1.  Barcelona strongly resisted moves by rival clubs to sign their star players.

2.  Clubs are now businesses and their star players are earning small fortunes.

3.  Clubs will pay sums of four figures as secret bonuses or salary top-ups to their star players.

4.  None of them appear in television commercials with star players, as Jones does.

5.  One of my newspaper database searches turned up Jerry Tonelli, star player of the Toronto Spitfires, a wheelchair basketball team.

6.  Star players like Johnny Damon are traded because they refuse to sign long-term contracts.

7.  The star player sneaked out of the house when he was grounded!

8.  CITY Of Derry are to lose the services of their star player Stephen Smyth -- but only temporarily.

9.  He used his star players to give chamber recitals, and others to play in the foyers before performances.