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SteveMc

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10212982.stm

 

Red knights have pulled out of buying man utd. Keith Harris was involved in the bid again, has he ever been involved in the successful sale of a football club? Would love to find out how much Ashley forked out to him for his useless efforts to sell newcastle.

he was involved in the sale of city to shiniwatra, hes also claiming credit (or at least a success fee) off the guy at birmingham

 

Was he involved at Chelsea?

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Adriano's been honing his shooting skills

 

http://storage0.dms.mpinteractiv.ro/media/401/581/7955/6229032/1/adriano1.jpg?width=370

 

His mate wants to get some cream for that rash like.

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i was looking at john barnes wiki page and saw this cracking edit in the bit about management style...

 

 

 

Strategy & Tactics

Teams managed by Barnes are taught to either hold or give the ball providing they do it at the right time. When in attack Barnes' sides attempt to get the ball to the line at a variety of speeds ranging from slow to fast. In team talks Barnes' always warns his players to be wary of the oppositions attempts to hit them and hurt them in both defence and attack. One criticism levelled at sides managed by Barnes is that one way they beat their opposition is as a result of getting around the back. John Barnes, although born in Jamaica, is a self proclaimed England man.

 

 

 

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i was looking at john barnes wiki page and saw this cracking edit in the bit about management style...

 

 

 

Strategy & Tactics

Teams managed by Barnes are taught to either hold or give the ball providing they do it at the right time. When in attack Barnes' sides attempt to get the ball to the line at a variety of speeds ranging from slow to fast. In team talks Barnes' always warns his players to be wary of the oppositions attempts to hit them and hurt them in both defence and attack. One criticism levelled at sides managed by Barnes is that one way they beat their opposition is as a result of getting around the back. John Barnes, although born in Jamaica, is a self proclaimed England man.

 

 

 

:mackems:

 

That is class.  :clap:

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Most of his 'news' is just copy and paste from the Chronicle and Journal, which he then mutilates into a shitty open ended question ala Sky Sports News website.

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Did not see this article at the time but it is canny read.

How England's north-east feast at Italia 90 turned into famine

 

The release of a film about the 1990 World Cup, One Night In Turin, was bound to bring with it a stab of regret, and not just because those of us who recall the tournament vividly are now of an age when melancholy proliferates like the hair in our lugholes. And if you come from the north-east of England the pang of nostalgia James Erskine's documentary provokes is likely to be all the more acute.

 

In one of the final friendlies leading up to Italia 90 England beat Czechoslovakia 4-2 at Wembley. It was the match in which Paul Gascoigne secured a place in the squad with a display so impish the opposition must have been tempted to check if he had a pointy tail. In the final minutes, having already set up two of England's goals, Gazza scored one of his own. Socks at half-mast, cheeks ruddy with effort, he soft-shoe-shuffled past two defenders and smacked the ball into the roof of the net with the explosive urgency of a schoolkid who has just heard the bell bringing break-time to an end. On the touchline, the England manager, Bobby Robson, wide-eyed and grinning fondly as a new dad, turned to his assistant Don Howe and cried: "That … is … fantastic!"

 

It remains my enduring image of Sir Bobby – a man who took such joy in football even the sight of a few workmen having a kickaround in the park was enough to distract him from his dinner. The thing I remember best about that game, though, is neither Gascoigne's performance, nor his manager's reaction to it, but a letter that appeared in this newspaper a few days later. It was written by a Tynesider and though the exact wording of it eludes me now, the message has stayed with me ever since. On Wednesday night, the writer said, England had defeated another of the World Cup finalists. The England team had featured three players – Gascoigne, Trevor Steven and Bryan Robson – from the north-east, three of the goals had been set up by players from the north-east, another had been scored by a player from the north-east, the team was captained by a man from the north-east and managed by one, too. "Tell me," the letter concluded triumphantly, "what does the rest of the country do for a hobby?"

 

I read that line sitting in a flat in the Old Kent Road. I imagine I laughed with glee when I read it and punched the air. The letter, or at least the sentiment behind, would inspire me to write a book about north-east football. It would, it is fair to say, change my life.

 

Looking back today, I can see that this missive represented a highwater mark for north-east football. England's team for the first game of the 1990 finals, against the Republic of Ireland, featured four players from the region – Gazza, Robson, Chris Waddle and Peter Beardsley (Steven was also in the squad). At the time it didn't seem like such a big deal. After all, hadn't England's legendary baggy-shorted forward line featured Wilf Mannion and Raich Carter as inside-forwards? Didn't the Charlton brothers help England win in 1966? Hadn't the squad Sir Alf Ramsey took to Mexico in 1970 – regarded by many as the best set of players we ever had – included the Charltons, Colin Bell and Norman Hunter?

 

I first went to a football match in 1967. By that stage no north-east team had won the league title for 30 years, the FA Cup for a dozen. Newcastle and Sunderland were struggling to stay in the top flight and Middlesbrough had dropped into the Third Division for the first time in their history. Yet, that year's News of the World football annual showed that 62 players from the region were employed in the First Division. There was at least one at every club, with the exception of West Ham. Howard Kendall, Jimmy Husband, Tommy Baldwin, George Armstrong, Ralph Coates, David Thomas, Mick McNeil, the Charltons, Bell, Hunter – for an area with a population hardly bigger than Birmingham's it was quite a list.

 

Through the 70s and 80s the pits and the steelworks and the shipyards shut, but it seemed like the north-east would churn out footballers for ever. Now, however, it looks like Italia 90 was a last howay.

 

Since then the involvement of the region's players in the national team – with the exception of Alan Shearer, and the fitfully fit Gascoigne – has been on the Green Party side of marginal. On Tuesday Fabio Capello's provisional squad of 30 included just two men – Michael Carrick and Adam Johnson – born in the region. In 2006 Sven-Goran Eriksson's final 23 mustered only Carrick and Stewart Downing – who managed 150 minutes of football between them. In 1998 Glenn Hoddle's sole north-easterner was Super Al. In Korea/Japan there were none at all.

 

Much has been written about Scotland's marked decline as a producer of talented footballers – whatever the causes of that slump might be they seem to have drifted south. Looking to raise my spirits, a friend comments that Waddle, Beardsley and Gascoigne emerged under a Conservative government. Another points to the emergence of Andy Carroll and Jordan Henderson, the return to form of David Wheater. It is a time for clutching at straws.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/may/14/england-north-east-football-world-cup

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Claus Lundekvam admitting to years of drug and alcohol abuse on Norwegian TV2. That would explain Gordon Strachan's quote about him: “He was carried off at Leicester and someone asked me if he was unconscious. I didn’t have a clue. That’s what he’s always like.”

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Claus Lundekvam admitting to years of drug and alcohol abuse on Norwegian TV2. That would explain Gordon Strachan's quote about him: “He was carried off at Leicester and someone asked me if he was unconscious. I didn’t have a clue. That’s what he’s always like.”

 

This is no surprise as he has been arrested for drunk driving and  for posession of coke earlier. I hope he can fight off his demons and get a fresh start.

 

It is also worth mentioning that he scored Norway's 1000th International goal with his cock.

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Claus Lundekvam admitting to years of drug and alcohol abuse on Norwegian TV2. That would explain Gordon Strachan's quote about him: “He was carried off at Leicester and someone asked me if he was unconscious. I didn’t have a clue. That’s what he’s always like.”

 

This is no surprise as he has been arrested for drunk driving and  for posession of coke earlier. I hope he can fight off his demons and get a fresh start.

 

It is also worth mentioning that he scored Norway's 1000th International goal with his cock.

 

Said Shearer was shit, he can fuck off & die tbh.

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Did he?

 

"Unless we get a replay, I probably won't ever play against Shearer again," said the Norwegian defender.

 

"I will miss that because we have had some really good battles over the years.

 

"I have enjoyed playing against him because it is always a real challenge, the sort you look forward to as a player."

 

Shearer began his career with Southampton some 18 years ago, but Lundekvam knows better than to expect any favours from a man who is desperate to cap his career on Tyneside with some silverware.

 

"Shearer has had an unbelievable career," added Lundekvam. "His strength and power and quality in the air make him very difficult to handle.

 

"He is a master at sniffing out where to be. He is a very clever player. He is forceful and he knows all the tricks.

 

"But he does not just dish it out, he takes it too, and there is much more to him than that. He is a very good footballer with a clever brain and he only needs half a yard to punish you.

 

"You cannot let your concentration drop for a second because he will be on to anything in a flash."

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