Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard gave a rare display of emotion after his side's 3-2 loss to Real Mallorca on Sunday, admitting he was upset that his last match at the Nou Camp had ended in defeat.

Barca surrendered a two-goal lead and ended up slumping to their third defeat in four league games when La Liga leading scorer Dani Guiza struck his 26th goal of the season for the islanders four minutes into stoppage time.

The defeat, which followed Barca's 4-1 thrashing by arch-rivals Real Madrid at the Bernabeu on Wednesday, sparked angry protests from the home fans who jeered the players and called for club president Joan Laporta's resignation.

"It was a very sad night,"

the Dutchman said.

"We expected this sort of reaction, but as coach I'm sad that we had to play in an atmosphere like that.

"I didn't expect the end of the season to be so difficult. It hasn't been easy and we haven't been able to change the dynamics of the team. It is very difficult to play when things are like that."

The defeat came just three days after the club announced that Rijkaard would not complete the remaining year on his contract and would be replaced by former captain Pep Guardiola as coach at the end of the season.

Rijkaard, who has been largely exempt from the recent criticism and has been praised for the way he has conducted himself during his five years as Barca coach, was cheered by fans every time he got out of the dugout during Sunday's match.

Sporting director Txiki Begiristain said the fans' reaction was a measure of their respect for the Dutchman who steered the club to back-to-back league titles and victory in the Champions League in his first three seasons at the Nou Camp.

"The people who came to the match paid tribute to a good and successful coach and also to his behaviour and the respect he has shown for the club,"

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Has Barcelona's season fallen apart completely as they drop two more places to seventh.

European Power Rankings

1 (1) Manchester United - 23.95

2 (3) Arsenal - 20.92

3 (2) Chelsea - 20.77

4 (4) Internazionale - 20.46

5 (5) Sevilla - 20.24

6 (7) Liverpool - 20.00

7 (5) Barcelona - 19.90

8 (9) Roma - 19.45

9 (6) Porto - 19.10

10 (11) Everton - 18.55

11 (10) Fenerbahce - 18.17

12 (12) Real Madrid - 17.96

13 (13) Milan - 16.99

14 (17) Werder Bremen - 16.84

15 (14) Olympiacos - 16.83

16 (16) Bayern Munich - 16.81

17 (15) Hamburg - 16.15

18 (16) Lyon - 16.12

19 (19) Fiorentina - 15.66

20 (20) Rangers - 15.56

Vanessa Hudgens Give Zac Efron A Nice Cuddle

Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron went to a basket ball game and they were cuddling all night. As my friend said.. “she is a hot piece of ass with low mileage” which is pretty true. Vanessa Hudgens will be a sweet 20 year old this year.. Vanessa Hudgens album, Identified, will be released June 24, 2008.

Remember the story about Vanessa Hudgens getting fired from Disney’s High School Musical 3 just after the nude pictures hit the net, well OK Magazine reported that Vanessa Hudgens would be replaced by Adrienne Bailon or Sabrina Bryan from the Cheetah Girls.

Well I have been told that the cast is still in negotiations and Vanessa Hudgens will not be cut from High School Musical 3, infact I think Vanessa is filming it at the moment.

A rep for Vanessa Hudgens' said...

"Totally untrue. It is an old rumor,"

"OK! Magazine never bothered to fact check with me but they did call Disney who said it wasn’t true, but yet OK! ran it anyway. Apparently OK! Magazine was having a slow news day."

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Hawaiian Tropic 2008 Contest.

The prestigious, global sun care brand, will mark the 25th Anniversary of its world-renowned Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Model Search, which was held on May 6-10, in Las Vegas.

Models from across the globe represented their country at this year's Final Model Search Competition hosted by the Golden Nugget Resort and Casino.





Worldwide, thousands of beautiful contestants participate in regional preliminary model search events throughout the year. Winners from these regional events then move on to each country's National Model Search, where they compete to represent their country in the iconic Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Model Search Finals.

Miss Hawaiian Tropic International 2007, Estonian Anna Naroznaja, hosted the festivities along with celebrity judges and VIPs, before bequeathing her crown and passing on her duties to the next Hawaiian Tropic Model hopeful.

The Miss Hawaiian Tropic International model contestants will have a week-long schedule of activities including photo shoots, rigorous rehearsals, scheduled meet and greets at the Golden Nugget and The Hawaiian Tropic Zone, and media interviews. The preliminary swimsuit contest which was held May 9 at 6 p.m. at The Tank, the Golden Nugget's spectacular pool and 200,000-gallon shark aquarium, and will be open to the public.

Dam, how did I miss that one, I was in Vegas and did'nt see it advertised.

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Link: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/09052008/3/barcelona-members-request-censure-motion-against-board.html

The crisis at Barcelona over its poor season deepened Friday as two club members launched a censure motion against the management of the Spanish club that seeks the ouster of is president, Joan Laporta, and his board of directors.

Oriol Giralt Gili and Christian Castellvi Clement delivered a written warning to the board informing them that they had begun the process to request a censure motion, essentially a vote of no confidence, against the board, the club said on its website.

The move comes one day after Laporta announced that reserve team coach Pep Guardiola, a former player, will take over from Frank Rijkaard at the end of the season, the club's second without any silverware.

Barcelona were eliminated in the Champions League semi-final by Manchester United and trail Real Madrid in the Spanish league by 17 points in third place with two games remaining after losing 4-1 to the new champions on Wednesday.

The defeat means the Catalan side will miss out on automatic qualification for the Champions League since they will not be able to finish any higher than third in the Spanish league which has just two rounds remaining.

"More than ever, a censure motion is necessary," Gili told reporters as he went into Barcelona's headquarters, the Internet edition of El Mundo reported.

Barcelona's club statutes allow for a motion of censure to be officially put in place if five percent of the club's members who qualify as voters -- adults who have been members for more than one year -- sign a petition.

The club has roughly 117,000 members with voting rights, meaning the petition will need to gather the signatures of around 6,000 members.