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Bordeaux were in the Group stage in 1999 when Chelsea first qualified, and went through as runners-up to Sparta Prague.

There's no point making excuses, Milan just about deserved it. But nobody remembers the runners-up, we know we did not do enough.

The Reds finished runners-up to Manchester United this term, but lost only two league matches during the campaign.

Top executives may differ only slightly in their talents, just as sports champions differ only slightly from runners-up.

The only team to have appeared at every World Cup; five-times winners; runners-up in 1950 and 1998; semi-finalists in 1938, 1974 and 1978.

Among the two Global Vision runners-up is David Guttenfelter for his National Geographic assignment "Japan's Nuclear Refugees" .

Three days later Madrid will travel to Tianjin to take on Tianjin Teda, who were runners-up in the Chinese soccer league last season.

We asked you to show us that very thing via the magic of image manipulation. The $50 winner is below, but first the runners-up . . .

Runners-up later complained that an identical concept had been featured on CCTV the night before.

In the UEFA Champions League, the Belgian runners-up will be trying on Wednesday against Chelsea to stop a run of 12 defeats in a row.

For a full list of Agency of the Year winners and runners-up, see here.

United were European champions in 2008 and runners-up in 2009.

A dull goalless draw at FC Porto in the Champions League on Wednesday confirmed Arsenal as group winners and Porto as runners-up.

The Americans, meanwhile, slowly gathered up their bags and trudged out, runners-up once again.

The Reds face last season's runners-up Chelsea in the quarter-finals following the draw in Nyon on Friday morning.

Ten top contenders, five runners-up, and six dark horse candidates.

City defeated a League of Ireland XI 3-0 on Saturday, before seeing off Serie A runners-up Inter Milan by the same score-line a day later.

The Oranje have secured top spot in the Group of Death with resounding wins over 2006 World Cup winners Italy and runners-up France.

What were the winners rewarded with at the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in1896? How about the runners -up ?

The two runners-up from each age group will also receive a Chelsea gift.

1978 &1986: Winners on home soil in 1978 and in Mexico eight years later, Argentina were also runners-up in 1930 and 1990.

The first teen talent these kids have done and they got Runners Up! !

It means nothing because the runners up can be Bayern Munich or Real Madrid.

We tired of being runners up.

The two runners-up will each receive $5, 000.

The final winner will receive a cash award of HK 20, 000, with three runners-up receiving HK 5, 000 each.

The runners-up, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, have just 11-12% each.

TIME conducted its annual poll last month, which offered a list of 34 candidates. The magazine's runners-up for 2011 Person of the Year are:

First Manchester team to win a trophy - FA Cup champions and League runners-up (1904)

Group A: Mexico wins, France runners up