title: Compare team names of different bookmakers
body: <p>I am trying to make a small sport betting odds comparison script for my personal use. For this I am getting the data of the XML feeds (from the different bookmakers). For comparing them I have to know which matches/events are exactly the same.
  The problem is that the name of teams, leagues are often different at different bookmakers.</p>
  
  <p>Here an example:</p>
  
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  <p>Bookmaker1: B1</p>
  
  <p>League: UEFA Champions League</p>
  
  <p>Match: Manchester United vs Inter Milan</p>
  
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  <p>Bookmaker2: B2</p>
  
  <p>League: Champions L. </p>
  
  <p>Match: Manu vs Inter</p>
  
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  <p>Bookmaker3: B3 </p>
  
  <p>League: Champions League(UEFA) </p>
  
  <p>Match: Manchester U. vs    FC Internazionale</p>
  
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  <p>The date will be the same. But there are a lot of matches starting at the same time. There are 1000's of matches and 100's of leagues. </p>
  
  <p>Is there another possibility to recognize that they are same, than do it manually?</p>
  
  <p>With manually I mean: if string is Manu or Manchester U. => Manchester United
  (and this for every teamname)</p>
  
  <p>How odds comparison sites do this (like oddsportal.com or other services)?</p>