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It seems like it's almost a given that Harry Redknapp is on his way out of Tottenham – whether
it be immediately or the end of the season – but what really is there for him in the England
job?
Looking at the history of the job it's notorious for tainting the careers of what were otherwise
top managers.
Luis Suarez decided to snub Patrice Evra's handshake ahead of today's 2-1 victory over
Liverpool. Given that Suarez was the guilty party, having been banned for eight games for racially
abusing Evra, it is incredible that he opted to disrespect our captain again today.
However, this could have been predicted when you consider Suarez revealed this week that Evra
was wrong to report the racial abuse he received.
Football, or soccer, is one of the most popular sports in the world, so naturally football betting
would be one of the most popular forms of sports betting around. Betting on various aspects of a
football game adds an extra dimension of suspense to the game, since you have a very real stake in
the outcome, win, lose or draw.
Their Words "Now, I've been in football for nearly 20 years and I have a good understanding of
relationships with Managers. I do agree that the Manager is the most important person in a football
club or an organisation like this, but there are moments when the Board and the Chairman have to
step up to the plate when strong leadership is required.
The yearly list of football club annual revenue is out yet again and the gap between the two
Spanish behemoths and the rest of the field is growing ever wider. Despite the trophy success of
last year, Barcelona has lost the financial Clasico to Real Madrid...yet again (lucky number seven
in a row) and it wasn't terribly close.
A week away from the blog.
I'd like to explain my absence with exciting tales of derring do. But I can't. The most excitement
I got was watching Hibs beat Kilmarnock in the Scottish Cup, nailbiting to the end.
No, I've been away largely because I couldn't be arsed for the last week.
Lausanne, 1 February 2012 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to grant
the provisional measures requested by the Indonesian Football Club Persipura Jayapura and to order
the reinstatement of the club in the AFC Champions League 2012.
Persipura was supposed to play the 2012 AFC Champions League Playoffs (East-Zone) on 11 February
2012 against Adelaïde United FC (Australia).
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis was interviewed by Fox on Sunday and he said that Arsenal
will never be able to compete with the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City in the transfer market
but believes Arsene Wenger's focus on developing young players is the correct way to run a football
club.
I'll always remember the first game of football I ever went to: I was aged six; the location was
Aggborough in Kidderminster as the Harriers took on Aston Villa in Graham Allner's testimonial. It
was a few years before I was ever introduced to top flight football at Villa Park or First Division
football at Molineux.
It seems like anybody who's ever worn an Arsenal shirt is coming out of the woodwork these days to
give their opinion on what ails the club. Former Gunners Paul Merson and Stewart Robson are the
latest to chime in on the current state of affairs at Emirates Stadium and the performance of the
team and manager Arsene Wenger.
It seems like anybody who's ever worn an Arsenal shirt is coming out of the woodwork these days to
give their opinion on what ails the club. Former Gunners Paul Merson and Stewart Robson are the
latest to chime in on the current state of affairs at Emirates Stadium and the performance of the
team and manager Arsene Wenger.
Club Deportivo Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, usually called Tigres or Tigres UANL, is a
Mexican soccer football club which plays in the Mexican Primera División. Tigres UANL is the...
For many years no football club would go near Indonesia. Scared off by terrorism and a perceived
political instability overplayed by foreign embassies instead they concentrated their South East
Asian efforts on the more visitor friendly countries of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
Now, however, it appears Indonesia is once again open for business and everyone wants a slice of
the pizza.
By Amy Eustace
There came a point at the beginning of last year when you simply knew it was coming. Perhaps
it was the infamous Roy Hodgson face rub – a sure sign that man had reached his last bastion of
pure desperation – the previous December, or the penalty that Steven Gerrard sent soaring
uncharacteristically over the bar against Blackburn the same month.
Alan Pardew has talked about the Financial Fair Play Rules which are coming into operation
for European clubs gradually over the next few seasons. Michel Platini has introduced Financial
Fair Play Rules In a nutshell, clubs will only be allowed to pay out money that they earn from
their revenues as a football club.
Today as expected, Alex signed for PSG and ex Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti after asking to leave
the club towards the end of last year.
The Official Chelsea Website posted up confirmation this afternoon with a statement that reads:
"Chelsea Football Club can confirm we have agreed terms for the permanent transfer of
Alex to Paris St Germain.
Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian soccer club located in Lima. Also referred to as
Universitario or La U, it is the most popular and successful football club in Peru....
Carlos Tevez's advisor, Kia Joorabchian is quoted in the English newspapers as saying that Tevez
will not be sold in the January transfer window:
"We've been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don't think they have reached the figures
Manchester City want. Carlos will remain at Man City until the summer.
Carlos Tevez's advisor, Kia Joorabchian is quoted in the English newspapers as saying that Tevez
will not be sold in the January transfer window:
"We've been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don't think they have reached the figures
Manchester City want. Carlos will remain at Man City until the summer.
Very interesting revelations are emerging from the Harry Redknapp tax evasion court proceedings.
On Thursday, the Southwark Crown Court heard some very amusing statements from the Tottenham
Hotspurs manager.
Apparently, Redknapp is illiterate. He cannot read or write. In a tape recording played to the
court, Redknapp said that he did not know what an email was and that he had never sent a text or
fax in his life.
Back in November 2011, Preston City Council reluctantly announced that the redevelopment of
England's 50th city had hit the buffers. John Lewis had pulled out of the Tithebarn regeneration
scheme in the city centre and, operating as we are "in the middle of one of the worst economic and
financial situations since the 1930s", plans will now be made to scale down the blueprint
accordingly.
As you probably know, Tottenham coach Harry Redknapp is currently been investigated for tax
evasion offenses committed over 3 years ago and things got interesting yesterday when in tape
recordings presented to the court, Redknapp said that he could not have fiddled his tax returns
because he is illetrate.
And that's his defence An unexpected upshot of Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp's tax
evasion trial is his claims that he is a near-illiterate, disorganised technophobe who cannot even
fill in a team sheet. Southwark Crown Court heard that Redknapp writes "like a two-year-old" and
"can't spell".
Once again with UEFA, it's the money. Specifically, who controls it and how it's spent across
Europe. That's the broad carryover from UEFA's attempt to restructure European football club
finances, a point they pressed with the 4th edition of the Club Licensing Benchmarking Report
released on Wednesday.
Following SJ Maskell's torrid Pompey prologue of yesterday, the spotlight now falls on a second
club beginning with P: the Valiants from Burslem in Staffordshire and a business that has fallen on
decidedly hard times after punching above its weight for much of the nineties. We last heard from
Tom Bourne in June; his coruscating post casting a light on troubling events at Vale Park.
"We've got to look at ourselves. If that's the level they expect this football club to play at,
then they won't be here long." These were the words of Kenny Dalglish after a humiliating defeat to
Bolton at the weekend. ...
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Norwich City have completed the signing of Jonny Howson from Leeds United. A fee was agreed last
week, but the Canaries have now confirmed the transfer after the midfielder completed his medical
at Carrow Road.
Those who assess in play betting strategy note how the signing is one of many Norwich have made
from outside of the Premier League as they build a strong squad to continue the success Paul
Lambert has already brought to the club.
Liverpool lead 1-0 on aggregate.
2:45pm ET, live in the US on FSC
Last four head-to-head:
1-0 Liverpool (a) 01.11.12
0-3 City (a) 01.03.12
1-1 (h) 11.27.11
3-0 Liverpool (h) 04.11.11
Previous rounds:
Liverpool: 2-1 Chelsea (a); 2-1 Stoke (a); 2-1 Brighton (a); 3-1 Exeter (a)
City: 1-0 Arsenal (a); 5-2 Wolves (a); 2-0 Brum (h)
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 1-3 Bolton (a); 0-0 Stoke (h); 1-0 City (a)
City: 3-2 Tottenham (h); 1-0 Wigan (a); 0-1 Liverpool (h)
Goalscorers (Carling Cup):
Liverpool: Suarez 3; Maxi 2; Bellamy, Carroll, Gerrard, Kelly, Kuyt 1
City: Dzeko 2; Agüero, Balotelli, Johnson, Hargreaves, Nasri 1
Referee: Phil Dowd
Guess at a line-up:
Reina
Johnson Skrtel Agger Enrique
Gerrard Spearing
Downing Henderson Bellamy
Kuyt
What exactly did Dalglish mean by "If that's the level they [the players] expect this football club
to play at, they won't be here long"?
In times of adversity, Kenny Dalglish usually resembles the tougher types that populate John le
Carré novels. The sort the Circus would happily send to Moscow, safe in the knowledge that, under
interrogation, he would not even divulge his shoe size.
It made his post-match interview on ESPN on Saturday night all the more extraordinary.
Furious Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has threatened some of his players with the chop after
accusing them of showing a lack of respect in a 3-1 defeat at Bolton.
For the first time since returning as Reds boss just over a year ago, the Scot publicly criticized
his squad.
Dalglish believes they were distracted by Wednesday's forthcoming Carling Cup semi-final second leg
against Manchester City, which they go into holding a slender 1-0 lead, and the FA Cup fourth-round
tie at home to Manchester United next weekend.
That's how we all feel mate...If i walked into a club, thinking
and acting like i was better than everybody else, i'd most probably, within an hour and a half or
so, get battered. Which is exactly what happened to Liverpool on Saturday. They walked into
Bolton's club, acting like they were better than them, like the three points were theirs before
they'd kicked a ball and then, they were battered.
Liverpool's 3-1 defeat over Bolton Wanderers, apparently gave more than just disappointment for
the club's manager, Kenny Dalglish, as he was also infuriated with his player's poor performance
and threatened to get rid of those who can't improve their performance.
Dalglish was so furious that he doesn't really want to give much credit for his opponent as he
really felt that it was the Reds' poor performance which cause that defeat.
Rumours aplenty this Premiership weekend. One of them is that Mick McCarthy, the current Wolves
manager, is set to be sacked if Wolves lose against Aston Villa on the weekend. This is despite
utterances to the opposite from the Wolves chairman. Who ought to be believed? The rumour mongerers
or the chairman of the club who will make such a decision?
Thanks to Melbourne Victory Football Club I have one double pass to give away for the big Australia
Day clash vs Sydney FC, next Thursday (January 26) at AAMI Park. To enter, answer the following
question.... Ricardinho is: a) The best player to ever wear a Melbourne Victory shirt. b) Better
than Leandro Love.
Following consecutive league defeats (both games in which we took the lead) I think we can all
agree the need for savage and violent revolution is obvious. A blood thirsty, shrieking gallop to
the hills followed by a good fortnight of medieval combat ought to sort it. Because nothing quite
says "ambitious football club" like flapping through a wooded area wearing Arsene Wenger's skin as
a dress and Peter Hill Wood's nuts for earrings.
We are a great football club and we boast a good number of websites that honor that fact. The
first season of MLS brought us an explosion in Timbers media in many forms for many tastes. We
would like to list a few of the sites that you may or may not heard of in organized super random
list.
We can all hope that we will see even more Timbers media in our second season of MLS.
Greek challenger to Sir Chesney?
When the team has just lost our last 2 consecutive league fixtures, the last thing we want to
hear is that our club is being gazumped elsewhere away from the pitch. Liverpool has secured a
brand new £150million kit deal with American firm Warrior Sports. A deal that place them only
second behind Barcelona in today's shirt deals around the world.
Papa Babacar Diawara (alias BABÁ ) has been signed in this "Transfer Winter Market" by Spanish
Football Club SEVILLA FC from the Portugueses Football League. The player signs over from the
"SuperLiga" & Club MARITIMO DE FUNCHAL & has scored 10 goals this season which has caught the eye
of Sevilla FC.
Another daft name for a football club but then I'm English and what do I know? ATM, Angkata Tentara
Malaysia, are the initials of Malaysia's armed forces and ATM, not a machine that dispenses cash,
is their football club.
They went into the season flush with cash signing big names including striker Marlon Alex James who
was so inspirational with Kedah when they won back to back trebles a few years back.
By Chris Wright
As you may or may not know, 128-year old Blue Square Premier side Darlington FC have had to sack
their management team and playing staff and are teetering on the verge of extinction after going
into administration for the third time in less than a decade largely thanks to the utterly
ridiculous £20-million, 25,000-seater 'Darlington Arena' stadium that former chairman and
tax-dodger George Reynolds paid through the nose for a few years previous.