Alex Ferguson's farewell speech at Old Trafford by footballdaily1 Sir Alex Ferguson said goodbye to Old Trafford with an emotional speech following Manchester United's win against Swansea in his final home game in charge. Fergie's unscripted talk was sandwiched between the match and United's title celebrations.
David Moyes has finally been confirmed as the new manager of Manchester United after signing a six year deal with the club.
"It's a great honour to be asked to be the next Manager of Manchester United," he said. " I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the Football Club.
Sir Alex Ferguson will step down as Manchester United manager at the end of the season and become a director at the club. A club statement confirmed rumours that Fergie was planning to announce his decision to bow out ahead of Sunday's match against Swansea. Sir Alex said: "The decision to retire is one I [.
The title of this post is a statement none of us ever thought we would be making back at the beginning of the season. Fresh from the best night of our footballing lives in Munich, we realised we had finally done it. We were finally Champions of Europe.
After the celebrations had died down and we saw Chelsea Football Club invest in players for the future, we still had hopes and dreams of another successful season.
To celebrate the launch of the new adidas Chelsea FC home shirt for the 2013/14 season, adidas has launched a bold new campaign –‘It's Blue,What Else Matters' encouraging Chelsea fans across the globe to go ‘all in' and buy the new 2013/14 home kit before seeing it.
To mark the occasion, adidas created a film featuring some of Chelsea's biggest stars and iconic imagery that will adorn the club for the 2013/14 season.
It was a great result this afternoon when Newcastle beat Fulham with a stoppage tome goal from who else Papiss Cisse, but Newcastle are still down to the bare bones and this time it was Davide Santon, who damaged a hamstring and from the look of it he will be out [...]
I've talked often about Persib. They are like Newcastle United and St Pauli rolled into one. A football club who identify an area, a lifestyle and a language.
They are about the only club in Indonesia who have attempted to support themselves with sponsorship and they have another idea to keep the tills rolling.
Xisco has talked in the local press today, and says it feels like Newcastle are a different club from the one he joined four years ago, when Kevin Keegan was the manager, and the Newcastle regime at the time had no idea how to run a football club. Marveaux and Xisco in training all [...]
Nile Ranger's future at Newcastle United looks increasingly uncertain after the striker was banned from training and sent a written warning this week regarding his behaviour at the Tyneside club.
Ranger, who is yet to make an appearance for Newcastle this season, received a final warning from the club after persistently turning up late for training.
Ron Gourlay is heavily featured in the press at the moment speaking from Bangkok after announcing Chelsea's summer tour to the Far East. During his interview, he has given reason to debate on one or two things and it's interesting to hear what he has said. From Frank Lampard to next summer, I would like to start on what he has said about Rafa Benitez.
Before I say anything about this post, I understand there are people out there who do support Rafa Benitez and would like to give him a chance to continue and prove himself at Chelsea Football Club for now and even after the season has finished dependant on where the club finishes up.
However, as I posted earlier today based on the fact that Rafa Benitez is talking to Roman and the Board about a possible extension to become a permanent fixture of our club for longer, I would like to bring to your attention to an official petition started up by Chelsea fans.
Suggs recorded Chelsea's famous FA Cup final song back in the day with the words "The only place to be every other Saturday". After what has happened to the club "We all adore" it seems as though Stamford Bridge isn't something we look forward to at the moment as far as the press and media are concerned.
Stoke manager Tony Pulis, whose club plays against Chelsea, thinks Chelsea should retain Rafa Benitez as manager because wouldn't that be great for him? Said Pulis, while doing a noble job of holding back uncontrollable laughter (via Sky Sports):
Well it seems that Roman Abramovich is decided to take the plunge again during a transfer window and it's looking almost certain that he WILL trigger Radamel Falcao's £48m release clause in his contract and pay him around £175,000 per week to sign for Chelsea next month. If reports are to be believed, representatives from the club have already met with Atletico officials to try and thrash out the terms of the deal.
Michael Emenalo is someone who had unheard of before his appointment as Chief Scout under Avram Grant at Chelsea. When Ray Wilkins left the club, he was promoted to Assistant First Team coach in November 2010 working with Carlo Ancelotti. In July 2011, Emenalo was appointed Chelsea's Technical Director.
In the wake of the hostile reception he received from Chelsea fans on Sunday, from my post here asking how the team moves forward from here, I just wanted to know if you personally feel that Rafa Benitez could ever win you over?
Let's face it and it's something we have to accept whether we like it or not, what Roman does is final and there is nothing more we can do about it.
Like all Chelsea fans, I was stunned to hear that RDM had been sacked yesterday morning. To make matters worse to hear that Rafa Benitez was then earmarked as favourite to take over hardly put any of us in a better mood. Then finally, twelve hours after Di Matteo had cleared his desk we had confirmation that Roman Abramovich had put his trust in the Spaniard as "Interim Manager" until the end of the season.
I think this was a game that was a great summary of our football club in this season. Being the best team, being on top for most of the game but still have to work incredibly hard to get a victory.
Let us start with the bad things. Again we had enough [...]
I have on a few occasions suggested that choosing a football club is the same thing as choosing a wife. You fall in love with it/her and even sometimes the reasons are not really understandable. Some people may not think she is beautiful but for the man who chooses his wife he [.
Now, these chaps can wear their football gloves in no fear of mockery! Temperatures in the UK limboed just underneath 0°C at the weekend and once more football has been beaten around the ribs and head-butted by the adverse weather. Thousands of football league and amateur league games were inevitably called off because of frozen [.
QPR boss Harry Redknapp has admitted he would love to bring out-of-favour midfielder Joe Cole to the club in January, but only if a cut-price deal can be struck with Liverpool. The Hoops are currently rock bottom of the Premier League, eight points adrift of safety and are strong favourites for the drop.
Brendan Rodgers warns that rebuilding Liverpool will take time - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has said that patience is the key as they strive to take the club back to where it belongs.
Although Rodgers stopped short of blaming Kenny Dalglish for the current situation at the club, but the Liverpool manager highlighted the fact that the club will have to amend the financial mess it had got into.
Lose to Swansea, beat West Brom. Lose to Bradford, beat Reading. Should this continue we may be disappointed by this afternoon's game. The need for consistency is paramount if we are to be genuine contenders.
Wigan are struggling as they often do at this time of the season; fortunately, they have a knack of picking up points close to season's end and thus escaping relegation.
Lose to Swansea, beat West Brom. Lose to Bradford, beat Reading. Should this continue we may be disappointed by this afternoon's game. The need for consistency is paramount if we are to be genuine contenders.
Wigan are struggling as they often do at this time of the season; fortunately, they have a knack of picking up points close to season's end and thus escaping relegation.
Seven years after the Indonesian capital province (DKI) destroyed the home ground of its leading football club, the 85-years-old Persija, to create the Menteng inner-city park, an allocation of US$110 million has been made to build an iconic stadium for the club in north Jakarta. The 2-year project will create a FIFA-standard international venue with a capacity of 50,000 spectators.
Jakarta will being construction of a "world-class" football stadium for the capital's Persija football club next year, Governor Joko Widodo said on Monday.
The Rp 1.05 trillion ($109 million) stadium will be constructed in Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta, and is expected to near completion in 2014.
Throughout the holiday season, we will be trawling official club shops for the items that will make the very best gift ideas for the very worst people on your list. This week: The Aston Villa bread press.
This might be the most useless item ever sold, not just by a football club, but by anyone anywhere.
While Brendan Rodgers appears to have dampened down expectatations of big money signings in the January Transfer-Window, he did state that additions would be made, most likely in the forward department as Luis Suarez is our only fit senior striker.
He said: "It will evolve. The guys are working very well, they have been fantastic, but we all know you need to get in your own types of players before you can say it is your own side.
Brighton have apologised to Crystal Palace after excrement was found smeared on the Amex Stadium's away dressing room walls ahead of the Championship play-off semi-final second leg. Someone at Brighton with access to the dressing rooms had staged a dirty protest ahead of the match, and the Eagles arrived for the game to discover their [.
Manchester City Football Club have sacked manager Roberto Mancini.
In an official statement by the club, it reads:
"It is with regret that Manchester City Football Club announces that Roberto Mancini has been relieved of his duties as Manchester City Manager.
"This has been a difficult decision for the owner, Chairman and Board to make and it is the outcome of a planned end of season review process that has been brought forward in light of recent speculation and out of respect for Roberto and his extensive contributions to the Football Club.
Sunderland Football Club released an official statement today attempting to diffuse the controversy regarding the appointment of new manager Paolo Di Canio, who — as some believe — is a self-proclaimed fascist. The club has also moved quickly to stamp out allegations of racist beliefs.
But by doing so, Sunderland have opened up a can of worms.
[M]aking his first appearance on these pages, James Bennettconsiders what fan ownership has done for the club he supports, Torquay United, and wonders whether the club's recent downturn form is perhaps indicative of a wider malaise. ... When a football club is in serious trouble, fans usually look for a reason, a suitable scapegoat for why things have gone so catastrophically wrong.
We're pretty late on the uptake here, but that's just the way it goes sometimes. Anyway, Lewes FC are an East Sussex-based club currently playing in theIsthmian League Premier Division which is, by our count, the seventh tier of English football.
Known as "The Rooks", Lewes have played at The Dripping Pan a 3,000-capacity (though only 600 seater) former cricket ground since their inception in 1885 and, since 2010, have been a member-owned football club, with comedian Patrick Marber (of "Alan Partridge" and "The Day Today" fame) one of the six founder members of the Rooks' community ownership board as such, the club count the likes of Charles Saatchi, Nigella Lawson and Steve Coogan as shareholders.
The Indonesia Super League table doesn't make pretty reading for fans of Persija Jakarta. Their team sits rooted firmly to the bottom with two wins a meagre return from their opening 11 games and last weekend saw a comprehensive 3-1 thrashing by their bitterest rivals Persib Bandung. The defeat away to Bandung meant the feint ray of hope that followed the narrow 1-0 triumph of Persita Tangerang soon disapated and the club are facing some harsh decisions.
It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes, and it has become increasingly apparent in recent years that Stephen Vaughan and his gaggle of followers may be doomed to repeat their mistakes forever. The first current owner of a football club to fail the Football Association's Fit & Proper Persons Test while the owner of the soon to be deceased Chester City, Vaughan is still serving an eleven year long disqualification from acting as a company director in this country, but this didn't stop him from heading to the Mediterranean in the summer to have another go at running a football club with, as it is starting to look, predictable results.
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A handful of days have passed by and I am still wrestling with impressions from the TFC town hall meetings this week. I attended one town hall meeting on Monday evening and managed to watch the webcast of the Wednesday evening too. I strongly appreciate the town hall format and opportunity.
Following the news of Woodlands Wellington Football Club's possible pull-out from the 2013 S.League season as reported in The New Paper this morning, the Black Sheep would like to call for a supporters' awareness campaign to save our club tonight at Woodlands Stadium.
Woodlands Wellington has been in existence for 25 years since it was formed in 1988, and the forthcoming 2013 season would be it's 18th season in the top flight of Singapore football.
It has always been interesting to watch the evolution of Australia's biggest supported football club. Melbourne Victory.
Ernie Merrick took them to the heights early.
Thumping Sydney FC at Olympic Park in season 1 in front of a sold out crowd, followed in Season 2 by Archie's Grand Final (I was there)demolition of Adelaide United in front of 55,000 at one of the AFL's once previously monopolised hallowed grounds.
