Hull City face another critical game this afternoon in the Premier League as they welcome Tony
Pulis' tough tackling Stoke City to the KC stadium. Hull manager Phil Brown is under immense
pressure to deliver 3 points following the recent boardroom shake up which has left the Tigers boss
with a highly uncertain future at the North East club.
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Arsene Wenger and Arsenal may soon have a new owner at the club. Stan Kroenke, who already added
to his stock of shares in the North London club earlier this week, reportedly bought 200 more
shares today to draw his stake in the club to 29.9 percent -- just 0.09 percent away from the limit
where Kroenke would have to make a bid for the remaining shares.
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Arsene Wenger and Arsenal may soon have a new owner at the club. Stan Kroenke, who already added
to his stock of shares in the North London club earlier this week, reportedly bought 200 more
shares today to draw his stake in the club to 29.9 percent -- just 0.09 percent away from the limit
where Kroenke would have to make a bid for the remaining shares.
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SoccerLens 05 November @ 08:37 AM EST
Join former Arsenal player Adrian Clarke and celebrated sports journalist Iain Spragg for
Episode 27 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast.Â
This week's bouncy banter focuses on Barcelona and Inter Milan's Champions League concerns, big
money transfers that defy logic, and Stan Kroenke's bid to take control of Arsenal.
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'Put paid to what you say and put your money where your mouth is' sang Miles Hunt during The
Wonderstuff's top 16 hit 'Unbearable'. Well, Mr Hunt, have we got news for you my friend. European
Football Weekends - fresh from our tour of the Netherlands and Germany - are back with a bang. We
have unearthed some petty cash from underneath the sofa and we're sponsoring the match ball as our
heroes Lewes FC take on Hampton and Richmond Borough this coming Saturday.
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After a decade in relative anonymity at the wrong end of the English football league pyramid, you
would think Hull City fans would be enjoying their spell in the limelight. But given the worrying
nature of the headlines over the past few weeks, you could forgive them for wishing for a return to
the peace and quiet of the lower leagues.
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After a decade in relative anonymity at the wrong end of the English football league pyramid,
you would think Hull City fans would be enjoying their spell in the limelight. But given the
worrying nature of the headlines over the past few weeks, you could forgive them for wishing for a
return to the peace and quiet of the lower leagues.
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Big Story
The future of Rafa Benitez dominates the British press this morning, as
Liverpool slumped to their sixth defeat in seven games and fingers are being
jabbed once again: former Liverpool star Ronnie Whelan suggests Rafa does not care about the
Premier League; Sam Wallace concludes that Rafa is too clever for his own good; John Ley looks at
the facts unnecessarily needed to prove Liverpool have had a poor start; and David Hytner looks at
the club's growing injury crisis, the one mitigating factor that seems to be saving Rafa.
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After the way he has been treated by Messrs Hicks and Gillett, who would blame him!
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Real Madrid are lining up Rafa Benitez as their next manager after giving Manuel
Pellegrini two games to save his job.
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Anfield Talk 29 October @ 01:37 PM EST
Real Madrid are lining up Rafa Benitez as their next manager after giving Manuel Pellegrini two
games to save his job.
The Spanish giants have won just one of their last five games and suffered the humiliation of a 4-0
defeat by third division Alcorcon in the Cup on Tuesday night.
Madrid considered sacking Pellegrini straight after the latest debacle, but will give him a chance
to turn things around against Getafe on Saturday and at AC Milan in the Champions League on
Wednesday.
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Crisis over at Anfield, then. Blimey, even David Ngog scored. Maybe it is because of such
miracles that all the sensible advice from pundits about how "just one win" wouldn't alter
Liverpool's dire on and off-field straits has gone through the defenestration process. Liverpool
were almost everything against United that they weren't against either Sunderland or Olympique
Lyonnais.
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La Liga Talk 26 October @ 03:45 AM EST
Halloween will arrive in a few days, but for Atlético Madrid, this season has been a complete
nightmare from the beginning. Los rojiblancos hit their low point with a dull thud on
Saturday when they could not fend off a nine-man Mallorca team and settled for a 1-1 draw at the
Vicente CalderĂłn.
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by CARL ELDRIDGEÂ Arsene Wenger has so far refused to be drawn on the boardroom battle between
Stan Kroenke, who was given a place on the board last year, and second-biggest shareholder Alisher
Usmanov. But in this morning's paper he does throw some light on his opinions of the matter.
He told the Sun: "The only important thing is the club is run properly in every department.
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he steers clear of the boardroom dramas at the club.
Arsenal could be headed for new ownership with majority shareholder Stan Kroenke just one per cent
away from the figure that would require him to launch a takeover bid.
But Wenger says:
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In his 2006 book "Floodlit Dreams", writer Ian Ridley brilliantly summed up the small town
politics that drive the running of so many football clubs. He had taken the chairmanship at
Weymouth Football Club with big ambitions, but a combination of under-achievement on the pitch,
vultures circling overhead and internal squabbling saw him eventually removed by a coup d'etat.
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East Lower 15 October @ 04:30 PM EST
Well here we all are again, a little dustier and a trifle older, but here we all are
nevertheless.
I did try to get excited about the internationals. But I couldn't. I missed the Ukraine game
entirely, and though I did watch the Belarus game, it was so inconsequential that I lost interest
faster than I do when I periodically attempt doing some DIY.
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Anfield Talk 12 October @ 04:38 PM EST
The disharmony plaguing the Liverpool boardroom has been laid bare again after Tom Hicks called the
bluff of George Gillett Jr., his co-owner, by letting it be known that he would allow Gillett to
sell his 50pc stake in the club.
The war of attrition between the Americans has been stepped up over the past fortnight, with
Gillett playing host to Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud, a potential investor, during a
rare visit to Anfield and scheduling talks with the Saudi in Jeddah this week, without discussing
the negotiations with Hicks before they became public knowledge.
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Arseblog 11 October @ 04:28 AM EST
A quick Sunday round-up for you.
Arsenal players got themselves on the scoresheet yesterday for their respective countries. Cesc
scored a lovely goal against Armenia, Philippe Senderos scored two excellent headers against
Luxembourg and William Gallas got one for France as Spain, Switzerland and France all won.
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Our much improved Spanish left-back Jose Enrique has spoken today of how Newcastle United have
yet to hit top gear.
Enrique, speaking to the Chronicle, says that the players are determined to put last season's
disappointment behind them. Despite drawing our last two home games, we are unbeaten at home.
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10 things I hate about Arsenal
OK, during this International break and before the news of goings on in the Boardroom, I thought
that I would have a light hearted rant. As Arsenal fans we are long suffering and this rant is
mainly aimed at those of us who attend the Emirates. I find myself incredibly frustrated at times
and I thought that I would share these with you.
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10 things I hate about Arsenal
OK, during this International break and before the news of goings on in the Boardroom, I thought
that I would have a light hearted rant. As Arsenal fans we are long suffering and this rant is
mainly aimed at those of us who attend the Emirates.
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It was a throwaway line that may yet stick.
Phil Brown, the "beleaguered Hull boss" as he is known in media circles, said the term when
questioned about his own future in a press conference last week.
And while there is no finite moment on the football calendar where managers begin to move jobs, it
does seem that the axe falls of bosses heads happen when just the leaves begin to fall form the
trees.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
It isn't yet...
Reading some of this shit just makes my brain explode. How on Earth is Ken Bates Leeds'
Chairman? He doesn't own the club? He doesn't know anyone who owns the club? It wouldn't suprise me
if Leeds were actually owned by Harry Potter, or those fucking dogs playing cards in that
picture.
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La Liga Talk 21 September @ 05:00 AM EST
Pictures of famous Athletic Bilbao players at San Mamés. Photo courtesy of Nicholas
McGowan.
Athletic Bilbao would have no problems with the proposed UEFA plan of mandating eight homegrown
players in the squad of eighteen for every match or the theoretical 6 + 5 rule, where six players
of the starting eleven would have to be eligible for the national team of their club's country.
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Over at Women's Soccer USA, Jen Striker reports that Peter Wilt is out at Chicago Red Stars. It was
pretty obvious from his ESPN Soccernet interview that he was looking to go somewhere else, but I
was a bit surprised at how Striker characterized the departure:
According to Chicago sources, Marcia McDermott has completed her boardroom takeover of
the Red Stars by forcing out Peter Wilt and assuming his position in the organization.
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The Empire Strikes Back
It's that time again, Champs League footy, pass the Colmans. Let's not mince about, this is what
we want, the planet's finest going toe to toe on the park and wallet to wallet in the boardroom.
What can we expect this season? another Spanish mullering over our boys?
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Dirty Tackle 15 September @ 06:16 AM EST
According to Sport, back in January 2008, a secret meeting between a then unemployed
Jose Mourinho and Barcelona directors Marc Ingla and Txiki Begiristain, who were looking for
someone to replace Frank Rijkaard as manager. At the suggestion of Mourinho's agent, Jorge Mendes,
the meeting was held in the boardroom of a bank in Lisbon "to avoid being recognized".
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David Beckham will move to a club in Europe during the January transfer window. Everyone said that
he would be moving to Chelsea, but after their ruckus with FIFA, I can't see that on the cards.
Redknapp has gone on record and said how much he likes David Beckham. I'm sure he would love him at
The Lane just for the status and excess baggage he brings with him.
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Oh great. It looks like it's all kicking off again in the boardroom (or not in the boardroom as
far as Alisher Usmanov goes).
There's been renewed media speculation about the final resting place of Lady Nina
Bracewell-Smith's 15.9% stake in Arsenal. The stories have Alisher Usmanov's Red & White Holdings
on the march again.
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The speculation presented in the Sun today is quite old news as Arsenalinsider informed you all
of any likely impending Boardroom struggle back in July, when Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith was
rumoured to have finally found a buyer for her shares. The 15.9% stake was always going to be the
crucial holding in the final ownership direction, and there were only two players who were going to
fight it out.
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SoccerLens 04 September @ 04:20 PM EST
With Grays Athletics' Chief Executive Mick Woodward standing down from his role at the club
after a 10 year stint, which has seen Woodward taking over as manger twice and splitting fan
opinion of his general running of the club. A new regime has been promised to take over the reigns
of the Essex side, but with Woodward still having an invested interest, more questions than answers
remain at the club with the seemingly revolving door.
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The bookmakers were dreading the match at Portsmouth yesterday.
Before the start of the season, BSkyB saw this as the ideal Abu Dhabi derby, with Manchester City,
who dumped honorary life president Thaksin Shinawatra after the fraud and corruption and mass
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The way the BSkyB narrative was concocted, this was a Portsmouth on the up, bolstered by new
signings and financial security against the richest team in the world - a perfect representation of
all that Our Great Leader is told is good about the English Premier League.
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Running out of time and patience
If I were Rafa I would be sick and tired of not being backed by the club's owners. It wouldn't
surprise me if he decided to quit the club sooner rather than later and in fact it wouldn't
surprise me if the Clowns who run the club sacked him before he had a chance to leave of his own
accord.
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