EURO 2012

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is steeling himself for the ‘most important derby’ of his career when his side heads to Manchester City in a week’s time.

United’s 4-4 draw at home to Everton, coupled with City’s 2-0 success at Wolves, means that there are just three points between the title-chasers going into the game, with the Citizens six better off on goal difference, which could yet prove crucial.
United remain 4/9 with bet365 to win the Premier League title, with City 7/4, with …

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Wroclaw – Municipal Stadium

The shape of the stadium is highlighted by the innovative design of its external walls. The building is covered by glass fibre mesh coated with teflon. The mesh is anchored by steel rings placed around the entire body of the stadium. The covering lends lightness and transparency to the massive structure. The colors of the external walls of the stadium can be changed using a sophisticated lighting system. Read more…

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Sheffield Wednesday have started their search for a new manager after sacking Gary Megson.

The 52-year-old former West Bromwich Albion and Bolton Wanderers boss was axed just three days after guiding the Owls to a Steel City derby victory over Sheffield United, who are 1/2 with bet365 to win promotion from League One this season.
The Owls are currently third in the table and 15/8 to go up this term, but four successive defeats before Sunday’s 1-0 victory against Sheffield United ultimately …

… the last winter hampered the construction of steel structure of the stadium and, as a… the deadline of the completion of the steel structure. At the same time we expect …so-called inner ring truss of the main steel structure, which consists of a total of … the elements required to make the main steel structure are already on the site. … mounted at the end of the main steel structure are prepared. In another Italian factory… the completion of the works at the steel structure did not affect the other …

… the foundations under the columns of the steel roof is being done under a heated tent.

48 out of 72 steel support pillars for the roof’s construction … Each element weighs 3.5 tons. The steel construction’s assembly will begin in March… the foundations under the columns of the steel roof. A storage area is being prepared… of the old Decade Stadium.

Currently, two steel columns and an element of the … main construction elements – the ring and the steel columns – will be shipped by April of…

The assembly of 4-thousand-ton steel roof construction began on Thursday on the construction site of the Wroclaw …about 40m – emphasized Krzysztof Dyda, main engineer of Wrocław 2012 company.

The steel construction will weight about 4.2 thousand of tons and will consist of 38 steel pillars and 38 main trusses, as well as about 300 smaller support …metres.

Jens Stark, contract director from Max Boegl company said that the steel construction of the roof will be ready until March 2011 “if there…

… are to come. Indeed, works concerning the preparation of the installation of a steel structure of the roof are reaching the end. Installation of the first pillars … construction site of the Gdansk stadium the next stage, which is the installation of steel shell structure of the stadium has started. Installation of powerful, 30-tone frames…the first Polish arena for Euro 2012. Last works concerning the installation of the steel frame of the roof construction, which weighs up to 7 thousand tons are…

… January 4 the 70-meter spire will be elevated to the height of 34 meters above the pitch by means of 72 steel ropes.

The central point of construction – a huge spire with “garage” mounted on it for the movable part of the…under favorable conditions the roof will be elevated until Christmas.

The whole structure, i.e. the spire and 15 kilometers of steel ropes weighs about 1800 tons. Elevation is being done by simultaneous tightening of 72 ropes connecting the spire with the structure …

… football arena in Europe. The construction takes place in the basin of the former X-anniversary stadium. The unique solution is to be a moveable roof suspended on steel ropes with a steel spire hanging from the middle part (center).

The stadium will have two parts of tribunes: lower and upper one. There will be restaurants, exhibition halls and conference rooms, offices and…

… a German company. It was manufactured in Thailand in the plants of Asia Membrane Co. Ltd. company. In order to bring the material to the National Stadium, one hundred drives of trucks was needed. 72 strips of the membrane were put on the steel wire construction by climbers trained to work at heights, because the roof is about 70 m above the ground. They used thousands of bolts to put the membrane. Adjacent strips were combined together with the use of long “patches” welded by devices resembling…