Disco Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 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? second one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled in Texas Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Pronounce it "En-Power" sounds like a play on the word "empower - to give power or authority to" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I thought it was a racist version of black power. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Another news story where we are in the mix 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulivye Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 so, my Chicago Fire have signed Collins John... http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20100312&content_id=8766744&vkey=news_mls&fext=.jsp not sure how to feel... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Not worthy of a thread, but anyone else impressed by Scunny's manager last night ? Very complimentary about NUFC and everything about us So rare that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Not worthy of a thread, but anyone else impressed by Scunny's manager last night ? Very complimentary about NUFC and everything about us So rare that. haven't seen or heard..what did he say ? (link if poss) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins: "That's a Premier League side you have just seen out there, end of story, so we don't need to get too disillusioned about the result because that is a Premier League side and a very, very good one. "We play Plymouth at home on Saturday followed by Peterborough at home on the Tuesday, and we have got to look at the big picture. "The big picture is making sure we stay in the division." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/8565371.stm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins: "That's a Premier League side you have just seen out there, end of story, so we don't need to get too disillusioned about the result because that is a Premier League side and a very, very good one. "We play Plymouth at home on Saturday followed by Peterborough at home on the Tuesday, and we have got to look at the big picture. "The big picture is making sure we stay in the division." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/8565371.stm Lots of nice stuff, but he's very wrong in his assessment of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Crystal Palace got an interesting potential owner http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/03/18/manual_170157.html&TEAMHD=soccer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Crystal Palace got an interesting potential owner http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/03/18/manual_170157.html&TEAMHD=soccer I'd love it, I'd love it if that happened. Would be the most interesting owner of a club in years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Just had a quick look-in at the SMB forum. Fuck me they are obsessed with us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Crystal Palace got an interesting potential owner http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/03/18/manual_170157.html&TEAMHD=soccer If his ownership skills are anything like his rapping skills then they are fucked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Just had a quick look-in at the SMB forum. f*** me they are obsessed with us Most surprising thing, today I went to a ManU forum to make some FF research (wanted to know if Neville was going to start for them now that Brown's out), and half their threads are about Barça! They seem obsessed with us, they had like four different threads going on about how Rooney was better than Messi. Funny since we care so little about Manchester United (we regard Chelsea as bigger rivals continental-wise, have a much juicier story with them). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Icke - Son of God Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Just had a quick look-in at the SMB forum. Fuck me they are obsessed with us We win and the next day it's rammed with threads about us. You can set your watch by it Along with the obligatory "No Newcastle players would get into our side" topic there was one detailing all the allegedly daft things our fans have said, almost all of which are completely fictional. There was also a thread detailing how shit Andy Carroll is, another asking whether we'd have an open top bus parade if we won the league (That's so fucking trivial it wouldn't even warrant a thread on here ) and one full of 13 year olds reassuring themselves that the Championship is much shitter than it was all those times they promoted. Fucking pathetic man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins: "That's a Premier League side you have just seen out there, end of story, so we don't need to get too disillusioned about the result because that is a Premier League side and a very, very good one. "We play Plymouth at home on Saturday followed by Peterborough at home on the Tuesday, and we have got to look at the big picture. "The big picture is making sure we stay in the division." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_1/8565371.stm Lots of nice stuff, but he's very wrong in his assessment of us. Next year (I hope I'm not jinxing) will tell if he is or not. We certainly can't be as bad as we were when we were sent down Away form is worrying, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 6 ft 4 in, striker, born in Gateshead & arrested there cant be two idiots who fit this bill but there is. While browsing around I read that Andy Carroll Mk II AKA Gary Madine got nicked a few weeks back for a city centre fight. Has had some weird loans this season one to CCC club & next to League 2 team. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/carlisle-united/latest/carlisle-utd-striker-gary-madine-involved-in-incident-1.677839?referrerPath=opinion/blogs http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/carlisle_united/7437713.stm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 1 goal in 52 appearances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 1 goal in 52 appearances. I would imagine most of them games are last 10 mins "CHUCK THE BIG GEORDIE ON & GET THE BALL IN THE BOX" & as that record shows the plan has limited success for him personally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,68223.0.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,68223.0.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 sepp blater has cemented his position as supreme dictator (or president of fifa for as long as he feels likes it if you prefer) after a motion to impose a 2 term limit on being fifa president from asia was defeated heavily http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/19/sepp-blatter-fifa-revenue-1bn so everyone thinks hes a moron other than the people who actually vote for this kind of thing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 sepp blater has cemented his position as supreme dictator (or president of fifa for as long as he feels likes it if you prefer) after a motion to impose a 2 term limit on being fifa president from asia was defeated heavily http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/19/sepp-blatter-fifa-revenue-1bn so everyone thinks hes a moron other than the people who actually vote for this kind of thing Most likely bribed quite a few for those votes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 A lot of people casting those votes probably owe their posts to him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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