Category: Football
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Newcastle United Football Club appoint Sam Allardyce, an experienced football manager. He leaves by “mutual consent” after only a few months in charge, apparently because the new chairman doesn’t like his style of management. Newcastle appoint Kevin Keegan, former player, former manager, out of football management for several years, and known to be possessed of…
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The SCMP fills its sports pages by selecting stories from the news agencies and foreign newspapers. Unfortunately, the selection process seems to be somewhat random, such as when they gave readers in Hong Kong the impression that Graeme Souness might be re-appointed as Newcastle manager. Or this, which appeared on the back page on Thursday:…
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There's always a worrying period after a vacancy occurs in the Premier League, when Graeme Souness is linked with the job. This is followed by sighs of relief when someone else (anyone else) is appointed. It was hard to see why Souness should be linked with the Blackburn job, having jumped ship last time around when…
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I did a double-take when I saw this combination of photographs on the BBC website. Now I’m trying to decide whether it was very clever or very dumb…
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Today’s SCMP has a league table that “does not include [the] late game”. Well, actually, it doesn’t include any of yesterday’s games. If it did, Bolton would have been 9th rather than 18th, Arsenal would have been 3rd rather than 4th, Portsmouth 8th rather than 9th, and Fulham 18th rather than 16th. Still, at least…
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Well, well. The BBC are reporting that Keegan and Newcastle part company, which must be the the least surprising football news of the year. The only surprise would be that he lasted a full eight months. Back in January I said (Mad): This really is the gift that keeps on giving… I thought Newcastle's board…
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Now TV seem to be doing a fairly good job of covering Euro 2008. All the games are available in High Definition and on-demand, and channel 632 has 24 hours a day of live games, re-runs, previews and highlights. They even have re-runs on 660 (HD), which they don’t do for the EPL. There is…
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By general consent, the English Premier League is the #1 league in the world, as demonstrated by the fact that PCCW paid a small fortune to secure the exclusive rights to show the games in Hong Kong. Yet Cable TV apparently know better, and has decided that its viewers are more interested in La Liga,…
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Has the Premier League gone mad? They have apparently decided that what they really need is an extra 10 extra games added to the season, and to play them overseas in January (Top clubs consider overseas games): At a meeting in London on Thursday, all 20 [Premier League] clubs agreed to explore a proposal to…
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This really is the gift that keeps on giving… I thought Newcastle’s board were going to spoil the fun when they said that they would take their time finding a manager and might consider appointing a foreigner. Gérard Houllier was mentioned, and then Didier Deschamps was suddenly installed as favourite. They even turned down Alan…
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