! Article Start >Newcastle United top goal scorer Kevin Nolan takes the October 2009 award for
Championship Player of the Month. Nolan seems to have settled nicely into his attacking
midfield/backup striker role and managed to pip Leicester City's Matt Fryatt to get the award.
Furthermore, Alan Smith claimed 4th place in the voting.
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Among the performers who have lit up this burgeoning Championship campaign are some familiar names.
Michael Chopra has so far justified every last dime of his weighty fee, Kevin Nolan has buckled
down and rehabilitated his reputation as an all purpose midfielder-cum-forward, and Adam Johnson's
sleek skills on the Middlesbrough wing have helped Smogheads forget the injured Stewart Downing.
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A row went on down near Sloper Road on Saturday with Cardiff City's one time Perugia hit man, Jay
Bothroyd accusing an unspecified Crystal Palace player of a racist comment directed towards his
team mate Michael Chopra. According to Bothroyd, "I wasn't there but I spoke to Chops and he said
one of their boys made a racist comment to him".
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KICKETTE 22 September @ 09:08 AM EST
Kaka has obviously been training his side-eye just as much as his quadriceps. We love a man
dedicated to the bitchface cause.
Fabio Capello believes in the healing power of mud baths. And Speedos.
Thierry Henry has a friend in a t-shirt dress named Allen Iverson.
The Telegraph names their top 25 football websites.
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KICKETTE 22 September @ 09:08 AM EST
Kaka has obviously been training his side-eye just as much as his quadriceps. We love a man
dedicated to the bitchface cause.
Fabio Capello believes in the healing power of mud baths. And Speedos.
Thierry Henry has a friend in a t-shirt dress named Allen Iverson.
The Telegraph names their top 25 football websites.
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Jay Simpson was at the double, as Jim Magilton's men cruised to a comfortable victory against
high-flying Cardiff City.
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Newcastle, unbeaten this season go into the game tomorrow looking to cement their place at the
top of the Championship. However, they will have to do so without big Andy Carroll, Shola Ameobi
and Jonas Gutierrez. Return signing Peter Lovenkrands is also a doubt as there are questions about
the pacey attacker's fitness.
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Shola Ameobi has won the Coca-Cola Championship Player of the Month Award for August, following his
early-season five-goal scoring spree. Ameobi - outstanding in August Ameobi beat off competition
from another Newcastle local lad, Michael Chopra at Cardiff, Bristol City frontman Nicky Maynard
and Derby County defender Miles Addison, to win the award.
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In a country well known for it's love of lamb (easy tiger), there's a new Chop on the menu. It's
not of the woolly variety though, it's the history-making Michael Chopra and his scoring boots that
has the city of Cardiff salivating. Chops was breaking down the barriers back in 2006, when he
became the first [.
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That's what The Daily Star claims anyway. Basically what they're saying is that Moat can't get the
money together to buy the club but Ashley plans to take the club off the market and appoint him as
chairman. Moat will then apparently appoint Shearer as manager and take charge of the day-to-day
running of the club [.
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According to the Sunderland Echo, Sunderland striker Michael
Chopra has officially joined Cardiff City today. The two clubs agreed to
a deal that would send Chopra on loan until July 1st, where he would then join Cardiff
permanently.
It is believed that the deal for Chopra is £3m – £2m less than what Sunderland had paid for
him.
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Back in 2006, I interviewed Steve Tew at the New Zealand Rugby Football Union. At the time, he
was the second most important person in All Blacks rugby. Now he's the first. We were talking about
the impact the Pacific Islands have on New Zealand rugby, and he made a pretty convincing case for
players from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga looking to come and play for the All Blacks as a way of
improving their lifestyles while giving something back to their adopted homes.
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SoccerLens 04 June @ 01:02 AM EST
All English Championship transfers are listed on this page.
You'll find the January 2009 English Championship Transfers listed here. Archives for older
transfer seasons are at the end of this page. For the latest transfer rumours and transfer lists
for other leagues, see our transfer news column.
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Some little news snippets to keep you going until dinner They tried to make him go
to rehab and Michael Chopra said yes, yes, yes [Mirror]
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Michael Chopra's two goals in the final ten minutes are enough to see off Middlesbrough 2-0 at the
Stadium of Light.A game that was more frantic than metered, this was a game that took a long time
for anything to build. Yes both sides had plenty of chances (per Soccernet, 21 for Sunderland, 18
for Middlesbrough), but not many tested either Craig Gordon or Ross Turnbull.
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Off the Post 18 February @ 11:08 AM EST
Chopra and Facebook clash again As footballing bodies go, the Professional Footballers' Association
is far from the most incompetent. They have dropped a bit of a clanger on their most recent mailout
though. Whether by cruel coincidence or out of spite, the PFA's latest Givemefootball email
features a link to its interview with Michael Chopra followed [.
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The Offside 13 February @ 09:00 PM EST
Stuff to read while you take this second opportunity to check out why Hull City rock........ The
support is coming.... (101 Great Goals) ...from all angles. (Football Media) But in more important
news: Michael Chopra's wife filed for divorce via Facebook. Class move. (Unprofessional Foul)
Talking the wonderfulness of Kazakh football.
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Off the Post 13 February @ 01:48 AM EST
Rocky marriage + WAG with computer + hubby miles away on loan = D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Sunderland striker
Michael Chopra found out his marriage was over via Facebook. The 25-year-old's wife, Heather Swann,
changed her relationship status on the social networking site to single to signal that their
eight-month marriage was over.
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EPL Talk 21 September @ 08:24 PM EST
Michael Chopra's two goals in the final ten minutes are enough to see off Middlesbrough 2-0 at the
Stadium of Light.A game that was more frantic than metered, this was a game that took a long time
for anything to build. Yes both sides had plenty of chances (per Soccernet, 21 for Sunderland, 18
for [.
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Michael Chopra's two goals in the final ten minutes are enough to see off Middlesbrough 2-0 at the
Stadium of Light.
A game that was more frantic than metered, this was a game that took a long time for anything to
build. Yes both sides had plenty of chances (per Soccernet, 21 for Sunderland, 18 for
Middlesbrough), but not many tested either Craig Gordon or Ross Turnbull.
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Middlesbrough were made to pay for their profligacy in front of goal and their apparant inability
to defend late in the game as two Michael Chopra goals gave Sunderland the 3 points in the
Tees-Wear derby.
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Anfield Talk 18 September @ 01:03 PM EST
GARY ABLETT'S title winning Liverpool reserves side suffered their first defeat in almost a year
last night.
The Reds second string went down 2-1 at Sunderland in the FA Premier Reserve League North.
Sunderland were the last side to beat Liverpool when they inflicted the only defeat suffered by
Gary Ablett's side in the whole of last season.
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Some little news snippets to keep you going until dinner They tried to make him go
to rehab and Michael Chopra said yes, yes, yes [Mirror]
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Djibril Cisse (daft barber not pictured)
2007/8 Review
In their first season back in the top flight, Sunderland did just enough to survive. Although he
did perhaps make a miscue or two, much credit can be attributed Roy Keane's transfer policy for
maintaining Sunderland's Premiership status.
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Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster's Full Podcast's Good, Bad and Ugly
section - a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our worksheets,
football glossary and English for football phrases as well as the Learners' Podcast. To be in full
swing - to be up and [.
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Despite some impressive signings already this season, Hull have stumbled upon a real lack of
firepower in front of goal, with only Caleb Folan and Dean Windass to lead from the front with only
a week to go until the Tigers play their first ever Premier League game.
As expected, many names have been thrown into the rumor mill, with only few been real concrete
links with a move to East Yorkshire.
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Fresh Legs 11 June @ 01:11 PM EST
Sunderland striker Michael Chopra will be tying the knot this summer with fiancee Heather Swan. The couple have a baby son, Sebastian Rocco Thomas Chopra, born earlier this year. Heather is a former Miss Newcastle, and featured on the reality program WAG's Boutique.
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Sunderland striker Michael Chopra has got just 3 goals to his name all season but most of the
season he has featured on the right wing. But the former Newcastle United player says that he wants
to play in his preferred position as a striker but insists that he would play anywhere as long as
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Oct 21, 2007 West Ham 3 SAFC 1 They were there for the taking. Frustrating Oct 7, 2007 Arsenal 3
SAFC 2 Some pride restored after disastrous first 20 Sept 29, 2007 SAFC 1 Blackburn Rovers 2 Proof
that Championship...
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In the first of his new series of articles for Salut! Sunderland - under the working title of
Sixer's Soapbox (let me know if you come up with something better) - Pete Sixsmith draws huge
encouragement from a gutsy Sunderland...
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