According to MirrorFootball, Chelsea are the favorites to sign 16-year-old Ipswich striker Connor Wickham. They are prepared to offer £5million for Wickham, who last season became the youngest player ever to appear in the Championship League for Ipswich.

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EPL on ESPN2: Liverpool - Manchester City at 7:30am. On Setanta: Chelsea - Wolverhampton at 9:30am, Burnley - Aston Villa at 5pm, and Birmingham City - Fulham at 8:30pm. On Fox Soccer Channel: Sunderland - Arsenal at 10am, Manchester United - Everton at 12:30pm, and Hull - West Ham United at 7pm. Championship on Setanta: Ipswich - Sheffield United at 12:10pm. Click to continue reading...

NB. Turn your phone off before attending Ipswich press conference Roy Keane's latest press conference proved to be rich pickings for the journos in attendance. Not only was he very outspoken in his criticism of the Republic of Ireland's protests over Thierry Henry's handball, he also took the opportunity to petrify some of the hacks. Click to continue reading...

Should Georgia get a replay? Roy Keane reckons the Republic of Ireland could not have expected their game against France to be replayed on the grounds of Thierry Henry's handball. The Ipswich manager launched a scathing attack against the Football Association of Ireland for their protests following the match, and accused them of hypocrisy on the [. Click to continue reading...

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According to John Cross at MirrorFootball, Portsmouth are leading the chase for Benfica defender Miguel Vitor. Ipswich and Birmingham are thought to be the other two teams in the race for Vitor, who might be loaned out to gain experience.

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We have all watched a good game of football in the evening or at night under floodlights when your local team can afford them and also the electricity to run them.. But what about those little teams not in the Premier League ( like Ipswich or someone !) who cant afford to have beaming floodlights [.. Click to continue reading...

The English Championship, League One, and League Two divisions are all taking shape as they are well into their 2009-10 season. Here's a recap of all three divisions along with video highlights.

English Championship Video Recap

Its still very crowded at the top as Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff City, and Leicester City are all within one point of each other.

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When somewhat forgotten Ian Holloway took Blackpool over this summer, few people believed that this charismatic motivator will do anything more than traditional and boring survival fight. The team from English popular summer resort on Lancashire coast have been in financial problems for a long time now and in the last few seasons they struggled to make the team for the Championship.

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Ninian Park, built in 1910, was the home of Cardiff City FC until earlier this year. The last ever game at Ninian Park was on April 25th, 2009, with Cardiff losing 3-0 to Ipswich Town.

Cardiff now play at Cardiff City Stadium, a 27,000 all-seater venue, and Ninian Park is now being torn to pieces to be replaced by a housing development, as this week's stadium spotlight shows.

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So far the Premiership old boys are showing their class, occupying the top 3 places. After paying out £2 million compensation to Keegan Newcastle failed to score for the first time this season against Bristol City. Fans can only hope that any takeover, made more likely by the compensation pay out, causes minimum disruption.

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Commiserations to whoever washed this guy's pants afterwards This reporter knew he had to ask. He didn't want to ask and he knew it probably wouldn't be pretty, but he had to ask. Fortunately, Ipswich boss Roy Keane hasn't quite perfected his death by staring technique yet. Looks like he is getting pretty damn close though. Click to continue reading...

Barnsley continued their battling bright start under new manager Mark Robins by beating Ipswich with a late winner at Oakwell in this weekends big Championship relegation six pointer. The former Rotherham boss has already started to turn the Reds' fortunes this season after taking the helm following the departure of Simon Davey earlier this season. Click to continue reading...

Dirty Tackle is trying to figure if that's what Ghana U-20 team was trying to pull off in this celebration.
I can see it. Except for the guy with heartburn.
Now the links:

• Former AEK Athens owner a fraud. [Yahoo!]
  
• Pep cleared in doping case. [SI]
  
• UEFA W.

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Well it's official and Fabricio Coloccini has lost his fitness battle for tomorrow night's game with Queens Park Rangers. Jonas Gutierrez fit for tomorrow night The Argentine international injured his groin at Ipswich on Saturday night and caretaker boss Chris Hughton says he will take no risks with Fabricio, so he will not play tomorrow [. Click to continue reading...

The diminutive Newcastle United squad is about to be stretched further by injuries and international duties. Fabricio Coloccini picked up a groin strain and Ryan Taylor picked up a calf injury during Saturday's game against Ipswich. Danny Simpson is also sidelined with an ankle injury from the Plymouth game and is doubtful for this week's games. Click to continue reading...

Not surprisingly, Kevin Nolan was the runaway winner of our Man of the Match at Ipswich on Saturday. Kevin Nolan - Man of the Match on Saturday night With 500 votes cast Kevin had a whopping 82% of the vote following his tremendous hat-trick Saturday. Ins second place was young Nile Ranger with 4% of the vote followed [. Click to continue reading...

It looks like Argentine Fabriocio Coloccini will miss his first league game of the season on Wednesday night against QPR. Coloccini - will miss QPR game Chris Hughton was forced to take off the £10M defender as well as the in-form Ryan Taylor during the 4-0 demolition of Ipswich on Saturday. And there is also a chance that [. Click to continue reading...

Roy Keane hardly looked comfortable on Saturday night, as his team was ripped apart by a dominant Newcastle United side. Roy Keane Ipswich manager And the performance by his defense, and we use the word defense loosely, was just hopeless, and really every Newcastle goal was an Ipswich defensive mistake. Click to continue reading...

Hughton sings Newcastle's praises while Keane thinks Ipswich gave Nolan an early Christmas present. I was away this weekend. A close friend of mine is off to Australia for at least 3 years, so a bunch of us got together for beer and golf in Oxfordshire (and I use the term 'golf' in the loosest possible [. Click to continue reading...

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This was always billed as a nostalgic game between two of Bobby Robson's former clubs. Ipswich's North Stand today was renamed the Sir Bobby Robson Stand and how they could have done with the former England manager's know-how.

Kevin Nolan, in arguably his best game for Newcastle, managed to grab a hat-trick, and Ryan Taylor added his name to the scoresheet with a cracking free-kick, we've been waiting for one of those for ages.

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This was always billed as a nostalgic game between two of Bobby Robson's former clubs. Ipswich's North Stand today was renamed the Sir Bobby Robson Stand and how they could have done with the former England manager's know-how.

Kevin Nolan, in arguably his best game for Newcastle, managed to grab a hat-trick, and Ryan Taylor added his name to the scoresheet with a cracking free-kick, we've been waiting for one of those for ages.

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Under-20 World Cup on ESPN Classic: USA - Germany at 10am. MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: New York - Chivas USA EPL on ESPN2: Portsmouth - Everton at 7:30am. On Setanta: Stoke - Manchester United at 9:30am, Wigan - Chelsea at 5pm, and Blackburn ROvers - Aston Villa at 8:30pm. On Fox Soccer: Liverpool - Hull City at 10am, Fulham - Arsenal at 12:30pm, and Spurs - Burnley at 7pm. Click to continue reading...

During this week stockportinsider.com has had views from countries and towns you may not expect to recieve them from.

We would like to thank everyone who has viewed the site this week as we have only just got it back up and running, here is a short list of some of the views we have

had during this week from Tuesday onwards to today :

Thiland,Chili,US,Spain,Italy,France,Sweden,Ireland,Camebridge,

Leeds,Liverpool,Preston,Ipswich,Winchester,Oxford,Carlisle and many more see for your self here Global Hatters , Thank you very much.

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Chris Hughton has today called on his players to make Sir Bobby Robson proud of the and his home town club, in tomorrow night's game between his two old English sides. Chris Hughton - drawing on Bobby Robson inspiration But of course both Ipswich and Newcastle fans will be drawing on the inspiration of [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United have finally (at last!) completed the loan signing of Aston Villa striker Marlon Harewood. Marlon Harewood - finally signs loan deal at Newcastle 30 year-old Harewood will go straight into the squad for Newcastle's vital game at Ipswich on Saturday, and we would expect at some point in the game he will make his debut [. Click to continue reading...

The English Football League has given Championship sides Ipswich and Newcastle United permission to wear Sir Bobby Robson commemorative shirts when they meet at Portman Road on 26 September. The shirts carry the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation logo along with the date of the game and the names of the clubs involved. Click to continue reading...

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At the age of 18, most would say Shane Supple had it made. Subbed on for Ipswich in the thirty-fifth minute against Leicester, he kept a clean sheet for the rest of the match. Supple's future looked bright, but almost as soon as he debuted for the first team, the Dublin native met with Roy Keane to effectively end his young career.

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Years or injuries, seldom a heart failure or illness can move football player away from professional football. So the news about Ipswich Town reserve keeper, Shane Supple, healthy as a horse and has just signed the contract with the team from Portman Road, retiring at the age of 22 sounded strange.

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The Championship season is well under way and it will be a fascinating tussle for the teams who are battling it out for a big juicy slice of the pizza that is the Premiership.

Out of 24 teams in the second tier of English football, realistically you could say 15 have actual aspirations to be promoted or to be in or around the play-offs come May.

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Darren Ferguson was brought through the ranks at Manchester United with his dad and manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, giving him his first team début when he was eighteen. Filling in for an injured Bryan Robson during the start of the 1992-1993 season, Ferguson made enough appearances to qualify for a league title winners medal.

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Ireland Under-19 manager Sean McCaffrey has announced his squad for the upcoming Four Nations tournament, which will be held in Dublin and Bray on September 5th, 6th and 8th.
Ireland will compete against Turkey, Holland and Portugal in the Four Nations Tournament.
Ireland Under-19 squad
Ger Hanley Galway United
Ciaran Gallagher Finn Harps
Richie Towell Celtic
Rob Kiernan Watford
Gavin Gunning Tranmere Rovers (on loan from Blackburn Rovers)
Mark O'Brien Derby County
Greg Cunningham Manchester City
Shane McEleney Derry City
Stephen McDonnell Celtic
Conor Henderson Arsenal
Conor Clifford Chelsea
Conor Hourihane Sunderland
Gearoid Morrissey Blackburn Rovers
Aaron Doran Blackburn Rovers
Robbie Brady Manchester United
Patrick McEleney Sunderland
Ronan Murray Ipswich Town
Joe Mason Plymouth Argyle
Jamil Adam Barnsley Click to continue reading...