EPL Talk 03 March @ 08:54 AM EDT
Spirit of Shankly, a Liverpool supporter's union, has erected billboard posters in its city to
protest against the American owners of Liverpool FC, Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
The posters, which read "Tom & George: Debt, Lies, Cowboys Not Welcome Here," have appeared on
billboards on major roads into Liverpool.
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When we talk of "market forces" in football, it is usually in terms of the inalienable right to
spend as much money as they like and generally behave with complete impunity. Of course, when some
sort of crash happens, those self same clubs are suddenly no longer "just" businesses. When they
don't have two pennies to rub together, the owners suddenly remember that their club is a critical
pillar of its community and that it must not be allowed to go the same way as any other business
that had behaved as recklessly might do.
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Molineux, Wolverhampton. Judging by the brightness of the sunshine and the bareness of the
goalmouth, it's springtime. The camera lingers on the main stand as it fills up with a lone
goalkeeper (Mike Stowell, perhaps?) warming up in front of the camera. Finally, a shower of
ticker-tape and the team takes the pitch.
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It was one of the longest journeys that any club in this country had to make over the weekend,
but there can be little doubting that supporters of Blue Square North club Workington AFC will be
in no doubt whatsoever that it was worth it. Their trip to South London on Saturday afternoon was
to AFC Wimbledon in the FA Trophy required leaving their Cumbria outpost in the early hours of the
morning, but it ended with a win that was a tiny bit of revenge that they have waited for over
thirty years to deliver, for it was Wimbledon that were voted into the Football League in their
place in 1977.
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A major change in approach by hated Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett has taken
place.
The duo are willing to sell 50% of the club to interested parties.
Previously, the Yanks wanted only to sell 25% of the club for £100 million.
However, despite extensive hawking of the club in the Middle East, they have not found an investor
willing to invest in Liverpool Football Club on those terms.
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Anfield Talk 18 January @ 03:04 PM EDT
Christian Purslow, the managing director of English soccer club Liverpool FC, has revealed that the
banks with which the club hopes to secure financing for a new stadium will only deal with the club
if new investment can be attracted.
Liverpool's owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, are keen to sell a stake in the club, in what
Purslow says "could be part ownership or it could be complete ownership".
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Anfield Talk 12 January @ 12:21 PM EDT
Liverpool FC, the Premier League soccer club, has confirmed that it will sell the naming rights to
its new stadium, work on which is expected to begin by April.
The stadium, which will be built in Stanley Park, close to the club's current home ground Anfield,
is seen as a key source of revenue by the club's American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, and
the club's commercial director Ian Ayre says Liverpool would be "crazy" not to sell naming rights
to the new ground.
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Mull mull mull...
What a good samaritan Juan Sebastion Veron is. It is alleged that the ex-Man Utd, Chelsea and
Inter star had initially turned down a £7 million move to Man City earlier in the week but has
been forced to reassess his snub because the fee involved is so high it would pay for a new stadium
for his current club Estudiantes.
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EPL Talk 30 December @ 01:11 PM EDT
Is there a worse chairman in the history of the Premiership than Sulaiman Al-Fahim? I'm
struggling to think of anyone who has misled, misinformed and treated the supporters of a club so
clearly as Al-Fahim has in his 8 month relationship with Portsmouth. Today the HM Revenue & Customs
have issues a winding up order against Portsmouth F.
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Anfield Talk 30 December @ 12:04 PM EDT
Work on Liverpool's new stadium in Stanley Park could begin as early as April 2010, the leader of
Liverpool City Council has told the BBC.
Warren Bradley said Liverpool have told the council they are "very close now to securing the
finances".
He added it would be "in April that hopefully, fingers crossed, we'll see some activity on Stanley
Park".
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The closing program is given to a lengthy "fireside chat" with John Mitchell, Coach and technical
director of the ANU Premier League club, the U20 Elite program, which broke new ground in the
Capital Football Premier League in the 2009 season.
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Anfield Talk 26 December @ 03:24 PM EDT
Christmas should be a time when you leave your worries behind and enjoy the festivities but, for
Liverpool supporters, that is likely to prove impossible.
As I was privileged to play for the Reds and still enjoy a profile thanks to this column and my
work for Radio City, rarely does a day pass by without me having a conversation with a fan about
the state of our nation.
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A new series to complement our Thursday classic programme series, we will look at football
postcards from the days when people lived in sepia.
Today, a Manchester United postcard from the 1910-11 season, part of the "Strength & Health
Series". Man Utd won the First Division that season for only the second time ever, under manager
Ernest Mangnall, a year after moving to their new ground: Old Trafford.
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These are tough times at Rockingham Road. Kettering Town of the Blue Square Premier have less
than three years to go on the lease at the ground that has been their home since 1897, and they
have nowhere else to go. Relations with the local council are strained, with the club claiming that
the council are doing nothing to help them to find a site for a new stadium.
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Anfield Talk 27 November @ 02:49 PM EDT
Everton great Howard Kendall is against the idea of a groundshare with Liverpool, but admits it may
be the only solution if both clubs want to play at a new stadium.
Everton's plans for building a 50,000 seater stadium in Kirkby were rejected by the government
yesterday, but the idea of sharing a new ground with their Merseyside rivals has since been floated
by Everton chief executive Robert Elstone.
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Anfield Talk 24 November @ 04:12 PM EDT
Compared to clubs like United and Real Madrid over the years, Liverpool has failed to capitalise on
their markets abroad. Although they have millions of supporters around the world, the Merseyside
club has lagged behind financially because it has lacked the business acumen to tap into the
lucrative markets in Asia.
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Anfield Talk 08 November @ 02:15 PM EDT
Liverpool will brush off the controversy over England's top clubs selling naming rights to their
stadiums and chase the most expensive naming rights deal in the history of sport. Despite the
recession, the Merseyside club's hierarchy are convinced they can raise a mammoth £250m by
persuading a leading global firm to buy the rights to name Liverpool's proposed ground.
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Money makes the world go round, the world go round...
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LIVERPOOL will brush off the controversy over England's top clubs selling naming rights
to their stadiums and chase the most expensive naming rights deal in the history of
sport.
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Anfield Talk 06 November @ 12:11 PM EDT
Liverpool's hierarchy are piecing together a £100million rescue package to try to turn round a
season that has been branded 'a disgrace' by one of their own players.
Anfield bosses hope to have the cash injection in place by January and will be eager to avoid any
delays after keeper Pepe Reina turned on his own team-mates and berated their Champions League
failings.
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What did you make of the Kop-style stand? To be honest, I was fairly annoyed with it at first, but
it's definitely begun to grow on me.
I'm no architect, so I can't really comment on the acoustics that the new ground will create, but
it looks as though KSS (the projects architects) and Levy are pretty adamant that the noise
circulating around the stadium will be ferocious.
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Some fantastic images of the new stadium put out in the last few days. Also announced was the
inclusion of a single tier stand to rival the Kop at Anfield as Tottenham attempt to create one of
'the best atmospheric stadiums in Europe'.
The proposed moving dates have also been released to the public with Daniel Levy stating that Spurs
will be playing in the their new, as yet unnamed, stadium by 2012.
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North London make ambitious plans for a bright future.
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Tottenham Hotspur have submitted a planning application for their new 56,000-seat
stadium and hope to be playing at the venue by 2012.
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Around 650 Arsenal Holdings shareholders gathered this morning (Thurs 22 October 2009) for the
company's annual general meeting.
The two main stories to emerge were manager Arsène Wenger's statement that he felt the team
could win trophies this season and biggest shareholder "Silent" Stan Kroenke maintaining his
silence on his intentions for the club.
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EPL Talk 12 October @ 06:30 AM EDT
If you need proof that kindness still exists in football, look no further than Dr. David France
and Everton Football Club, and the story behind the greatest collection of football memorabilia
ever assembled.
Known as The David France Collection, it's an incredible assortment of more than 18,000
items that Dr.
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I've been here for the first time this evening.
I really enjoyed it. There is something quite amazing about singing in a group.
And I made a new friend.
Roy (or maybe Ron - I'm not sure now!).
Anyway I got chatting to him in the break.
Only to discover that his is a Stoke City fan.
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Scuola Calcio 29 September @ 09:00 PM EDT
(ANSA) - Rome, September 29 - AS Roma on Tuesday unveiled plans to build a new
stadium on the outskirts of the Italian capital.
Roma President Rosella Sensi said the idea of the club having its own stadium, instead of renting
one from the city council, had ``always been at the centre`` of her late father Franco`s plans, as
well as those of another historic club president, Dino Viola.
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The News of The World reported on Sunday that brewing giants Carlsberg have shown interest in the
naming-rights for the mythical new Liverpool Stadium.The paper claims that the Beer Company has
offered £100 million in a ten-year deal which would be another small step in raising the £500
million needed to build the new ground.
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Liverpool today announced a new shirt-sponsorship deal with Standard Charter, a multi-national
banking group.The deal worth £20 million a year for four years will dwarf the £7.5 million a year
that long-standing sponsors Carlsberg had been paying the club.Liverpool's Managing Director
Christian Purslow said: ''This is a huge step forward for the club financially and that can only be
helpful to create the conditions in which we can restart the stadium project.
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"You Don't Know What You're Doing"
Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is adamant that he remains committed to building a new
stadium for the club.
The Reds were planning to open a replacement for Anfield in neighbouring Stanley Park, with the
new ground designed to have a significantly increased capacity.
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Doncaster Rovers v Tottenham Hotspur - Football League Cup, Round TwoDoncaster is located about 20 miles from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny". The
town began when the Romans built a fort in the area about 71 AD. After the Romans left the Saxons
invaded Eastern England.
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by STUART WATSON Most papers lead with previews of tonight's match versus Celtic with a couple
of other stories thrown in about atmosphere at the new ground and Arsene Wenger speaking about the
progress of William Gallas.
The Sun WILLIAM GALLAS has put last seasons ill discipline where he was stripped of the
captaincy behind him.
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SoccerLens 18 July @ 06:01 AM EDT
Jacob Timpano, Alex Brosque, Brandon Santalab, Michael Zullo, do those names ring a bell? No?
What about Robbie Fowler? Thought you knew that name.
Fowler is the newest marquee player in the A-League and he is playing for the North Queensland
Fury. I am sure everybody knows Robbie Fowler, a man with 230 goals in all competitions next to
his name, a member of the PFA Team of the Year and twice PFA Young player of the year.
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As Florentino Perez continues to degrade an already absurd transfer market into new realms of
travesty, changes of a more sensible nature are afoot in Catalunya. The air is still calm outside
the Nou Camp as the stardust still settles after the gloss that was last season. Yet across town in
Cornella de Llobregat, the air couldn't be more supercharged with the flutter of parakeet wings as
a fresh optimism seems to have sunk into the finishing touches of wet paint adorning the brand new
Estadi RCDE.
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Manchester United broke new ground with their "strikerless" or "universal striker" tactics but
the signing of Owen will surely see a more orthodox approach.
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As one Galactico departs Manchester United, another comes in.
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It was six years in the making and millions of pounds over budget but the new Wembley still cuts in
impressive figure on the London skyline.
Last month it hosted its third FA Cup final between Everton and Chelsea. To mark the occasion, and
the fact I actually had a ticket, I thought I would give my opinion on the new Wembley Experience.
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Ah, FA Cup Final day. Love it! I'd love it a lot more mind if we haven't stood well and truly on
our collective crank whilst wearing the spiked golf shoes against <?xml:namespace prefix =
st1> Chelsea in the semi-final.
Still, we were second best on the day. I couldn't complain given our defensive errors.
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East Lower 25 May @ 05:04 AM EDT
What did Fabregas do with his shorts?
Arsenal 4-1 Stoke City
When the weather was as glorious as it was yesterday, I do wonder why the football season can't be
rescheduled to start in March and end in November. Probably because players in Spain and Italy
would melt, but there you go.
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A fresh documentary about the Argentinian legend doesn't quite broach new ground, but does reveal
much of interest.
Contradictions abound as a new film profiles Maradona.
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Compared to the other Nordic countries and indeed any other nation it's reasonable to compare
with, the stadia in the Norwegian top flight really are shiny and impressive. Within the last ten
years, most teams in the Tippeliga have either built a new ground or had theirs heavily
refurbished. And it shows.
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