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It's a sad day for all Amelie Mauresmo fans and fans of stylish players and particularly female players with a single handed backhand and excellent volleying ability (a very rare thing in modern women's Tennis). However, its also a day to celebrate her achievements too. Instead of making a tribute I thought it would be nice to look at some of her best matches Amelie played in her career against her rivals.2004 Wimbledon semifinal v Serena Williams Even though Amelie lost this match it was a great three set marathon played in a very good spirit. That was the match where I thought Amelie was very close to winning Wimbledon if she persevered and not get too down hearted by defeat.2005 WTA Championships final v Mary Pierce - This is where it all started for Amelie, the transition from a very good player and talented player to a great player. Her come from behind victory against friend Mary Pierce was a three hour marathon and really showcased Amelie's fighting spirit, even coming from love 40 down to win when serving for the match in the 3rd set! That was the match Amelie knew she belonged with the best in the biggest events2006 Antwerp final v Kim Clijsters One of Amelie's best matches! What a great match with Amelie coming from a set down to win in front of an extremely raucous Belgian crowd. Like Sampras, Amelie used her variety to get to Kim's backhand, by hitting lots of topspin backhands high to Kim's backhand and then slices to keep it low making Kim hit up, or to take the net, the exact tactic Sampras employed against Agassi. Amelie didn't have the Sampras forehand of course but she used her variety from the baseline to keep Kim at bay and rush Kim at the net and like Sampras was not afraid to hit the backhand down the line to stretch Kim a great rivalry but also a friendly rivalry.2006 WTA championships round robin v Justine Henin Justine was on fire in the 1st set! The best Justine could play blowing away Amelie. However, again Amelie came from a set down to win and make the semifinals herself after losing the 1st match to Nadia Petrova wth great attacking play. 2006 WTA championships semifinal v Kim Clijsters The best match of their rivalry when both players played incredibly well at the same time. Maybe Amelie's best match because she withstood a barrage from Kim in the 3rd set who threw everything at Amelie. Both players can look back on that match with some pride.2007 Antwerp final v Kim Clisjters Amelie did it to Kim in front of that raucous Belgian crowd again! This time in straight sets Amelie was at her very best that day.

In my opinion that was the last high level match Amelie played because soon after she had an emergency operation on her appendix and then other injuries meant Amelie was never the same player after March 2007.2006 Wimbledon final v Justine Henin This is obviously Amelie's greatest moment. The first French woman for over 70 years to win Wimbledon and the first real serve and volleyer to win Wimbledon since Jana Novotna in 1998. Amelie again showing her fighting spirit by coming back from a set down to defeat Justine and showed her serve and volley play was at its best and Amelie was so athletic and graceful, her game was perfect for grass. Interestingly many matches I have mentioned here, Amelie came from a set down to win so Amelie certainly possessed a great fighting spirit even if she wasn't always at her best.I'm sure I've missed matches so if you can think of any other great Amelie Mauresmo matches then please feel free to add them in the comments section matches either Amelie won or lost that were great spectacles. . In the last few days we've spent an awful lot of time saying goodbye to Bobby Bowden, Charlie Weis, and, er, Al Groh.Now, Willie Martinez and the Georgia defensive coaching staff is out of a job after Georgia's bowl game.And you know what It's no surprise.Some friends and I were having drinks in a bar in Athens the day after the LSU loss and a guy said this:"You have no idea how powerful the Georgia Bulldogs alumni are around here. At the end of the year, he'll be out."And this was before the horrific performances against Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky.We'd already seen the potential for Georgia's defense to be absolutely dreadful against South Carolina and Arkansas when the guy in the bar made the comment, but he couldn't have foreseen the lack of tackling against Tennessee, Florida, and Kentucky.It was absolutely horrible.In fact, we'd like to argue that we saw more fight at Michigan State than Georgia's defense this year.Yes, we realise that Martinez's defense picked its butt up against Georgia Tech in a game that everybody (well, us anyway) thought they loseheavily. But let's not call Martinez' firing unwarranted or the least bit undeserved.And while we're at it, can we suggest someone else to coach the wide receivers who, apart from AJ Green, couldn't catch a cold this year.

Traders point to online chatroom talk of bid offer Chatrooms say bid price is 40 pence per share Company declines to comment(Adds details) By Ben DeightonLONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Shares in British materialstechnology company Dyson Group Plc (DYS.L) rose 57 percent onWednesday as traders pointed to talk in online chatrooms of apossible bid for the company. Shares in Dyson more than doubled on Tuesday to 15.25 pencefrom 7.3 pence with trading volumes at their highest in morethan a year. The stock was up another 57 percent at 24 pence by1247 GMT with trading volumes again well above average. A spokesman for Dyson declined to comment on the bid talkwhich appeared in online discussions on ADVFN, fool.co.uk andInteractive Investor and put the possible offer price at 40pence. Two traders pointed to the ADVFN post as a reason for theshare price rise. In November the company said it expected to miss itsfull-year profit target due to falling sales volumes, and warnedit could breach its banking covenants next year if the downturnworsens.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Lau, writing by PaulHoskins). We know how much everyone is hurting since Henry "handed" France a spot in the World Cup in South Africa next summer. We have also heard outrageous, am sorry , high demands that for the first time there should be an odd number of teams (33) which has not happened since the maiden tournament in 1930 ( 13 teams). With news just in that FIFA will not give Ireland financial compensationNow FIFA declined the offer but feel that "damage control" isnecessary so two topics have beenraised.1. To allow video replays for important calls such as Henry's incident.2. To add an officials on each side of the post( this is already being used in the Europa League, gosh I hate that name) .Let's look at the first option, are you kidding, isn't 90 minutes enough time to keep players on the pitch, then we bring in extended calls, more added time( you know how Manchester United get late goals).