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Hull boss Phil Brown has apologised for an apparent altercation between team-mates Jimmy Bullard and Nicky Barmby.

 

The pair were reportedly involved in a fracas by the Humber Bridge on the day after Sunday's 5-1 defeat at Everton.

 

The row was apparently witnessed by a large party from the Women's Institute and Brown said: "I'd like to apologise to them, the incident was unsavoury.

 

What the hell? :lol:

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Hull boss Phil Brown has apologised for an apparent altercation between team-mates Jimmy Bullard and Nicky Barmby.

 

The pair were reportedly involved in a fracas by the Humber Bridge on the day after Sunday's 5-1 defeat at Everton.

 

The row was apparently witnessed by a large party from the Women's Institute and Brown said: "I'd like to apologise to them, the incident was unsavoury.

 

What the hell? :lol:

 

A Bullard and Barmby fight would be hialrious to see.  :lol: Is this the same bridge Brown apparently saved the women from jumping from ?

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Was fooling around at youtube and found this old - but kickass - Nike ad. I loved it when it came out.

 

 

Nice mix of talent there, funny to see how many of those are still active even though this was shot in 2000.

 

(dunno why it says "banned commercials" in the title, it certainly wasn't in Spain and can't see anything bannable there).

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Was fooling around at youtube and found this old - but kickass - Nike ad. I loved it when it came out.

 

 

Nice mix of talent there, funny to see how many of those are still active even though this was shot in 2000.

 

(dunno why it says "banned commercials" in the title, it certainly wasn't in Spain and can't see anything bannable there).

 

Banned for being crap, tbh.

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Fizzy Pop league soon to be Leccy league: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8570749.stm

Rubbish change. Coca-Cola Championship rolls off the tongue. Npower Championship doesn't roll off of anything. Never heard of it...do you pronounce it N'Power or "N" Power?

 

I agree, I'm happy we won't be in something which such an idiotic name next year tbh. Even if it's a silly thing to bother about. :lol:

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I guess it's a word play to mean "empower".

 

Always thought that Coca-Cola Championship was way too long. To be honest "League 1" and "League 2" roll of much more easily.

 

Are the financials better or worse than the previous deal with Coca-Cola?

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Another news story where we are in the mix  :lol: Lo Macari (bet), Stevie G (music dispute), Princess Diana (death), Bruce Grobbelaar (fix) & many other stories always manage to sneak us in somehow.

 

Football clubs can seek compensation if young players they have trained sign their first professional contract with a club in another European Union country, judges ruled today.

 

The verdict came in a case involving the French player Olivier Bernard, who joined Newcastle in 1997 at the end of a three-year training contract with the French club Lyon.

 

At the time, the French Professional Football Charter required "joueurs espoir" – promising players aged 16-22 – to sign with the professional club which trained them if offered a contract at the end of their training. If they chose not to, they were barred for three years from signing with another French club.

 

But Bernard, who is now 30, signed with an English club – and challenged a subsequent French court ruling that he and Newcastle were equally liable to compensate Lyon to the tune of more than €53,000 (£48,000). The sum was equivalent to Bernard's first-year salary if he had taken up the Lyon contract.

 

The player and Newcastle appealed and the French appeal court asked the European court of justice whether requiring a trainee football to pay damages if he signs with a professional club in another EU country breached EU law.

 

Today, the European court of justice in Luxembourg acknowledged that the French rule on trainees was clearly a restriction on the freedom of movement for workers, including footballers.

 

However, the restrictions could be justified under certain circumstances, such as the need to encourage recruitment and training of young professional players.

 

"In view of the considerable social importance of sporting activities, and in particular football in the EU, the objective of encouraging the recruitment and training of young players must be accepted as legitimate."

 

The judgment went on: "In the court's view, the prospect of receiving training fees is likely to encourage football clubs to seek new talent and train young players.

 

"A scheme providing for the payment of compensation for training where a young player, at the end of his training, signs a professional contract with a club other than the one which trained him can, in principle, be justified by the objective of encouraging the recruitment and training of young players."

 

The judges said the French scheme which triggered the case was based on payments not for costs incurred in training that player but in relation to the total loss suffered by the club – a scheme which went beyond what was necessary to encourage and fund recruitment and training of young players.

 

The judges said: "The amount of that compensation is to be determined by taking account of the costs borne by the clubs in training both future professional players and those who will never play professionally."

 

As a result of the case, Fifa, football's international governing body, has adopted rules under which the club, and not the player, pays compensation.

 

The amount is calculated on the cost of training a player, adjusted by the ratio of trainees needed to produce one professional player.

 

Various conditions ensure that compensation is "proportionate", and distributed equally when several clubs have contributed to training a player.

 

The man who sparked it all, Bernard, stayed with Newcastle until 2005, when he left after a dispute over contract negotiations. He rejoined a year later, in the middle of a two-year contract with Rangers. But, beset by injuries and fitness problems, he left again in May 2007. He currently trains with Toronto FC.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/16/european-court-player-compensation-training

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