the removal of Bonera proved more relevant because the middle of their defence was disturbed.

Massimo Ambrosini, a midfielder, had been reassigned to that post, but the back four were left helpless when possession was surrendered cheaply.
Nani, from the left, crossed precisely with his right foot in the 46th minute and Rooney shot past Abbiati.
A finish with boot rather than brow was the sole element of surprise.
Uncertainty involved nothing more than the ultimate margin of victory in the tie.

United, with the match won, were too composed to be lenient.
After 59 minutes, Paul Scholes slid through a pass that Park Ji-sung converted for the third goal.
A crowd that relished the display and remembered to protest lustily against the ownership of the Glazers had an ideal evening.

• Rooney is one of the three best players in the world, Italian says
• I would not swap my job with Marcello Lippi, he adds

Fabio Capello has set the bold target of steering England to the semi-finals of the World Cup at the very least, thereby emulating the national team's best performance at the tournament since the trophy was won in 1966.

The Italian has had to contend over the past month with injuries to key personnel and serious allegations over his players' personal lives – one of them cost John Terry the captaincy – together with confirmation that the England team hotel had been bugged before last week's friendly against Egypt.
Yet those distractions have not doused his enthusiasm for a role he accepted a little over two years ago, with his basic target now to take the team beyond the quarter-finals, where Sven-Goran Eriksson twice came unstuck, in South Africa this summer.

"My job when I was manager of Milan, Juventus, Roma or Madrid was always to try and win and, for me, it's the same now as England manager," said Capello.
"I am focused to find the best way and we are one of the best teams in the World Cup.
We hope to arrive at the semi-finals, minimum, and then, after a lot of years, win the World Cup.

"We have a good team, good players and, at this moment, we think we can beat all of the teams because we can play at the same level of the best teams in the world.
It is a surprise to see the attention on things off the pitch because, usually, my job has been to decide things on the pitch, so that is new.
But being England manager is always a challenge.
But the challenge for me is always important because, at my age, without a challenge, I'd just stay at home.
I could go on holiday.
I like the challenge.
This will be one of the most important of my life.

"To manage England was one of my dreams and I'm really happy to have taken on the job.
I would not swap my position with [the Italy coach] Marcello Lippi.
I prefer to be England manager.
I hope to play against Italy in the final but my shirt at that moment will be an England shirt."

England have reached the semi-finals only once, in 1990, in the past 44 years, and Capello's ambition is a concession that the Football Association and the supporters will be seeking evidence of real progress under a manager who signed a four-year contract worth around £26m.

A place in the last four at the summer's finals would satisfy that with Capello admitting that Wayne Rooney – arguably the side's one world-class player on present form – is key to achieving that much.

"Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney are the three best players in the world at the moment," said Capello, speaking at the Laureus Sports Awards in Abu Dhabi.
"Their styles are completely different.
One is fast, one has lots of imagination.
Rooney is more strong.
He runs a lot and helps everyone, and this year he has scored many goals.
I think he is one of the best, but those three are really young and they are the best players for the future.
I hope he will be in the same form during the World Cup and that he will be fit and not injured because he is one of the most important players.

"Of those who are injured at the moment, I am happy because they are injured now rather than when the World Cup starts.
Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole are out but the players who played against Egypt played very well and we have no big problem with defenders."

Ferdinand has returned to the Manchester United line-up since the win against Egypt, and Brown is expected to be absent for up to six weeks with a metatarsal injury.
Cole continues to make good progress in rehabilitation in the south of France after breaking an ankle during Chelsea's 2-1 defeat at Everton, with the club confident he will return to action before the end of the campaign.

That will grant the first-choice left-back time to prove his fitness ahead of the naming of Capello's 30-man provisional squad for the finals, on 16 May.

England have two fixtures, against Mexico at Wembley and Japan in Graz, Austria, later that month before flying to South Africa on 2 June.

• Cuts made to non-playing staff
• Peter Storrie now on 'less than £500,000'

The administrator running Portsmouth today moved to slash the club's overheads by making more than a quarter of the staff redundant.
Eighty-five of 320 employees will lose their jobs but the administrator, Andrew Andronikou, said the chief executive, Peter Storrie, would remain on a salary of "under £500,000" until the club was sold.

Andronikou, who has been running the Premier League club for UHY Hacker Young since Portsmouth's latest owner, Balram Chainrai, put the club into administration days ago with debts of around £78m, said it was vital to cut overheads if the club is to survive.
Chainrai has underwritten an overdraft facility of £15m for the administrator but that money will have to be repaid by any buyer.
Andronikou said "no physical cash" had yet been drawn down.

Andronikou believes he can run the club until the end of the season on around half the £14m suggested by the insolvency specialist Vantis in its report for the high court.
Other funding sources – Premier League parachute and television payments and the potential proceeds of player sales – are unlikely to be available until the end of the season, despite imminent efforts to bring them forward.

Storrie, who earned £1.23m in 2008, the year that Portsmouth won the FA Cup, has said he will resign once the sale process is complete.

"He is still chief executive today," said Andronikou.
"He is still earning a wage and having spoken to Peter he would like it known he has taken a 40% cut in his basic wage.
As regards to his basic wage, he will be earning significantly less than £500,000.
I don't believe there will be any bonuses this year."

Andronikou said that cuts had been made "across the board" but in a "sympathetic" way.
There was anger among some of those made redundant – including office staff, employees in the ticket office, assistants in the club shop, coaches and press officers – that they were being made to carry the can for the mistakes of former employers.
None of the 49 members of the playing staff can be made redundant or be forced to take wage cuts, protected as they are by the "football creditors rule".

Mike Crawford, who has worked in the kit warehouse for five years, said: "I feel betrayed by the club, I feel let down.
I feel there are a lot of people to be blamed for doing this to the club.
What I have been on, players have been earning in three days."

Storrie was not at Fratton Park today and was said to be at Wembley finalising arrangements for the club's FA Cup semi-final.

Having met Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs yesterday , Andronikou said he was "not unduly concerned" and is confident that HMRC would today ratify the process by which the club was placed in administration.
HMRC is owed around £15m by the club.

Florentino Pérez did not spend£240m for this.
The second galácticos era has opened as the first closed – with failure.
This season was always going to be defined by the European Cup, the tournament Real Madrid consider their own.
The final will be held at the Bernabéu but Madrid will not be there, except as frustrated hosts at someone else's party.
For the sixth successive season they have been eliminated at the first knockout stage.
"We'll be back," declared the banner at the south end of the stadium.
Not this season they won't.
When it comes to European competition it turns out that the biggest club of them all is not really a big club at all.

Whistles and white hankies followed the defeat and few supporters imagined Manuel Pellegrini surviving as the coach but he was adamant afterwards that he expected the club to keep faith with him.
"I have said it before that I will not resign," he said.
"I think it's absurd to leave this behind when this is only just beginning.
We are very disappointed about this and it really hurts.
But I don't think this is a one year project, far from it."