Southampton have sacked manager Nigel Adkins and immediately replaced him with Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino. Adkins had been in charge at St Mary's for two-and-a-half years, in which he managed to take the club from League One to the Premier League. That flagrant lack of ambition has been immediately stamped out by Saints' executive chairman [.
BBC: Arsenal blew the Premier League title race wide open as leaders Manchester
United were deservedly beaten at the Emirates Stadium. Aaron Ramsey's winner early in the second
half condemned United to defeat and leaves them only three points ahead of Chelsea with identical
goal difference and a meeting between the two to come at Old Trafford next Sunday.
Roberto Mancini says he could be sacked in the summer if his Manchester City side do not win the
title this season, despite him leading City to their highest Premier League position and biggest
points haul.
Mancini insists City's hierarchy are aware of how far the Blues have come under him, and of the
importance of stability.
Rangers striker Nikica Jelavic is refusing to be distracted by reports that Liverpool are
considering a bid for him.
Jelavic, who joined the Glasgow side from Rapid Vienna in 2010, has been linked with a big money
move in January - with QPR just one Premier League club to have been credited with an interest.
The road to redemption from Hillsborough has been a lengthy and painful for many, many people.
Hundreds of people lost family members or friends on that day in April 1989, and the feeling that
the establishment was closing ranks in order to cover up the truth behind what exactly happened to
result in the deaths of ninety-six innocent people has been a bitter pill for those that survived
or have otherwise had to live with their loss to have to swallow.
Liverpool head to Fulham on Monday knowing a win would equal a club record of away successes.
In all competitions it is six victories in succession away from home - a win at Craven Cottage will
equal the club record of seven set between December 1981 - February 1982 and again in January -
March 1988.
New Stoke signing Michael Kightly has gone public to talk about the depression he experienced while
at former club Wolves. The 26-year-old winger says he became depressed while recovering from
injuries that ruled him out for 15 months of the last two-and-a-half years. He told BBC Stoke: "I
was low, to be honest.
...well that's according to our favourite newspaper the Daily Mail anyway!. Being a Chelsea fan,
hardly a day goes by without reading a ridiculous headline from this lot as they look to fill their
pages and websites with headlines to grab peoples attention with little basis for the story!.
In this instance, they claim the following:
Chelsea face a battle to keep Daniel Sturridge after Arsenal took significant steps
towards a shock summer swoop.
Personal transfer fee Sone Aluko has revealed that he, his friends and family had to stump up
£200,000 to complete his move to Rangers. The 22-year-old's transfer was on the verge of collapse
when the champions refused to stump up the compensation being demanded by his former club Aberdeen.
According to the Daily Record: Faced [.
Well, well, well isn't this the tumble from grace.
From one of South America's most coveted young defenders to the glorious footballing landscapes
of a very specified patch of grass in Munich, Germany to the tortured structure of a jail cell for
torching his (rented) family home last year.
Grant Russell penned this column. Russell is a journalist for STV (Scottish Television) and
regarded as an expert on Scottish football and on homegrown rules and players eligibility. Russell
also tweets frequently on the Rangers and the American contingent playing there.Â
Is there much left to say? After two seasons the Philadelphia Union looked to be onto something
huge. With a stout defense, a young core, and veteran leaders who relished their roles, the formula
for success had been discovered.
The UEFA Euro 2012 tournament kicks off with host country Poland hosting Greece in a Group A
match. The match will take place at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland at 18:00 local time.
Poland manager Franciszek Smuda
"The atmosphere is really becoming better and better. We can see that when we go to training
sessions, we can see the support on the streets, people cheering and waving – it's great.
Not that we wish to brag but, as the prophecy once again foretold, AC Milan's
superb, frenetic and knackering defensive shift ensured that Barcelona were kept schtum in a
Champions League tie for the first time in two-and-a-half years and that the Rossoneri upheld their
record of having never lost a Champions League quarter-final game at the San Siro.
Alberto Aquilani made his 25th appearance of the season for AC Milan on the weekend, coming on
as an 85th minute substitute against Roma. Based on statements from the player's agent, this means
that the automatic transfer clause in his loan deal has now been triggered—Milan get the
midfielder, and Liverpool get around £5M spread over three annual instalments beginning this
summer.
Mike Fucito reached out today and asked if he could share some words to the greater Seattle
Sounders community and of course to the readers at Sounder at Heart. We were more than happy to
help him do that. The following statement was sent via email and is from he to each and every
person who calls themselves a Sounder.
One-time U.S. national team goalkeeper Luis Robles won't be manning the nets at Red Bull Arena
after all.
Robles' proposed move to the New York Red Bulls has been called off after the league ruled that
Robles would have to go through the allocation order after initially claiming he could be added as
a discovery signing, according to the Washington Post.
There's no doubt that Ryan Taylor has been one of the surprise successes of the season. David
Santon has done well since nailing down left-back position Before this season started Ryan had
played only 54 times with 6 goals in his two and a half years at the Tyneside club, since he
joined in January of 2009 from Wigan, as a makeweight in [.
It's taken us two and a half years but we have finally achieved our exit strategy from Blogger and
arrived on board with Wordpress - a natural evolutionary path that many said we would take on
starting The Two Unfortunates in the wake of the 2008-9 season. The pages you see in front of you
have been developed by Michael Kinlan and we hope you agree that he's done a super job, following
on from his sterling work with Richard and Neil Bellis's Blue and White Fanzine.
So, after some two and a half years and 701 posts, we're calling time on our Blogger platform.
Having become frustrated with the anodyne templates and the unreliable comment facility, we've
decided to set up a slightly more bespoke shop at http://thetwounfortunates.com/, courtesy of some
unbelievably generous philanthropy from web designer Michael Kinlan.
[S]o, after some two and a half years and 701 posts, we're calling time on our Blogger platform.
Having become frustrated with the anodyne templates and the unreliable comment facility, we've
decided to set up a slightly more bespoke shop at http://thetwounfortunates.com/, courtesy of some
unbelievably generous philanthropy from web designer Michael Kinlan.
If you are somehow dead inside and don't feel sympathy for axed Southampton boss Nigel Atkins, youcertainlymust now. In one of his last acts before leaving the Saints training ground for the last time, the 47-year-old penned this farewell message on a changing room whiteboard. After being put out on his backside despite two [.
Maxi Rodriguez has left Liverpool. The former Athletico Madrid midfielder arrived at Anfield in
January 2010 and he scored a very healthy 17 goals in 73 appearances for the Reds. He is rejoining
Newell's Old Boys of Argentina.
He wrote an open letter to all Liverpool fans: Dear Reds, I am leaving Liverpool FC today.
The Philly Soccer Page is looking for a few good writers.
Sure, you might think the ones we have are pretty good, and maybe you're even right. (Maybe.)
But we need more if we're to put out the product we think our readers would like to see. There are
so many things we want to write about, but we rarely get to them all because we simply don't have
enough good writers.
Since his arrival almost two and a half years ago, Manchester City has seen change unlike any other
period in the club's history. The oil rich owners influence has come to the fore after a period of
disappointment under Mark ...
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- Since October 1937, United have featured a youth player in every single match, except Arsenal
away in 2011. This was a run of 3,516 competitive games.
- 516 players have represented United in the FA Youth Cup. 32% make 1st team & 38% play league
football elsewhere. 70% hit rate!
- 202 youth players have featured in in the United first team making over 17,500 appearances
with 90 internationals.
SINGAPORE - He was scathing in his comments about Singapore's re-entry into Malaysian domestic
football competitions, saying on his Facebook page that the move was fuelled by a drive to raise
betting revenue, and suggesting that a similar baseline had also influenced decisions surrounding
the LionsXII.
The timing was perfect two-and-a-half years ago. Stewart Gilmour had been St. Mirren chair
longer than anyone else in the club's then 132-year history. He had overseen a ground move which,
with the help of Tesco (other supermarket chains are available), had left the "Buddies"
debt-cleared. And, perhaps conscious that the Scottish professional football model wasn't
over-conducive to debt-freedom, he and a consortium of fellow directors put their collective
shareholding, a controlling 52%, up for sale in September 2009.
Nearly two and a half years after the accident that almost claimed his life, Charlie Davies made
his official return for Sochaux.
Having last played in a Ligue 1 game on Oct. 3, 2009, Davies completed his return to Sochaux by
coming off the bench in its 1-0 defeat to Stade Rennes.
The comments of the host of The Football League Show, Manish Bhasin, over the whereabouts of his
show in the BBC schedules over the festive break have been causing social media no little disquiet
over the last couple of days or so. This morning, though, a chink of light was granted into a
possible reason behind why Bhasin was being so forthright on the subject, with rumours starting to
appear in the press suggesting that the corporation is not going to renew its option on the
programme come the end of this season.
So, after some two and a half years and 701 posts, we're calling time on our Blogger platform.
Having become frustrated with the anodyne templates and the unreliable comment facility, we've
decided to set up a slightly more bespoke shop at http://thetwounfortunates.com/, courtesy of some
unbelievably generous philanthropy from web designer Michael Kinlan.
