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Sheyro_07Seven

30-09-2011, 09:36 PM

Jelang Everton vs Liverpool
Data dan Fakta Derby Merseyside

Jakarta - Derby Merseyside antara Everton dengan Liverpool akan tersaji akhir pekan ini. Menjadi laga yang paling banyak menghasilkan kartu merah di Premier League, derby edisi 216 tersebut diprediksi bakal sengit.

Berikut data dan fakta Derby Merseyside yang akan dilangsungkan di Goodison Park, Sabtu (1/10/2011) malam WIB seperti dikutip dari Europort.

* Derby akhir pekan ini merupakan pertandingan edisi ke-216 antara Liverpool dan Everton di semua kompetisi. The Reds sementara unggul dengan telah mengantongi 85 kemenangan, sementara The Toffees meraih 66 dan 64 laga lainnya berkesudahan imbang.

* Jika dipersempit hanya di Liga Inggris saja, maka Liverpool juga masih unggul dengan memenangi 16 pertandingan dari 38 pertemuan. Everton cuma kebagian sembilan kemenangan.

* Sepanjang era Premier League, telah keluar 19 kartu merah dalam pertemuan kedua tim ini, dengan 10 di antaranya terjadi di 13 pertemuan terakhir. Jumlah tersebut merupakan rekor kartu merah terbanyak yang melibatkan pertemuan dua tim.

* Everton hanya memetik satu kemenangan dalam sembilan Derby Merseyside terakhir (satu menang, tiga imbang dan lima kali kalah).

* Everton adalah klub terakhir yang dihadapi Kenny Dalglish sebelum memeutuskan mundur sebagai pelatih Liverpool pada tahun 1991.

* Dirk Kuyt selalu mencetak gol dalam tiga pertandingan terakhir kontra Everton, dan total mencetak lima gol dalam pertemuan dengan The Tofees.

* Tim Cahill mencetak lima gol dari 11 pertemuan kontra Liverpool.

* Everton hanya menelan satu kekalahan di 14 pertandingan Premier League terakhir yang digelar Goodison Park (delapan menang, lima imbang, sekali kalah).

* Liverpool hanya mencatatkan satu clean sheet dalam tujuh pertandingan away terakhirnya di ajang Premier League.

* Tiga dari empat pertandingan away terakhir di Liga Inggris, Liverpool selalu gagal mencetak gol.
* Dalam tiga musim terakhir Derby Merseyside di Goodison Park selalu berkesudahan dengan skor 2-0 (Liverpool menang dua kali, Everton menang sekali).

http://detiksport.com

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Jelang Spurs vs Arsenal
Potensi Banyak Gol di White Hart Lane

Jakarta - Pertemuan Tottenham Hotspur kontra Arsenal selalu menghadirkan laga seru. Setelah 16 gol tercipta dalam tiga pertemuan terakhir, akhir pekan ini White Hart Lane juga menjanjikan banyak selebrasi.

Dari sisi produktivitas, baik Spurs maupun Arsenal masih kalah dibanding klub-klub penghuni papan atas sementara seperti Manchester United (22 gol), Manchester City (19) serta Chelsea (12). Saat ini duo London itu sama-sama baru sembilan kali menjebol gawang lawan.

Namun status derby menjadikan pertemuan kedua klub ini selalu bertensi tinggi. Hal mana terbukti dari 16 gol yang tercipta di tiga pertemuan kedua tim musim lalu.

Berikut data dan fakta Derby London Utara seperti dikutip dari Eurosport:

* Arsenal dan Spurs bertemu tiga kali musim lalu, dua di Liga Inggris dan sisanya di Piala Carling. Dari pertemuan tersebut tercipta 16 gol, empat di antaranya dari eksekusi penalti.

* Pertemuan pertama di ajang Piala Carling, Arsenal mempermalukan Spurs dengan 4-1 di White Hart Lane. Namun Spurs membalas dengan kemenangan 3-2 di Emirates Stadium, sebelum kemudian berbagi angka 3-3 di White Hart Lane.

* Sebagai mantan pemain Arsenal, Emmanuel Adebayor akan dapat sorotan khusus dalam laga ini. Selama berseragam The Gunners dia tercatat sembilan kali menjebol gawang Spurs di semua kompetisi.

* Sejak Harry Redknapp membesut Tottenham, Spurs cuma memetik dua kemenangan, tiga kali imbang dan dua kali kalah dalam tujuh pertemuan dengan 'Gudang Peluru' di semua kompetisi.

* Spurs hanya mencatatkan satu clean sheet dalam 31 pertandingan terakhir kontra Arsenal di semua kompetisi.

* Robin van Persie mencetak empat gol di empat pertandingan terakhir kontra Spurs saat dipasang sebagai starter.

* Rafael van der Vaart mencetak tiga gol dari dua pertandingan menghadapi The Gunners di Premier League.

* Gareth Bale sudah mencetak tiga gol ke gake gawang Arsenal di Premier League, jumlah terbanyak yang bisa dia buat ke gawang klub manapun di kompetisi tersebut.

* Arsenal cuma memenangi dua pertandingan dari 16 laga away terakhir di semua kompetisi. rangkaian tersebut termasuk di dalamnya adalah kemasukan 12 gol di dua laga terakhir pertandingan Premier League.

* Sejak kalah 1-3 pada September 2007, Spurs belum pernah kalah di kandang atas Arsenal pada ajang Premier League. Dalam 15 pertandingan home terakhir di Liga Inggris mereka bahkan belum terkalahkan dengan catatan sembilan kemenangan dan enam kali imbang.

* Arsenal dan Tottenham 17 kali bermain imbang sepanjang sejarah Premier League. Itu merupakan hasil imbang terbanyak yang tercipta dalam pertandingan Premier League.

* Sepanjang musim 2011/12 ini Spurs dua kali melepaskan tembakan ke gawang menggunakan kepala, dan keduanya selalu menjadi gol.

* Arsenal menjadi tim yang paling banyak dapat kartu merah musim ini dengan tiga pemainnya telah diusir keluar lapangan.

http://detiksport.com

Redsbusby

01-10-2011, 12:57 PM

Salah satu penjaga gawang yg paling terkenal di premierleague nih.. mulai dr final ucl - rencana naturalisasi..
Baguslah, aset yg bagus bwt westham \m/

Arsenal Lepas Almunia ke West Ham
Tjatur Wiharyo | Sabtu, 01 Oktober 2011 | 02:46 WIB

LONDON, KOMPAS.com — Melalui situs resminya, Arsenal mengumumkan telah meminjamkan kiper Manuel Almunia ke West Ham United untuk masa satu bulan.

Kiper berusia 34 tahun itu sudah sejak musim lalu kesulitan mendapat jatah bermain reguler akibat cedera dan kiper Wojciech Szczesny. Almunia menutup musim 2010-2011 dengan rekor 14 kali tampil di berbagai ajang dan musim ini sama sekali belum pernah bermain.

Meski begitu, Almunia dinilai belum habis oleh West Ham. West Ham pun meminjamnya untuk menggantikan Robert Green, yang absen selama enam pekan untuk menjalani pemulihan cedera lutut. Di West Ham, Almunia akan memakai kostum bernomor punggung 13.

"Kami sangat berterima kasih kepada Arsene Wenger dan Arsenal karena membolehkan kami memakai jasa pemain top dan berpengalaman untuk mengisi posisi Robert Green untuk sementara waktu," ujar Manajer West Ham, Sam Allardyce.

Almunia juga berterima kasih kepada West Ham. Menurutnya, bergabung dengan West Ham merupakan kesempatan memulihkan kepercayaan diri yang tak akan disia-siakannya.

"Aku tak bermain di Arsenal. Aku berharap meninggalkan klub itu dan bermain untuk klub lain dan mendapatkan kesempatan tampil. Hal terpenting adalah merasa baik lagi, bermain sepak bola, dan merasakan bola lagi karena aku belum bermain sejak musim lalu dan ini adalah periode berat bagiku," tutur Almunia.

zudomiriku

04-10-2011, 09:49 AM

Carlo Ancelotti states desire to manage another Premier League club

• Almost five months since Italian was sacked by Chelsea
• 'I have strong will to remain in England,' says 52-year-old

Carlo Ancelotti has stated his eagerness to manager a Premier League club almost five months after he was sacked by Chelsea.

"I have a strong will to remain in England," the 52-year-old told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "For a coach, this is the ideal country. But I would only consider [coaching] top clubs, including Tottenham and Liverpool.

"It's evident that [Arsène] Wenger's bench is wobbling and that in several months' time, an English coach will be appointed to replace [Fabio] Capello in the national team, which will free up a place in a club. But I am in no hurry. The fact that I'm not coaching does not cause me anguish. In fact, I am enjoying life."

Ancelotti, who was linked with a move to Roma during the summer, has also stated his rather grand emotions for Sir Alex Ferguson. He said: "As time goes on, the more I fall in love with Ferguson. As a coach, he is unusual. It's not as if he guides the training sessions because he delegates a lot and has an excellent staff. But he understands football like few do. With him, all the players improve.

"He has no fear of introducing youngsters. But above all, Ferguson is a great person and he is humble."

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbm4T

zudomiriku

04-10-2011, 11:07 AM

Jack Rodwell was sent off in the Merseyside derby for this

Luis Suarez once again helped manufacture a bit of controversy by making the most of a Jack Rodwell challenge in the 23rd minute of Saturday's Merseyside derby (see it in motion here), which resulted in referee Martin Atkinson showing Rodwell a straight red. After that, Liverpool scored twice -- the second coming from Suarez -- and won 2-0.

Atkinson had a clear view of the challenge, so there was no excuse there. And though Suarez did get his foot slightly caught against Rodwell's sliding leg well after the Everton midfielder made clean contact with the ball. Rodwell didn't lunge at Suarez from the side or from behind. He didn't use excessive force and he even made sure his studs were pointing down as soon as he cleared the ball, so it's hard to say what Atkinson based his decision on other than Suarez's dramatic rolling around after the fact.

Opinion seems to be unanimous (even among Liverpool supporters) that it was a terrible call. Following the match, Everton manager David Moyes was clear about how the decision impacted the match (via the Guardian):

"It ruined the game," said Moyes. A blunt but accurate appraisal. "There are a lot of questions that people ask about derbies, about tackles, about sending-offs and about players but that wasn't down to a bad tackle by a player. I would have been disappointed if it had been a free-kick and if he had given a yellow card you would have said: 'What is that for?'

Meanwhile, angry Everton fans decided to take out their post-red card frustration on the Liverpool players by throwing coins and other trinkets at them. One guy hit Craig Bellamy in the head with an empty plastic Coke bottle.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbm54

zudomiriku

06-10-2011, 05:26 PM

Rodwell's derby-day red card rescinded

Everton's Jack Rodwell has had his red card in Saturday's Merseyside derby against Liverpool rescinded following a successful appeal.

Rodwell was sent-off by referee Martin Atkinson after just 23 minutes of the 2-0 defeat at Goodison Park, following a tackle on Reds striker Luis Suarez that was deemed reckless.

However, TV replays showed Atkinson made the incorrect decision and the Football Association has upheld Rodwell's claim for wrongful dismissal. The verdict means the midfielder's three-match suspension, for serious foul play, has also been withdrawn.

Immediately after the derby-day defeat Everton manager David Moyes expressed his amazement at Atkinson's decision.

"I thought it ruined the game. That wasn't down to a bad tackle,'' Moyes said. "I would have been disappointed if it had been a free-kick. I don't think anyone in this world thought it was [a sending off].''

Rodwell, 20, will now be availble for Everton's next three Premier League matches against Chelsea, Fulham and Manchester United.

Everton's chief executive Robert Elstone welcomed the overturning of Rodwell's red card but said it meant little in the wake of a defeat to Liverpool.

"Whilst we welcome the correct decision the FA panel has reached, it's of course an outcome which will provide little consolation whatsoever to the 37,000 Evertonians packed into Goodison on Saturday to watch the 2-0 defeat,'' he told the club's website.

"The Merseyside derby is a special occasion and many of our fans will have made financial sacrifices to make sure they were there to support the team.

"From the press, radio and television reports that surfaced in the aftermath of Saturday's events, they were almost unanimous in their verdict and we are pleased with the news that quite rightly the red card has been rescinded.''

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright added: "One of the biggest tragedies was for Jack himself. He has had a terrific season and was by far and away the most influential midfielder on the pitch up to that point.

"To deny him the opportunity to continue on such an important occasion must have been incredibly difficult for Jack - as it was for his team-mates, manager and, of course, the fans.''

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbmpS

Sheyro_07Seven

14-10-2011, 01:03 PM

but,..kita yg lebih baNyak,.terhebat cs pialaNya versi baru,.....:muscarf:

Liga Inggris Pekan Ini
Duel Klasik Dua Penguasa Liga Inggris

Liverpool - Manchester United akan menghadapi ujian berat pada akhir pekan ini. Pimpinan klasemen sementara Liga Primer Inggris ini akan bertandang ke markas rival klasiknya, Liverpool.

Start MU pada musim ini bisa dibilang sangat baik. Dalam tujuh partai awal, mereka menang enam kali dan seri sekali. The Red Devils juga jadi tim paling produktif karena sudah 24 kali menjebol gawang lawan.

Sementara itu, Liverpool agak tersendat pada awal musim. Meski sudah jor-joran di bursa transfer, The Reds sudah dua kali kalah dalam tujuh pertandingan dan saat ini bertengger di peringkat kelima klasemen sementara.

Namun, posisi di papan klasemen tak akan terlalu berpengaruh saat Liverpool dan MU bertemu di Anfield, Sabtu (15/10/1011). Duel antara dua pengoleksi trofi terbanyak Liga Inggris ini adalah pertaruhan gengsi dan harga diri. Kedua kubu punya sejarah rivalitas panjang dan mendalam.

Sepanjang sejarah, MU dan Liverpool sudah bertemu 154 kali di semua kompetisi. 'Setan Merah' tercatat menang 59 kali, kalah 52 kali, dan sisanya berakhir imbang.

Meski statistik di atas masih memihak mereka, pasukan Sir Alex Ferguson tetap wajib waspada penuh. Pasalnya, dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, mereka selalu takluk saat berkunjung ke Anfield.

Terakhir kali MU bisa membawa pulang poin dari Anfield adalah pada 16 Desember 2007 lewat kemenangan tipis 1-0. Setelah itu, mereka selalu kalah dalam tiga musim terakhir, masing-masing dengan skor 1-2, 0-2, dan 1-3.

Meski tidak mudah, MU tetap wajib memburu poin penuh atas The Kop. Kehilangan poin di Anfield jelas akan membahayakan posisi mereka di puncak klasemen.

Manchester City, yang ada di peringkat kedua dan punya poin sama dengan MU, berpeluang besar merebut poin sempurna pada akhir pekan ini. The Citizens "cuma" akan menghadapi Aston Villa di Etihad Stadium.

Sementara itu, Chelsea yang ada di peringkat ketiga akan meladeni Everton di kandang sendiri. Ada pun Arsenal yang tengah terpuruk di papan bawah akan menjamu Sunderland.

http://detiksport.com

Sheyro_07Seven

14-10-2011, 09:45 PM

semoga saja away besok di Anfield,..menjadi kemenangan kita yg ke 72,...[-O< :D

Jelang Liverpool vs MU
Duel Dua Penguasa Liga Inggris

Jakarta - Liverpool akan menjamu Manchester United di Stadion Anfield Sabtu (15/10/2011) besok. Laga ini layak disebut sebagai pertandingan akbar, karena mempertemukan dua pengoleksi terbanyak gelar Liga Inggris.

Berikut ini data fakta pertandingan yang juga sering disebut dengan "North-West Derby" itu yang dikutip dari BBC Sport.

* Pertandingan Sabtu (15/10/2011) nanti menjadi partai ke-182 semenjak kedua klub pertama kali bertemu pada 28 April 1894. Saat itu Liverpool unggul dengan skor akhir 2-0.

* MU masih unggul dengan koleksi 71 kemenangan , sedangkan Liverpool baru mengoleksi 61 kemenangan. Di sisa 50 laga lainnya kenduanya harus puas bermain imbang,

* Di tiga lawatannya terakhir ke Stadion Anfield, MU selalu pulang dengan tangan hampa. Terakhir kali meraih kemenangan didapat tahun 2007. Saat ittu gol semata wayang Carlos Tevez mengantar MU mendulang kemenangan.

* Musim ini jadi kali pertama MU melawat ke Anfield dengan status peraih 19 kali juara Liga Inggris. Raihan itu melewati rekor Liverpool yang mengoleksi 18 gelar juara. Sedangkan bagi Liverpool ini jadi kali pertama bertemu MU sejak dibeli oleh John W. Henry.

* Kenny Daglish tidak pernah kalah dalam lima pertandingan terakhir Liverpool melawan MU di Stadion Anfield. Kemenangan ini juga termasuk saal mengalahkan MU di tahun perdananya bersama Sir Alex Ferguson di tahun 1986.

* Ryan Giggs menjadi pemain yang paling banyak tampil dalam "North West Derby" dengan 41 kali. Giggs juga sekaligus jadi pemain tertua yang berlaga dengan usia 37 tahun.

* Jika diturunkan sebagai starter, pertandingan ini akan jadi kali pertama Steven Gerrard tampil dari menit awal bersama The Reds musim ini setelah sembuh dari cedera paha. Uniknya, cedera itu juga didapat Gerrard saat bertanding melawan MU bulan Maret yang lalu.

* Wayne Rooney terakhir mencetak gol di Stadion Anfiled pada 3 March 2007. Saat itu MU unggul atas tuan rumah dengan skor akhir 0-1

* Pertemuan keduanya jarang berakhir imbang. Skor imbang terakhir terjadi 18 September 2005 saat berlaga di Stadion Anfield.

* Nemanja Vidic sering menjadi pesakitan kala bertemu Liverpool. Dari empat kali pertemuan terakhir, Vidic harus empat kali juga menerima kartu merah.

* Dirk Kuyt menjadi ancaman bagi MU setelah pada pertandingan terakhir memborong tiga gol Liverpool yang membuat MU tunduk dengan skor akhir 3-1.

http://detiksport.com

Sheyro_07Seven

15-10-2011, 03:42 PM

emang neh partai penuh dgn karismatik & martabat,.....:-bd

'Sejarah Liverpool & MU Patut Dihormati'

Liverpool - Laga antara Liverpool vs Manchester United disebut sebagai salah satu laga terpenting di Premier League musim ini. Hal tersebut tak lepas dari sejarah kedua klub.

Liverpool pernah begitu lama menjadi penguasa tunggal Liga Inggris. Sampai kemudian datang seorang pria bernama Alex Ferguson ke kubu Manchester United. Meski sempat seret gelar di masa-masa awalnya bersama The Red Devils, Fergie kemudian terbukti menghadirkan kejayaan bagi timnya.

Ketika Liverpool mandek gelar, MU justru berjaya. Torehan 18 gelar milik The Reds perlahan-lahan dibalap. Sampai pada akhirnya di musim lalu, ketika MU mendepak Liverpool dari takhta penguasa dengan torehan 19 gelar.

Untuk diingat, laga di Anfield nanti malam, Sabtu (15/10/2011), adalah pertama kalinya MU datang ke markas sang rival dengan status "penguasa baru".

"Saya selalu menilai ini sebagai pertandingan paling besar dalam satu musim kompetisi sepakbola Inggris," ujar Fergie di ESPN Star.

Pria asal Skotlandia itu juga mengingatkan betapa besarnya sejarah kedua klub. Liverpool lebih berjaya di Eropa dengan catatan lima kali juara Liga Champions dan menyandang Badge of Honour dari UEFA. Sementara itu, MU baru tiga kali menjadi juara.

"Ini tidak akan berubah. Kedua klub saling membutuhkan. Sejarah dari kedua kesebelasan patut untuk dihormati oleh fans dari kedua belah pihak."

http://detiksport.com

Sheyro_07Seven

15-10-2011, 03:47 PM

mungkin cs brasal dr 1 negara kali yah,.. jadi saling menghormati,.... :D

Jelang Liverpool vs MU
Fergie Puji Dalglish

Liverpool - Sir Alex Ferguson dan Kenny Dalglish akan berada di bench masing-masing malam ini, menyaksikan tim masing-masing bertarung di lapangan. Namun, baik Fergie atau Dalglish menaruh respek satu sama lain.

Setidaknya demikian yang tersirat dari komentar Fergie, jelang laga antara Liverpool vs Manchester United di Anfield, Sabtu (15/10/2011) malam WIB. Dalglish, disebut Fergie, adalah sosok yang dibutuhkan Liverpool.

Dengan latar belakang sebagai mantan pemain The Reds, dan juga pelatih yang pernah membawa mereka juara, Dalglish mendapatkan dukungan penuh baik dari pemilik ataupun fans.

"Dia adalah orang yang diinginkan oleh fans dan dia telah menghadirkan perbaikan," ujar Fergie di ESPN Star.

"Pemilik mereka juga mendukung Kenny dengan baik. Mereka mendukungnya secara finansial dan telah membeli banyak pemain."

"Anda selalu mengekspektasikan Liverpool untuk setidaknya berada di zona Liga Champions."

"Hanya musim lalu saja mereka keluar dari empat besar, untuk pertama kalinya sejak waktu yang lama sekali," tukas Fergie.

http://detiksport.com

Sheyro_07Seven

17-10-2011, 09:19 AM

pertandingan seru neh,..sama kuat,... :thumbup:

Newcastle vs Spurs Imbang 2-2

Newcastle - Newcastle United berhasil memaksakan hasil imbang 2-2 kala menjamu Tottenham Hotspur. Sempat dua kali tertinggal, gol Shola Ameobi menyelamatkan The Magpies dari kekalahan.

Bertanding di St. James' Park, Minggu (16/10/2011), Spurs unggul 1-0 pada babak pertama. Gol The Lilywhites tercipta lewat penalti Rafael van der Vaart.

Pada babak kedua, gol Demba Ba membuat Newcastle menyamakan kedudukan 1-1. Tapi, Spurs unggul lagi lewat Jermain Defoe. Ameobi akhirnya jadi pahlawan tim tuan rumah setelah mencetak gol penyama pada menit-menit akhir.

Hasil imbang ini tak mengubah posisi Newcastle di peringkat keempat klasemen sementara dengan 16 poin dari delapan pertandingan. Spurs tetap di peringkat keenam dengan 13 poin dari tujuh partai.

Jalannya pertandingan

Kedua tim sama-sama kesulitan mengembangkan permainan pada awal babak pertama. Alhasil, tak terlalu banyak peluang yang tercipta.

Kebuntuan baru pecah pada menit ke-40 saat Spurs mendapat hadiah penalti setelah Emmanuel Adebayor dilanggar Steven Taylor di area terlarang. Van der Vaart yang jadi eksekutor menjalankan tugasnya tanpa cacat.

Hingga turun minum, Spurs masih unggul 1-0 atas Newcastle.

Tim tuan rumah langsung panas pada awal babak kedua. Cuma tiga menit setelah restart, mereka menyamakan skor.

Gol Newcastle diawali pergerakan Jonas Gutierrez di sayap kiri. Jonas kemudian mengirim umpan silang ke mulut gawang di mana di sana ada Ba yang tak terkawal. Tanpa kesulitan, Ba mencocor bola ke gawang Brad Friedel.

Lima menit kemudian, Spurs berpeluang unggul lagi. Mendapatkan umpan dari Luka Modric, Adebayor melepaskan tembakan menyusur tanah yang masih melebar tipis.

Van der Vaart membuang peluang bagus pada menit ke-58. Sepakannya dari dalam kotak penalti usai menerima umpan Modric tepat mengarah ke pelukan kiper Tim Krul.

Tim tamu mencetak gol kedua sepuluh menit berselang. Defoe yang masuk menggantikan Van der Vaart menjebol gawang Krul lewat sepakan kaki kiri terukur dari luar kotak penalti.

Friedel membuat dua penyelamatan gemilang pada menit ke-81 dan 83. Usai menepis tendangan keras Cheik Tiote dari luar kotak penalti, dia juga mementahkan tendangan bebas Ryan Taylor.

Ameobi akhirnya menyelamatkan Newcastle dari kekalahan empat menit jelang berakhirnya waktu normal. Usai menerima umpan Hatem Ben Arfa, Ameobi menusuk ke sisi kotak penalti sebelum mengirim bola ke tiang jauh tanpa bisa dijangkau Friedel.

Susunan pemain:
Newcastle: Krul; Simpson (Santon 77'), S Taylor, Coloccini, R Taylor; Obertan, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez; Best (Ameobi 71'), Ba (Ben Arfa 71')

Tottenham: Friedel; Walker, Kaboul, King (Bassong 30'), Assou-Ekotto; Modric, Livermore, Parker, Bale; Van der Vaart (Defoe 64'); Adebayor (Pavlyuchenko 89')

http://detiksport.com

Sheyro_07Seven

17-10-2011, 09:46 AM

emang bener klo main d kandang seri itu bkin kecewa,...../:)

Newcastle 'Terpaksa' Puas

Newcastle - Kekalahan atas Tottenham Hotspur berhasil dihindarkan Newcastle Uniterd lewat gol telat Shola Ameobi. Tapi karena merasa punya kans lebih baik, kubu Newcastle sedikit kurang puas.

Di St James' Park, tim besutan Alan Pardew tersebut kedatangan Spurs yang ditangani Harry Redknapp, Minggu (17/10/2011). Kedua tim sendiri tampil relatif seimbang.

Kebuntuan dalam laga baru berakhir pada menit 40 setelah tim tamu menjebol gawang tuan rumah. Tak mau lama-lama ketinggalan, Newcastle langsung menyamakan skor saat babak kedua baru berjalan tiga menit.

Untuk kali kedua, tuan rumah kembali harus tertinggal di pertengahan babak kedua. Untung buat Newcastle, Ameobi sukses membuat skor imbang lagi pada menit 86.

Di dalam pertandingan itu sendiri ESPN Soccernet mencatat The Magpies unggul tipis 55%-45% atas The Lily Whites dalam hal penguasaan bola. Namun, kedua kesebelasan sama-sama mencatat 13 tendangan dengan enam di antaranya tepat ke gawang. Sengit.

Pun begitu, Manajer Newcastle Alan Pardew menilai timnya punya kesempatan menang lebih besar. Itulah mengapa ia merasa sedikit kecewa.

"Pada akhirnya Anda harus merasa sedikit kecewa tidak bisa memenangi pertandingannya," aku Pardew di Yahoosports.

Akan tetapi, fakta bahwa Newcastle terhindar dari kekalahan sekaligus memelihara rekor belum pernah kalah di Liga Primer musim ini, membuat Pardew "terpaksa" puas dengan hasil seri.

"Kami memiliki beberapa peluang emas, tapi kami akan terima sebuah hasil imbang. Kami masih tak terkalahkan dan kami akan tampil lebih baik di partai selanjutnya," tegas Pardew.

http://detiksport.com

Sheyro_07Seven

18-10-2011, 08:48 AM

emang rivalitas abadi neh match,....!!! :muscarf:

Duel Liverpool vs MU Ditonton 500 Juta Orang

Jakarta - Duel antara Liverpool dan Manchester United memang layak disebut sebagai pertandingan klub terbesar. Setidaknya label itu terbukti dari jumlah penontonnya di layar kaca yang mencapai 500 juta orang.

Pertandingan yang digelar di Anfield, Sabtu (15/10/2011) itu berakhir imbang dengan skor 1-1. Steven Gerrard membawa tuan rumah memimpin lewat tendangan bebasnya sebelum akhirnya disamakan oleh striker MU, Javier Hernandez.

Rivalitas Liverpool dengan MU memang sangat sengit. Atmosfer laga menjadi lebih panas setelah The Red Devils sukses melewati perolehan trofi Liga Inggris Liverpool yang dicapainya pada musim lalu.

Meski demikian, The Reds masih bisa menepuk dada karena perolehan trofi Liga Champions mereka yang berjumlah lima masih belum dapat terkejar rivalnya itu yang hingga kini cuma memiliki tiga saja.

Dengan sejarah yang dimiliki kedua tim ini maka tak heran jika pertandingan antara keduanya selalu jadi pertandingan yang paling ditunggu.

Berikut adalah beberapa statistik global yang berhasil dirangkum oleh harian Daily Mail yang dikutip ESPN Star.

211 - Jumlah negara yang menyiarkan Liga Primer Inggris di seluruh dunia. Itu artinya hanya 27 negara yang tidak mendapatkan siaran ini di antaranya Afghanistan, Turkmenistan dan Ukraina. Akan tetapi, negara-negara kecil macam Kamboja, Fiji dan Madagascar bisa menonton siaran secara langsung.

500 juta - Banyaknya orang di seluruh dunia yang menonton pertandingan antara Liverpool melawan Manchester United yang berakhir 1-1 pada hari Sabtu lalu. Rekor jumlah penonton Liga Inggris sampai saat ini masih dipegang laga antara Arsenal vs MU di tahun 2007.

70% - Persentase dari 2,08 miliar penggemar sepakbola yang secara aktif mengikutip Liga Primer Inggris, yang diterjemahkan kepada total 1,46 miliyar orang.

4,7 miliar - Total penonton global dari Liga Primer Inggris tahun lalu, dengan 3,9 miliar orang yang menonton dari rumah masing-masing.

634 juta - Total dari rumah-rumah yang menerima siaran Liga Primer Inggris, dengan membukukan 3,9 miliar penonton. Sebanyak 777.000 fans menonton di luar rumah.

Asia menyumbangkan penonton terbanyak dengan jumlah 1,3 miliar disusul Amerika Selatan & Tengah sebanyak 879 juta orang, selanjutnya Eropa dengan 761 juta orang, Britania Raya 629 juta rang dan Amerika Utara sebanyak 140 juta orang.

Liga-Pertandingan Terbesar-Disiarkan ke Banyak Negara

Liga Inggris Liverpool vs Man United 211
Seri A AC Milan vs Inter Milan 52
La Liga Barcelona vs Real Madrid 50
Bundesliga Bayern Munich vs Schalke 23
Liga Belanda Ajax vs PSV Eindhoven 8
Skotlandia PL Celtics vs Glasgow Rangers 8
Liga Prancis Lyon vs PSG 7
Liga Portugal Benfica vs Porto 4

http://detiksport.com

zudomiriku

18-10-2011, 10:44 AM

Foreign owners 'want end to Premier League relegation'

Several foreign-owned Premier League clubs want to scrap relegation, according to League Managers Association (LMA) chief Richard Bevan.

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Bevan fears that if more clubs are sold to foreign investors they may have enough votes to force changes.

But the Premier League said relegation and promotion were part of its rules and added to the league's strength.

Bevan hopes that a parliamentary inquiry into football governance would also help prevent the proposal.

"We're very keen that the report is successful in helping the Football Association introduce a licensing programme for clubs," he said.

"Because there are a number of overseas-owned clubs already talking about bringing about the avoidance of promotion and relegation in the Premier League.

"If we have four or five more new owners, that could happen."

Nearly half of the Premier League's 20 clubs are under foreign ownership, with rules stipulating that if changes are to be made to the format, 14 clubs must vote in favour of any new reforms.

Blackburn joined the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea in this class when they were taken over by Indian-owned Venky's Group last season.

But the Premier League told BBC Sport that the move would be a non-starter, with the Football Association retaining the power to veto any proposals.

The Premier League clubs have not formally discussed any such move since Bolton chairman Phil Gartside proposed his two-tiered structure two years ago, an idea which was soon dismissed.

However, Bevan still believes it is a possibility, arguing any new owner of a Premier League club would not need to be foreign for them to see there would be money to be made from scrapping relegation.

"It doesn't really matter if you're from overseas or not, does it?" he said. "It doesn't matter whether you're from Birmingham or you're from Burma."

A Premier League spokesman said that they did not recognise LMA chief executive Bevan's claims, which come a week after the government demanded changes to the way that football is run.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson said that an FA-led licensing system would be brought in to safeguard against issues such as financial mismanagement, asset-stripping owners and tax avoidance.

The government also asked for rules to manage club debts and an overhaul of the FA board.

Last Wednesday, Liverpool's managing director Ian Ayre said the Premier League's overseas television revenues should be skewed in favour of big clubs.

PREMIER LEAGUE FOREIGN OWNERSContinue
•Aston Villa (Randy Lerner)
•Blackburn (Venky's Group)
•Chelsea (Roman Abramovich)
•Fulham (Mohamed Al Fayed)
•Liverpool (Fenway Sports Group)
•Manchester United (Glazer family)
•Manchester City (Sheikh Mansour)
•Sunderland (Ellis Short)
•QPR (Tony Fernandes)
•*Arsenal's Stan Kroenke is a majority shareholder

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbqcy

wah, kacau juga neh kalo gak ada aturan promosi & degradasi. kasihan amat divisi Championship & dibawahnya, gak bisa promosi ke level utama. trus yg di Premier League cuma bertarung buat juara, gak usah mikirin degradasi
kyknya topik ini boleh diangkat ke trit 'debate room'

zudomiriku

18-10-2011, 12:54 PM

PFA's Gordon Taylor offers to mediate in Luis Suárez-Patrice Evra row

• 'It's something we've done in the past,' says chief executive
• Liverpool want Evra ban if race claim is groundless

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Luis Suárez and Patrice Evra exchange words during Saturday's Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester United. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/EPA

The Professional Footballers' Association chief executive, Gordon Taylor, has offered to act as a mediator in the Luis Suárez-Patrice Evra race row.

The Football Association is investigating a complaint from the Manchester United defender Evra, who accused the Liverpool striker Suárez of racially abusing him during Saturday's Premier League game at Anfield. Suárez said he is "upset" by the allegation, which he has categorically denied.

Speaking at the Professional Players Federation (PPF) annual conference on Monday, Taylor said he would be prepared to mediate if necessary. "It's something we've done in the past and it's something I hope we'll be asked to do in the future," Taylor said. "We need to try to cool down and reflect on what happened and to contact the FA and see what form their inquiry will take.

"It's good to get this put behind us as quickly as possible, instead of letting these things fester and become blown up again. It's very disappointing to have two of our players from different countries at odds over a very serious issue. Only by having a full inquiry on such matters can we get to the bottom of it and try to make sure that such problems don't arise again in the future."

The PPF's chairman, Brendon Batson, a campaigner for greater black- and minority-representation in the game, said: "Obviously something has gone on to the extent that Evra made a complaint, and I know that Suárez has denied making any comment. For the good of the game, and for the reputation of the players involved and the clubs involved, we need to get to the bottom of it."

In 2008 Evra was at the centre of accusations that he was racially abused by a groundsman at Chelsea while warming down. But an FA hearing into the allegation – which was made by a Manchester United employee – found that it was not proven. Evra was subsequently banned for four games and fined £15,000 for his part in the post-match altercation with the groundsman.

Batson is confident the authorities treated every allegation "seriously". He added: "It's on the evidence that's available. I know the referee didn't hear it but he included it in is his report because of the complaint from Evra. Whatever investigation is going to be done has to be thorough and very transparent as well."

The Kick It Out chairman, Lord Herman Ouseley, believes any footballer guilty of racism must face "severe action" from both the FA and the club but stressed "you would have to be able to prove it beyond reasonable doubt".

Ironically the allegations have arisen at the start of Kick It Out's One Game, One Community campaign which runs until 31 October and features, among other fixtures, Liverpool's home match with Norwich this weekend. The programme is part of a simultaneous initiative across the continent with Football Against Racism in Europe's Action Week, with this week's matches in the Champions League and Europa League being used as a basis for activities at 40 locations.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbqcs

zudomiriku

18-10-2011, 02:43 PM

Should Rangers and Celtic Leave the SPL and Try to Join the Premier League?

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/zudomiriku/zudo%20II/125531379_crop_650x440.jpgIt's the million-dollar question.

Although, in financial terms, it could potentially be worth hundreds of millions of pounds to both halves of the Old Firm.

It's no secret that for years now, Rangers and Celtic have longed to leave the Scottish Premier League and migrate south to pastures new.

The two Scottish giants believe they have hit a "financial glass ceiling" in their own country and see the overflowing riches of the English Premier League as a solution to their monetary problems.

The Old Firm have grown too big for their infinitesimal counterparts and see this as the next logical step to a bigger world profile, a bigger fanbase, better players and (most importantly) more money.

I think I'll break down this article's question into four parts:

1. Can they leave?

Yes. There are no legal or boundary barriers holding them back (look at Swansea or Cardiff City for case in point). The main problem for the Scots is that everyone has to want them in the Premier League in the first place, which leads me onto...

2. Could they leave?

Although both Celtic and Rangers would be keen to move, they would need agreements from the majority of the Premier League clubs and SPL clubs, as well as the top dogs at both the FA and the Scottish FA. If all four groups agreed, then yes, the Glasgow clubs could move. At this point in time though, this looks highly unlikely due to the financial implications for all parties involved.

3. Should they leave?

This is perhaps the biggest question of all. If the Old Firm left the SPL for the riches of the Premier League, the Scottish domestic league would be far worse for it. The calibre of players coming into the league would decrease, and although the competition would be more open, it's hard to see the likes of Hearts or Dundee United getting through to the Champions League group stages. Domestically the game would fall apart, the money would evaporate and the "draw" for players would no longer be there.

On the other hand, Celtic & Rangers would be off to the land of milk and honey, lavishing upon themselves the perks of playing in the Premier League. The profiles of the two clubs would go up and revenue would increase, which in turn would lead to better players coming to both sides and from there on, challenging for the title.

If the Old Firm were to move south tomorrow, I think they'd finish in mid-table. However, with the fanbases the two sides have, as well as the worldwide reputations and excellent facilities, it wouldn't be long before they were challenging the top four.

4. Will they leave?

In a word: No. Not right now anyway.

In 2009, Bolton chairman Phil Gartside brought forward a plan to create a two-tier Premier League which included the Old Firm. However, this plan was overwhelmingly rejected.

For the time being, it looks like the Glasgow sides will be staying put.

But don't rule it out entirely.

In the past, managers David Moyes, Harry Redknapp and Martin O'Neill have all said they would welcome Scotland's top two to England.

The largest shareholder at Celtic Football Club, Dermot Desmond, also believes that the Bhoys and the Gers will end up playing against the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United one day.

And who knows what could change?

A few years ago, all of the Premier League clubs were reported to have said no to the idea of the Old Firm moving south; several clubs have now had a change of heart.

Celtic and Rangers may not be moving south in the near future, but they'll bide their time and gain support before finally taking that big step towards the financial luxuries of the Premier League.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/893102-should-rangers-and-celtic-leave-the-spl-and-try-to-join-the-premier-league

zudomiriku

18-10-2011, 02:50 PM

zudomiriku

18-10-2011, 05:26 PM

Club tests player DNA for injury

An unnamed Premier League club has tested the DNA of its players to determine who is most prone to injury.

The ground-breaking work was carried out by a US scientist following British research into tendons.

But geneticist Professor Marios Kambouris, of Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, has refused to name the club or players.

He said: “There were good genes, things positively affecting performance, such as better aerobic respiration, giving them more stamina.”

The tests, based on tendon rupture studies at the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine in London, aim to help clubs to manage the risk of injuries to star players.

But there are fears it may lead to weaker, higher-risk players being weeded out.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbqcD
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Tes DNA untuk Mengetahui Bakat Sepakbola
Doni Wahyudi - detiksport

London - Di masa mendatang bakat sepakbola seseorang sudah akan diketahui saat dia masih berusia sangat muda. Hal itu memungkinkan menyusul mulai dilakukannya tes DNA oleh sebuah di sebuah klub sepakbola profesional.

Pemanfaatan teknologi gen dalam dunia sepakbola kini mulai dikembangkan oleh sebuah klub di Premier League. Tak disebutkan klub apa yang dimaksud, namun seperti dikutip dari Telegraph penelitian itu bisa mengubah masa depan sepakbola di seluruh dunia.

Saat ini penelitian awal dilakukan untuk mengetahui kenapa beberapa pemain di klub yang tak disebut namanya itu lebih rentan cedera dibanding pemain lainnya. Diharapkan hasil penelitian itu akan membuat pelatih dapat informasi lebih akurat terkait kekuatan fisik sang pemain, durasi bermain dan jadwal latihan harian.

Seorang ahli genetik dari Universitas Yale, Marios Kambouris, telah menerima ratusan sample DNA untuk diteliti. Dan dari penelitian tersebut didapat hasil memuaskan karena bisa diidentifikasi sample-sample mana yang lebih rentan dan sample yang lebih kuat.

"Saya tidak tahu pemain-pemain mana saja mereka tapi ditemukan gen yang bagus di sana, hal yang bisa mempengaruhi performa mereka, seperti kemampuan untuk melakukan pemanasan aerobik lebih baik, yang nantinya akan memberi mereka stamina lebih baik di atas lapangan," sahut Kambouris.

Disebutkan kalau dalam pengembangannya ke depan tes DNA ini tak cuma akan bisa mengetahui pemain mana yang punya kecenderungan cedera lebih besar dan pemain mana yang memiliki kekuatan lebih baik. Di masa mendatang tes DNA ini diprediksi bisa mengetahui potensi seorang pemain muda, yang membantu klub untuk memutuskan apakah ingin mengontrak atau melepasnya.

Namun hal ini kemudian menjadi perdebatan. Teknik tes DNA ini dianggap tidak fair karena bisa memupus harapan anak-anak yang punya impian menjadi pesepakbola.

"Itu bisa menjadi tidak fair untuk anak-anak yang menyukai sepakbola, yang harus menerima kabar bahwa dia tak akan bisa melakukannya hanya karena dia memiliki gen yang tak sesuai," sahut Professor Nicola Maffulli dari University of London.

http://www.detiksport.com/sepakbola/read/2011/10/18/154940/1746868/73/tes-dna-untuk-mengetahui-bakat-sepakbola?b99110170

Sheyro_07Seven

19-10-2011, 04:23 PM

aneh & gila emang klo dah kena sporter fanatik di luar negeri,..... :-j :)) =))

Kencingi Lapangan Lawan, Dua Fans Dicari Polisi

London - Ada-ada saja kelakuan dua orang fans Wolverhampton Wanderers ini. Usai menyaksikan timnya berlaga kontra West Bromwich Albion mereka menerobos ke lapangan dan buang air kecil di atas rumput. Kini keduanya dicari polisi.

Kelakuan aneh dari dua fans tersebut terjadi akhir pekan lalu usai laga kontra West Brom vs Wolves. Pertandingan yang digelar di The Hawthorns tersebut berkesudahan dengan skor 2-0 untuk keunggulan tuan rumah.

Entah kecewa dengan hasil pertandingan atau menyimpan dendam pribadi pada West Brom, dua fans Wolves menyelinap ke dalam lapangan tak lama setelah laga tuntas. Mereka berhasil melewati penjagaan steward, dan kepolisian untuk kemudian masuk melalui pintu akses yang lupa dikunci kru televisi.

Tiba di dalam lapangan kedua orang tersebut mengabadikan seluruh aktivitas yang mereka lakukan melalui kamera video, dengan salah seorang bertugas merekam dan seorang lainnya 'beraksi' di depan kamera. Video tersebut kemudian mereka publikasikan melalui situs youtube.

Dalam video berdurasi sekitar dua menit dan 11 detik tersebut terlihat sang penyusup berguling-guling dan salto di atas rumput. Salah seorang penyusup itu bahkan terlihat mengincingi lapangan.

Begitu mengetahui kemunculan video tersebut, pihak West Brom langsung melakukan penyelidikan. Bukan itu saja, polisi juga dilibatkan untuk mencari dua penyusup tersebut dengan alasan telah melanggar hukum berupa penerobosan, melakukan aksi tidak senonoh, dan aksi kriminal yang menyebabkan kerusakan.

Dikutip dari Dailymail, jika tertangkap keduanya bisa dijatuhi hukuman berat berupa denda dan bahkan larangan masuk stadion untuk periode yang panjang. Pihak West Brom telah menyerahkan rekaman CCTV kepada polisi untuk membantu penyelidikan kasus ini.

"Sesaat setelah kami mengetahui ada penerobos, mereka (keamanan stadion) melakukan pengejaran. Kami kini tengah dalam proses melihat rekaman CCTV dan sudah menghubungi polisi untuk melakukan identifikasi pada dua orang tersebut," demikian pernyataan resmi West Brom.

http://detiksport.com

zudomiriku

20-10-2011, 12:16 PM

Getting Rid of Promotion/Relegation in Premier League Would Be a Mistake

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Would Liverpool's John Henry and other foreign owners do away with promotion to and relegation from the world's greatest domestic league?
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According to the Associated Press (h/t ESPN), the English Premier League owners may one day force a major change to English football by pushing to do away with relegation from the top flight.

League Managers' Association chief executive Richard Bevan spoke about the issue at the Professional Players Federation conference this week, saying that foreign owners, of which there are ten in the EPL, will be the main factor.

There are a number of overseas-owned clubs already talking about bringing about the avoidance of promotion and relegation in the Premier League. If we have four or five more new owners, that could happen."

Five current clubs in the Premier League: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Sunderland are all under American ownership. Blackburn, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Fulham, and Manchester City are all foreign-owned as well.

In order for a change to the rules, 14 of the 20 clubs have to be in favor.

It is very possible, according to Bevan, that a change to the rules could happen if more foreign owners come into the fold. Like many things these days, it all has to do with money. In the AP article, Bevan is quoted as saying this about the idea:

"Certainly you'll find that with American owners and you'll find that with some of the Asian owners (they have been talking about scrapping relegation).

"If you look at sports all around the world and you look at sports owners trying to work out how to invest to make money, you will find that most of them like the idea of franchises. If you take particularly American owners, without doubt, there have been a number of them looking at having more of a franchise situation and that would mean no promotion or relegation."

"Obviously if I was an American owner and I owned a football club or I was an Indian owner I might be thinking I would like to see no promotion or relegation, my investment is going to be safer and my shares are going to go up in value."

This would be a change only to the Premier League. The 20 teams in the league would remain the same, much like in American sports. The other leagues on the ladder: the Football League Championship, League One, League Two, Conference North, Conference South and all the way through the regional leagues would continue as usual.

Is this really fair though? Should the Premier League clubs be able to close the door to the rest of England's clubs and call themselves the top 20 forever?

In the Football League Championship, the second division of English football: Derby County, Southhampton, Leicester City, Birmingham City, Cardiff City, Hull City, Portsmouth, Millwall, Blackpool and Peterborough United are all owned by foreign investors. What do you say to all of them? Five of these clubs have been in the Premier League since the start of the 2007-08 season.

Promotion and relegation is one of the things that makes football so amazing. You could have teams that were in the Premier League for quite some time like Newcastle and West Ham that all of a sudden have to go down to the Championship and fight their way back up. Why shouldn't the clubs in the Championship now or in the future be given a chance at the Premier League?

Look at the Championship last season. When Queens Park Rangers secured the title, what would a club like Nottingham Forest, who finished 13 points behind the champions, have to play for if there were no promotion to the Premier League? Though they didn't win the promotion play-off, their last two games were vital as they had to hold off Leeds United who were threatening at taking their spot.

While it gives clubs in the lower divisions everything to play for, it also gives reason for the bottom teams in the Premier League reason to play as well.

Wigan Athletic have gone into the last couple seasons in the Premier League as a club expected to finish at the bottom, pretty much Premier League version of the Kansas City Royals. The Royals have literally nothing to play for. They have finished last or first from bottom every year in their division since 2004.

What about Wigan? Well, with the threat of being relegated to the Championship, Wigan have everything to play for, even though they know they won't be challenging the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City, and Chelsea for the title anytime soon. Finishing 18th, 19th, or 20th would mean losing their place in arguably the best domestic league in the world and would also mean a loss of a lot of money from playing in the second division.

Owners may be afraid of severe drops in attendance with a drop to the Championship, yet this should not be a worry.

A prime example that should ease concern is Derby County. During the 2007-08 Premier League season, the Rams finished 20th with a record of 1-8-29 (W-D-L). They set Premier League worsts with the fewest wins, most losses, and a goal difference of -69. They were the first team in Premier League history to be officially relegated in March, second in post-war English football league history, and they joined Longborough, a team which dissolved in 1900, as the only clubs to finish with one win in Football League history.

Despite this miserable season, Derby, a club which has never been extremely popular except with its local supporters and a club which has not been a top flight champion since 1975, only twice ever, saw very little change in their attendance numbers. They went from 32,432 fans on average in 2007-08 in the Premier League to 29,445 in the Championship in 2008-09. That is not really a terrible drop off.

Now consider if for some reason Manchester United ever got relegated. The odds are astronomical, but does anyone really think the average attendance, which so far in 2011-12 is 75,006, would drop much?

Football fans in England are what I wish American fans could be, loyal through and through. When the Yankees aren't winning baseball games, people do not show up. That seems to be the worry of American owners in the Premier League. I would not.

The idea of getting rid of relegation from and promotion to the Premier League is absurd. The idea of an intense relegation battle is actually important to the game as it gives bottom of the table teams reason to play and fans reason to watch.

Look to Italy. In 2003-04, Cesena were in Serie C1. They have been able to build and work their way up into the top flight, where they made life miserable for the big clubs last year and turned a lot of heads. More impressively, Napoli, after the glory days of Maradona, fell off completely. They were in Serie C1 as recently as 2000-01. They only climbed into Serie A in 2007-08. Since then, they have built a team that has finished 8th, 12th, 6th and 3rd and is now considered one of the favorites to win the league and are a threat to go far in the UEFA Champions League. They were in the second and third flights for most of the last 15 years and now they can win the Scuedtto! That's what football is all about.

To close the league off to the clubs below is totally unfair. Yes, the owners want to protect their investments, but what of the other clubs with foreign owners in the leagues below. If you want to protect your investment, build a team that can stay in the Premier League. If they do not, your bad.

Unless you have a really bad run of it, a good club that gets relegated will be back within a year, maybe two. It was a lesson for Newcastle. Relegation is not the end of the world.

The other thing, look at the clubs owned by foreign owners. Arsenal, yea, rough season so far, but relegation? No.

Aston Villa? Probably not going anywhere anytime soon, though I would not call them a threat for a European spot.

Liverpool? John Henry is a genius. Within a couple years of buying the Boston Red Sox, a team that looked like it was about to hit the fan, he was a World Series champion. He liked winning so much that he did again a couple years later. He has brought in a great manager in Kenny Dalglish and some phenomenal talent.

Manchester United?

Sunderland? Rough start this year, but the Black Cats are normally mid-table.

Chelsea? No. Roman Abromovich has worked wonders.

Manchester City? If it were not for their oil prince owner, they would not be one of the three title threats.

Right now, only Blackburn look to be in trouble. Fulham and QPR are away from the drop zone, but its still early.

The point is, the foreign owners are whining about a problem that is unlikely to affect them anytime soon. Even if it did, they have the resources to put their club right back in the Premier League after a year in the Championship.

Blocking out teams that work hard to get to where they are, making bottom-table games boring, and taking away all outside interest in the lesser divisions are all reasons to avoid doing away with relegation from the Premier League.

Your team is where it is because it worked hard to get there. The money will be there, unless the owner does something stupid and screws their team over.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/899998-epl-getting-rid-of-promotionrelegation-in-premier-league-would-be-a-mistake

Sheyro_07Seven

21-10-2011, 08:44 AM

Liga Inggris Pekan Ini
Derby Manchester Panaskan Liga Inggris

Jakarta - Duel antara Manchester United vs Manchester City mungkin belum pernah sesengit ini. The Red Devils, yang biasanya lebih dominan, akan menjamu The Citizens yang kali ini berada di atas mereka sebagai pemuncak klasemen.

Derby Manchester dipastikan akan berjalan menarik karena hasilnya akan menetukan siapa yang memuncaki klasemen di pekan ke-9. Bertindak sebagai tuan rumah, MU tentu ingin kembali merebut puncak klasemen dari klub, yang disebut Sir Alex Ferguson sebagai noisy neighbour.

The Citizens pastinya tidak ingin posisi puncak yang mereka peroleh setelah mengalahkan Aston Villa pekan lalu diambil lagi oleh 'Setan Merah'. Buat anak didik Roberto Mancini ini bukan sekadar gengsi. Jauh lebih penting lagi, pertandingan tersebut bisa menentukan mampu atau tidaknya mereka menutup musim dengan menjadi kampiun.

Untuk laga akhir pekan ini, kedua tim sama-sama memperoleh modal bagus dari hasil Liga Champions tengah pekan lalu. MU berhasil menang 2-0 dari Otelul Galati. Sedangkan City mengalahkan wakil Spanyol, Villareal, dengan skor 2-1.

Meski demikian, optimisme layak dilambungkan oleh pasukan Sir Alex Ferguson. Mereka didukung rekor bagus di kandang tiap berhadapan dengan rival sekotanya itu. Dari delapan pertemuan terakhir di Theater of Dreams di ajang Premiere League, MU hanya kalah satu kali. Itu terjadi di musim 2007/2008 saat skor berakhir 1-2 untuk keunggulan sang tamu. Sisanya MU menang lima kali dan imbang dua kali.

Sementara itu, Chelsea yang berada di posisi ke-3 siap menyalip MU jika tim asuhan Sir Alex itu gagal memperoleh poin penuh. The Blues kini mengumpulkan 19 poin, hanya tertinggal satu angka dari MU. Peluang itu cukup terbuka mengingat tim asal London ini akan bertandang ke kandang Queens Park Rangers yang kini berada di poisisi ke-11 klasemen Liga Inggris.

John Terry dkk sedang dalam tren positif di liga domestik setelah memetik tiga kemenangan beruntun sebelumnya. Sedangkan QPR hanya meraih satu hasil imbang dan dua kali kalah dari tiga pertandingan terakhirnya.

Laga lain akan mempertemukan Liverpool dan Norwich City di Anfield. The Reds mengincar kemenangan untuk memperbaiki posisi mereka di klasemen. Mereka kini bertengger di urutan ke-5 dengan 14 poin. Tiga angka akan membantu anak asuhan Kenny Dalglish ini untuk terus bersaing di papan atas klasemen.

Di pertandingan lain Arsenal akan menjamu Stoke City di Emirates Stadium. Tim asal London Utara ini harus menang jika ingin menggeser posisi Stoke yang kini berada di peringkat 7. Keduanya kini hanya terpisah jarak dua poin.

Jadwal Pertandingan Liga Inggris Pekan Ini

Sabtu (22/10)
Wolverhampton vs Swansea
Aston Villa vs West Bromwich
Bolton vs Sunderland
Newcastle vs Wigan
Liverpool vs Norwich

Minggu (23/10)
Manchester United vs Manchestrer City
Fulham vs Everton
Arsenal vs Stoke
Blackburn vs Tottenham
Queens Park Rangers vs Chelsea

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Andi Istiabudi

21-10-2011, 04:20 PM

Sampai segitunya yach saking tidak betah ....

Clancy Ingin Bunuh Harry Redknapp

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Bola.net - Tidak semua orang bisa bahagia walaupun sekelilingnya begitu memujanya. Itulah yang tengah dialami Abbey Clancy yang tengah membutuhkan hiburan beberapa hari ini. Kepindahan Peter Crouch ke Stoke City ternyata tidak membuat Clancy nyaman, sebab hatinya masih tetap mencintai London.

Berbicara kepada Daily Mirror Clancy berkata, "Aku menderita karena Peter harus pindah. Aku mencintai London. Aku memiliki pekerjaan di sini dan kami sudah senang hidup di sini, ditambah Ibu baru saja pindah kemari. Kami bisa saja pulang pergi, tapi itu tidak ideal."

Clancy rupanya benar-benar tidak suka tinggal di Stoke, kejengkelannya itu bisa terlihat saat dirinya bertemu Jamie Redknapp di acara penghargaan GQ bulan lalu. Dengan sedikit bercanda Clancy berkata, "Aku ingin membunuh ayahmu!" Mantan gelandang Liverpool itu menanggapi gurauan penuh maksud Clancy dengan tertawa dan menjawab, "Semua akan baik-baik saja. Aku yakin Stoke cukup bagus."

Ucapan Redknapp mungkin ada benarnya, jika saja Clancy mau beradaptasi dengan lingkungan barunya ada banyak tempat yang indah di Stoke seperti Trentham Gardens dan Staffordshire Oatcake yang menggoda untuk dicoba.

Crouch harus terdepak karena kalah bersaing di White Hart Lane setelah kedatangan Emmanuel Adebayor musim panas lalu. Dirinya kemudian bergabung bersama pasukan Tony Pulis. Keputusannya untuk memilih Stoke City diambil berkat bujukan mantan rekan satu timnya, Jonathan Woodgate. “Woodgate menelepon Peter nyaris setiap jam untuk meyakinkan Peter untuk pindah ke Stoke,” kata Clancy. Bahkan Woodgate terus mengungkapkan, hal-hal yang baik tentang Stoke City dan hal itu akhirnya menjadi faktor yang cukup besar yang membuat Crouch memutuskan pindah dari Tottenham

Abbey mungkin tidak senang pindah ke Stoke, namun para pendukung Stoke City sangat menyukai dirinya. Ketika Crouch menandatangani kontrak bersama Stoke mereka malah meneriakkan nama Clancy bukannya Crouch. "Kami telah mendapatkan Abbey Clancy!, Kami telah mendapatkan Abbey Clancy!" teriak pendukung Stoke City kala itu.

Pasangan ini sepertinya tidak akan menetap di Stoke sebab Abbey lebih suka pindah ke Cheshire, tempat tinggal Crouch ketika masih berkostum Liverpool. Sayang sekali, keengganan Abbey Clancy untuk menetap telah mematahkan hati 25.000 penggemar Stoke City yang begitu bahagia akan kehadirannya di kota mereka. (Mirr/jef)

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Sheyro_07Seven

23-10-2011, 08:25 AM

wahhh,..makin mantab neh musim bwt The Magpies,... :-bd

Newcastle Belum Terjegal

Newcastle - Newcastle United terus melanjutkan tren positifnya. Menghadapi Wigan Atlhetic, The Magpies berhasil mengamankan poin penuh di kandang sendiri usai menang dengan skor 1-0.

Melakoni pertandingan di St. James Park, Sabtu (22/10/2011) malam WIB, Newcastle lebih mendominasi permainan dengan 54%:46% perbandingan penguasaan bola dengan Wigan.

Dari sisi agresivitas, kedua kubu sama-sama saling menyerang namun Newcastle lebih efektif. Terbukti dari 12 tembakan, empat di antaranya mengarah ke sasaran sedangkan cuma dua yang mengarah ke target dari 14 tembakan Wigan.

Wigan lebih dulu menekan di awal pertandingan tetapi upaya Moses berhasil diselamakan oleh Tim Krul. Selanjutnya, Newcastle yang memiliki sejumlah peluang dari Best dan Cabaye tapi hingga babak pertama berakhir skor masih 0-0.

Di babak kedua, Demba Ba nyaris membuat Newcastle unggul tapi sepakannya hasil crossing Gutierrez bisa diselamatkan Al Habsi tepat di garis gawang.

Wigan kemudian balik menekan. Mereka bertubi-tubi melakukan serangan dari Hugo Rodallega namun tidak ada yang berujung gol.

Yohan Cabaye memecah kebuntuan di menit 81. Menerima umpan silang Steven Taylor dari sisi kiri lapangan, Cabaye melepas sepakan ke tiang jauh yang tidak dapat dijangkau Al Habsi.

Tertinggal, Wigan tak mau menyerah begitu saja. Beberapa peluang lahir dari Mohamed Diame namun hingga laga usai tak mampu mencetak gol balasan. Skor 1-0 untuk kemenangan Newcastle bertahan sampai bubar.

Tambahan tiga angka ini tak mengubah posisi Newcastle di peringkat empat klasemen sementara dengan nilai 19 tanpa pernah kalah. Koleksi angkanya sama dengan Chelsea di atasnya yang lebih unggul selisih gol. Sedangkan Wigan tetap terpuruk di peringkat 19 dengan nilai lima.

Hasil pertandingan lainnya:

Wolverhampton 2-2 Swansea City
Aston Villa 1-2 West Brom
Bolton 0-2 Sunderland

Susunan Pemain
Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Steven Taylor, Coloccini, Ryan Taylor, Obertan (Marveaux 77'), Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez, Best, Ba (Ameobi 68')

Wigan: Al Habsi, Boyce, Alcaraz, Caldwell, Figueroa, Jones, Watson (McArthur 82'), Diame, Moses, Rodallega, Crusat (Sammon 82')

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Sheyro_07Seven

23-10-2011, 09:27 AM

emang match yg seru neh,.... sampai trjd cemoohan,...hemmm,.... =D>

McCarthy Enggan Komentari Cemoohan Penonton

London - Wolves melakukan serangan balik yang dramatis untuk menggagalkan kemenangan pertama Swansea di laga tandang musim ini, Sabtu, dengan mencetak dua gol pada enam menit terakhir untuk memaksakan hasil imbang 2-2 di Molineux.

Swansea tampaknya akan dengan mudah mendapatkan tiga poin, dan mereka memimpin 2-0 melalui gol dari Danny Graham dan Joe Allen pada babak pertama, sementara pertandingan tinggal tersisa kurang dari 10 menit.

Tetapi bayangan enam kekalahan beruntun bagi Wolves yang sudah ada di depan mata, tiba-tiba sirna saat pasukan Mick McCarthy secara luar biasa mencetak dua gol pada enam menit terakhir. Kevin Doyle memperkecil ketinggalan pada menit ke-84, sebelum Jamie O'Hara menyamakan kedudukan dua menit kemudian.

Hasil imbang ini melegakan McCarthy, yang bersama pemainnya telah menjadi bahan ejekan penonton setelah gol kedua Swansea. Tapi McCarthy menolak memberikan komentar tentang sikap fans yang mencemooh timnya.

"Ini tidak tepat bagi saya untuk membahas," katanya kepada Sky Sports. "Mari kita menekankan semua hal positif. Semua omong kosong itu terus berlanjut, kita akan berurusan dengan waktu lain."

Sementara itu manajer Swansea, Brendan Rogers mengaku kecewa setelah melihat kemenangan yang sudah di depan mata tiba-tiba hilang dalam 10 menit terakhir.

"Untuk 80 menit, kami tampil luar biasa," katanya. "Kita perlu mengelola permainan lebih baik lagi, tapi saya harus memberikan penghargaan besar untuk para pemain."

"Selamat kepada Mick, mereka mendapat poin mereka," katanya.

(AFP/ANTARA)

Sheyro_07Seven

24-10-2011, 05:28 PM

hemm,..klub manakah yg akan di latih,..????? kita tunggu ja,... :D

Ancelotti Kembali Ungkapkan Minatnya Latih Klub Inggris

London - Carlo Ancelotti mengaku masih berminat melatih melatih klub-klub Premier League. Meski enggan menyebut nama, namun pelatih kondang asal Italia ini hanya mau menangani tim yang memiliki ambisi.

Ancelotti memimpin Chelsea meraih gelar dobel pertamanya dengan memenangi Liga Inggris dan Piala FA namun dia tetap dipecat usai gagal meraih satu trofi pun pada akhir musim lalu.

Sejak meninggalkan Stamford Bridge, pelatih berkebangsaan Italia ini tak jarang dikaitkan dengan beberapa klub Inggris. Tetapi Ancelotti memilih melihat situasi dan menunggu tawaran yang tepat.

"Premier League adalah kompetisi terbaik di Eropa karenanya saya ingin berada disana jika mungkin. Saya tidak ingin menyebut nama karena klub-klub itu masih punya manajer," tutur Ancelotti seperti dikutip Sky Sports.

"Tapi saya ingin menangani tim yang punya ambisi dan saya ingin menunggu dan melihat apa yang terjadi pada musim depan. Saya ingin berada di sini jika mungkin menemukan klub lain - saya suka dengan atmosfir disini."

Fabio Capello akan meninggalkan posisi sebagai pelatih Inggris setelah turnamen Piala Eropa 2012 dan Ancelotti sempat dimunculkan sebagai suksesor kompatriotnya itu. Apakah dia berminat jadi suksesor kompatriotnya itu?

"Saya membaca surat kabar seperti Anda dan semuanya berkata manajer selanjutnya haruslah orang Inggris. Saya tidak tahu. Saya pikir Capello sedang melakukan pekerjaan yang bagus dan saya harap Inggris memiliki Kejuaraan Eropa yang fantasis," tutup Carletto.

Belum lama ini, Ancelotti diberitakan tertarik menangani Liverpool dan Tottenham Hotspur. The Reds saat ini tengah ditangani oleh Kenny Dalglish sedangkan Spurs dibesut Harry Redknapp. Nama terakhir dijagokan untuk menangani 'Tiga Singa' setelah kontrak Capello habis.

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zudomiriku

25-10-2011, 02:37 PM

Anton Ferdinand to discuss John Terry racism allegations with QPR

• Terry denies reports of alleged slur on QPR defender
• 'I am saddened to be dealing with these allegations'

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QPR will meet with Anton Ferdinand on Tuesday to discuss reports he was subject to an alleged racist slur by the Chelsea captain John Terry.

Videos circulated on the internet in the aftermath of Sunday's Premier League match at Loftus Road, with some claiming the footage shows Terry insulting the Rangers defender using racist language.

Terry has categorically denied making such comments during the 1-0 defeat but Rangers officials will meet with Ferdinand to discuss whether the defender wants the incident to be investigated.

Terry said in a statement released on Sunday: "I've seen that there's a lot of comments on the internet with regards to some video footage of me in today's game.

"I'm disappointed that people have leapt to the wrong conclusions about the context of what I was seen to be saying to Anton Ferdinand.

"I thought Anton was accusing me of using a racist slur against him. I responded aggressively, saying that I never used that term. I would never say such a thing, and I'm saddened that people would think so.

"I have known Anton for a long time and spoke to him about it after the game, and there was no problem between us. I congratulated him on their win. He has not accused me of any wrongful remark.

"It was clear it was all a misunderstanding at the time. After the result, I am saddened to be dealing with these wrongful allegations.

"I am the proud captain of one of the most internationally diverse teams in the Premier League and I absolutely believe that there is no place for racism in sport and indeed in any walk of life."

The Football Association has refused to comment on the matter.

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zudomiriku

25-10-2011, 04:49 PM

5 Things We Learned from Premier League Weekend

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What a weekend it was in the Premier League. In case you still had some doubts, Manchester City is for real, and they made plenty of noise in the Manchester Derby on Sunday, hammering Manchester United 6-1 at Old Trafford.

The weekend also saw plenty of controversial moments and a handful of red cards.

After nine rounds of games, the Citizens are sitting pretty atop the pile with a five-point cushion over the Red Devils, and at the other end of the table, things are starting to take shape as well.

Let's look back at five things we learned from this weekend in the Premier League.

Liverpool Not on Chelsea and Manchester United's Level, Yet setuju banget :devil2:
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John Henry and Fenway Sports Group purchased Liverpool FC just over a year ago, and their effect on the historic club is obvious.

With the purchases of Luis Suarez, Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing, Charlie Adam and more, and the second coming of club legend Kenny Dalglish at the helm, Liverpool plays with more flair and is not nearly as destitute as it has been in recent years.

But the Reds aren't on par with Manchester United and Chelsea yet either, and Saturday's draw with newly promoted Norwich City at Anfield proved that once again.

Liverpool spurned numerous chances in the first half but took the lead thanks to Craig Bellamy's eagerness to prove himself and a cruel deflection off Marc Tierney that gave Liverpool the lead in first-half stoppage time.

Norwich didn't buckle though and scored a deserved equalizer through substitute Grant Holt's header in the 60th minute.

Norwich played well at both Chelsea and Manchester United earlier in the season, but those two teams were able to force mistakes out of the new boys or at least score when they should have. Liverpool couldn't do the same and dropped to sixth in the table because of it.

Henry said before the season that if Liverpool did not qualify for the Champions League, it would be very disappointing, and though it's still early, the Reds certainly didn't look like top-four quality on Saturday.

Gary Cahill Should Be Regretting His Decision to Stay
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England centre-back Gary Cahill opted to stay at Bolton this summer despite being one of the most-wanted defenders on the market, and that's probably a decision both he and his club are regretting.

After opening the season with a splendid 4-0 thrashing of new boys Queens Park Rangers, Bolton have been nothing short of terrible and sit in the relegation zone with six points from nine games.

In the summer, Cahill's fee was reported to be about £17 million. There's no way he'll fetch that much if he decides to leave in January, and his contract is up next summer, so Bolton will get nothing in return.

Really Didier?
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Chelsea had a pretty miserable day in the West London Derby Sunday at Queens Park Rangers, and Didier Drogba did his best to make up for Fernando Torres' absence.

The Ivorian slid in two-footed on Adel Taarabt and was sent off in the 41st minute. It's stupid enough to make such a foolish challenge, but to do so when your side is already a goal and a man down on the road is just plain ridiculous.

You wouldn't put it past a team like Chelsea to steal a draw from being down a goal and a man at halftime, especially against a team that hasn't won at home all season, but down to nine men is just too much to ask.

After Drogba's red card, things unraveled fast for Chelsea, and though they didn't allow anymore goals, they did pick up seven more yellow cards.

One good note may be that Drogba's three-game suspension will begin right when Torres' ends, and we all know they play better when they aren't both on the pitch.

Manchester United's Worst Day Ever
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Manchester City made their title aspirations very clear Sunday with a 6-1 demolition of Manchester United at Old Trafford, and Sir Alex Ferguson called it his "worst ever day."

Mario Balotelli opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, and City went into halftime with a 1-0 advantage. Then, just minutes after the restart, Johnny Evans let Balotelli get by him and had no choice but to pull him down and take a red card.

Balotelli and Sergio Aguero each added goals to put the game away soon after, and even after Darren Fletcher's 81st minute strike, City weren't done.

The Citizens added three more goals in stoppage time to complete United's embarrassment.

After the huge win, will City canter to the Premier League title? Looks hard to bet against them.

No question they'll still have their doubters. After all, this was really their first test of the season, and United were without Nemanja Vidic at the back.

That all being said, City is the real deal. They've got a roster full of world-class talent and a no-nonsense manager to lead them.

It's hard to doubt them after this weekend.

Managers on the Hottest Seats
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Managers don't get long to prove themselves in the Premier League these days, and chances are, at least a handful of managers who finish the season won't be the ones who started it.

Roberto Martinez of Wigan and Steve Kean of Blackburn are on the hottest seats around, with their clubs at the bottom of the table with just five points from nine games.

Bolton's Owen Coyle also must be sweating it out quite a lot these days along with Mick McCarthy at Wolverhampton.

Who will be the first to go and when?

Martinez's days at Wigan have to be numbered at this point. Wigan just barely stayed up last season, they've had a miserable start this year, and some sections think the manager has spent too much time on his broadcast career lately than his team.

Chances are though, at least three of these managers and more will be out by next May.

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zudomiriku

01-11-2011, 03:17 PM

5 Things We Learned from Premier League Weekend

Another wild and eventful weekend in the English Premier League.

With November upon us, many teams will soon be shifting some of their focus to European and cup competitions, and just about everyone will start looking at possible transfers in January.

Let's look back at the weekend that was in the Premier League.

Arsenal Are Quietly Climbing Up the Table
Not long ago, Arsenal were languishing at the bottom of the Premier League table. They had just come off a humiliating 8-2 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford, and the handful of deadline transfers Arsene Wenger had been able to pull off weren't helping at all.

Now, the Gunners have quietly pulled themselves into seventh place with 16 points and are on a three-game winning streak.

Arsenal had the result of the weekend on Saturday with a 5-3 mauling of Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, a game in which the score really doesn't tell the whole story.

Seventh place certainly isn't good enough for Arsenal, and competition for Champions League places won't be easy, but they at least look like they're up to the challenge now.

John Terry Can't Be Happy with That Defense
Both Chelsea's and Arsenal's defenses were horrible in Arsenal's 5-3 win at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, but everyone already knew Arsenal's defense was their weakness.

Chelsea on the other hand, and captain John Terry in particular, have always prided themselves on their defense, and it was downright embarrassing this weekend.

Neither side seemed all that committed to defense as both back lines were carved apart with ease, and Terry more than ever looked slow and vulnerable at the back.

Arsenal repeatedly passed right through Chelsea's back four, and it's somewhat surprising they could only get five goals out of it.

It's Not Just Chelsea and Arsenal Who Are Lacking in Defense
Goals, goals, goals. Goals have been the name of the game in the Premier League through the first 10 rounds of games.

So far, there have been 290 goals scored, and there have only been eight scoreless games. Four teams have kept four clean sheets, the most in the league.

Is the Premier League overall becoming a more attacking league, or are defenses just not what they used to be?

Do more goals mean more entertainment, or are games like Arsenal 5-3 Chelsea more like an exhibition than anything else?

How Can an Assitant Give Penalty When Referee Was Right There?
Liverpool were awarded a penalty early in the match at West Brom, and it sent the Reds on their way to a rather easy 2-0 win over the Baggies.

The penalty itself wasn't as controversial as who awarded it, though.

Referee Lee Mason was right in front of the action when Jerome Thomas tripped Luis Suarez ever so slightly in the box, but Mason initially waved it off. A couple seconds later, however, he awarded the penalty to Liverpool after his assistant gave him the signal.

It was a soft penalty for sure and obviously not a stonewall one, but how could the assistant have had a better view than Mason, who was standing right there?

Mason clearly did not think Thomas had fouled Suarez as he allowed play to continue for several seconds before seeing his assistant's flag, from 20 yards away no less.

Transfers; Who's Staying, Who's Going, Who's Arriving?
Adam Johnson scored a fantastic goal for Manchester City on Saturday to make it 3-1, and to kill off any hopes Wolves may have had of earning a draw.

Oddly enough, he may have helped City in more ways than just securing three points. Johnson is just one Premier League player struggling to get into the first team, and he could very well be on the move in January.

With two months to go before the winter transfer window opens, clubs will be looking at which of their players are expendable and who else's players they'd like to have.

Arsenal are full of confidence right now, but an injury to just about any player could ruin their season. Another centre-back (because Per Mertesacker hasn't been what people thought he'd be) would be a prudent purchase.

Another striker and/or winger wouldn't be a bad move either. Ditching Andrei Arshavin is a must.

Liverpool, meanwhile, may also want another centre-back and a midfielder or two (Adam Johnson perhaps?), while Chelsea may need to start looking for John Terry's eventual replacement. Manchester United's defense without Nemanja Vidic is nothing to brag about, either.

Manchester City really don't need anyone, but they'll surely do some shopping in January nonetheless.

Then there's players like Roman Pavluychenko, Giovani dos Santos and Heurlho Gomes who are all praying to be sent somewhere, anywhere but where they are. Wasn't life better when Harry Redknapp liked you?

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zudomiriku

02-11-2011, 01:47 PM

Newcastle United are winning plaudits – what is Alan Pardew's secret?

French flair, keeping the ball, defensive solidity and captain Coloccini have helped lift Newcastle to third

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With more than a quarter of the season gone, Newcastle United remain unbeaten in the Premier League, stand third in the table and, after conceding only seven goals, boast the division's meanest defence. How, particularly after radically cutting costs, has Alan Pardew pulled it off?

The Gallic charm offensive
In conjunction with Newcastle's influential super-scout, Graham Carr, the board took a strategic decision that France was the place where they should be aiming to do much of their transfer market shopping. The cross-Channel presence of technically adept players on comparatively low wages explains why French is the predominant language in Pardew's dressing room. The club has adopted a Gallic charm offensive which has seen leading European agents receiving the best hospitality Tyneside can offer after touring the team's new state of the art training facilities.

Similarly French media have offered Newcastle some priceless publicity after consistently being granted generous access to Pardew's players and finding powerfully persuasive compatriots such as Yohan Cabaye and Hatem Ben Arfa eager to talk about the manager's healthy disdain for "le hoof ball" and reassuring refusal to rush individuals back from injury. "Don't underestimate Newcastle United's pulling power in France," says Carr, a frequent user of Newcastle-Paris shuttle flights and convenient onward connections. "I would say that outside the traditional top four we're the biggest draw. Playing in front of 52,000 at St James' Park is a big attraction."

Switching to a possession game
Pardew believes the ability to retain and monopolise possession is an essential prerequisite to sustained success. Under his management, Newcastle have begun exerting greater control over games while passing and moving with increased fluidity. Not that Pardew's quest for what he terms "rhythmic" football is based merely on aesthetics. Big on statistics, his perusal of computer print-outs have more than vindicated the controversial decision to sell the side's popular, but not always fluent, former captain, Kevin Nolan to West Ham.

"The stats we're producing in games excite me," says Pardew, whose signing of Cabaye, the France playmaker, from Lille, has been integral to this philosophical makeover. "Our passing levels are up and our passing has certainly improved in terms of controlling games. That's something we needed to get better at. Last year we got into winning positions but couldn't control things sufficiently to stop the other team putting pressure on us. In one recent game though we achieved 400 plus passes, which we hadn't done since I've been here. That puts you up with the top sides."

Pardew is Hodgson in disguise – with a twist
Like Roy Hodgson at West Brom, Pardew believes the devil is in the training-ground detail. During a typical practice session Newcastle's manager stands, whistle to lips, in the centre circle, frequently halting play to adjust individual positioning and suggest alternative runs. Such instinctive analysis is underpinned by Newcastle's deployment of not one but three expensive computerised GPS tracking systems which monitor each player's every movement in both games and training. Before matches, the squad are given an in-depth analysis of their opponents' tactical ploys and foibles. During such meetings all players are encouraged to voice ideas and opinions.

Meanwhile the dramatically improved defenders have extra duties. They attend additional pre-match tutorials concentrating, specifically, on dealing with set pieces and resisting specific attacking manoeuvres. Steven Taylor, the centre-half, says Pardew is the "hardest to please" and "most demanding" of the nine managers he has played under on Tyneside. "He's always on my tail," says Taylor. "His standards are so high it's hard to make the manager smile. He's a perfectionist but he's got us really playing together as a defence."

Captain Colo and his crew
Fabricio Coloccini's habit of always endeavouring to build play from the back is a cornerstone of Newcastle's revamped style but the thoroughly renascent Argentina centre-half has also defended brilliantly since being made captain. Like Taylor, Coloccini arguably feels better able to express himself, on and off the field, since the departure of his larger than life predecessor Nolan and the outspoken Joey Barton.

Some fans feared Newcastle's morale might crumble with the dissolution of the old, powerful, players' committee – (in addition to moving Nolan and Barton on, Pardew has loaned Steve Harper to Brighton and sidelined Alan Smith) – but Coloccini demurs. "Our character is different to before," says a man described as a "Rolls Royce person and a Rolls Royce player" by his manager. "We have a winning mentality which may have been missing last year. We have a great changing room who push and challenge each other to produce their best. Our team has great personalities now."

Players in top form
Eyebrows rose when Pardew picked the young Dutch goalkeeper Tim Krul ahead of Harper but, benefiting from expert tuition from Newcastle's specialist goalkeeping coach, Andy Woodman, Krul has excelled. The Senegal striker Demba Ba, the only Premier League player other than Wayne Rooney to score two hat-tricks this season, has registered eight goals, with his latest treble at Stoke leaving Geordies "Walking in a Pardew Wonderland". Ba has a history of problems with his left knee. Leading surgeons advised other clubs, including Stoke, to avoid signing what one termed a "ticking timebomb" but, able to recruit Ba on a free transfer from West Ham, Pardew gambled. So far at least, Newcastle's meticulous medical team have kept a reportedly degenerative condition well in check.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbNPm

NU musim ini sedang mencoba mengalahkan prestasi NU pas zamannya Shearer. kita liat apakah NU mampu mempertahankan performa mereka hingga akhir musim nanti dan lolos ke Eropa

zudomiriku

04-11-2011, 02:23 PM

Carry on cherry-picking: field day for Premier League talent poachers

It is staggering nobody is fighting against the EPPP. This is a nail in the coffin of Football League clubs

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Richard Scudamore's Premier League appears to be doing as it pleases without any opposition. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

There is no other word for it. The Football League has been blackmailed by the Premier League into accepting radical new proposals which will allow the richest clubs to cherry-pick the best young talent for a fraction of their worth.

The ramifications of the elite player performance plan (EPPP) are far-reaching and incredibly damaging. This proposal will supposedly radically modernise youth development in England, introducing a four-tier academy system. The new deal will see every club receive an increase in their funding for a guaranteed four-year period, with the amount determined by their academy status.

When I owned Crystal Palace my prized asset was our youth academy. It was regarded as one of the best in the country, producing a string of high-calibre players, the lifeblood of any football club. An FA academy is the jewel in the youth development crown and I fought hard to get our licence and to keep it. That also meant fighting bitter battles with the so-called bigger clubs who basically sought to steal our starlets, leaving Palace at the mercy of a fatally flawed tribunal system.

Now we have the latest indignity foisted on the smaller clubs by the Premier League. It staggers me that nobody is standing up to be counted in the fight against these shotgun tactics, and I include the body who actually licenses the academies – our beloved Football Association. It is hardly surprising, though, that the FA is not riding to the rescue of the 72 clubs outside the elite when the Football League chairman, Greg Clarke, is conspicuous by his absence. That he calls the plan "a major step forward" speaks volumes.

This latest scheme as well as the solidarity deals signed between the Premier League and the Football League back in 2007 are a sham. The reality is English football is run by the Premier League which is systematically doing as it pleases without any opposition.

Four years ago, the Premier League came up with a gift of money for youth development and redistribution of unclaimed parachute payments from teams that have been relegated and gone back up without using their entire entitlement. The trade-off, and the real reason for the move, was the Premier League clubs had voted for and sanctioned bigger parachute payments to relegated clubs, thus creating even bigger disparity. Not only were the riches in the Premier League so vast but teams being relegated to the Championship were now getting significant funding for longer, creating a huge and unhealthy gulf in that league.

The then Football League chairman, Sir Brian Mawhinney, thanked the Premier League for its generous gesture of up to £90m of extra money. Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive, was glowing in his commentary, claiming: "Football League clubs will have the ability to increase investment in critical areas such as youth development." Subsequently this has proved to be nothing more than a sprat to catch a mackerel.

Three years later in 2010, this "gift" transformed into a formal contract with new obligations that saw the Football League forced into adopting the Premier League's model for "fit and proper directors and owners test" and, more sinisterly, rumblings about youth development as some of this money was allocated specifically for it. Something was obviously afoot.

Recently we found out exactly what that was. The Premier League has decided that, in order to keep on providing the now budgeted for funding for youth development, it is going to offer it solely on the condition a new approach to monies paid for young players is devised, one designed by them and for them. What was the response of the Football League, which consists of 72 clubs of the 92 that exist in this country? It meekly accepted.

Make no mistake about it, this is a nail in the coffin of clubs outside the Premier League. Every Football League club has just given up the opportunity to produce young players and, if needed, get fair compensation if they are snatched away or wanted by the big boys. The Premier League only wants top academies in its division and if any young talent is produced at other clubs' expense outside the top flight, they want it on the cheap, dressing it up as EPPP or hiding behind the guidelines of the 6+5 homegrown player rule. Ultimately what it is saying is the Premier League is the only league that matters.

Our good friend, Mr Clarke, has done absolutely nothing. The 72 clubs have voted for it chiefly because, with their differing ambitions and opportunities, they have seen the financial carrot dangled by Scudamore and bitten into it with all their might. You look at clubs who have little or no chance of reaching the Premier League and they get the same voting rights as Championship sides with real aspirations of making the top flight. So what happens? The majority see £70,000 per annum waiting to be snatched and devil take the hindmost.

If anything this is now a call to arms to the Championship clubs to ensure they negotiate future deals on their own and not as a collective unit. Their interests are not best served by being outvoted by clubs in Leagues One and Two who have completely different agendas and ambitions. Unless the 24 Championship clubs adopt a mind-set similar to their vastly richer brethren, the Premier League will continue to pick away at the carcass until there is nothing left but bare bones.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbRbT

VaDLi

07-11-2011, 07:20 PM

fredrian.seven

07-11-2011, 07:36 PM

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sampai gameweek 11 musim 2011-2012, kemenangan man.city 3-2 atas QPR baru bisa menyamakan jumlah gol memasukan dan gol kemasukannya (717-717)

bandingkan dengan united... :sikat: :devil2:

pic hasil crop dari statistik @ premierleague.com

Nice info sob... tapi ya jangan jadi jumawa. Aku pribadi lebih penting kondisi saat ini. Saat ini kita dibawah mereka. Tapi ya thanks info-nya.
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Redsbusby

07-11-2011, 07:42 PM

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sampai gameweek 11 musim 2011-2012, kemenangan man.city 3-2 atas QPR baru bisa menyamakan jumlah gol memasukan dan gol kemasukannya (717-717)

bandingkan dengan united... :sikat: :devil2:

pic hasil crop dari statistik @ premierleague.com

mantab, seenggaknya sedikit mengobati rasa degdegan ngeliat maennya city musim ini, fakta...

Musim masih panjang, moga gap dgn city dr segala sisi bisa terus dikejer...

VaDLi

07-11-2011, 07:47 PM

Nice info sob... tapi ya jangan jadi jumawa. Aku pribadi lebih penting kondisi saat ini. Saat ini kita dibawah mereka. Tapi ya thanks info-nya.
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oiya maap, ini ngepost juga ngga jumawa sih hehehe, http://piatiiugol.com/images/smilies/Koshechka_08.gif
ini cuman menjelaskan fakta aja... :embarrassment:

zudomiriku

08-11-2011, 11:34 AM

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sampai gameweek 11 musim 2011-2012, kemenangan man.city 3-2 atas QPR baru bisa menyamakan jumlah gol memasukan dan gol kemasukannya (717-717)

bandingkan dengan united... :sikat: :devil2:

pic hasil crop dari statistik @ premierleague.com

bahkan City aja masih kalah ama tim kyk West Ham, Blackburn. Pool aja yg katanya dah juara Liga Inggris 18x masih kalah ama Arsenal, Chelsea

zudomiriku

08-11-2011, 11:47 AM

Police investigate 'death threat' sent to QPR's Anton Ferdinand

• Threatening letter sent to QPR defender
• Letter was delivered by hand last week, say reports

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The police have launched an investigation after the QPR defender Anton Ferdinand was sent a threatening letter in the post.

Metropolitan police officers were called after the document, which reportedly contained a death threat, arrived at the club's ground in west London last week.

The Sun said the contents of the letter were so graphic that QPR officials did not show it to the defender, who is at the centre of a race row involving John Terry.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "I can confirm that officers are investigating an allegation of malicious communication."

The letter was delivered by hand to Loftus Road last Friday, according to reports.

Ferdinand, 26, was the alleged victim of a racist comment made by Terry during QPR's Premier League home match with Chelsea last month.

The 30-year-old Blues and England captain denies the claims, which are being investigated by the Met and the Football Association.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbVNx

zudomiriku

08-11-2011, 12:08 PM

Wigan defender Antolin Alcaraz charged with spitting at opponent

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Wigan defender Antolin Alcaraz has been charged by the Football Association with spitting at an opponent during Sunday's 3-1 defeat at Wolves.

The 29-year-old Paraguay international, who has until 1800 GMT on 8 November to respond, will be given an automatic three-game ban if he admits the charge.

TV cameras appeared to catch Alcaraz spitting at Wolves defender Richard Stearman during Sunday's match.

It sparked a mass brawl and earned the wrath of Wolves manager Mick McCarthy.

He said: "Spitting is taboo if that's what happened," he said. "I only had it happen to me once and the player didn't come too close to me for a long time."

McCarthy, who saw Jamie O'Hara, David Edwards and Stephen Ward score the goals that set his side on their way to a third victory of the season, added: "If it has been shown, that is unacceptable behaviour."

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez said he missed the flashpoint, but is looking into the claims.

"I haven't seen it yet [the replays]," he said. "If that is the case, I'll look into it and I'll find out."

The FA said: "Wigan Athletic's Antolin Alcaraz has today been charged by The FA for spitting at an opponent.

"The incident, which was not seen by the match officials but caught on video, relates to his side's game against Wolverhampton Wanderers."

It was initially thought Alcaraz, 29, had spat at centre-back Christophe Berra.

But fellow defender Richard Stearman said: "It wasn't Berra, I'll give you that, but I don't think it's right for me to talk about it at the moment."

When he was asked if he was spat upon, he replied: "Yes, but I'm not going to speak about it.

"I can confirm it happened and that it was me rather than Berra. I'll let other people talk about it and let other people deal with it. I won't push for anything, it's one of those things - but it's not nice."

Other spitting incidents
•Frank Rijkaard spat at Rudi Voeller during a feisty World Cup match between the Netherlands and West Germany at Italia 90
•Patrick Vieira received a six-match ban and a £30,000 fine for spitting at Neil Ruddock in 1999
•El-Hadji Diouf was fined by Liverpool and the Glasgow Sheriff Court for spitting at a Celtic fan in 2003
•Fabien Barthez picked up a six-month ban for spitting at a referee when France played Morocco in 2005

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbVND

VaDLi

08-11-2011, 12:40 PM

bahkan City aja masih kalah ama tim kyk West Ham, Blackburn. Pool aja yg katanya dah juara Liga Inggris 18x masih kalah ama Arsenal, Chelsea

liverpool kan belom pernah juara di era premier league bro...

statistik itu mulai taun 90an deh kyknya... cmiiw

zudomiriku

08-11-2011, 01:03 PM

liverpool kan belom pernah juara di era premier league bro...

statistik itu mulai taun 90an deh kyknya... cmiiw

oh itu statistik dari era Premier League yah, kirain dari awal Liga Inggris, gak heran lah
btw itu Spurs kok kuranag 1 partai yah? apa pertandingan vs Fulham kmrn blom diitung?

VaDLi

08-11-2011, 07:33 PM

spurs lawan everton yang tertunda itu kangmasbro...

yang pasti masih sisa 7 klub yang belum degradasi di era premier league.

zudomiriku

09-11-2011, 11:55 AM

spurs lawan everton yang tertunda itu kangmasbro...

yang pasti masih sisa 7 klub yang belum degradasi di era premier league.

oh iya, partai pembuka yg ditunda krn kerusuhan di London itu yah

zudomiriku

10-11-2011, 12:03 PM

Sports Direct Arena, Nama Baru Kandang Newcastle
Doni Wahyudi - detiksport

Newcastle - Newcastle United menanggalkan St James Park sebagai nama stadion kandang mereka. Mulai kini, salah satu stadion paling bersejarah di Inggris tersebut dinamai Sports Direct Arena.

Seperti halnya Arsenal yang menamai kandangnya dengan Emirates Stadium dan Manchester City dengan Ettihad Stadium-nya, perubahan nama yang dilakukan manajemen Newcastle dilakukan karena alasan finansial. Sport Direct merupakan perusahaan kepunyaan Mike Ashley, owner klub berjuluk The Magpies tersebut.

Pihak manajemen beralasan kalau perubahan nama tersebut menunjukkan kalau Newcastle terbuka untuk pihak sponsor yang ingin menanamkan modalnya di klub. Newcastle kini masih mencari sponsor yang mau berinvestasi jangka panjang pada nama stadion mereka.

"Rebranding terhadap stadion merupakan cara yang ampuh untuk menambah pemasukan secara signifikan," tegas Direktur Pelaksana Newcastle, Derek Llambias seperti diberitakan BBC.

"Roman Abramovich punya uang lebih banyak dari Tuhan tapi Chelsea tetap berencana menjual nama Stamford Bridge untuk mendapat uang lebih banyak lagi. Jadi jika itu bagus untuk Chelsea, maka itu akan bagus juga buat Newcastle United. Kami memulainya tahun ini dan kami ingin itu terus berlanjut," lanjut Llambias.

Newcastle saat ini duduk di posisi tiga klasemen dengan hanya terpaut enam angka dari Manchester City di posisi teratas. Bersama The Citizens, skuad besutan Alan Pardew hingga kini belum menelan kekalahan.

Dan uang yang didapat dari penamaan ulang stadion tersebut diharapkan akan membuat The Toon Army bisa mempersenjatai timnya dengan pemain-pemain berkualitas demi bisa bersaing dengan MU dan City serta Chlesea.

"Untuk bisa bersaing dengan MU, City dan Chelsea kami harus memastikan kami membawa setiap penny yang bisa kami dapat karena sepakbola sangat mahal. Fans mungkin akan mengkritik, tapi mereka adalah fans yang sama yang menginginkan kami membeli lebih banyak pemain dan membelanjakan lebih banyak uang," tuntas Llambias.

St James Park merupakan salah satu stadion paling bersejarah di Inggris. Memiliki kapasitas 52.409 penonton, stadion ini mulai beroperasi sejak 1892. Stadion ini juga menjadi salah satu venue saat Inggris menggelar Piala Eropa 1996.

Pengubahan nama tersebut diyakini akan mengundang protes dari fans Newcastle. Beberapa fans menyebut nama stadion punya nilai historis terlalu tinggi untuk 'dijual' dan diganti namanya, apalagi klub-klub dengan stadion bersejarah lainnya seperti MU (Old Trafford), Liverpool (Anfield) dan Tottenham Hotspur (White Hart Lane) hingga kini masih mempertahankan nama asli kandang mereka.

http://www.detiksport.com/sepakbola/read/2011/11/10/104023/1764317/72/sports-direct-arena-nama-baru-kandang-newcastle

moga aja nama Old Trafford gak diganti ama Glazer

zudomiriku

11-11-2011, 12:21 PM

berita pergantian nama kandang NU versi bahasa Inggris

Newcastle stadium name-change lacks class and is unworthy of history

The graceless conversion of St James' Park to the Sports Direct Arena has caused a furore among Newcastle fans. Another sliver of football's soul has been lost

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Part of what feels so wrong about the 'rebranding' of St James’ Park is clear to anybody who has actually been in Sports Direct. Photograph: Steve Drew/PA

The horror of the Newcastle United supporters at the latest gracelessly delivered manoeuvre by the club's owner, Mike Ashley, and managing director, Derek Llambias, is, for all the arguments about the need to "generate revenue", simply understood by putting these words together: St James' Park has been renamed the Sports Direct Arena. Rationalise it in all the obvious ways – football clubs need all the money they can make to compete with richer names, Newcastle are seeking an honest few million pounds more rather than plunging into unsustainable debt, they are obviously not the first – yet still, when the news came out, it felt as if another sliver of football's soul had just been sold.

St James' Park is an evocative, historic and wonderfully located football ground, it has been Newcastle United's home for 119 years, and its name lends a grandeur of aspiration which the club has not always lived up to, on or off the field. Ashley, in particular, as many recalled when the new name emerged, has managed to serially embarrass himself since, flush following the flotation of Sports Direct, he bought Newcastle, seemingly on some kind of mid-life whim, in 2007.

The man the business press had dubbed a recluse because he never gave them an interview revealed very publicly, among the fans and down the Bigg Market, his taste for drinking and larging it, plus the casino, of which Llambias was the manager before being entrusted with the great club. After that lagered-up honeymoon, however, the fans' fury over Dennis Wise's activities, the constructive dismissal as manager of club legend Kevin Keegan, then the 2009 relegation, put Ashley back in his corporate box. He then complained that Newcastle was not the fun it promised in the brochure, and he wanted out.

Many people observed that this naming-rights move was announced with typically gauche timing because Ashley and Llambias have been tentatively rehabilitating themselves in the minds of grudging fans. Having made no landmark signings, unbeaten Newcastle are a remarkable third in the Premier League, playing good football, making Alan Pardew's appointment look shrewder than anybody could believe at the time, and £35m for Andy Carroll looks increasingly like the cunning fleecing of starstruck new Liverpool owners from America.

Ashley has faced so much ordure at Newcastle, much of it self-inflicted, yet has put £140m in himself, in loans, and is evidently running the club properly financially. Fans who could have been up in arms about the banking, rather than spending, of the Carroll bonanza have been disarmed by the feats of Demba Ba, Newcastle's free transfer signing from West Ham, who has scored eight league goals this season while Carroll at Liverpool has manager Kenny Dalglish defending a tally of two so far.

Part of what feels so wrong about the "rebranding" of St James' Park – besides Llambias's use of the word rebranding – is clear to anybody who has actually been in Sports Direct. It takes some doing to drain the thrill out of a sports shop, but Ashley's emporia, crammed much more with pile-it-high cheap clothing than actual sports gear, seem to lack any class in the vision of their corporate masters. So the Sports Direct Arena, even if this is only to prepare the ground for a genuine sponsor to pay the club £10m or so for the name, feels cheap and unworthy of the history.

However, the facts are that clubs all around Newcastle are making money whichever way they can, and Ashley's club is far from the first to sell the name of its home. There was little criticism of Arsenal's board, from fans drenched in historical appreciation, when their new stadium was announced, so incongruously, as "The Emirates". The Reebok, Dave Whelan's modestly titled DW Stadium, what was Leicester's Walkers Stadium, named after some crisps, and now the Etihad for the club which likes to think of itself as real Manchester, all pave the way for acceptance of renaming.

In lower divisions, needs must, but suddenly the richest Premier League clubs are looking to "brand" their homes to make some extra money. Chelsea's chief executive, Ron Gourlay, said on Monday he hopes Stamford Bridge will bear a commercial name by next season to enable the club to shorten its massive losses; Tottenham want to do the same; Liverpool are positively, desperately searching for a naming rights "partner" which John Henry's Fenway Group says might make it financially attractive for them to build a new stadium.

Much of this has passed without protest, although significantly, all top clubs' naming rights have been of new stadiums, not historic homes. The furore at Newcastle is because the new name is being visited on St James' Park, together with the general lack of class in Ashley's record, and the particular unattractiveness of the store whose name the ground is labelled with bearing. Whatever the specific circumstances, though, it is still reassuring that in an age where clubs speak and think revenue streams and branding, the fans who pay the money tell them they do not want the history sold out.

Grounds that were rebranded
Bootham Crescent, York City

A deal with Nestlé saw it rebranded the KitKat Crescent in 2005. The club reverted to the original name last year

Seward Stadium, AFC Bournemouth

Dean Court became the Fitness First Stadium in 2001. Rights were sold to the Seward Motor Group this year

Etihad Stadium, Manchester City

The world's richest club became even richer in July thanks to naming deal with Abu Dhabi's Eithad Airways

Grounds built with branded names
Reebok Stadium, Bolton Wanderers

The Premier League club's home since 1997, when they left Burnden Park

Emirates Stadium, Arsenal

The 60,000-seat arena, Ashburton Grove while it was being built, opened in 2006 at a cost of close to £400m. Named after Dubai-based airline

Amex Stadium, Brighton

The club's new home – the American Express Community Stadium – opened this year

Grounds that could yet be branded
Anfield, Liverpool

Club's American owners have not ruled out a naming deal for a new stadium or their current home

Stamford Bridge, Chelsea

Renaming is part of the club's desire to expand the ground should they first succeed in buying the land it is built on from their fans

White Hart Lane, Tottenham

Naming rights are part of club's long-standing aim to have larger stadium

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbZz7

zudomiriku

11-11-2011, 02:01 PM

Newcastle's naming rights worth up to £10m a year - Derek Llambias

Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias says the club can generate up to £10m a season by attracting a joint shirt and stadium sponsor.

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The Magpies have changed the name of their St James' Park stadium to the Sports Direct Arena in an effort to attract a new naming partner.

Llambias says the club need extra funds to compete in the Premier League.

"I would hope to generate between £8m-10m a year, that will give us another player," Llambias told BBC Newcastle.

"To compete we need to go further, we've had a fantastic start."

Newcastle are third in the Premier League, having won seven of their opening 11 matches.

Llambias added: "The fans want us to buy more players, we need a new striker in January, we'll need replacements in the summer.

"We need to give ourselves as much of a chance as possible."

Stadium sponsorship is growing in English football, with most new-build venues such as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and Brighton's Amex Stadium utilising brands to help finance costs.

Manchester City completed a deal worth £400m over 10 years to sponsor their existing City of Manchester Stadium with Etihad Airways in July of this year.

Similarly to Newcastle's plans, Chelsea are considering the option of selling the naming rights of Stamford Bridge, a venue they have been synonymous with since their formation in 1905.

"The history is always going to be there, we need to become part of the history," Llambias said.

"Chelsea have come out to say they're going to rename their present stadium. They have a lot of history as well but they actually have an owner (Roman Abramovich) who has more money than God.

I've got a very small window to sell the shirt and naming rights and, if I have to sell them separately, then I have to sell them separately
Derek Llambias -Newcastle United MD

"We can't compare ourselves with Abramovich, we haven't got that sort of money. If we want to compete with the big boys we have to bring more revenue in."

The club's shirt sponsorship deal with north east bank Northern Rock is to expire at the end of the season, and pressure is on to replace the branding in time for next season.

"I need to find a new shirt sponsor by the end of December - and that's the latest," added Llambias.

"Puma need to put the shirt sponsor on, they're manufacturing, and they would like it last month.

"I've got a very small window to sell the shirt and naming rights and, if I have to sell them separately, then I have to sell them separately.

"But we must give ourselves the opportunity, this is inviting people to come in."

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbZz8

zudomiriku

30-11-2011, 04:49 PM

Steve Bruce on brink as Sunderland fans' vitriol reaches fever pitch

• Manager receives abuse after defeat to Wigan
• I cannot help where I was born, says Sunderland manager

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By early Saturday evening some Sunderland fans were running sweepstakes, with wagers placed on the day and hour of Steve Bruce's predicted sacking. Others preferred to debate the succession and ponder the respective merits of, among others, Mark Hughes, Martin O'Neill, David Moyes and Steve McClaren. By 5.30pm Sunday bookmakers had suspended betting on Bruce's dismissal.

For the moment, at least, he remains in charge at the Stadium of Light, but although he maintains resignation is not an option – and having signed a lucrative new long‑term contract in February there has never been much likelihood of Sunderland's manager waving a white flag – even he concedes that his relationship with the Wearside public has possibly fractured beyond repair.

After witnessing two home wins since New Year's Day, this defeat to a Wigan Athletic team who had begun the day seemingly glued to the bottom of the table proved a watershed. With chants of "Bruce Out" and "You fat Geordie bastard, get out of our club" echoing in the late afternoon gloom, the atmosphere was so vitriolic it felt suspiciously close to mutiny.

Bruce was asked if things had reached the point of no return. "Can I turn the relationship around?" he mused. "I don't know. It's going to be very, very difficult. I would never walk away, never. But If I thought that by going it would help everybody then I would consider it, I'd certainly have a think about it. I don't think that at the minute, though.

"I just want to try to get it right. Hopefully the criticism has bottomed out today; I don't think it's ever been as bad as that. It borders on abuse. That's just the way it is, though, and I have to accept it. I cannot help where I was born."

That last somewhat disingenuous comment will not play well with the majority of Sunderland fans, who simply do not care about Bruce's roots or his boyhood adoration of Newcastle United.

Instead, most Stadium of Light season-ticket holders are far more concerned about the reasons why he has signed 30 players – several of whom have since moved on – since the summer of 2009, the apparent lack of an overall playing philosophy or tactical strategy, and Bruce's persistent failure to tweak his teams and formations incisively during games.

Why, they wonder, has he rushed key players back following serious injuries only to see them relapse, why was Anton Ferdinand allowed to join Queens Park Rangers when he was in the best defensive form of his career, and why were three former key strikers, Darren Bent, Kenwyne Jones and Asamoah Gyan, so desperate to depart?

If attacking options are limited, a lack of control and creativity in central midfield leaves Sunderland unable to dictate play and set the tempo. It explains why, after taking an early lead through Sebastian Larsson and missing several subsequent chances, they permitted Wigan back into a contest altered irrevocably by Jordi Gomez's conversion of a controversial 44th‑minute penalty.

Aware sporadic bouts of pleasing passing were being betrayed by alarming defending, Roberto Martínez tightened his team's positional discipline at half‑time. "Defensively we were giving too much space to Kieran Richardson and Nicklas Bendtner and they were getting in little holes to really hurt us," Wigan's manager said. "We tried to get a little bit tighter and that helped neutralise the threat. Small details won us the match. I wouldn't say we had too much flair and, to be honest, I thought it was one of our worst performances of the last three weeks, but we were really professional."

Martínez also made an inspired 84th‑minute substitution. Franco Di Santo was clutching a corner flag while performing an elaborate stretching routine when the command to get stripped for action finally came and, judging by the way he ambled down the touchline and then spent an inordinate amount of time adjusting his shorts, the Argentinian striker looked an almost reluctant participant.

If Di Santo's demeanour lulled Bruce into a vague sense of security it was short-lived as within minutes Wes Brown had been caught, horribly, in possession and, with Keiren Westwood lured off his line, James McArthur rolled the ball for the former Chelsea forward to sidefoot into an empty net.

In the match programme Ellis Short, Sunderland's reclusive chairman, had made a rare public pronouncement, claiming that while he was unhappy with the team's league position and sought an improvement in results and performances, he saw no reason to panic.

Short, who did not speak to Bruce before leaving the stadium, has a big decision to make. Does he offer the manager a chance to spark an improvement at Wolves on Sunday and at home to Blackburn Rovers the following weekend, or should he implement an immediate change?

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bc9Bz

zudomiriku

01-12-2011, 02:23 PM

Blackburn boss Steve Kean admits Carling Cup 'forfeit' at Cardiff

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Blackburn manager Steve Kean admitted he had "forfeited" their Carling Cup quarter-final against Cardiff ahead of crucial league games.

Kean's side are bottom of the Premier League and after his side's 2-0 defeat he said: "We are in a position where we have forfeited going through and having the chance to reach a cup final.

"We have games against sides within touching distance of us in the league.

"We need to treat those games as cup finals."

"It's never nice when the fans are negative but, when you are focused on the game, it's something you put to the back of your mind. It doesn't affect me"
Steve Kean

Kean made five changes to his side for the trip to south Wales, electing not to risk the defensive trio of Christopher Samba, Martin Olsson and Michel Salgado, who have all had hamstring injuries.

He added: "They could have played at a push and if we had been in a slightly different position in the league. We have Swansea coming up so I made five changes and left those lads behind.

"We wanted to make sure we have those lads available for Saturday. Saturday has to kick-start our season."

After a bright start, Rovers were outplayed by their Championship hosts and, while Kean was disappointed with their display, he felt he was right to make changes.

Kean commented: "It is a big disappointment. They were on the back foot to start, we had half-chances and pinned them back.

"But then the confidence starts back up for them when they scored because they're at home where they've been good. It gives everyone a spark."

A section of Blackburn fans have called for Kean, who signed a new contract last week, to be sacked and have staged a series of protests.

And the travelling support made no secret of their dissatisfaction at their cup exit with chants of "Kean out" ringing round the ground.

But Kean, who will meet with club owner's Venky's today to discuss potential January transfer targets, insists their disapproval does not affect him.

He said: "It's never nice when the fans are negative but, when you are focused on the game, it's something you put to the back of your mind. It doesn't affect me.

"We all want the same things. We all want the club to win the game. The fans are frustrated but we all need to stick together."

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcap7

zudomiriku

02-12-2011, 12:12 PM

Sunderland sack Steve Bruce

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STEVE Bruce was this evening sacked as Sunderland manager after just over two and a half years in charge of the club.

The Black Cats boss had hoped he would be allowed the chance to turn things around after the club’s morale-sapping defeat to Wigan last weekend capped what has been a poor start to the season both in terms of performances and results.

He was planning for this Sunday’s game against Wolves with one eye on the next home game against Blackburn Rovers but was relieved of his duties by owner Ellis Short this afternoon.

Short released a statement said: “This has been a difficult time for everyone at Sunderland and is not a situation that any of us envisaged or expected to be in.

“It is my job as chairman to act in the best interests of our football club at all times and I can assure everyone that this is not a decision that I have taken lightly.

“Sadly results this season have simply not been good enough and I feel the time is right to make a change.

“Steve has acted with honesty and integrity throughout, which is testament to the character and commitment he has shown during his time at Sunderland.

“I would like to personally place on record my thanks to him for his significant contribution to our football club over the past two and a half years and everyone here at Sunderland naturally wishes him the very best for the future.

“I would also like to thank our fans, who have endured a trying start to the season. Their support continues to be the driving force behind our Club and is vital as we now look to the future.”

With Bruce gone, assistant manager Eric Black will take charge of first team duties for the immediate future and will be in the dug-out for the game against Wolves this Sunday.

The search for a successor has begun immediately and though Martin O’Neill has been installed as the bookies’ favourite, a strong sources suggests Mark Hughes is travelling up to the North East for an interview tomorrow.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcaN1

ario adi nugroho

03-12-2011, 03:47 PM

selamat :D

Redknapp dan Scott Parker Manajer dan Pemain Terbaik November 2011

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Prestasi Spurs yang kini menempati posisi tiga klasemen Liga Inggris dan hanya berselisih dua poin dengan peringkat dua, Manchester United, padahal masih menyimpan satu game di tangan, kini bertambah fantastis dengan raihan individu dua punggawanya.

Manajer Harry Redknapp dan gelandang Scott Parker terpilih sebagai Manajer of the Month dan Player of the Month edisi bulan November 2011.

Spurs meraih tiga kemenangan selama bulan Nopvember dan penampilan konsisten Scott Parker di lapangan tengah klub London Utara ini pun layak diganjar dengan penghargaan prestisius ini. Padahal Parker baru datang ke Spurs musim panas tahun ini, namun kerja samanya dengan Luka Modric membuat Spurs layak diperhitungkan untuk kembali menjadi kandidat big four di akhir musim.

Sementara, Harry Redknapp meraih gelar ini untuk kedua kalinya pada musim 2011-12 ini setelah di bulan September lalu ia juga meraih gelar yang sama.

http://www.ggintersport.com/eng/news/10002122011224400/redknapp-dan-scott-parker-manajer-dan-pemain-terbaik-november-2011/

zudomiriku

09-12-2011, 02:18 PM

Goal-shy Sunderland could recall Gyan

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New Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill will investigate the possibility recalling Asamoah Gyan to boost his striking options.

The Ghana star is playing on loan at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, after being shipped out in a surprise move after the European transfer deadline.

Sunderland are earning a record £6million loan fee from the deal -and the player has had a massive pay-rise, as he's now on wages approaching £5m a year.

However, Gyan has also left open the possibility of returning to Wearside

He regularly tells Sunderland players he "misses you guys", and also posted on Twitter: "Good luck to our new manager Martin O'Neill."

O'Neill knows Sunderland need goals to power them away from the Premier League's relegation zone and said of Gyan: "Yes, absolutely I will address it. I have to talk to Niall [Quinn, Sunderland director] about exactly where we stand on that. But yes, again, his position will definitely be looked at.

"He started off brilliantly, then things tapered away a little bit.

"I don't know the lad at all. Again, he got off to a great start so the potential is there, but I will have a look at it."

The economics of the Gyan loan deal, on the face of it, make it unlikely he will be recalled.

But O'Neill may find the cost of breaking the deal in mid-season is cheaper than buying a new striker in January.

Sunderland's scoring record this year is cause for concern - and was one of the causes of the downfall of O'Neill's predecessor Steve Bruce.

This time last year, Bruce could call on Gyan, Darren Bent (now at Aston Villa) and Danny Welbeck (back at Manchester United after his loan spell ended) up front.

Fraiser Campbell is on the comeback trail after injury, as is Connor Wickham, while O'Neill needs to find a formula that will get the best out of on-loan Arsenal and Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner.

O'Neill faces his first test at home to Blackburn on Sunday, and there is likely to be a bumper crowd at the Stadium of Light to welcome him.

The optimistic mood this fresh start will provide is something O'Neill wants to cash in on by getting results.

He said: "Above all, we are in a results-driven business. And I'm not fooling myself that we don't need to get good results as soon as we can.

"We are in a bit of trouble at the moment, but there are plenty of matches - we just need to win a few of them.

"The excitement is building, I must admit. I'm looking forward to Sunday and beyond. It's a nervous sort of excitement, but a positive nervousness.

"On weeks like this, you realise just how big this football club is; not that I was under any illusions before.

"This is an exciting time for me. It's a genuine privilege and I will treat it like that. But now we mean business and we will try and push on.

"My job is to win football matches with the first team.

"Everything else will take care of itself if that happens."

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcpJM

zudomiriku

12-12-2011, 04:49 PM

Everton FC skipper Phil Neville concedes Landon Donovan is unlikely to sign on loan in January

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PHIL NEVILLE suspects Everton FC will have to plan without Landon Donovan in January – but admits the club is desperate for a new goalscorer.

The Everton FC skipper is doubtful that USA forward Donovan will be keen on a Goodison return in the new year for a second three-month loan spell.

And although David Moyes has previously stressed the potential problems of trying to recruit new players in the January transfer window, Neville says the Everton FC boss has proven pedigree of finding influential players in that market.

He said: “Everyone loved Landon. We enjoyed having him here, and he used Everton running up to the World Cup to stay fit. I think that was the only reason he came, or maybe he would have come the year after.

“I think new signings would give everyone a boost. We need a lift – I think the whole club does in a way. We sold a couple of players late on in the last window and brought a couple of players in who are going to take time to bed in.

“I always think in January, particularly since I came to Everton, you can make a difference then. I remember we signed Brazilian Jo a couple of years back and it gave everyone a lift. He scored a few goals, and it’s good to see a new face around.

“The manager has done it every January, he has brought someone in. It might not be for money, it might be a free transfer, but he’s brought someone in to pick us up.”

Neville accepts there is still a sense of anxiety among some Everton FC supporters, a feeling intensified after Sunday’s dismal 1-0 defeat by Stoke at Goodison.

But although the 34-year-old believes Moyes will do everything within his power to inject some new blood into his squad next month, he insists the current players must take responsibility for ensuring the Toffees climb the Premier League table over Christmas.

He said: “The negativity from the summer has spread a little bit into the season. Even though you think everything is OK, you sense the fans are not as buoyant, not as confident.

“They’re coming to games now and they’re not sure which way to go. That bit of uncertainty has affected everyone.

“The lift has got to come from the team though - from winning games. The two games we’ve won recently lifted things. There was a bit of a spark after the Bolton game, and if we can get some results over Christmas it’s ideal because you’re playing a lot of games in a small space of time and you can make real headway.

“The team needs to start inspiring people. It’s normally now that we start a charge, and we always say that but we can’t rely on it. We can’t take it for granted.”

Meanwhile, Everton’s FA Cup third round tie against non-league side Tamworth will take place on Saturday January 7 at Goodison Park, with a 3pm kick-off.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcs2R

zudomiriku

12-12-2011, 05:22 PM

zudomiriku

12-12-2011, 06:04 PM

Ivan Klasnic Facing Divorce After Wife Discovers Flat Full Of Other Women’s Clothes

He may we be having a fairly decent (though largely unheralded) season, but Bolton striker Ivan Klasnic is staring down the barrel of a D.I.V.O.R.C.E after his wife flew in from Germany and made a surprise to his flat in Manchester only to discover a wardrobe full of other women’s clothes and make-up, along with several ‘compromising’ photographs.

Patrica Klasnic told Bunte magazine:

“Everywhere in his flat were pictures of women and in the wardrobe hung blouses which didn’t belong to me, remainders of make-up everywhere.

“[I'd heard rumours of infidelity] but I was blind in the eye, I simply did not want to admit it.”

Now, not that we condone besmirching the sacred sanctity of matrimony here on Pies, but as it seems footballers are contractually obliged to hump any caked-up orange trollop that waggles her wares under their noses, and given that he’s plying his trade in an industry rife with experience in the field, how did our Ivan forget what surely must be the golden rule of any secret affair – the crucial ‘keeping it a secret’ part?

What a chump.

And yes, before you ask, it is a slow day.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcs2Q

zudomiriku

13-12-2011, 03:06 PM

5 Things We Learned from Premier League Weekend

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It was another excitement-filled weekend in the English Premier League with only three teams failing to score and none of the nine games ending in a draw.

Tottenham's 11-match unbeaten streak came to an end at the hands of Stoke (and referee Chris Foy), while Manchester United bounced back from being eliminated from the Champions League in midweek with a 4-1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Martin O'Neill got the win in his first match in charge of Sunderland, Newcastle ran out of luck and Robin van Persie continued his run of amazing form.

Before Chelsea and Manchester City kick off Monday evening, let's look back at everything that went down in Week 15 in the EPL.

Nani and Valencia Will Be Key for Manchester United
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Manchester United got a much-needed 4-1 victory Saturday against Wolves, meaning they keep pace with Manchester City at the top, but there were still reasons to worry if you're a United fan.

Wayne Rooney and Nani scored two goals apiece, and Antonio Valencia surely marked the starting spot as his own with a strong performance as Ashley Young rode the bench.

But the defense, which will be without captain Nemanja Vidic for the rest of the season, was anything but rock solid.

Chris Smalling in particular struggled at the back, and against a better team, United could've been in trouble.

Pacey wingers Nani and Valencia and a strong midfield will be key for United if the Red Devils hope to challenge for the title and other trophies, and given Valencia's injury history, Young will need to rediscover the form that set the Premier League alight to begin the season.

Newcastle's Charm Has Worn Off...or Has It?
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Newcastle was handed only their third loss of the season at the hands of Norwich City on Saturday, and it landed the Magpies at seventh in the table as their early season charm seems to have worn off.

Alan Pardew manufactured wins out of nothing until November, but in the last four games, they've collected just one point, from Manchester United of all teams.

Their next three matches, however, are home to Swansea and West Brom and at Bolton—three very winnable matches—before they travel to Liverpool and welcome United on Jan. 4. Nine points before the trip to Anfield would be a big boost to Newcastle.

Looking at their last four matches, Newcastle have been anything but lucky. They struggled with injury and haven't had any help from the officials.

At the end of the day, we're starting to see the real Newcastle, and that is a team lacking depth. If they can finish the month strong, Pardew may be able to entice some new players to St. James Park come the January transfer window, but they'll need to stay within touching distance of European places to do that.

Robin Van Persie Should've Been Nominated for Ballon d'Or
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In any sport these days, it's hard to be nominated for the top individual awards if your team doesn't do well, but with the form he's been in since January, it's a travesty Robin van Persie wasn't at least shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or.

The Flying Dutchman has done nothing but score and create goals since the beginning of the year, and his goals this season in particular have been huge in pulling Arsenal back into Champions League contention, quite the feat considering how the club started the year.

He scored a stunning volley in the 70th minute against Everton Saturday to give the Gunners another win, giving him 19 total goals this season and 15 in 15 games in the Premier League.

Most importantly, van Persie hasn't spent much time on the injury table since the beginning of the year. His health has always been the only thing holding van Persie back, and if he really has put those problems behind him, there's no telling what he could do this season and in next summer's European Championships.

Liverpool Still Dependent on One Player
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Luis Suarez has undoubtedly been Liverpool's star of the season, but the problem is not many of his teammates have been on his level. When Liverpool is looking for a spark, it's always Suarez they look to.

Unfortunately, it's a story Reds fans are all too familiar with.

From 2008-2010, Liverpool mainly went as Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres went. The difference now is that Kenny Dalglish's side has more depth, so dealing with a season-ending injury to Lucas Leiva isn't as horrible as it would've been a few years ago.

But depth doesn't guarantee success. Stewart Downing, Jordan Henderson and Andy Carroll have all struggled to settle in on Merseyside, while veteran Dirk Kuyt has lost his scoring touch as well.

Suarez is a special player, but he can't be the only answer for Liverpool if they hope to win trophies and get back into the Champions League.

January will probably see Dalglish make at least one new signing, but those players whom Liverpool paid a steep price for earlier this year need to start proving their worth.

Who Can Handle the Fixture Pileup?
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Come December, the fixtures really start to pile up in England. The last two weeks of the year can define an entire season, and for those teams struggling at the bottom, it's hard to climb out once the calendar changes.

Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has done himself a world of good with strong European performances, but his side can't afford to slip up in the league or the young Portuguese manager will be out by February.

Manchester United need to get over the loss of Nemanja Vidic right away because they can't afford to let Manchester City get any further ahead.

Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton may be languishing at the bottom, and if they can't notch a win or two over the Christmas holiday, they'll most likely be in the Championship come next season.

For teams struggling with injuries, this is the worst time of year, and the whole season can come down to just a few games. Who can handle the pressure, and who will crumble?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/978807-5-things-we-learned-from-premier-league-weekend#/articles/978807-5-things-we-learned-from-premier-league-weekend

zudomiriku

14-12-2011, 01:17 PM

Mystery over Bridge bust up

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Chelsea and Manchester City players were reportedly involved in an altercation after their Premier League clash at Stamford Bridge on Monday evening.

It has been suggested by City boss Roberto Mancini that Chelsea players, high on emotion after a crucial win which reduced the gap at the top of the table to seven points, and in particular Ashley Cole may have been at the centre of the incident.

When asked what had happened, Mancini said: "I don't know if Cole said something. I don't know what he said. I don't understand. But if the Chelsea players are saying we are a top team, for us that is important. There were really lively because they beat a top team. It's normal. It's important for them."

Blues boss Andre Villas-Boas denied the claims about Cole, saying: "It is untrue, it is unfair. There is always some troublemaker in our wins."

Mancini also took the chance to take a sarcastic swipe at referee Mark Clattenburg's performance, with a series of questionable decisions including Jose Bosingwa's tackle in the box on David Silva not being adjudged as a foul. Chelsea were given a spot-kick for a handball by Joleon Lescott while Gael Clichy was sent off for two yellow cards.

"I agree with all of his decisions,'' Mancini said. "There was a big penalty. There wasn't a fan inside the stadium who didn't see it. But the referee was very close and he didn't.

"I don't know (about Chelsea's penalty). The Chelsea player shot very hard from five or six metres. It is difficult for the defender. But, at that moment, the referee was really sure. It was after the sending-off, that the game totally changed.

"It doesn't change anything for us, because we knew before this we should lose a game at some point. It is unusual that a team comes to Chelsea and plays like we did in the first half because we dominated the game. We didn't deserve to lose but we did.

"The season is very long and very hard. Now we should prepare for another difficult game, against Arsenal.''

Meanwhile, Mancini said he will take no action against Balotelli for breaking a 48-hour pre-game curfew by going for a curry in Manchester on Saturday night.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcz0y

VaDLi

18-12-2011, 12:17 PM

Barclays Premier League akan memperingati gol ke-20.000 di dalam kompetisi Premier League sejak musim 1992/93 dengan memberikan uang sebesar £20,000 kepada pemain yang mencetak gol ke-20.000 untuk di sumbangkan kepada badan amal pilihan mereka sendiri.

Saat ini terhitung sudah 19.976 gol dan diperkirakan gol ke-20.000 akan terjadi pada pertandingan tengah pekan depan.

Para fans bisa ikut memprediksi siapa yang akan mencetak gol ke-20.000 dengan mengakses Fans Page BPL Facebook.com/BarclaysFootball dengan hadiah yang menarik ditawarkan bagi mereka yang menebak dengan benar

zudomiriku

19-12-2011, 12:48 PM

Everton land Donovan

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Everton have agreed a deal to sign USA forward Landon Donovan on a short-term loan from MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy.

Donovan, who enjoyed a successful loan spell at Goodison Park in 2010, will be eligible to play against Bolton Wanderers on January 4, pending the completion of routine paperwork.

The 29-year-old will leave Everton after the Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Anfield on February 25 to rejoin Galaxy ahead of the new MLS season. Everton manager David Moyes said: "I am delighted that we have managed to get Landon back. He will give us some good experience over January and February.

"He did well for us when he was over two years ago and hopefully will return with those same qualities.

"His season has just finished and like last time we need him to hit the ground running because the games come thick and fast at this time of year."

Donovan, who recently led Galaxy to MLS Cup victory, told Everton's official website: "The opportunity to return to Everton and play for such a well-respected club and a manager that I hold in such high regard was something that was simply too good to pass up.

"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Everton in 2010 and I'm hopeful that we can experience similar success this time around.

"I want to thank David Moyes and Bruce Arena, as well as executives from both clubs and Major League Soccer for allowing me this unique and special opportunity."

Donovan, who has also played in Europe with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, became a hugely popular figure with Everton fans during his first stint with the club.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcCSP

zudomiriku

19-12-2011, 02:25 PM

Nicklas Bendtner and Lee Cattermole arrested for damaging cars

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If Nicklas Bendtner and Lee Cattermole are aiming to impress new Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill, they seem to be going about it the wrong way. The pair of Black Cats were arrested today on suspicion of causing criminal damage to cars parked in a road a few streets from St James' Park. The Sun reports:

Police launched a probe after cars were attacked in Stowell Street — just yards from the home ground of arch rivals Newcastle United — last Tuesday night.

Striker Bendtner and midfielder Cattermole, both 23, were released on police bail.

The automobile-attacking duo could potentially feature in Sunderland's trip to White Hart Lane this weekend, but after acting like a couple of disobedient teenagers, the well-paid professional athletes may face a suspension from the club — much like the one teammate Titus Bramble served after his recent legal troubles.

Sunderland captain Cattermole — who usually takes out his violent aggression on the shins of opposing players — already has an arrest to his name, following an incident on a night out in 2008. This appears to be Bendtner's first dalliance into criminality, but it's certainly not the first time he's done something embarrassing on a night out.

zudomiriku

21-12-2011, 03:14 PM

Premier League Closes In On 20,000th Goal: Inforgraphic and Complete Statistic Analysis

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Full breakdown of Premier League goals since it began in 1992-1993. Data recorded is up until 19 December 2011.

Top goal scorers

Alan Shearer 260
Andrew Cole 188
Thierry Henry 174
Robbie Fowler 163
Les Ferdinand 151
Michael Owen 149
Teddy Sheringham 147
Frank Lampard 147
Wayne Rooney 129

Top scoring teams

Manchester United 1489
Arsenal 1302
Chelsea 1251
Liverpool 1209
Tottenham Hotspur 1037
Newcastle United 961
Aston Villa 954
Everton 940
Blackburn Rovers 902
Manchester City 728

Top scoring XI

GK * Paul Robinson 1
LB David Unsworth 41
CD John Terry 27
CD Sami Hyypia 24
RB Dan Petrescu 25
LM Ryan Giggs 105
CM Frank Lampard 147
CM Paul Scholes 103
RM Cristiano Ronaldo 84ST
Alan Shearer 260
ST Andy Cole 188

* Peter Schmeichel, Brad Friedel and Paul Robinson have all scored one goal so could be part of the Top Scoring XI

Grounds with the most goals

Old Trafford 1079
White Hart Lane 1048
Stamford Bridge 1033
Anfield 1007
Goodison Park 968
St James’ Park 936
Ewood Park 891
Villa Park 875
Highbury 764
Riverside Stadium 648

Cities/towns with the most goals

London 5800
Liverpool 1975
Manchester 1927
Birmingham 1177
Newcastle 939
Blackburn 891
Middlesbrough 708
Southampton 657
Bolton 601
Leeds 588
Sheffield 565
Sunderland 463
Coventry 418
Leicester 401
Portsmouth 343
Derby 334
Wigan 295
West Bromwich 274
Ipswich 252
Norwich 242
Nottingham 233
Wolverhampton 177
Stoke 152
Hull 105
Bradford 104
Reading 93
Swindon 70
Blackpool 71
Barnsley 60
Burnley 55
Swansea 12

By season

92/93 1222 462 2.65
93/94 1195 462 2.59
94/95 1195 462 2.59
95/96 988 380 2.60
96/97 970 380 2.55
97/98 1019 380 2.68
98/99 959 380 2.52
99/00 1060 380 2.79
00/01 992 380 2.61
01/02 1001 380 2.63
02/03 1000 380 2.63
03/04 1012 380 2.66
04/05 975 380 2.57
05/06 944 380 2.48
06/07 931 380 2.45
07/08 1002 380 2.64
08/09 942 380 2.48
09/10 1053 380 2.77
10/11 1063 380 2.80
11/12 459 159 2.89

Source: Press Association

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcGVQ

kira2 sapa yg akan mencetak gol ke-20.000?

Redsbusby

23-12-2011, 03:37 PM

Ungkapa Marc Albrighton setelah dapet 20.000 pounds :D

Albrighton Bangga Cetak Gol ke-20.000 di Liga Inggris

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, BIRMINGHAM - Masuk ke dalam buku sejarah Premier League tentu menjadi kebanggaan bagi setiap pemain. Tak terkecuali gelandang Aston Villa, Marc Albrighton, yang baru saja menorehkan rekor gol ke-20.000 sepanjang sejarah Premier League.

Pada laga Rabu (21/12) kemarin, beberapa pemain memang mengincar catatan milestone tersebut. Namunsecara mengejutkan gol bersejarah itu lahir dari kaki Albrighton, yang notabene bukan berstatus bintang di Premier League.

Dengan gol tersebut, Albrighton mendapat hadiah uang tunai senilai 20.000 pounds dari sponsor utama Premier League, Barclays. Namun hadiah tersebut akan dialokasikan kepada badan amal yang bakal ditentukan oleh gelandang berusia 22 tahun itu.

"Ini adalah kesempatan dan perasaan yang luar biasa mempunyai rekor itu. Ini sesuatu yang bisa aku ceritakan kepada anak dan cucu," kata Albrighton.

"Barclays Premier League adalah salah satu liga terbesar di dunia, sehingga untuk mencetak gol ke 20.000 adalah suatu kehormatan besar. Mendapatkan 20.000 pounds membuat saya bahagia malam ini."

Konon, Albrighton sendiri memilih menyumbangkan hadiah 20.000 pounds yang didapatnya kepada yayasan Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust.

"Ada beberapa orang besar di Acorns yang melakukan beberapa hal istimewa, mereka layak mendapatkan uang ini. Mengunjungi tempat seperti Acorns benar-benar bisa membuka mata Anda," pungkas dia.

Sejak kompetisi tertinggi di Inggris berubah menjadi Premier League, catatan rekor pertama dibuat pemain Sheffield United, Brian Deane yang membukukan gol pertama kala menang 2-1 atas Manchester United pada 15 Agustus 1992.

Daftar catatan milestone di Premier League:

1 - Brian Deane (Sheffield United - 15 Agustus 1992)

100 - Eric Cantona (Leeds United - 25 Agustus 1993)

1.000 - Mike Newell (Blackburn - 7 April 1993)

5.000 - Andy Townsend (Aston Villa - 7 Desember 1996)

10.000 - Les Ferdinand (Tottenham - 15 Desember 2001)

15.000 - Moritz Volz (Fulham - 30 Desember 2006)

20.000 - Marc Albrighton (Aston Villa - 21 Desember 2011)

Andi Istiabudi

03-01-2012, 03:11 PM

Albrighton Bangga Cetak Gol ke-20.000 di Liga Inggris)

Inilah foto Marc Albrighton, pencetak gol ke-20.000 di Liga Inggris :)

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Andi Istiabudi

03-01-2012, 03:14 PM

Turut berduka cita..

Mantan Bek Liverpool dan Everton Mangkat

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Bola.net - Mantan bek Liverpool dan Everton Gary Ablett, meninggal dunia pada usia 46 tahun setelah dalam waktu yang cukup lama bertarung melawan penyakit kanker.

Ablett yang pernah satu musim menjadi pelatih Stockport pada 2009-2010, meninggal dunia pada hari Minggu (1/1).

"Asosiasi manajer liga hari ini menyatakan bahwa Gary telah meninggal dunia kemarin malam, karena kanker limphoma," demikian pernyataan dari pihak LMA.

Ablett, adalah satu-satunya pemain yang memenangi Piala FA dengan dua klub rival dari kota Liverpool itu. Selain itu ia juga pernah membela Birmingham, Wycombe, Blackpool dan klub Amerika, Long Island Rough Riders sebelum memutuskan berkarir sebagai pelatih. (afp/row)

Source : http://www.bola.net

Andi Istiabudi

04-01-2012, 11:07 AM

Kalau kata Bang Haji "Berjudi itu HARAM" :D

Pejudi Inggris Gandakan Rp 71 Ribu Jadi Rp 107 Juta
Kris Fathoni W - detikSport

London - Seorang suporter klub sepakbola Inggris sukses melipatgandakan uangnya sampai lebih dari seribu kali lipat. Bukan sulap, bukan pula sihir. 'Dewi Fortuna' cuma sedang "bersahabat" dengannya di ranah judi.

Bermodal uang lima poundsterling (sekitar Rp 71 ribu), seorang pria yang adalah suporter klub Everton berhasil mendapatkan sampai 7.590 poundsterling (sekitar Rp 107 juta) dari bursa judi, setelah prediksinya di tiga pertandingan Liga Primer terbukti jitu.

Akan tetapi, alasan mengapa keuntungan yang ia dapatkan bisa berlipat-lipat bukanlah akurasi melainkan hasil yang ia jagokan cukup berada di luar dugaan, yang mana membuat koefisien keuntungannya jadi luar biasa besar.

Pria yang tak disebutkan namanya itu menjagokan Blacburn Rovers menang di kandang Manchester United, tim papan tengah Aston Villa menang di markas Chelsea, dan Sunderland akan mengalahkan Manchester City sang pemuncak klasemen.

Dari ketiga partai yang dihelat pada tanggal 31 Desember 2011 dan 1 Januari 2012 tersebut, kelipatan total yang ia dapatkan adalah 1517-1.

"Untuk bisa bertaruh di tiga dari hasil yang paling tak memungkinan dalam semusim dan merangkaikan ketiganya dalam sebuah taruhan membuat kami sangat bersyukur ia hanya siap mengambil risiko lima poundsterling saja," ujar seorang juru bicara rumah judi William Hill yang dikutip Reuters.

"Sedikit mengejutkan ia tak ikut memasang Everton menang di kandang West Brom, yang mana bisa saja menambah hasil kemenangannya menjadi nyaris 20 ribu poundsterling," sambung juru bicara itu. ( krs / mfi )

zudomiriku

04-01-2012, 02:01 PM

Joey Barton red card: Referee 'conned' says Warnock

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QPR manager Neil Warnock and Joey Barton said the officials were "conned" when the Rangers captain was sent off in the 2-1 home defeat by Norwich.

Barton was dismissed after an off-the-ball incident with Bradley Johnson.

"The assistant referee has guessed, if I'm honest," Warnock told BBC Sport. "Who says cheats don't prosper? Bradley has conned him."

Barton added on Twitter: "Hopefully [the] ref sees it retrospectively and sees he's been conned."

Norwich were quick to capitalise on Barton's dismissal as Anthony Pilkington scored just before half-time, with Steve Morison clinching a late winner.

"It is difficult," said Warnock. "Their heads are together but I don't think Joey Barton would have gone down if it had been the other way round and that is the difference.

"It doesn't surprise me that Bradley Johnson went down. I loved the bit where he held his mouth as if he headbutted him - you don't expect that extra."

Barton, who had given Rangers an 11th-minute lead, said the officials told him at half-time that they "never saw" the incident with Johnson.

"[I] feel for the officials; they've been conned. I was pulled back first, then kicked second," Barton tweeted after being sent off for the first time in his QPR career.

"Linesman definitely never saw it, all he saw was Johnson's reaction. My head doesn't move forward at all. Ridiculous decision. [I've] seen 25 replays."

Barton, then at Newcastle, was involved in another controversial incident on the opening day of the season, when he admitted "going down easily" in an altercation which led to Arsenal forward Gervinho being shown a straight red card.

Supporting the Rangers captain for his role in the latest incident, Warnock called for Johnson to be punished, but was not optimistic that Barton's red card would be overturned if QPR decided to appeal.

"He has not been headbutted at all, not in a million years," said the Rangers manager as he reflected on Johnson's reaction. "The movement of him going backwards has conned the referee.

"To go back like he did was a disgrace. It's getting a fellow pro sent off. I think he should be [punished].

"We will have to look and see what the referee says in his report and if there are any other angles, but from every one I have seen, I don't see a headbutt.

"We will have to decide later. I have not got any confidence in the appeals procedure. I am not optimistic."

BARTON'S RED CARD HISTORY
•2004: Spurs v Man City, FA Cup, 4 Feb
•2006; Liverpool v Man City, Premier League, 26 Feb
•2006: Man City v Bolton, Premier League, 23 Dec
•2009: Liverpool v Newcastle, Premier League, 3 May
•2012: QPR v Norwich, Premier League, 2 Jan

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcYSB

zudomiriku

04-01-2012, 02:45 PM

Ji Dong-won, Petr Cech and John Terry all got fan kisses

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The New Year's kiss is traditionally done at midnight, but Premier League matches aren't played at that hour, so two fans decided to kiss their favorite players when they could.

For the shirtless pitch invader at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, that meant interrupting Chelsea's 3-1 loss to Aston Villa to forcibly snog both Petr Cech and John Terry before getting his lifetime ban for trespassing. The jubilant fan who kissed Sunderland's Ji Dong-won didn't have to leave the stands, though, since the South Korean came to him after tapping in the shock winner against Manchester City in the fourth minute of injury time. And in a moment like that, the fan could hardly be blamed for his actions.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcYSD

Redsbusby

04-01-2012, 04:04 PM

^^
Kayaknya mereka kegirangan karena menang taruhan tuh :))
Kalo cewe yg cium paling mukanya hadep2an :hammer:

Andi Istiabudi

04-01-2012, 06:56 PM

Jadwal Liga Inggris musim ini padat banget yach bahkan nyaris tanpa libur meski kemarin ada natal dan tahun baru. Mungkin karena Liga Inggris sangat banyak menghasilkan keuntungan sehingga semakin padat jadwal maka semakin banyak uang yang dihasilkan. Yang dikhawatirkan dengan jadwal padat adalah pemain menjadi rentan cidera ...

zudomiriku

06-01-2012, 02:09 PM

Apple unlikely to enter auction for Premier League TV rights

• BSkyB and ESPN will be back in the bidding
• Google and al-Jazeera may also enter market

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The landlady Karen Murphy took her legal battle over Premier League TV rights to the European court of justice. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

The Premier League is preparing to go to market with its lucrative television contract in the second quarter of this year, but the technology company Apple is believed to have ruled itself out of the running for the rights.

Premier League executives and advisers are understood to be working on the configuration of the packages that will be made available, with consideration likely to be given to the implications of the ongoing case involving the Portsmouth pub landlady Karen Murphy, and media firms have begun considering their positions.

However, despite speculation it is understood that Apple has not discussed bidding for the rights and is unlikely to do so, despite rumoured plans to launch an Apple TV device.

Its model relies on taking a cut of the revenue from existing content producers by retailing its content through its AppStore or iTunes service.

Sky already shows its live matches on Apple devices through its SkyGo application, and the Premier League has a deal to sell packages of archive content through iTunes.

Google, which owns YouTube, is considered a more likely bidder but any move for the live rights would be a major investment, even for a company of its size. Google is also expected to announce an internet television platform over the next 12 months. Any bid could be complicated, however, by its ownership of YouTube, which is embroiled in a long running legal standoff with the Premier League and other rights owners over copyright issues.

The incumbent holders of the live rights, BSkyB and ESPN, will bid again, with the Disney-owned global sports broadcaster likely to want to improve on its existing position if having one contract for 23 live matches per season. Under the most recent deal, which runs until the end of next season, Sky paid around £1.6bn for its 115 live matches per season.

Both are likely to face competition from al-Jazeera, which recently secured the French rights to live Champions League football from next season, with the Premier League hopeful that new entrants will continue to stimulate a market that has levelled out domestically but shows no sign of the decline that some predicted.

Meanwhile, the income from overseas rights has continued to grow and some analysts believe that it could outstrip domestic revenue for the first time under the next auction. In all the current deal is worth £3.5bn over three years, with £2.1bn coming from domestic broadcasters and £1.4bn from overseas.

It remains to be seen what impact the Murphy case has on the way the Premier League structures its rights auction. The European court of justice ruling, which said that individuals were free to watch broadcasts from overseas using imported decoders, could result in the Premier League selling its rights on a pan-European basis. The ruling still needs to be interpreted by the high court, which is scheduled to hear Murphy's case next month.

However, it could equally decide to continue with a model similar to the existing one and restrict the number of games made available to European broadcasters – which show all 380 games live rather than the 138 on British TV – in the hope of reducing the allure of buying an overseas subscription.

Under an earlier deal with the European Commission, the Premier League promised to ensure that the six packages on offer were divided between more than one broadcaster. That agreement, which covered two contract periods, has now expired but it is likely that the Premier League will continue with the arrangement to avoid the risk of falling foul of regulators again.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bd27J

zudomiriku

06-01-2012, 03:02 PM

The Secret Of Demba Ba’s Success? Strawberry Syrup

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Ba! Huh! What did he sign for? Absolutely nuthin’! Sing it again y’all!”

16 goals in his last 16 Premier League appearances, 15 league goals in total this season (over half of Newcastle’s cumulative haul), something like 24 in 28 since his move to England. Demba Ba is a man on fire. His secret? A ten-year long syrup addiction. The man loves syrup..

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If he’s talking about this…

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…then I can totally get on board. Thanks to family holidays in France past, I can confirm that the stuff is indeed akin to the Ambrosia of Mount Olympus mixed with hummingbird tears mixed with diabetes-inducing levels of sweet, sweet synthetic loveliness.

That said, I can only imagine what state ten solid years of daily consumption would do to the walls of a man’s stomach. I’m no gastro-doctor, but I’m guessing it ain’t pretty.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bd27P

kyknya boleh neh pemain2 United minum juga biar bisa banyak cetak gol kyk Ba

Andi Istiabudi

08-01-2012, 01:25 PM

Saya perhatikan di EPL jika ada pemain yang cidera di lapangan maka dia akan ditandu tim medis. Sementara di Serie A ada beberapa tim yang dulu menyediakan semacam golf car untuk mengangkut pemain yang cidera keluar dari lapangan. EPL dari dulu cuma ditandu yach ???

theater of dream

08-01-2012, 04:11 PM

Andi Istiabudi

08-01-2012, 04:15 PM

Dulu sempat pake mobil pemadam kebaran om :)):))

Masa sih ???
Saking bercandanya theater of dream, sampai salah ketik "kebakaran" jadi "kebaran" tuh :)

zudomiriku

09-01-2012, 01:39 PM

Everton dealt Jagielka injury blow

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Everton have been rocked by the news that defender Phil Jagielka will be out for up to six weeks with a knee injury.

Jagielka was one of three Toffees players to limp off during their 2-1 defeat to Bolton on Wednesday after he appeared to jar his knee after challenging former Liverpool striker David Ngog.

The England centre-back was replaced by Jack Rodwell, but the midfielder was also substituted through injury, while Leon Osman was also an enforced change for Everton manager David Moyes.

And now Everton have confirmed that Jagielka will be "probably out for up to six weeks'' with medial ligament damage.

Injuries are starting to add up for Everton as Moyes also revealed midfielder Leon Osman, one of his better players in recent weeks, also has a problem which could sideline him.

"Leon Osman has a floating bone in his knee which we think will have to be taken out and we have a few other injuries kicking around as well - Tim Cahill, Ross Barkley (knee) and Jack Rodwell (hamstring).

"Jack's had a recurrence of his hamstring injury. It is not serious but every time we get him scanned it is a grade one and very light and he comes back and doesn't feel anything.

"We maybe just need to give him a week or so longer to make sure he is right this time.''

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bd3LW

finza_13

09-01-2012, 04:05 PM

QPR manager's job: Mark Hughes favourite to succeed Neil Warnock

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Former Wales boss Mark Hughes is the front-runner to become the new QPR manager after Neil Warnock was sacked.

With the club 17th in the Premier League, chairman Tony Fernandes said they made the decision to sack Warnock in the hope a change might preserve their top-flight status.

Hughes, 48, was in charge at Fulham before leaving in June and has not returned to the dugout since then.

Former West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola has also been linked to the vacancy.

BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis says that an appointment appears imminent.

"The departures of assistant manager Mick Jones and first-team coach Keith Curle with Neil Warnock indicate that QPR are planning to announce a successor quickly," he said.

"They have cleared the decks - no need for a caretaker.
"Mark Hughes has been lined up to replace Warnock and will be offered the chance to return to management after he resigned from Fulham last June.

"He will be given the funds in the transfer window to bolster a side that has gone eight league games without a victory.

"Last night QPR were thanking Warnock for his significant contribution over the last 22 months. The next four months will be crucial to building on his foundations."

QPR made an encouraging start to the Premier League season, having been guided back to the top flight last year by Warnock, and were ninth on 19 November.

But, without a win since then, QPR have slid down to 17th - just one point clear of the relegation zone - and needed a last-minute equaliser from Heidar Helguson to avoid an FA Cup third-round defeat by League One side MK Dons on Saturday.

Welshman Hughes also has Premier League experience with Blackburn and Manchester City.

zudomiriku

11-01-2012, 11:07 AM

Mark Hughes wants to build QPR legacy after being appointed manager

• Hughes signs two-and-a-half-year deal at Loftus Road
• Welshman has long-term vision for the club beyond his contract

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Mark Hughes is determined to build a legacy at Queens Park Rangers after replacing Neil Warnock as the club's manager. Hughes is targeting a place in the Europa League next year, if he is successful in avoiding relegation this season.

Hughes, who will be joined by Mark Bowen as assistant manager, Eddie Niedzwiecki as first-team coach and the goalkeeping coach Kevin Hitchcock, signed a two-and-a-half-year contract at Loftus Roadon Tuesday. But the Welshman has a long-term vision for the club and is prepared to take up to five years to achieve it. He will be backed financially by Tony Fernandes, QPR's majority owner, who wants to build a training ground within 12 months and plans to take the club into a 35,000- or 40,000-seater stadium in no more than four years' time.

Highly placed sources at the club confirmed that Fernandes is prepared to back the 48-year-old Hughes with sizeable funds. One said: "It is not that there is a war chest of a set amount of millions, more that if Mark Hughes can attract big names then the owner will support him substantially. Survival this season is the obvious priority and then he will target a top-half finish next year and if that means it takes QPR to near the European places then that is great."

Warnock was sacked after the club's slide to 17th place after a run of just two points from the last possible 24, and the club's welcome statement pointed to Hughes record in his previous posts of signing and handling high-profile players including Manchester City's Nigel de Jong and Vincent Kompany and Blackburn Rovers's Chris Samba.

Top of Hughes's shopping list will be Aston Villa's Darren Bent. Bobby Zamora, Samba, Alex, Niko Kranjcar and Junior Hoilett are also among his targets.

"It's a great feeling to be back in football and to be the manager of QPR," Hughes said. "I'm fully aware of the challenge in the short and long term and I am genuinely excited about the ambition of the owners. Nobody can doubt the history of this great football club and the passion of its fantastically loyal supporters. Now the immediate priority is to consolidate our place in the Premier League but beyond that the future is very bright and fills me with great enthusiasm."

Before meeting his squad at QPR's west London training ground, Hughes said: "I'm delighted, I'm a football person and this is what I do."

Fernandes said: "Mark has a proven track record in the Premier League, bringing a wealth of experience at both club and international level. He has a great passion to achieve as a manager and has already been hugely successful in his career. His ambitions match those of the board and we are delighted to have him at the helm."

Philip Beard, the QPR chief executive, said: "Having spoken at length with Mark, I know he is brimming with enthusiasm and anticipation about the challenge of taking QPR forward and I believe he is the perfect choice to deliver the success we all desire."

The club confirmed that Hughes will take full charge of training today and said in a statement: "Mark has built a reputation as one of Britain's most admired managers, with success at both club and international level. He has a proven track record in the transfer market, recruiting the likes of Kompany, De Jong, Moussa Dembélé and Samba to the Premier League.

"In his five years in charge of Wales, Hughes turned around the fortunes of the national side, before being appointed Blackburn Rovers boss in September 2004. He guided Rovers to seventh place in the 2007-08 Premier League campaign before moving to Manchester City at the start of the following season. His spell in Manchester ended in December 2009, however, when he was controversially replaced by Roberto Mancini despite City sitting pretty in sixth place in the top flight. Fulham was next, where he exceeded all expectations with an eighth-place finish and Europa League qualification through the Fair Play League."

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bd94y

zudomiriku

11-01-2012, 01:54 PM

Robbie Keane has reached the Holte End but his journey isn't finished

The peripatetic striker is back on these shores for the latest step in a curiously cherishable career, studded with highs and lows. How will he fare on loan at Aston Villa?

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Welcome back, then, Robbie Keane. The news that Keane has, as expected, signed for Aston Villa on loan from LA Galaxy until March was never likely to have Villa fans cartwheeling around the streets of Witton, proclaiming the birth of a new footballing superpower. But it has still been greeted with precious little fanfare.

No real surprises there: Keane has been a senior footballer in a state of peripatetic turnaround ever since the disaster of his six-month dream move to Liverpool in 2008, a transfer that might have brought about a coronation for a precious striking talent at the peak of his powers but which has instead wrought a kind of malevolent reverse-alchemy, transforming a much-travelled player into the kind of striker who finds himself, on the downslide of a venerable career, roped into successive short-term unveilings, injecting a little glamour here, a short-term fix of breathing space for a troubled chairman there.

Keane has almost become that most notable Premier League subspecies, the zombie star: legs still moving, eyes still open, carried forwards by the unspent momentum of his own celebrity, a machine in the process of winding down.

Almost, because there is still hope that Keane might experience a late bloom. He is a peculiar player in many respects: one of the Premier League's greatest striking talents, but carrying a sense of something unrealised, of a talent not fully expressed. Perhaps history will be kind when he finally disappears from view, because Keane looks like a peculiarly undervalued grand striking talent in an era when hyperbole is the norm.

It has certainly been a funny old career. In 15 years of being enthusiastically bought and sold Keane has amassed £73m worth of transfer fees. He has scored 207 goals in 433 starts for Wolves, Coventry, Internazionale, Leeds, Tottenham, Liverpool, Tottenham again, Celtic, West Ham and LA Galaxy. Throughout he has performed not with journeyman solidity but with a portable twinkle, an ability to produce stunning and often very subtle moments of technique and vision using limited physical gifts.

Keane is essentially a small, rather slow, rather unathletic man, blessed with great skill, a revered instinct for space and a wonderful footballing intelligence. He has made his gifts work for him brilliantly throughout a career of many incarnations, including teenage prodigy (Wolves); overseas frustration (Inter); harbinger of financial meltdown (Leeds); settled senior player (Spurs); and big-money flop (Liverpool). It is in itself a notable feat: a sustained plateau of intermittent excellence through a frantic series of relocations and reinventions.

It is hardly surprising that at just 31 Keane has a rather grizzled look, a sense that this is a young fogey trading on the edge of his seasoned powers. Since scoring twice on his debut for Wolves in 1997 he has played 660 professional matches, a productivity that deserves to be celebrated alongside his greatest asset, that relentless, head-up intelligence that has made him a genuine joy to watch.

When Marcello Lippi signed the teenage Keane for £13m from Coventry – "At that time at Inter, they had a policy of going for young players and Robbie Keane was the best one that I saw" – he recognised qualities that might have found greater expression in a career away from Europe's most physically demanding league.

As it was Keane scarcely had a chance in Italy, being cast aside by Lippi's replacement, Marco Tardelli. And so began the mid-period that has defined his career. Glenn Hoddle once spoke about Keane making White Hart Lane his "spiritual home" and his six years at Spurs will remain his most productive period, in particular the last two before his move to Liverpool. Keane's luminous striking partnership with Dimitar Berbatov will linger long in the memory.

But leaving aside for a moment his peerless record with the Republic of Ireland – the fine displays at the 2002 World Cup; 53 goals in 114 internationals, a far superior record to that of Michael Owen with England – Keane still carries, fairly or not, the sense of carpet-bagging impermanence, a search for a footballing home that never quite came to fruition.

True, he hasn't helped himself at times. "I've been a Liverpool fan all my life, going back to when I was a kid growing up in Dublin and I always had a Liverpool shirt on my back," he announced, no doubt truthfully, on moving to Anfield.

"I am a Celtic fan and did not have to ask much about it. I always wanted to play for Celtic," he said two years later, on moving to the Scottish Premier League.

Perhaps there is even a private passion waiting to be revealed for his current employers, fostered during long boyhood afternoons cheering from the Holte End.

In the end, Keane may or may not make much impression in a team that has relied for goals on the indolent poaching of Darren Bent and a degree of prowess at set pieces. But while he is there he deserves to be enjoyed for what he is, a rare bird blessed with occasionally startling gifts who has twinkled memorably almost everywhere he has been.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bd94v

Beckham gak sekalian? opa, ayo dunk bang Dapit diloan

zudomiriku

12-01-2012, 02:10 PM

Ba hits back at 'lying' agent

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Demba Ba has hit back at claims from an agent claiming he represents the Newcastle United striker and that Manchester United have demonstrated an interest in his services.

Ba, 26, has been a revelation since joining Newcastle from West Ham on a free transfer last summer, scoring 15 goals in 19 Premier League matches for Alan Pardew's side.

His form has led to rumours he could be the subject of a January swoop, amid suggestions from Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp the forward's release clause is less than £7 million.

And on Wednesday, Armand Doorn, claiming to be a member of Ba's management team headed by the player's brother, suggested the Red Devils were one of a number of clubs considering lodging a bid for the Senegal international.

However, responding to the quotes, Ba posted on his Twitter account: "Really, I don't know how desperate this "armand doorn" can be to talk like he's my agent!! He's nothing for me. Stop lying and show respect."

Ba's actual management team have also rubbished the comments made by the rogue agent, with a spokesman telling talkSPORT: "Armand Doorn is not Demba's agent. Alex Gontran is the only person who can speak on his behalf and Newcastle have not had an offer for him.

"Demba feels good at Newcastle. He has just started something there. There is a release clause in his contract but the figure will remain confidential. If a club wants to speak to Demba, then they must go to Newcastle first. We respect the process."

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdaRc

zudomiriku

13-01-2012, 10:52 AM

Roberto Mancini and Steven Gerrard row over Glen Johnson tackle

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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini was involved in an angry tunnel exchange with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard after his side's 1-0 Carling Cup semi-final first leg defeat.

Mancini felt a Glen Johnson tackle on Joleon Lescott should have been punished for being two-footed, claiming it was worse than the challenge that resulted in a red card for Vincent Kompany in Sunday's FA Cup tie with Manchester United.

But Gerrard disagreed and made his feelings known to Mancini.

While Mancini was waiting to talk to a gathering of journalists, Gerrard approached him.

The Liverpool captain, pointing a finger at the City boss then waving an imaginary card, said to Mancini: "You say to the press that Wayne Rooney tried to get Kompany sent off - and you try to get Johnson sent off."

While listening to him, Mancini said "I say what I want" and "yes, yes" but what he was agreeing with was unclear.

Gerrard then shook his head, turned around and walked away, then Mancini shouted back at him but what he actually said cannot be understood.

"Gerrard came to me and said I said something," commented the Italian, who clashed twice with the England international.

"Steven Gerrard can say what he wants. I said what I think. That is what I am used to doing. It is not important what Gerrard or the other players have said."

Mancini claimed that his anger was directed at the inconsistency of refereeing decisions more than at Liverpool defender Johnson.

"I said something [after the tackle]," he said. "It was not for Johnson. It is for the tackle. This tackle was worse than Vinny's. Everyone can see it."

When asked if he agreed with Mancini's view on Johnson's challenge on Lescott, Gerrard told BBC Sport: "I don't think so. It was a clear winner of a tackle."

"There's a real sense of injustice among the Man City fans at Etihad Stadium. There wasn't much difference between that tackle from Glen Johnson and Vincent Kompany's on Nani on Sunday"
Phil McNulty, Chief football writer

The Liverpool midfielder, whose penalty resulted in the only goal of the game, went on to claim Mancini was guilty of hypocrisy.

"He was talking about Wayne Rooney trying to get his player [Kompany] sent off and now he's trying to get one of ours into trouble," he said. "I don't think that works."

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish maintained that he had not seen the incident.

Kompany, who missed the game with Liverpool after receiving a four-match ban for his tackle on Nani, will also sit out the league games against Wigan and Tottenham as well as the return leg with Liverpool at Anfield on 25 January.

The Belgium international, who claimed his dismissal could lead to an unprecedented number of red cards in future matches, was replaced by Stefan Savic for Wednesday's game.

The 21-year-old endured a difficult evening against the Reds, giving away the penalty that led to Gerrard's winner.

However, Mancini believes the youngster will benefit from his battle with Andy Carroll, in particular.

"Savic needs to get experience," he said. "It is normal. He is young. Against a striker like Carroll, maybe he could have some difficulties. But, in the second half, it went better."

Mancini expects to know within the next 48 hours the extent of the ankle injuries that kept David Silva out of the match and forced Mario Balotelli off towards the end of the first half.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdcrH

zudomiriku

16-01-2012, 03:05 PM

Audio of Steven Gerrard and Roberto Mancini’s ‘tunnel war’

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As the incumbent Emperor of Liverpool, Steven Gerrard can do absolutely anything he wants. That includes, but is not limited to, making Charlie Adam crouch down and act as a human foot rest, giving Andy Carroll painful wedgies in the training ground canteen, and interrupting journalists when they are in the middle of interviews with rival managers.

Following Liverpool's 1-0 Carling Cup victory at Eastlands yesterday, the Scouse overlord was involved in a tunnel spat with Roberto Mancini. In a post-match interview, the Man City boss took exception to Glen Johnson's two-footed injury time lunge when a passing Stevie G waded in to point out the hypocrisy in light of Vincent Kompany's recent adventures. The indignant manager then roared something completely unintelligible, no doubt leaving Gerrard confused and frightened. Either he's really angry, or he's emphatically showing the goalscoring midfielder what the teacher in Charlie Brown cartoons would sound like in Italian.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdfcr

zudomiriku

17-01-2012, 01:59 PM

Samba requests transfer

Rovers defender looking to leave Ewood Park

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Want-away defender Chris Samba has responded to Steve Kean's claims that he is not for sale by handing in a transfer request at Blackburn.

Rovers boss Kean told reporters on Monday that he considered the centre-half to be part of his long-term plans, with there no intention on the club's part to sanction a sale.

He was speaking in the wake of comments made by Samba in which he suggested that it might be time for him to move on after five years at Ewood Park.

Blackburn were hoping he could be talked around, with the 27-year-old having announced before that he intended to leave only to then pen fresh terms.

Samba is standing by his original comments on this occasion, though, and has informed Rovers of his desire to secure a switch elsewhere.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdjDs

zudomiriku

17-01-2012, 02:31 PM

Everton On Verge Of Intriguing Cost Effective Striker Signing

USA international on trial at Goodison Park.

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Everton have boosted the American contingent at Goodison Park by taking USA international striker Edson Buddle on trial.

Buddle is the third from his country to be on the books at the Toffees, joining Tim Howard and Landon Donovan, who is currently on loan from LA Galaxy.

The other connection the trio share is that they all share the same agent.

“For those asking, my client Edson Buddle will be on trial this week at Everton FC,” confirmed Richard Motzkin, managing executive of Wasserman Media Group Global Football Group.

Buddle has been playing his football for FC Ingolstadt in the 2. Bundesliga, but their winter break means he can commit to Everton for the trial.

The striker has 6 goals in 19 league appearances this season, as well as 2 in 7 international caps.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdjDg

zudomiriku

18-01-2012, 01:52 PM

Hatem Ben Arfa to be sued by French rapper over religious cult claims

• Newcastle winger made claims in newspaper interview
• Abd al Malik and his manager both plan to take legal action

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Hatem Ben Arfa is to be sued for libel after claiming he was press-ganged into joining a sect by the French rapper Abd al Malik.

"A complaint will be filed," the artist's lawyer, Isabelle Weckstein, said, adding that Al Malik's manager, Fabien Coste, was also suing the Newcastle United winger.

Ben Arfa claimed in an interview with L'Equipe that while he was a teenager at Lyon he was sucked into Sufism – a branch of Islam – "like in a sect" and he was "indoctrinated" and "virtually cut off from the rest of the world".

He said only his "ego" ended up "saving" him after he refused to kiss the feet of the ruling sheikh: "I could not accept doing that. I didn't like what I was experiencing with them. Thankfully I managed to get out."

Ben Arfa also told the newspaper that one of the reasons he clashed with coaches in the past was because his father never told him he loved him. The 24-year-old promised he is now a changed man and is attempting to become a model professional at Newcastle.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdkYG

zudomiriku

19-01-2012, 02:06 PM

Joey Barton Takes The Moral High Ground Against Paris Hilton

Joey Barton is disgusted. Outraged. Morally offended. Because he’s inadvertently in Paris Hilton’s profile picture. Yes, that Paris Hilton.

The reason he’s there? He was a minor feature on her cover of FHM. Which she’s using as her twitter profile picture.

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While we’re not especially big fans of Ms. Hilton, we can safely say that unlike Joey, she’s never beaten someone so badly that their retina detached and they had to go to the hospital. That we know of. Actually, she probably has other people to do that for her. Allegedly. But he’s still kind of a hypocrite.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdmFp

zudomiriku

26-01-2012, 03:15 PM

January Transfer Window: 13 Bold Predictions for Deadline Day

The curtain is starting to come down on the January transfer window, which has seen only minimal movement thus far despite there being just over a week's trading left.

Gary Cahill's move from Bolton Wanderers is probably the biggest deal that has occurred so far, but that was hardly a shock with the Englishman's contract nearing its end at the Lancashire club and Chelsea in need of cover at center back.

I'm not surprised at the lack of buying and selling at this stage as a lot of deals happen quite late in the January window.

Perhaps it's desperation that causes it to be that way, but just before the clock stops you should be expecting a whirlwind of movement.

That said, here are some bold predictions for Tuesday 31st January.

Depending on your point of view of course, some may be bolder than others.

Chris Samba Leaves Blackburn
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Blackburn Rovers Chris Samba thinks he's ready to move on from Blackburn Rovers and has handed a transfer request in to manager Steve Kean.

Arsenal are the favourites to land the big Congolese defender and there's a fair chance that we could be hearing a lot about him on deadline day if a bidding war starts.

Steve Kean Gets Sacked
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Blackburn manager Steve Kean is 5/1 to be the next to lose his job in the Barclays Premier League, but his result against Manchester United may have given him an extended stay—for now.

It seems that Blackburn's owners are quite happy with the job he's doing, but I predict that by deadline day he could be heading down to his local job centre.

Fernando Torres Still Doesn't Score
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Chelsea have two more matches before the January transfer window closes.

This Saturday's FA Cup tie see's QPR take on the Stamford Bridge outfit, followed by a Premier League game against Swansea on deadline day itself.

I'm predicting Chelsea go into deadline day with Fernando Torres still not having scored for his club this year.

Arsenal Will Sign Somebody
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English bookmakers WilliamHill.com are offering odds that Arsene Wenger will stick to his word and not sign anybody in the January transfer window.

Wenger made the statement before Christopher Samba handed in his transfer request which might mean Wenger changes his mind.

Arsenal have defensive injury problems which could see the Frenchman's hand forced.

Carlos Tevez Will Stay at Manchester City Until the Summer
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Carlos Tevez doesn't want to play for Manchester City anymore, and his club want to sell him.

Seems like everybody would be better off all around if the Argentinian leaves the Etihad Stadium as soon as possible.

With AC Milan, Inter Milan and now possibly Paris St. Germain all seemingly unable to strike a deal for the player for one reason or another, could it be possible that Tevez will still be at Manchester on February 1st?

Didier Drogba Will Also Stay at Chelsea
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There's been a lot of speculation linking Cote d'Ivoire and Chelsea forward Didier Drogba with a move away from Stamford Bridge, possibly to join Nicholas Anelka at Shanghai Shenhua.

With Drogba currently on International duty at the African Cup of Nations, the chances are he will see out the rest of this season before departing in the Summer.

Kenny Dalglish Will Make a Purchase
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Kenny Dalglish declared last week that he was expecting a quiet window.

While that statement doesn't mean he won't be signing anybody, it suggests it's more unlikely than likely.

That said, I think Liverpool will have a new face or two come February 1st and one of them will be a striker.

Frank Lampard Stays at Chelsea
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Another big name at Chelsea linked with a move away was Frank Lampard.

Lampard has been disposable in Andre Villas-Boas' new-look Chelsea side, and speculation was that he may move in order to prolong his playing career.

My predicition is that he will still be a blue long after deadline day.

Manchester City Will Open Their Cheque Books
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Manchester City are still spearheading the race for the Barclays Premier League title and they have excellent strength in depth.

Despite manager Roberto Mancini having an excellent squad to choose from, I wouldn't be surprised to see the cash rich Manchester club add a new face or two in the next week.

That may all balance on the sale of Carlos Tevez however.

The Totaliser
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Sky Sports have a totalizer which adds together all the purchase prices of each January transfer to measure how much the clubs have spent collectively in the window.

At the time of writing this article, that figure stands at £18.4 million.

My prediction is that deadline day will see that figure rise, but stay under £120 million.

Last years' total was £225 million thanks largely to the deals involving Fernando Torres, Andy Carroll, Luis Suarez and Darren Bent.

Modric Will Wear Red
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With Manchester United Manager Alex Ferguson coaxing Paul Scholes out of retirement, it's clear the Old Trafford club have yet to secure his long-term replacement thus far.

Crocked Tom Cleverley may be the man one day, but his injuries have cost him a chance so far this season.

Modric may find himself subject to a big bid by Manchester United on deadline day in an effort to secure their midfield future.

Tottenham may find they can't refuse a big offer if Manchester United make one.

QPR Will Be Busy
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After the sacking of manager Neil Warnock a few weeks ago, QPR will be the busiest team in the transfer market this January,

The Loftus Road club have struggled in the league of late and new manager Mark Hughes is reported to have £30million to spend.

I predict he will spend a fair chunk of that cash in the next week.

Andrei Arshavin Will Leave England
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After being panned by supporters following his lacklustre substitute appearance against Manchester United at the weekend, Andrei Arshavin may find himself shipped off to pastures new next week.

The Russian exploded onto the scene when he scored four goals in one game against Liverpool in the 2009/10 season and was grabbing goals and assists consistently throughout the campaign.

He now cuts a forlorn figure at the club and with the emergence of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain he may no longer be required.

After Thoughts
So there are 13 bold predictions for the deadline day of January 31st 2012.

As always, no one knows what's going to happen and the speculation will increase by the day right up until the final hours.

There will likely be some shocks and surprises on the way, but one thing for sure is that there are some ambitious clubs out there this season, and everybody wants their own measure of success and are willing to buy it if they can.

Let me know your thoughts on what you think will happen come deadline day by leaving your comments below.

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zudomiriku

30-01-2012, 12:35 PM

Dempsey: I want to play in UCL

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Fulham star Clint Dempsey has put the Premier League's top clubs on alert by revealing that he will not be happy in his career until he has played in the Champions League.

Dempsey, 28, is the Cottagers' top scorer this season with nine in 22 games and has been attracting the attention of clubs like Liverpool and Tottenham. Indeed, with Fulham currently sitting in 12th place, it is possible that the American will choose to move on before his contract expires in 18 months, in order to fulfil his dream of playing in Europe's premier competition.

"You should never get content," he told The Times. "I want to play in the Champions League. Nobody thought I would get this far. I want to go as far as I can."

Dempsey reached the Europa League final with Fulham in 2010 after joining from New England Revolution in 2007 for around £2 million. Most recently, he has been linked with a move to QPR, but his excellent recent form has seen others take note.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdC2M

zudomiriku

01-02-2012, 01:12 PM

Aksi Borgol Diri Suporter Sempat Tunda Laga Everton vs City
Okdwitya Karina Sari - detikSport

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Liverpool - Laga Everton melawan Manchester City yang berlangsung di Goodison Park dinihari tadi sempat tertunda menyusul aksi seorang suporter yang melakukan borgol diri di salah satu tiang gawang.

Diwartakan BBC, insiden itu terjadi menjelang turun minum. Seorang pria muncul dari kerumuman dan memborgol tangannya di salah satu tiang dari gawang yang dijaga kiper City, Joe Hart.

Aksi tersebut memaksa pertandingan terhenti sekitar lima menit. Polisi kemudian melepaskan borgol itu dari tangan si suporter sebelum dikawal ke luar lapangan.

Atas ulahnya itu, pria berusia 46 tahun dari Southport itu kini ditahan oleh pihak yang berwajib. Diduga aksi itu dilakukannya sebagai bentuk protes dengan kebijakan perekrutan di sebuah maskapai.

"Dia ditahan oleh Polisi Merseyside, yang kini menghadapi masalah," bunyi statemen resmi Everton.

"Ini diketahui bahwa suporter adalah seorang pemrotes profesional, diduga memprotes tentang kebijakan perekrutan di sebuah mskapai."

"Tang digunakan untuk melepaskan si pelanggar, yang dicemooh ketika dia digelandang keluar dari lapangan."

Sementara pertandingan itu sendiri berhasil di menangi oleh tim tuan rumah lewat gol tunggal Darron Gibson. Everton kini naik peringkat ke sembilan, sedangkan City tetap di pucuk klasemen.

theater of dream

01-02-2012, 01:25 PM

Transfer udah lewat deadline yah...
ada yang update :beer:

zudomiriku

02-02-2012, 02:14 PM

Aksi Borgol Diri Suporter Sempat Tunda Laga Everton vs City

Everton pitch invader handcuffs himself to goalpost in protest against discount airline

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Goodison Park pitch invader brought his own cuffs. (Reuters)

A pitch invader managed to handcuff himself to Joe Hart's goalpost during Everton's Premier League match against Manchester City at Goodison Park. The match was halted for about five minutes as police had to bring out a set of bolt cutters to pry the agitated man off the pitch.

His reasoning for the protest didn't seem to have anything to do with the game or the clubs involved, though. He wore an anti-Ryanair shirt in reference to the Dublin-based discount airline and he seems to do quite a bit of protesting against them and their allegedly nefarious recruitment practices.

So it seems he chose the match only for its media spotlight and not because he wanted to force Man City to bury Carlos Tevez up to his chin in sand or make Marouane Fellaini cut his hair.

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And off to jail he goes. (AP)

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VaDLi

07-02-2012, 06:11 AM

ada-ada aja nih kucing masuk di pertandingan liverpool vs spurs di anfield

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zudomiriku

09-02-2012, 12:07 PM

Football clubs discover secret to increased popularity: Cats

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Football is the world's game, but like any sport, it's appeal is not fully universal. The Internet, meanwhile, has proven that two things are more popular than all else: pornography and cats. And since mixing pornography with football would run against numerous public indecency laws in various parts of the world, that means football executives have no choice but to add cats to the game in order to push it to the next level.

With that said, it should be abundantly clear that two of the planet's most popular clubs each having a feline pitch invader within three days of one another is no coincidence. On Saturday, a black cat scampered up the pitch during Barcelona's 2-1 win over Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou. On Monday, Liverpool had a generously whiskered puss stroll around the pitch during their 0-0 draw against Spurs at Anfield. It instantly became the most talked about element of the match and within hours, the Anfield cat had several different Twitter accounts with tens of thousands of followers. The response was immediate and clear -- people ache for this merger between soccer and cats.

Now that the groundwork is in place, the evolution of this beloved combination can flourish. And the definitive path of this fruitful union will develop like so:

"Kitty Invaders" are released in pairs whenever a match goes 10 minutes without a shot on goal. They run until they are caught or until everyone in the stadium takes a picture of them with their phone.

All managers are replaced by elderly house cats. There is controversy when England's national team is coached by a Brazilian shorthair.

Actual football is only played during halftime of matches, sandwiched between two 45-minute periods of sleepy kittens yawning and stretching on the pitch. Extra time is abolished for fear of a cuteness overload.

Football journalists and reporters no longer conduct interviews and convey opinions on the game. Instead, they add several words of intentionally misspelled imaginary quotations to the funniest pictures of the day's most prominent soccer cats. On television, they say those quotations in a variety of goofy voices without smiling.

Footballers' wages rapidly decline as their duties are reduced to emptying litter boxes and refilling water bowls. Yet, the job's level of fame and prestige only grows as they are the people closest to the cats during matches.

Humanity willingly and gleefully surrenders absolute power to the soccer cats. When the planet slides into irreversible disrepair, the remaining humans evacuate the cats to another, more habitable planet in the hopes that they bring football to a race of intelligent beings unfamiliar with the joys of cats.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bdRVf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=world-football

waktu itu penonton memborgol dirinya ditiang gawang pas Everton vs City, eh skrg malah ada kuc1ng masuk ke lapangan

zudomiriku

15-02-2012, 12:01 PM

LA Galaxy's Donovan open to permanent Everton move

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LA Galaxy captain Landon Donovan is open to a permanent move to Everton.

The American ace admits he would love to join the club on a permanent transfer but insists he would not leave the Galaxy until his deal with them was over.

"It would be hard to go to any other club now so if anything were to happen I would imagine it would be here at Everton," Donovan told Reuters.

"I know for sure this year I'm going back to LA but we'll see.

"My commitment is for two more years to the Galaxy and we'll see what happens after this year but I would obviously welcome the opportunity to come back."

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zudomiriku

17-02-2012, 01:04 PM

Artificial pitches a step closer to a return in English football

English football is a step closer to reintroducing artificial pitches after the Football League announced plans to seek opinion on their possible return.

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The public consultation will run until the end of April 2012 and canvas the views of clubs, fans and officials.

The Football League's chief operating officer, Andy Williamson, said there was a "clear appetite" to reconsider the use of artificial surfaces.

BBC Sport broke the news last year that artificial pitches could return.

Support is strongest in League One and League Two, where clubs are attracted by the potential financial benefits to be gained from the installation of an artificial surface.

Williamson added: "It is fair to say the Football League currently has an open mind on the issue.

"However, it is a decision that will clearly have implications for all those with an interest in professional football. It is important that everybody gets the opportunity to have their say."

The League has released a 32-page consultation document and fans can take part in a survey on its website.

It is also set to seek the opinion of bodies such as the Football Association, the Premier League, The Professional Footballers' Association and the League Managers Association.

The FA has yet to comment on the news but Premier League rule I.29 states "no league match shall be played on an artificial surface".

Accrington Stanley chief executive Rob Heys has been a long-term advocate of a return to artificial turf and told BBC Sport the public consultation was "a good step".

"I am very pleased," said Heys. "The Football League might be one of the oldest leagues in the world but it is very forward thinking.

"It is another big step that it is being considered. The Football League has put a lot of time into the document and will also do so in gathering the results.

"There is a lot of positive feeling, not so much that everyone wants one [an artificial pitch] but there has been a definite drop in opposition to them."

The Football League clubs agreed to the public consultation at a quarterly meeting of all 72 League members, which took place at Derby's Pride Park on Thursday.

The aim is to gather as much information as possible before the League's summer conference, which is scheduled to take place between 29 May and 1 June.

Artificial surfaces were banned by the Football Association in 1988 and the last remaining one in the top four divisions - at Preston North End's Deepdale - was ripped up in 1994.

However, it is understood that advances in technology, combined with the possible financial and community benefits, has led to a rethink on the subject.

The Football League gave a presentation on the possibility of a return to artificial surfaces at a meeting in November, and there was a subsequent discussion among the clubs at divisional level.

Speaking shortly after that meeting Wycombe vice-chairman Brian Kane told BBC Sport: "I thought a move towards a return to artificial surfaces would never happen but I sense that has changed now."

And Stanley's Heys is in no doubt about the benefits lower down the Football League.

"There is an income to be gained from hiring the pitch out and money to be saved in maintenance costs and the fact that you can train on it," he explained.

"The community benefit is that you can get people down to the ground seven days a week rather than just 23 times [a season]."

However, there is less support from Championship clubs, who would need to replace an artificial surface if they won promotion to the Premier League.

Former Burnley chief executive Paul Fletcher, an ex-professional with vast experience in stadium development, is firmly against the idea.

"I hope they do not appear anytime soon," he said towards the end of last year.

Since 2004, world football governing body Fifa and Uefa, which runs European football, has sanctioned the use of artificial surfaces in their competitions.

There are currently artificial pitches in use in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium and a number of other European countries.

Rugby League side Widnes Vikings also play on an artificial pitch, although the surface was criticised after their recent Super League match against Wakefield.

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22-02-2012, 02:32 PM

Keane considers coming back in summer

Robbie Keane will return to the Premier League in the summer – if he cannot get over his homesickness in the States.

Keane has alerted Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish to the prospect of a permanent switch to Villa Park as he plans to return to MLS champions LA Galaxy.

But Villa have been blocked from any chance of making the deal for the 31-year-old striker permanent before the end of the season.

And, while Keane is determined to honour his responsibilities with Galaxy, he will not remain with the club if he feels he has made a mistake and walked away from the Premier League too soon.

He said: “I enjoyed my spell at Villa. It’s a great club, but it was my choice to go to the States. I could have stayed in the Premier League for a few more years but I didn’t.

“When I go back to LA it could be completely different, but people have seen over the years with the clubs I’ve been at how quickly I leave if I don’t fit in.”

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22-02-2012, 05:09 PM

Exclusive - Sharp: It is only a matter of time until Moyes is lured from Everton

Graeme Sharp has told talkSPORT it is only a matter of time until Everton boss David Moyes is lured to a bigger club.

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The former Preston boss has been in charge at Goodison Park since 2002, and has consistently defied the odds to lead the Toffees to respectable finishes in the Premier League on a shoestring budget.

But with Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp the favourite to become the next manager of the England team, Spurs are reportedly eyeing a move for the 48-year-old Scot.

And former Everton playmaker Sharp admits that speculation surrounding Moyes’ future is something the Merseyside club will have to become used to, due to Moyes’ successful management style.

“David has been at Everton ten years now and while some people may look at him and think he hasn’t won anything, what he has achieved has been fantastic,” Sharp told The Weekend Sports Breakfast.

“You look at the finishes he has had in the Premier League and he has given us an FA Cup final. He has been punching above his weight.

“Obviously there is the Harry Redknapp situation at Tottenham. David has been mentioned there and that is always a worry.

“Everton can’t compete with the big boys financially nowadays so there may be a possibility that he could be lured to a top-six club but it is something we just have to get on with.

“We just want to enjoy what he is doing at Everton at the moment but we can’t put away the fact that the big boys will come sniffing eventually.”

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zudomiriku

23-02-2012, 01:04 PM

Former Norwich City footballer Leon McKenzie jailed

Former Peterborough and Norwich City striker Leon McKenzie has been jailed for sending bogus letters to police in a bid to avoid a driving ban.

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McKenzie, 33, of Northampton, was sentenced to six months in prison and disqualified from driving for 18 months at Northampton Crown Court.

He had previously admitted sending the letters to Northamptonshire Police to try to avoid speeding convictions.

Judge Richard Bray said the offence struck at the heart of justice.

'Truly sorry'

"It would send out completely the wrong message if I did not hand out a custodial sentence," he said.

McKenzie, who retired from professional football in December, had also played for Crystal Palace.

He said in a statement posted on Twitter that the incident took place when he was "not in a good place and couldn't always make sense of what was going on".

He said: "My behaviour towards certain things like these speeding offences was totally unacceptable.

"My mindset at the time was confused and not like it is now.

"These offences happened two years ago... I broke the law six times in that two-year period which I am now very aware of.

"I am truly sorry for these offences that I committed. I was not representing the real me back then and realise how stupid I have been."

McKenzie, who said he was suffering from depression at the time, urged others to learn from his mistakes.

"I ask anyone with depression to speak out to someone before you start making any mistakes like I did," he said.

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28-02-2012, 02:34 PM

Terry Connor named Wolves manager until end of season

Wolves have promoted assistant boss Terry Connor to manager until the end of the season.

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The club sacked Mick McCarthy on 13 February in the wake of the previous day's 5-1 home defeat by Black Country rivals West Brom.

Wolves turned to Connor, 49, after Walter Smith, Alan Curbishley and Brian McDermott ruled themselves out.

"This is a decisive step which creates certainty. The players are fully behind it," Wolves owner Steve Morgan said.

"Since we made the difficult decision to part company with Mick, we have been through a diligent process of assessing potential candidates.

"Having spoken to a number of people we have drawn that process to a close and myself and the board are unanimous that Terry is the right man to lead the club for the remainder of the season.

"As a club, whether that be staff or supporters, we now all need to unite behind Terry and the players and secure as many points as possible over the next 13 games."

Connor has been at Wolves for 13 years and has served under four different managers, but this is the first time he has been in charge.

Chief executive Jez Moxey had initially targeted a more experienced candidate, describing the vacancy as "not a job for a novice", but failed to convince a series of managers that the role was for them.

Wolves travel to Newcastle on Saturday in 18th position after taking 14 points from their last 22 Premier League games.

But they are only separated from the two teams above them - QPR and Blackburn - by goal difference.

Former Wolves defender and England international Joleon Lescott has backed Connor to unite the players ahead of their trip to Tyneside.

Use accessible player and disable flyout menus"TC is one of the most influential coaches I have worked with in my career - and that includes everyone I have worked with. I owe him a lot," he said.

"He's a proper football man, and probably one of the most knowledgeable about the game.

"He had a lot of respect from the players at the time when I was there and I am sure that will be the same from the lads who are at Wolves now."

Although Steve Bruce, sacked by Sunderland on 30 November, was also interviewed, it appeared that Curbishley was the main focus of Wolves' initial attempts to fill the role.

It is understood that the former Charlton and West Ham manager pulled out of the running because he did not share Morgan's vision and stuck by his decision despite a renewed approach by the club.

Terry Connor factfile
•Scored on his Leeds debut as a 17-year-old
•Made over 100 appearances for Leeds, scoring 22 goals
•Moved to Brighton in 1983 for £500,000 but was cup tied for the FA Cup final
•Won one England Under-21 cap in November 1986, when he played and scored against Yugoslavia
•As a coach helped Bristol City to promotion in 1998
•He was promoted to assistant manager at Wolves in 2008

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29-02-2012, 01:40 PM

Villa's Darren Bent ruled out for three months with ankle injury

Aston Villa striker Darren Bent is not expected to play again this season after being ruled out for up to three months with ruptured ankle ligaments.

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It is a huge blow to the 28-year-old's hopes of playing for England at Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.

Bent is unlikely to be available until the end of May, ahead of England's first game against France on 11 June.

"I'm gutted to be out for so long at such a crucial stage of the season," said Bent on Twitter.

"Hopefully my recovery will be as quick as possible."

The former Spurs and Sunderland forward left the pitch on a stretcher after suffering the injury in Aston Villa's goalless draw at Wigan on Saturday .

"Darren Bent has undergone scans and he has seen a top ankle specialist in London," said Villa, in a club statement.

"He faces up to 12 weeks on the sidelines having ruptured ankle ligaments in his left foot and he is unlikely to play again this season.

"Dr Ian McGuinness and the Villa medical staff have been liaising with the England medical team about the extent of his injury.

"Darren will undergo a further examination in seven days to determine the need for an operation."

Bent - who missed out on both the 2006 and 2010 World Cup squads - is now set to miss another major international tournament.

With Wayne Rooney suspended for the opening two games of the European Championship, the next England manager is looking short of striking options.

Caretaker manager Stuart Pearce has three relatively inexperienced forwards in his squad for Wednesday night's friendly with the Netherlands.

Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, who has three caps, is joined by Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge (one) and the uncapped Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell, who has only just returned after 18 months out with a knee ligament injury.

Bent landed awkwardly after a challenge from Antolin Alcaraz during the second half at the DW Stadium, which the Latics share with rugby league giants Wigan Warriors, and left the ground wearing a protective boot.

"He was in agony in the dressing room," said Villa manager Alex McLeish.

"The pitch was very heavy because of the rugby. It sapped the energy from a lot of players and Darren has been unlucky to go into one of the pieces of turf that has been dug up.

"Normally it is your ligaments that are affected in a situation like that. He has been grimacing and has been a little bit nauseous in the dressing room."

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zudomiriku

01-03-2012, 11:52 AM

Aston Villa announce record losses of £54m under Randy Lerner

• Villa losses worsened 42% in 2010-11
• Club sold Stewart Downing and Ashley Young for £37m

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Aston Villa lost £54m in the year from 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011, the club has announced. That is a record loss since the American credit card magnate Randy Lerner bought Villa in 2006, and the club's losses have deepened every year since. In the previous year, 2009-10, Lerner's UK-based holding company which owns Villa, Reform Acquisitions, lost £38m, so losses worsened 42% in 2010-11.

Lerner himself continues to fund the club, via an ultimate holding company also called Reform Acquisitions, registered in the US, and Villa said Lerner has invested a further £25m into the club. Companies House documents show the total Lerner has invested in return for shares is now £133m; he has also put money in as loans, but Villa did not release full figures, only the headlines of their financial results, so the total Lerner has invested is not yet known.

Despite that investment, Villa sit 15th in the Premier League table and with attendances at 42,582-capacity Villa Park generally in the low 30,000s for matches against all but the biggest clubs. They announced they spent £12m in "exceptional charges" in 2010-11 relating to changing the club's "management personnel". That apparently refers to Martin O'Neill, who left in August 2010 and subsequently achieved a financial settlement at a tribunal, and also compensation paid to the departing Gérard Houllier and to Birmingham City for Houllier's replacement, Alex McLeish, although that change happened in June 2011 after the date of these latest accounts.

Villa pointed to a slight increase in the club's annual income to a record £92m as a pleasing development: "This was achieved despite a backdrop of instability as the 2010-11 season constituted one of the most turbulent in the club's recent history," the club said.

In the summer of 2011, Villa sold Stewart Downing to Liverpool for £20m and Ashley Young to Manchester United for £17m, a total of £37m, with Charles N'Zogbia, for £9.5m and Shay Given, for £3.5m, £13m altogether, the major arrivals.

The scale of losses and of subsidy paid in by Lerner, at a time when clubs are seeking to move towards breaking even to comply with Uefa's "financial fair play" rules, partly explains why Villa decided they could not refuse the offers for Downing and Young. Since then, the club have tried to bring down the wage bill, although the figures for spending on wages were not released.

Robin Russell, Villa's chief financial officer, said: "The board is confident that the actions taken since the end of the 2010-11 financial year have galvanised the longer-term sustainability of the club and have given us a better financial platform on which to build for future success."

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zudomiriku

06-03-2012, 01:20 PM

David Moyes advocates 20% pay cut to make game more affordable

Everton boss David Moyes has called for "everyone" in the Premier League to take a 20% pay cut and make football more affordable for supporters.

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Moyes, who celebrates 10 years in charge at Goodison Park this month, joined the Toffees on 15 March 2002.

He told the Sunday Express: "Perhaps the suggestion would cause some mayhem.

"People might say it'd be harder to attract players but we have to take responsibility for the long-term health of football."

The 48-year-old added: "Everyone in the Premier League should take a 20% pay cut to put football finances back on an even keel and allow a significant reduction in ticket prices to make football more affordable for the ordinary fan.

"We should be filling all the grounds all the time.

"Clubs have to control their money properly and only pay what they can actually afford. People have to be held responsible when things go wrong.

"Every family in the country at the moment has to finance correctly. They can't overspend. Why is football different?

"Football's been around for 150 years and it has come a long way, but we have to make sure we don't take it away from its roots. We must not get too far away from people."

Moyes has been named manager of the year three times in his Everton tenure - in 2003, 2005 and 2009 by the League Managers' Association.

And, according to the LMA, he is doing well - the average length of service for a manager in the Premier League is 3.87 seasons.

However, this is better than any of the other divisions in English football - in League One, a manager lasts an average of 1.47 seasons.

“Dennis Bergkamp and Gianfranco Zola - that was a golden era in the Premier League”
David Moyes

Moyes, whose team are 11th in the league, also said he is also worried about the growing power of players' agents in the game.

"That's a change for the worse," he said.

"It was a better situation 10 years ago. Back then, I looked at the way agents abroad had control of the players, and in some cases the clubs, and thought that couldn't happen in Britain.

"You thought the chairmen wouldn't be daft enough for agents to be doing the deals or telling them what deals they should be doing.

"That seems to be happening now in some cases, and it seems the players are more easily controlled by agents instead of doing what's right for their own game."

The Glaswegian also said that some of the players who have performed in the Premier League in his 10 years at the top were better than those of today.

"There's no doubt the game has speeded up but I'm not sure that has made for better football.

"Some of the players in the Premier League 10 years ago were at a superior level than those of today in terms of technique and ability.

"I'm thinking of Dennis Bergkamp and Gianfranco Zola , for example. That was a golden era in the Premier League."

Moyes also added that it may be time to have a Premier League One and Two with Scottish clubs such as Celtic and Rangers invited to join.

THE TEN YEARS CLUB
Managers with 10 years-plus post-war service at one club include:

•Sir Alex Ferguson (Man Utd) 1986-present
•Arsene Wenger (Arsenal) 1996-present
•Dario Gradi (Crewe) 1983-2007/2009-2011
•Brian Clough (Nottingham Forest) 1975-1993
•Bobby Robson (Ipswich Town) 1969-1982
•Tony Waddington (Stoke City) 1960-1977
•Bertie Mee (Arsenal) 1966-1976
•Bill Shankly (Liverpool) 1959-1974
•Bill Nicholson (Tottenham) 1958-1974
•Sir Matt Busby (Man Utd) 1945-1969/1970-71
•Les McDowall (Man City) 1950-1963

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06-03-2012, 02:11 PM

Sunderland hit by Lee Cattermole and Stéphane Sessègnon suspensions

• Cattermole banned for four matches, Sessègnon for three
• Both players were sent off in fiery Tyne-Wear derby

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Lee Cattermole has been handed a four-match ban in the wake of Sunday's ill-tempered Tyne-Wear derby at St James' Park.

The Sunderland captain was booked for the 10th time this season after clattering into Newcastle's Cheik Tioté after only 40 seconds, incurring a two-match suspension in the process, and his red card for foul and abusive language towards the referee after the final whistle of the 1-1 draw earned him another two.

Stéphane Sessègnon's 58th-minute dismissal for violent conduct after he elbowed Tioté will cost the forward three games on the sidelines.

Both players will miss the FA Cup quarter-final trip to Everton and the Premier League games against Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers either side of it, while Cattermole will also sit out the home match with Queens Park Rangers on 24 March.

The referee Mike Dean endured a trying afternoon on Tyneside, issuing eight yellow cards and two red and also sending Newcastle's goalkeeping coach, Andy Woodman, to the stands at half-time.

He also awarded two penalties, the first of which was converted by Sunderland's Nicklas Bendtner, but was cancelled out in injury time by the Newcastle substitute Shola Ameobi after Simon Mignolet had saved Demba Ba's spot-kick.

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zudomiriku

08-03-2012, 02:45 PM

Former Bolton and Spurs player Gudni Bergsson stabbed

Former Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham player Gudni Bergsson is recovering after being stabbed in the leg, media in Iceland are reporting.

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Bergsson, who became a lawyer in his native country after ending his football career, was allegedly attacked as he rushed to a colleague's aid.

The former Premier League player, who featured for Bolton more than 300 times, was reportedly stabbed twice in the thigh.

He was later released from hospital.

However, his colleague is said to be in a critical condition following the alleged incident at the Reykjavik offices of law firm Legal Support.

Bergsson captained Bolton Wanderers, where he was a regular between 1995 and 2003 following a £65,000 move from Tottenham. The versatile defender had played more than 70 times in seven seasons at White Hart Lane.

Icelandic media said the alleged assailant was a man in his 30s.

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09-03-2012, 10:22 AM

Wolves’ Roger Johnson showed up to training drunk the day after a 5-0 loss

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It's been a difficult season for Wolves. Currently sitting in the relegation zone and now with a caretaker manager after Mick McCarthy got the sack, traveling to Fulham just to lose by a Leo Messi of goals would be enough to drive some to drink. Which is exactly what Wolves' summer signing Roger Johnson did. And then he went to training.

From the Telegraph:

Less than 24 hours after his club's 5-0 humiliation at Fulham, Johnson, 28, was ordered to train with the development squad after interim manager Terry Connor became aware the player was under the influence of alcohol.

Johnson has been fined two weeks' wages and it is doubtful whether he will be involved against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. His Wolves future must also be in doubt.

Johnson, who was named captain before the start of the season and joined Wolves in a £4 million transfer after suffering relegation with Birmingham last season, has since apologized for this. If Wolves lose by five goals to Blackburn this weekend, Johnson probably won't be the only one showing up to the next training session drunk, though.

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zudomiriku

09-03-2012, 12:14 PM

Stoke City: The Saviours of English Football

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As a Premier League snob, I miss the old days when Forest, Leeds, Southampton, Coventry, Derby—and I could go on—were in the Premier League. Despite my Utopian image of the Prem, there is one team that have cemented their place in this league for me. That team is Stoke City.

Stoke have fast become my "second team," and I try and watch as many of their games on television, or the Internet, as possible.

A lot of people would say that Stoke’s style of play is boring and ancient, but I think otherwise. The way Stoke play is the way I have always pictured English football to be: strong, aggressive and neat. And Stoke also have a flair going forward, which makes them a very entertaining side to watch.

When most people talk about beautiful football, they mention Arsenal doing 149 passes around the centre circle before Theo Walcott runs blindly down the wing and loses possession. But I would much rather see a perfectly timed crunching challenge, or a perfectly weighted through ball with a clinical finish, both of which Stoke show regularly.

The way football is going, I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years any sliding tackle, whether it’s clean or not, will be considered a foul. The thought of this depresses me, and could put me off the game entirely. I like to see good defence as much as good attacking play, but if players are falling to the ground after a tap or trying to get players sent off like in the Spanish and Italian leagues, then I can see the Premier League losing what it has always been about.

That’s why I like Stoke.

Pulis is a great manager, and when Stoke hold so called “superior teams” to draws, or steal three points, the opposing manager slates his tactics deeming them "too aggressive" or "negative."

That’s ridiculous.

Stoke are obviously not the most gifted skill-wise, so Pulis does what he can so his team can get results, which is what a manager’s job is supposed to be. Also, the signings they have made have always impressed me (except maybe Peter Crouch), and looking at their squad it looks strong in every area of the pitch.

I just wish other teams would take a leaf out of Stoke’s book and play the game as I believe it should be played in this country. It’s not as if Stoke haven’t had success since rejoining the top flight. They have reached an FA Cup final and have had a mini European adventure.

I think if Stoke had big money like the clubs in the top four and could bring in world class talent, and if Pulis and his players carried on in the way they have been, they would be a big force in Europe.

For now, though, Stoke are showing the country how the game should be played, and I hope they continue to do so before this game gets too soft.

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13-03-2012, 01:44 PM

Over the Line

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It can't be long now. Goal-line technology is coming.

On Saturday afternoon, Queens Park Rangers defender Clint Hill had a perfectly good goal ruled out because of a missed call by a linesman. QPR inevitably lost the match by that one-goal margin, and before the day was over, the FA had already released a statement.

"Following last week’s meeting of IFAB (International Football Association Board) The FA would like to reiterate our strong desire to see Goal Line Technology introduced as soon as possible," the statement read.

"The FA has been a leading proponent of Goal Line Technology for many years. We will continue to press for its introduction once further independent testing is complete later this year, so that anyone wishing to introduce the technology is able to do so at the earliest possible opportunity."

First Sepp Blatter, and now the FA. How about that?

They're quite the strange bedfellows in a fight for a progressive cause, but for fans of justice in football, this is great news. The end goal of all referees and rules and rulemakers and governing bodies should be to ensure a fair competition. Incidents like this need to pushed forever into the past.

QPR didn't get a fair shake Saturday, but when the season ends, it could be worse. In a relegation fight, fates can be decided on the slimmest of margins. And on Saturday, the one-goal margin that separated QPR from a draw shouldn't have been there at all.

Let's hope that's not the point that sends them down.

Twist in the Title Race?
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The title race in England has long been a two-team, one-town affair. But on Sunday, a small club from a different country threw the latest curveball. And now our excitingly unorthodox season is swiftly turning the corner to depressing familiarity.

Swansea welcomed Manchester City to Wales and promptly sent the visiting fans home crying with a 1-0 defeat. The winning goal came courtesy of Luke Moore's head, and coupled with Manchester United's easy 2-0 win over West Brom, it sent United to the top of the table.

Title twist? Hardly.

If you've followed the Premier League for any amount of time, this development should feel chillingly familiar. For all the wackiness this season has given us, it's starting to feel like just another boring Manchester United title-winning season.

Lord help us. This isn't even a vintage United squad. This is an aging band that's been hit hard by injuries and keeps losing to inferior teams in Europe.

But domestically, Sir Alex Ferguson still has the answers, as Sunday's win over West Brom again showed.

Falling Spurs
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Spurs hadn't lost three straight league matches under Harry Redknapp before Saturday. After Saturday, they're in danger of extending another streak.

Saturday's 1-0 loss to Everton kept Spurs four points ahead of Arsenal for third place. If the Gunners beat Newcastle on Monday night, Arsene Wenger's team will be just one point behind their biggest rivals.

With Chelsea right behind Arsenal, it's starting to look more likely that Spurs won't finish as London's top side. That hasn't happened since 1994-95, and while it seemed inevitable just a few weeks ago, who would bet on Spurs now?

On Jan. 22, Arsenal had just lost their third straight league game, falling 2-1 at home to Manchester United. Fans were booing Andrei Arshavin and calling for Wenger's head, and Arsenal were 10 points behind Tottenham.

Less than two months later, Arshavin is gone, Arsenal are racing through Tottenham's rearview mirror, and Wenger is playing mind games with Redknapp.

No one ever said football always makes sense.

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zudomiriku

14-03-2012, 10:22 AM

David Moyes says a 'new breed' of owner undermines authority

Everton boss David Moyes says a "new breed" of owner has made it difficult for managers to assert their authority at a club.

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And he believes candidates should check they have full control by interviewing their chairmen before taking charge.

Moyes, who celebrates 10 years at Everton on Wednesday, said: "We need to find out how this guy giving us a job is going to react to defeats.

"How is he going to react to wins, or when you are having to change things?"

Andre Villas-Boas was sacked by Chelsea after less than a season in charge - and Moyes, 48, made his comments in an interview with Football Focus.

Moyes added: "Is he going to be completely supportive in your decisions at the club, whether it be moving on senior players, whether it be introducing young players?

"You need to know whether you are going to get that backing. You also need to know you've got a sense of control. You look at [Manchester United manager] Alex Ferguson and [Arsenal boss] Arsene Wenger, they've got great control of their football clubs.

"They don't do every single thing but they know the most important thing is the manager.

"[Chairman] Bill Kenwright has allowed me to do that at Everton. The new breed of chairmen and owners coming into the game now is making it more difficult for that situation to happen."

Moyes was manager at Preston before being appointed Everton boss in 2002 and, although he has been linked with other posts and has ambitions to win silverware, he maintains his current focus is firmly on his job at Everton.

He said: "I'd never be disrespectful to Everton. They have done a great job for me.

"They gave me that chance when I was young. I don't really want to hear any talk about any other clubs because I'm Everton manager.

"I hope there's a lot more to come from me and I hope there's a chance I might win some trophies along the line.

"I'm ambitious and I'm still young enough where there's time to try to do great things. I hope that's with Everton but l'm sure I will sit down at the end of the season with the chairman and see what we are doing."

EVERTON'S LEAGUE FINISHES UNDER MOYES
•2001/02: 15th
•2002/03: 7th
•2003/04: 17th
•2004/05: 4th (qualified for Champions League)
•2005/06: 11th
•2006/07: 6th (qualified for Uefa Cup)
•2007/08: 5th (qualified for Uefa Cup)
•2008/09: 5th (qualified for Uefa Cup)
•2009/10: 8th
•2010/11: 7th

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pencapaian terbaik tahun 2004/05 ketika Everton lolos ke UCL. sayang perayaan 10 tahun Moyes di Everton diwarnai kekalahan dlm derby Merseyside, dihajar hattrick Gerrard

zudomiriku

14-03-2012, 12:40 PM

Grygera out for the season

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Zdenek Grygera's cries of pain were audible against Tottenham

Fulham defender Zdenek Grygera has confirmed he will not play again this season, but is confident of returning from knee surgery next term.

Grygera has undergone two operations after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament rupture during November's Premier League game against Tottenham.

The summer signing from Juventus was initially ruled out for six months, but has revealed he is still at least three and a half months away from making his comeback.

"I'm feeling really positive about my knee and my recovery from injury,'' the 31-year-old told his club's official website.

"I had two surgeries with Dr Richard Steadman, one before Christmas and one in February. Dr Steadman told me after the second surgery the recovery should be five or six months.

"With how I feel right now, I think the maximum will be five months but we will see later on when I start to run.

"On Thursday, it will be six weeks since my surgery and I'll start to do more in terms of my recovery now.

"I'll be doing more on the bike and working on the upper body in the gym, but I feel very good.''

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zudomiriku

21-03-2012, 11:27 AM

Fabrice Muamba spends 'comfortable' night in hospital

• Bolton manager Owen Coyle reveals he spoke with player
• Request for visitors to be restricted to family and club members

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Fabrice Muamba is taking his first steps to recovery after suffering a cardiac arrest at the weekend, his manager Owen Coyle has said. The 23-year-old remains in intensive care at the London chest hospital after collapsing during an FA Cup match on Saturday.

Bolton manager Coyle said he had spoken directly to the midfielder, whom he described as a "fighter", as he continues to show signs of recovery. "It's very early in the process, the doctors have stressed that so we all know what's involved," Coyle told reporters outside the hospital. "Fabrice still has a long way to go but it's encouraging signs and whilst that is the case it's really positive and we move forward from that point.

"I was fortunate to see him and had a brief conversation which will obviously remain between us. We have to understand it's early in his continued fight for improvement."

A Bolton statement added: "Fabrice Muamba has had a comfortable night in the intensive care unit at the London Chest Hospital where the medical team is continuing to monitor his progress." Muamba has been able to communicate with members of his family, who expressed their thanks to the public in the statement: "Fabrice's family has asked us to thank everyone again for their thoughts and prayers and for the continued messages of support, from which they draw great strength."

The hospital also want visitors to be restricted to family and members of Bolton: "To ensure the smooth running of the hospital for all patients – as well as Fabrice's need to concentrate on his recovery – they would request that he receive no more visitors for the moment, outside of immediate family and members of Bolton Wanderers Football Club."

Muamba suffered the cardiac arrest on Saturday during Bolton's FA Cup sixth-round tie at Tottenham.

Kevin Davies, Muamba's captain at Bolton, paid tribute to his team-mate saying the outpouring of goodwill is due to the player's attributes as a human being. "Fabrice is someone we see every day. He is part of our family, not just a colleague," said Davies. "Nothing has been handed to him on a plate. We all know where he has come from and where he is now. He is such a great role model to any young player or young adult."

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Muamba has comfortable night

Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba contiunes to be a serious condition at the London Chest Hospital but had a "comfortable night".

Muamba collapsed on the pitch at Tottenham on Saturday and it took two hours to get his heart beating on its own. Monday was a positive day for the player as he began to move his arms and legs and speak to visitors.

A statement issued by the football club on its official website read: "Fabrice Muamba has had a comfortable night in the intensive care unit at The London Chest Hospital, where the medical team is continuing to monitor his progress.

"Fabrice's family has asked us to thank everyone again for their thoughts and prayers and for the continued messages of support, from which they draw great strength.

"To ensure the smooth running of the hospital for all patients - as well as Fabrice's need to concentrate on his recovery - they would request that he receive no more visitors for the moment, outside of immediate family and members of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.

"They would also like to thank the media for continuing to respect their privacy."

Bolton manager Owen Coyle believes it is still too early to focus on his side's relegation battle despite the encouraging progress being made by Fabrice Muamba.

Coyle revealed he had enjoyed a "brief conversation'' with the midfielder on Tuesday. But he was keen to stress the 23-year-old has a long way to go in his recovery and that Bolton's scheduled game with Blackburn on Saturday remains on the back burner.

"It's very early in the process, the doctors have stressed that so we all know what's involved,'' Coyle told reporters outside the hospital. "Fabrice still has a long way to go but it's encouraging signs and whilst that is the case it's really positive and we move forward from that point.

"I was fortunate to see him and had a brief conversation which will obviously remain between us. We have to understand it's early in his continued fight for improvement.''

Coyle hailed the "remarkable work'' being done by hospital staff and conceded he could "never have envisaged'' Muamba making such improvement in such a short period of time.

But when asked if that meant he could now think of focusing on Saturday's game at the Reebok Stadium, Coyle added: "The answer to that is no, because that's not something of great importance to me at this moment in time.

"In the course of today, as we hope and pray that Fabrice continues to improve, that's something we will have to look at. My thoughts are that we will have the group back in training tomorrow and we will look at it from then. The one concern we all have is for Fabrice only.''

Asked if he was confident Muamba would make a full recovery, Coyle added: "That's something they (the doctors) have said has happened before.

"Every case is on it's own merits, but we've said consistently the two things Fabrice has which can help him further is that he's such a fit young man and the life he's had he has had to fight and earn every step of the way.

"Those two things I am sure will stand him in good stead.''

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zudomiriku

21-03-2012, 01:37 PM

Sir Dave Richards damaged the Premier League, admits Richard Scudamore

• Chairman has been 'great for the Premier League'
• Scudamore says clubs will decide Richards's fate

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Richard Scudamore has admitted Sir Dave Richards damaged the image of the Premier League but the chief executive sidestepped questions over whether he should resign.

Richards, the Premier League chairman, caused a storm with comments he made in Doha last week when he claimed Fifa and Uefa "stole" football from the English and urged Qatar to relax their alcohol laws for the 2018 World Cup. That came at the start of a bad day for the Yorkshireman, who later fell into a water feature at an evening function. Despite the incidents Scudamore insisted Richards had been "great for the Premier League".

"At the end of the day, he's apologised, he apologised sincerely, he's rung the people who – if he has offended – he knows he may have offended and he's dealt with it," said the Premier League chief executive, Scudamore. "Clearly, that's a reflection that he knows what he said was wrong and misguided. It doesn't reflect the Premier League's views. He's away on foreign shores.

"It detracts from him, it detracts from the Premier League's image, I suppose. But the reality is he's done his stint at the Premier League, he's done a fantastic job, and he's done more for good causes, charity stuff, the stuff that never gets mentioned."

Asked about Richards's future, Scudamore insisted the 20 Premier League clubs would ultimately decide his fate. "He's in exactly the same position as me," he said. "We are there by the grace of our employers, the 20 clubs. The 20 clubs will decide when it's time that they've had enough of me, and they'll decide exactly the same with him."

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zudomiriku

21-03-2012, 03:07 PM

Kevin Davies says FA Cup is irrelevant

Bolton captain Kevin Davies says talk about the club withdrawing from the FA Cup is "irrelevant" as everybody is focused on Fabrice Muamba's health.

Muamba, 23, is still in a critical condition following his cardiac arrest during an FA Cup tie at Tottenham.

There have been suggestions the club may pull out of the cup as players are too upset to return to White Hart Lane.

But Davies told BBC Radio Manchester: "We've been asked that question and I think it's all still irrelevant."

He added: "Until we get more information about Fabrice's condition, I don't think anything really matters.

"I know they were keen to get the game off tomorrow night [against Aston Villa], which is a no-brainer. From then on, we don't really know as players. It's all about Fabrice and his family really. The football side just doesn't come into our thoughts."

The FA Cup sixth-round match was abandoned after 41 minutes on Saturday when Muamba collapsed on the pitch with no-one around him.

Davies says he has been speaking with manager Owen Coyle and chairman Phil Gartside - and that the club will decide whether to continue in the FA Cup "in the next couple of days".

The forward added: "We all love Fabrice. I respect him hugely for where he has come from to where he is now."

Davies has been in regular contact with the doctor and Coyle and has been passing news back to his team-mates.

Coyle said: "The support from within the game has been fantastic. We all saw the pictures from round the world.

"When you see the players of Real Madrid and Gary Cahill, wearing T-shirts, and David Beckham sending over a message, that shows you the opinion they have of Fabrice as a man.

"It's great to be talented, at whatever vocation you are in, but it is more important to be genuinely nice and humble, which Fabrice is."

Muamba started his career at Arsenal and their manager Arsene Wenger said: "You pray that the damage will be repaired and that Fabrice will come out healthy and we will see his smile again. Everyone at Arsenal has huge respect for Fabrice."

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Real Madrid's tribute to Fabrice Muamba

Bolton's Premier League game against Aston Villa on Tuesday has already been postponed.

Blackburn are due to play Bolton at Reebok Stadium on Saturday but Rovers manager Steve Kean is happy for the match to be put off if Wanderers feel they are not ready to play.

Kean said: "We hope he makes a full recovery but, if they need a little bit more time and the game doesn't go ahead, we would respect that from Bolton's point of view."

There has been support from supporters nationwide, but Davies thinks it reflects the "sad state of the game" that it has taken an incident such as this to bring fans together.

He added: "The last couple of nights have been mixed emotions - it is the first time in 19 years that I've seen a football stadium unite.

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"It was both touching but sad as well. We put a lot of hours in as footballers and it seems that the only way you get applause from opposition fans is being carried off on a stretcher. That's a sad state of the game.

"We are all fans of football. I look at other sports and there is no segregation. I'd love to see more of that football."

Recalling Muamba's collapse, Davies said: "It all became very serious in a matter of seconds and we all knew there was something seriously wrong. It was not nice. You feel powerless. He's one of your colleagues, one of your friends, he's a father, he's a son.

"I just want to say, on behalf of the family and the club, a big thank you to everyone who was on the scene - the paramedics and our own medical staff."

Fabrice Muamba factfile
•Born on 6 April 1988 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
•Progressed through Arsenal's youth academy, representing England at every level from under-16 to under-21
•Joined Birmingham in 2007, having been there on loan previously, then moved to Bolton the following year
•Appeared at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship in Denmark for England Under-21s, for whom he made 33 appearances

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zudomiriku

22-03-2012, 11:21 AM

Newcastle United and Sunderland fined by FA

Newcastle have been fined £40,000 and Sunderland £20,000 after both clubs accepted misconduct charges following their bad-tempered derby on 4 March.

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Sunderland forward Stephane Sessegnon and captain Lee Cattermole were sent off in the 1-1 draw.

The Football Association said the charges related to an incident after a late challenge from James McClean on Newcastle's Danny Simpson.

Both sides have also been warned about their future conduct.

Newcastle were handed the greater punishment having also been charged following their 1-1 draw with Arsenal on 13 August.

Sessegnon was red-carded for elbowing Cheick Tiote and captain Cattermole was sent off after full-time.

McClean was shown a yellow card by referee Mike Dean for the tackle on Simpson, whose angry reaction also earned a caution.

Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill and Newcastle counterpart Alan Pardew were also involved in an angry exchange.

Eight players were booked and Pardew later criticised Sunderland for adopting an "ugly" approach, a claim rejected by O'Neill.

Cattermole was banned for four matches for his dismissal and Sessegnon was given a three-game suspension.

"Newcastle United and Sunderland have been fined £40,000 and £20,000 respectively after both clubs admitted a charge of failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour," read an FA statement.

"The incident, which also saw both teams being warned as to their future conduct, occurred in the 19th minute of their game on 4 March, 2012 and followed a challenge by Sunderland's James McClean on Newcastle's Danny Simpson.

"As this is Newcastle United's second misconduct charge of a similar nature in the same season, the standard punishment fine has been doubled in line with current regulations."

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zudomiriku

22-03-2012, 12:36 PM

Matt Jarvis Exclusive: Wolves Winger on EPL Survival, Euro 2012 Hopes and Muamba

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Wolves winger Matt Jarvis is remarkably upbeat for a man whose team sits at the bottom of the Premier League, are without a win in 14 games and fresh off a 5-0 home defeat to Manchester United.

He's been in this spot before, of course—this will be the third straight relegation dogfight for Jarvis and Wolves since they came up from the Championship in 2009—and the 25-year-old is battle-hardened for the weeks ahead.

"The biggest part is to stay strong and positive as a squad," Jarvis says. "We’ve done that the last two years.

"We've got nine games to go and we can still get ourselves out of it. It's that old cliche of treating every game as a cup final from now until the end of the season."

Jarvis tells me the morning's training session focused on "leg work maintenance" and watching back videos of their humbling at the hands of United.

Wolves weren't helped by the sending off of Ronald Zubar in the first half on Sunday—which left Terry Connor's team painfully exposed and at the mercy of a ruthless United in the mood for a killing.

"As a team it’s pretty demoralizing being beaten 5-0," Jarvis says. "We worked pretty hard to keep going and stay as solid as we could, but United are a fantastic side and very clinical.

"On a personal note, I was pleased with the part of the game I could influence, but it's not really about that."

Jarvis says Connor has brought fresh ideas to training and tactics since taking over from Mick McCarthy in February. He also leans more heavily on video analysis than the man he served as an assistant.

But thus far his approach is yet to bear fruit. Connor's four games in charge have yielded just a solitary point and his team has failed to score in its last three.

It's not looking good, but if Wolves do go down, will Jarvis go with them?

"All I can say is I'll be doing my best for Wolves to make sure that doesn't happen," Jarvis says.

Jarvis will likely be in demand either way. He was named the supporters' player of the year at Wolves last season and his reputation has been steadily building with every impressive turn on their left flank.

"My role is to attack and get crosses in and to score goals," he says. "That’s the part that gets the fans excited. I enjoy the buzz of taking on my fullback and putting in a cross.

"Every week you come up against world-class, international players. But at this level you've got to back yourself to beat anybody."

Arguably the high point of Jarvis's career so far was a call-up to Fabio Capello's England squad last March—an achievement he attributed at the time to his desire to prove Millwall wrong for releasing him as a 16-year-old.

He made his debut as a substitute against Ghana and, despite not featuring since, still harbors ambitions of making the squad for Euro 2012.

"I’ve got to make sure I keep playing consistently," he says. "If I can keep my form and score a few more goals, then we’ll see.

"I enjoyed being part of the England squad and everybody treated me very well there."

When it comes to life in the Premier League this season, Jarvis says it's hard to say which is the best team he's come up against.

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"United were clinical on Sunday, but Stamford Bridge and The Emirates are fantastic places to go as well," he says.

"We always seem do best against the big sides when they're not expecting it."

Next up for Wolves is a trip to face Norwich at Carrow Road on Saturday, followed by the visit of fellow strugglers Bolton a week later in what will be a crucial game for both teams.

By that time, the football world will be hoping for more good news on the condition of Bolton's Fabrice Muamba, whose cardiac arrest during their FA Cup tie with Tottenham at White Hart Lane this past Saturday has prompted an outpouring of support from everybody in the game.

"It just puts everything in perspective," Jarvis says. "When something like that happens you have to sit and take notice and just hope that he’s alright.

"It puts everything else into the background. Nothing matters."

And with that I let Jarvis return to a well-deserved afternoon off—time he typically chooses to spend with family and friends, or perhaps indulging his new passion for golf.

Nine games remain for Wolves to save their season and their most consistently impressive player will be key to their chances. Having spent time talking to him, you can't help but hope they do it.

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zudomiriku

02-04-2012, 12:36 PM

Aston Villa announce Stiliyan Petrov has acute leukemia

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The club issued the following statement:

"The Villa Board received news today that our long-standing captain Stiliyan Petrov has been diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia.

"Stiliyan developed a fever following the Arsenal game last Saturday and subsequently underwent tests conducted by Dr Ian McGuinness.

"Haematology experts confirmed the diagnosis today.

"We expect to learn more about Stiliyan's situation in due course and we have moved quickly to support him and his family.

"During this time we ask that Stiliyan's privacy is placed ahead of all inquiries and trust that we will share information as we receive it.

"Stiliyan is cherished by many and he will get from Villa every ounce of love and support that we have to help bring this to a positive conclusion."

Petrov's former Celtic team-mate and current Hoops manager Neil Lennon revealed his "absolute devastation" at the news.

Petrov spent seven years and won four Scottish Premier League titles at the Glasgow giants.

Lennon tweeted: "Absolutely inconsolable here regarding Stiliyan. He will overcome this like all the other barriers he faced in his life."

Petrov - affectionately known as 'Stan' - was signed for Celtic by John Barnes.

He was handed the Villa captaincy by former manager Martin O'Neill, under whom he had previously excelled at Celtic.

The Bulgaria skipper took time to win over the Villa fans upon his arrival in 2006, before establishing himself as a key figure under O'Neill and his successors Gerard Houllier and current boss McLeish.

In 2008-09 Petrov was named players' player and supporters' player of the season at Villa Park and he remains a firm favourite in his native Bulgaria, for whom he has won over 100 senior caps since making his debut 14 years ago.

Just two hours before the club announced the news, manager Alex McLeish had addressed the media in his pre-match press conference ahead of tomorrow's clash with Chelsea.

"He (Petrov) is out, he's not available for this game. So I've left it in the hands of the doctor," said the Scot.

There was no indication that Petrov was facing such a severe medical setback until this week.

Villa assistant-manager Peter Grant indicated on Wednesday that Petrov was suffering from a virus.

The shock news that he was suffering from leukaemia was only confirmed this afternoon when the results of tests undergone by Petrov became evident.

The former Celtic player was today booked into a London hospital.

Villa fans have been quick to show their support for Petrov.

Jonathan Fear of the Vital Villa fans' website said: "There is absolute shock amongst the Villa fans and the outpouring of love and admiration for Stiliyan increases by the minute.

"He is one of the Villa players who genuinely cares about the club and I think the Villa fans will show that they care about him during tomorrow's game.

"When the chips are down, Villa is a family and Stiliyan is a large part of that. He cares and that is why he matters to us.

"We know Stiliyan is a fighter and everyone is behind him."

PFA chairman Gordon Taylor promised all the help the players' union can provide to Petrov and has written to the Villa skipper to offer his support.

Taylor said: "It's a terrible shock, especially so soon after what has happened to Fabrice [Muamba]. All our thought and hopes with him.

"Stiliyan is a great character, a good leader, and we will give him all the help and support we can.

"Whenever I have met him I have been most impressed by him, he is a great gentleman, we are proud to have him as a PFA member and I just hope that, like Fabrice, he can come through it."

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Stilian Petrov: 'Muamba has inspired me as has all of the support'

• 32-year-old releases statement after leukaemia shock
• Villa players and fans show support during defeat to Chelsea

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Stilian Petrov has revealed he is taking inspiration from Fabrice Muamba after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia.

The Aston Villa captain, 32, is due to begin treatment in a London hospital on Monday, but made the trip to Villa Park on Saturday to watch his side's 4-2 Premier League defeat to Chelsea.

Petrov released a statement shortly after arriving at the ground, thanking the football community for their support. The Bulgaria international vowed to fight the disease and revealed he has drawn comfort from Muamba's continued recovery from his cardiac arrest.

"I would like to thank all of the people who have left messages of support. The response has been overwhelming and I appreciate it very much," Petrov said.

"This is a difficult time for my family and myself and I ask people to respect my privacy. With the help and love of my family, my team-mates, all of my friends in football, Aston Villa and all of the fans, I am sure I will beat this illness and I am determined to do this.

"I saw the picture released yesterday by Fabrice Muamba, my fellow player, and it has inspired me as has all of the support in the past 24 hours.

"For me, football will have to take a back seat for a while, but I'm here to support my team-mates today and I will continue to support them as I know they will support me. Thank you to everyone."

The Villa and Chelsea players wore shirts to show their support in the warm-up. The message on the Villa shirts read "Support Stan", while Chelsea's shirts had "Our thoughts are with you" written on them.

The statement was then read out just before kick-off to applause and chants of "There's only one Stilian Petrov" from all sections of the ground. There was another standing ovation in the 19th minute of the match, in reference to the fact the midfielder wears the No19 shirt.

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zudomiriku

03-04-2012, 12:10 PM

Stiliyan Petrov to fight leukaemia 'head-on' - Alex McLeish

Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov is determined to fight acute leukaemia "head-on", according to Alex McLeish.

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The Villa manager accompanied Petrov and his wife Paulina as the player began his treatment for the illness at a London hospital on Monday.

"Randy Lerner [chairman], Paul Faulkner [chief executive] and myself went to see Stiliyan on the first day of his road to recovery," said McLeish.

"He's determined to meet it head on - we expect that from Stan."

Petrov's initial treatment involves taking a course of steroids and tablets which will prepare him for chemotherapy.

Earlier, his ex-Celtic team-mate John Hartson, a former cancer sufferer who beat the illness in 2009, said the Bulgarian international was "upbeat" as he prepared to start his treatment.

"A lot of it is psychological. You have to get your head around what is happening and dealing with it as openly as you can," Hartson, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer before the condition spread to his lungs and brain, told BBC Scotland.

"You do know there is a lot of support out there when you are battling a near death experience like I went through.

"Stiliyan knows he has support from his peers and his family, which will be very important for him.

"He's very strong. His fitness, I'm sure, will help him. He knows he has so much support from throughout football."

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has wished Petrov "strength in his fight to win this battle" via Twitter.

Blatter added: "[I am] very sad to hear about Stiliyan Petrov's illness. The support shown at Villa Park by both sets of fans another sign of all that is good in football. #getwellstan."

Petrov watched Saturday's defeat by Chelsea from the stands and stood to acknowledge an ovation from both sets of supporters in the 19th minute, timed to match the player's squad number.

McLeish revealed Petrov addressed the Villa squad before the match, vowing to beat the condition.

Striker Andreas Weimann, who made his first Premier League start in the match, said the squad was shocked to hear about his illness.

"Everyone at the club is devastated but we are all behind him," Weimann told the club website.

"He's ready to fight it and hopefully he'll get through it.

"He came in before the game, said hello to the players and wished us all the best, and that was brilliant from him."

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zudomiriku

04-04-2012, 01:09 PM

Managers to decide fate of Chamakh and Taarabt over shisha incident

• Players had been pictured with pipes on Saturday night
• Clubs will let managers make call on possible reprimands

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Arsenal and Queens Park Rangers are leaving it to Arsène Wenger and Mark Hughes to decide whether to reprimand Marouane Chamakh or Adel Taarabt for being pictured with shisha pipes after Saturday's game between the sides.

The Gunners striker Chamakh and the Rangers midfielder Taarabt were photographed holding the pipes in a bar following the match at Loftus Road. The Morocco team-mates both featured in QPR's 2-1 win over Arsenal. Taarabt opened the scoring with his first ever Premier League goal, while Chamakh came off the bench late on.

Chamakh has struggled to make an impact since joining Arsenal almost two years ago and has scored just once in 17 appearances this season. Reports suggest manager Wenger will look to offload the 28-year-old this summer.

Taarabt was the star of QPR's Championship-winning season last term but, until Saturday, had failed to adapt to the top flight and came close to joining Paris St-Germain in January. The Rangers manager Hughes praised his performance against Arsenal and predicted the 22-year-old would become a "top Premier League player" providing he continued to harness his talent.

Shisha is a waterpipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burned using coal, passed through a water vessel and inhaled through a hose. Smoking it is not illegal in the UK, although some clubs may frown on any kind of tobacco use.

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zudomiriku

10-04-2012, 10:28 AM

Fabrice Muamba walking as cardiac arrest recovery continues

Fabrice Muamba has walked for the first time since suffering a cardiac arrest as his condition continues to improve.

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"He's taking steps, talking and has that big smile we love to see. He is progressing the right way," said Owen Coyle, the player's manager at Bolton.

Former England Under-21 international Muamba was technically "dead" for 78 minutes after collapsing in Wanderers' FA Cup tie at Tottenham last month.

Muamba, who turns 24 on Friday, remains in intensive care at a London hospital.

"He has done some short periods of walking down the corridor he is in as part of the unit, staying in intensive care," added Coyle.

The midfielder collapsed on the White Hart Lane pitch during the quarter-final match on 17 March and was given 15 defibrillator shocks before he reached hospital.

Muamba, whose family posted the first public picture of him on Twitter from his hospital room last week, has received thousands of get-well messages from players, officials and supporters across the world.

Bolton chairman Phil Gartside and club doctor Jonathan Tobin have visited the player at the London Chest Hospital this week.

Coyle said: "A couple of players have been sending him messages and we are keeping in touch. It has been great to see that smile and he continues to get better.

"We have to stress that he still has a long way to go, but the improvement has been remarkable and long may that continue."

Muamba collapse - events of 17 March

1813 GMT: Muamba collapses on the pitch due to a cardiac arrest 41 minutes into Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final with Tottenham at White Hart Lane

1819 GMT: Medics move Muamba to an ambulance after failing to revive him on the pitch in front of a stunned crowd

1901 GMT: Muamba arrives at the London Chest Hospital

1931 GMT: Muamba receives 15 defibrillator shocks in total before his heart starts beating again

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zudomiriku

11-04-2012, 02:15 PM

Hoops appeal Derry dismissal

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Queens Park Rangers have lodged an appeal against Shaun Derry's sending-off against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Hoops midfielder Derry was shown a red card by match referee Lee Mason for fouling Ashley Young inside the box - resulting in a penalty and the opening goal in United's 2-0 win.

However, contact was minimal on Young and the United forward was clearly offside when he received Wayne Rooney's through ball.

QPR have appealed the sending off on the grounds of 'unfair dismissal' and the FA have agreed to hear the appeal on Tuesday afternoon.

Should the appeal be successful, Derry will be in line to feature for QPR against Swansea City at Loftus Road on Wednesday evening.

QPR boss Mark Hughes confirmed the club would appeal in the immediate aftermath of Sunday's defeat. He said: "Yes. We will appeal the red card. We need all hands on deck on Wednesday, plus Shaun has had a rest. He only played for 15 minutes."

In a move that could land him in hot water with the FA, Hughes also added that many managers were worried after recent decisions from referees.

"You do discuss it before every game," he said. "You worry more about decisions going against you and it shouldn't be like that. You should have confidence that the referee will get the key decisions right. "Just lately a lot of managers have lost faith in them.

"It is a difficult job. You have to be strong and really clear. You have to be 100% right to give the decisions. At the moment people are guessing and hoping that they get it correct. That was the case today."

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kabar terakhir banding QPR ditolak

zudomiriku

16-04-2012, 03:02 PM

QPR Captain Shaun Derry Claims FA Decision to Not Overturn Red Card is Both ‘Ridiculous’ & ‘Bizarre’

QPR captain Shaun Derry criticises FA over appeal

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QPR’s Shaun Derry has described the Football Association’s decision to uphold his red card against Manchester United at Old Trafford as “ridiculous”.

Derry was sent off for a foul on Ashley Young during Sunday’s 2-0 defeat.

Replays showed minimal contact with Young, who was in an offside position when the ball was played.

“There was no explanation as to why it was not overturned, or any indication of why I got sent off. The whole scenario is quite bizarre,” he said.

“I don’t know what they do at the FA, but it’s not working.”

SOURCE: BBC Sport

It does seem more than a little bizarre to me also. On closer inspection, or even after a cursory glance at the replay, it seems fairly obvious that any contact between Derry and Young was minimal, if indeed there was any contact at all, and for the decision to send off the QPR man to not be overturned is a little bizarre.

Mind you this comes in the week when Mario Balotelli’s stamp on Alex Song was not deemed worthy of further repercussions so no one can be all that surprised at yet another mindless decision.

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lagi2 'akting' Young membuat United memperoleh penalti diawal laga pas lawan Villa kmrn

zudomiriku

16-04-2012, 05:48 PM

Fulham Open Training Ground to 12 Hens

Of all the reasons Clint Dempsey has to leave Fulham this summer, this one might take the cake.

Er, that is, the quiche.

From an excruciatingly pun-infested article in the Daily Mail:

Fulham have bought 12 hens to live at their training ground to help cut costs.

This isn't a yoke or a poultry effort but a real coop as the club attempts to save £5,000 a year on catering.

Martin Jol’s squad, including deep-laying centre forward Pavel Pogrebnyak, go through 90 eggs a week at their Motspur Park base in Surrey.

Yoke? Coop? Deep-laying? My oh my. And bloggers are considered the bane of journalism.

But wait, it gets worse.

Fry-day is known to be particularly popular as the team toast their cluck for Saturday's big match.

Someone suspected fowl play but at least we now know what is eggs-scelerating top-scorer Clint Dempsey's accuracy in front of goal this season.

What, you couldn't poach a hard-boiled pun in there? Did nobody's name rhyme with omelet?

Excruciating wordplay aside, this is the best proof yet that Dempsey needs to leave Fulham. This sort of thing would never happen at Old Trafford or the Emirates.

Dempsey is tied for fourth in the English Premier League scoring charts, and his value has never been higher. And, as B/R national lead writer Dan Levy points out, Dempsey's peripheral stats place him in the elite tier of Premiership players.

So if the Mohamed Al-Fayed, Martin Jol and the Cottagers are really looking to make a buck, why not just offload the Deuce to Manchester United, Arsenal or Chelsea?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1142650-world-football-strange-but-true-fulham-open-training-ground-to-12-hens?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=world-football

novanprihasa

17-04-2012, 10:41 AM

syukurlah, ikut senang mendengar kabar ini..

Kondisi Membaik, Muamba Tinggalkan Rumah Sakit

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Fabrice Muamba bersama dua dokter yang menanganinya. (Daily Mail)

Kabar baik datang Fabrice Muamba. Gelandang muda Bolton Wanderers itu hampir pulih total dari penyakit cardiac arrest dan kini telah diizinkan untuk meninggalkan rumah sakit.

Muamba pergi dari rumah sakit London Chest Hospital pada Senin (16/4) sore waktu setempat. Ia juga berterimakasih kepada dokter Andrew Deaner dan dokter Sam Mohiddin yang telah merawatnya selama di rumah sakit.

"Saya sangat senang bisa keluar dari rumah sakit. Saya ingin mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan terimakasih kepada setiap anggota staf di London Chest Hospital yang telah menangani saya," ucap Muamba seperti dilansir Daily Mail.

"Dedikasi, profesionalisme, dan keahlian mereka sangat luar biasa dan saya akan selamanya berhutang nyawa pada mereka. Saya juga ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada semua simpatisan yang telah mengirimkan ribuan pesan dukungan. Sekarang adalah waktunya untuk masa pemulihan," imbuhnya.

Muamba tiba-tiba terjatuh di lapangan ketika Bolton menghadapi Tottenham Hotspur pada 18 Maret lalu. Mantan pemain Arsenal itu lantas dilarikan ke rumah sakit karena jantungnya berhenti berdetak. Dalam istilah medis, penyakit tersebut dikenal dengan nama cardiac arrest.

http://www.bolanews.com/read/sepakbola/inggris/5462-Kondisi-Membaik-Muamba-Tinggalkan-Rumah-Sakit.html

zudomiriku

17-04-2012, 02:50 PM

PFA boss Gordon Taylor 'amazed' by video technology delay

Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor believes Fifa's current refusal to use video technology during games is "perverse".

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Referee Martin Atkinson controversially ruled an effort by Chelsea's Juan Mata crossed the goal-line in his side's FA Cup semi-final win against Tottenham.

"It's amazing that football is behind the times in trying to achieve justice. It's perverse," Taylor told BBC Sport.

"I don't know why we should expect to put all the onus on referees."

Spurs boss Harry Redknapp has led renewed calls for video technology to be introduced after replays appeared to show Mata's second-half shot being blocked on the line by defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto.

Tottenham were trailing 1-0 at the time, before going on to lose Sunday's tie 5-1 at Wembley.

Fifa is currently testing two goal-line technology systems and the International Football Association Board [IFAB] is set to make a final decision whether to approve one or both on 2 July.

"Football is way behind other sports when we think how successful it is being used in cricket, tennis, rugby and so many other sports," added Taylor.

"I would like to think that it would be in place at the highest level by next season. The technology has been there for some time and when something is infallible it is going to be a help.

"In this day and age the technology is available and we should use it. We've got to do all we can to ensure that, in sport, justice is done."

The Football Association and the Premier League repeated their calls on Monday for goal-line technology to be introduced as soon as possible.

But FA general secretary Alex Horne warned it may not be in place for the beginning of next season.

"If you were looking at a league structure of, say, 20 clubs, you're probably talking about three months to install it properly in every venue, so this isn't an instant "plug-in and get on with it" type technology," he told BBC Sport.

"We need to get there first and have it approved, hopefully with more than one technology so we can have a bit of competition in the market; then competitions themselves need to determine when they want to introduce it and get on with procuring it and installing it. So it will take a little time to come after 2 July."

Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher insists officials are fully supportive of video assistance.

"This kind of technology wouldn't take anything away from referees' authority," he said. "It will give a clear indication - goal or no goal.

"Every referee at every level, if given the opportunity to have that in their armoury, would say 'yes'."

Taylor, whose union represents 4,000 current professional players in England and Wales, says the governing bodies would have to review the success of any future goal-line technology before deciding whether to extend its use to settle other controversial decisions.

Questions have been raised over the awarding of two recent penalties to Premier League leaders Manchester United following challenges with seemingly minimal contact on winger Ashley Young.

United boss Sir Alex Ferguson admitted Young "overdid it" when he earned a spot-kick in Sunday's 4-0 win over Aston Villa, which came a week after the same player also won penalty against Queens Park Rangers.

The incidents have led to further discussion about top-flight players falling too easily in a bid to earn their team an advantage.

"In professional sport, it's a really difficult one," said Taylor, after being asked whether players should take more responsibility to help referees make the right decision.

"It's part and parcel of the game that if you are a forward and the defender does make contact, no matter how small, then unless you do go down you've got no chance of getting a penalty.

"Sometimes you're trying to keep your balance, trying to stay up, you miss the moment and then you're getting criticised by your manager for not going down.

"When it's blatant the referees have to take strong action."

Taylor added he believes instances of players diving to win penalties has not increased from previous eras.

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zudomiriku

18-04-2012, 04:19 PM

Robin van Persie Leads PFA Player of the Year Shortlist

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Robin van Persie: He wins awards when he wants?

Van Persie, Arsenal's high-scoring forward and captain, headlines the shortlist for the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Player of the Year award. Also nominated were David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Joe Hart of Manchester City, Wayne Rooney of Manchester United and Scott Parker of Tottenham Hotspur.

The shortlist was released on Monday. The winner will be announced on Sunday.

Van Persie, 28, has scored 34 goals in all competitions this season for Arsenal. He leads the English Premier League with 27 strikes, three more than Rooney and six more than Aguero.

From ESPN Soccernet:

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor is one of those who feels the Dutchman is a worthy nominee, saying: 'He has been amazing. When you think of the players Arsene Wenger has brought to the club - he came from Feyenoord for £2.75 million I think and that is incredible really.

'When you think of Dennis Bergkamp, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Marco van Basten - he is in that mould of absolutely top-class strikers that Holland, quite phenomenally, manages to produce.

'You could pick half a dozen of his goals out for goal of the season. Arsenal were struggling for some time but he was a real talisman for them. He seems to have lifted the team and got them back believing in themselves again and looking to qualify for the Champions League, giving all the Arsenal fans some hope.''

Van Persie's teammate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is one of six players nominated for the PFA's Young Player of the Year award.

The others are Aguero, Gareth Bale and Kyle Walker of Tottenham, Daniel Sturridge of Chelsea and Danny Welbeck of Manchester United.

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kalo Rooeny gak dapat gelar PFA Player of the Year, mudah2an Wellbeck dapat gelar PFA's Young Player of the Year

zudomiriku

21-04-2012, 12:14 AM

QPR players could snub Terry’s handshake again – report

The two clubs are set to come face-to-face at Stamford Bridge with the Blues skipper once again the focus of attention ahead of kick-off

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Queens Park Rangers players are set to hold a team meeting before their game with Chelsea in order to decide whether to shake John Terry’s hand, according to The Daily Mail.

The two clubs are set to meet at Stamford Bridge in just over a week's time and the race row is already the main talking point.

Chelsea captain, John Terry faces criminal charges over allegations he racially abused QPR defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match at Loftus Road on October 23.

According to the report, Chelsea and QPR along with the Premier League will seek to clarify whether the issue of the handshake would have any implications for Terry's court appearance.

It appears that some QPR players may refuse to shake hands with Terry, so the Premier League may decide to abandon the handshake altogether.

However, Terry could be ruled out of the game as he is suffering with a rib injury but with Branislav Ivanovic suspended and David Luiz seemingly struggling with a hamstring problem, Terry may have to play.

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akankah terjadi Evra vs Suarez part II?

zudomiriku

21-04-2012, 10:34 PM

Ranieri relishes return to England

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It is eight years since Claudio Ranieri managed in the Premier League - but he has lost none of the charm that made him English football's favourite uncle during his stint as Chelsea manager.

Win, lose or draw during his time at Stamford Bridge, the Italian would always produce a smile (and often a comedy quote or two) during his post-match interviews.

He never really mastered the English language but that did not stop him giving it a go.
The 60-year-old was just as amiable when I met him in person during a recent flying visit to London to talk about Chelsea's prospects, and his own plans.

"My English is not bad after all this time?" Ranieri asks at one point, with a trademark grin.

He is right and, if he has his way, he could get a lot more practice in over the coming months - because it turns out Ranieri loves English football just as much as English football loved him.

He only left his last job at Inter Milan at the end of March but the Italian does not want to be out of the game for long, and a return to these shores is his preferred destination.

Why England? "I had a great relationship with the fans here," Ranieri said. "Not only the Chelsea fans - when I go around Europe and meet English fans they are always pleased to see me. A lot of people remember me.

"Another reason I would like to continue my career in England is because all the best players are playing here now. I have managed in Italy, Spain and this country, and I think the Premier League is the strongest."

He has had stints at Valencia, Parma, Juventus, Roma and Inter since leaving Chelsea but, in truth, Ranieri never really went away. When his four-year spell with the Blues ended in 2004 Ranieri kept his house in west London. He loves the capital and has come back as often as possible in the last few years.

Where will he go next? Ranieri almost took over at Manchester City in 2007 and was linked with QPR a few months ago but there are no current Premier League vacancies and he will not be drawn on whether he has any suitors, or indeed a specific club in mind himself.

"It is my life to be a coach," he explained. "And of course I would like to come back as soon as possible, but now it is important to take the right job. I would like the right project, a good project."

We can still speculate, though, and the signs are Tottenham may need a new manager soon and there are suggestions that David Moyes might move on from Everton this summer.

Might Ranieri fit the bill as a safe pair of hands to be Harry Redknapp's replacement at White Hart Lane should he take charge of England?

They could certainly do worse. Ranieri was sacked by Inter after a sequence of one win in 10 Serie A games that has left their Champions League qualification in doubt but, before then, they were title contenders thanks to an impressive run which started when he took charge in September.

And, although his reputation in this country is for being the "Tinkerman" because of his willingness to change his tactics and his Chelsea team as often as his socks, he is viewed as a calming influence in Italy after impressive spells at Parma, Juventus and Roma.

Chelsea might also be looking for a new manager in the summer, of course, although Ranieri thinks their interim boss Roberto di Matteo is the right man for that job. In any case, the chances of him returning to Stamford Bridge are a little more far-fetched.

"I don't think about it, but why say no?" he says with another smile when I ask him about whether he fancies renewing his working relationship with Blues owner Roman Abramovich.

Judging from the number of managers the Russian has got through in his nine years in west London (six permanent, two interim and one caretaker), Abramovich's expectations are one of the biggest problems facing any Chelsea manager.

But, as Ranieri knows only too well, there are trigger-happy owners, chairmen and presidents everywhere, and he thinks a patient approach is more likely to pay off. "In our job, all the managers have to deal with pressure. In England, Italy, Spain, everywhere," he explained. "This job is not an easy job.

"Everybody knows football - when you win you are fantastic. When you lose, you are the worst in the world. But that is our life.

"Look at Manchester City, they are having a good season and Roberto Mancini has done a very good job - but only one team can win the title and, for a lot of their players this is the first time they are fighting for a big title.

"I know this pressure. It is not easy to build. All the people need time, no? Rome wasn't built in a day."

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zudomiriku

23-04-2012, 01:45 PM

PFA Names Robin Van Persie and Kyle Walker Player and Young Player of the Year

Manchester may rule the English Premier League, but the individual awards will belong to North London this year.

According to Ouriel Daskal of SoccerIssue.com, Arsenal striker Robin van Persie has earned the PFA Player of the Year Award:

Ouriel Daskal
@Soccerissue
Robin Van Persie has won PFA Player of the Year

Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur winger and Birmingham City loan Andros Townsend was among the first to reveal that Spurs right back Kyle Walker had been named the PFA Young Player of the Year:

andros townsend
@andros_townsend
Congrats to @kyle28walker on winning the PFA young player of the year award #baller

Van Persie currently leads the Premiership with 27 goals and is fifth in assists with 10. The flying Dutchman has compiled a total of 34 goals and 12 assists across all competitions in his first season as the Gunners' skipper.

RVP beat out Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, Tottenham's Scott Parker and the Manchester City trio of Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Joe Hart for his honor.

Van Persie's victory is as predictable as Walker's is surprising. Walker garnered distinction ahead of a slew of spectacular attackers. That includes Manchester City's Kun, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge and Spurs squad mate Gareth Bale.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1155440-pfa-names-robin-van-persie-and-kyle-walker-player-and-young-player-of-the-year

sayang Rooney dan Wellbeck tidak meraih gelar, dalam tim terbaik pun hanya Rooney yg masuk

zudomiriku

26-04-2012, 05:14 PM

Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish says he will fight on despite abuse

Alex McLeish insists he is determined to fight on as Aston Villa manager despite being subjected to a barrage of abuse by supporters during and after the home defeat by fellow Premier League strugglers Bolton.

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Bolton remain in the bottom three despite coming from behind to win 2-1 but now trail Villa by only three points, with a game in hand.

And as Bolton turned the game around through Martin Petrov's penalty and David Ngog's winner after Stephen Warnock had put Villa ahead, the home fans turned on McLeish.

Villa's fans demanded his sacking - and fired more abusive chants in his direction - as owner Randy Lerner and chief executive Paul Faulkner looked on.

McLeish spoke with Lerner and Faulkner after the defeat, but said: "They are frustrated, just as I was. To see the game turn around like that after we took a deserved lead was horrible.

"It was incredible the way the game turned but I do understand the fans' reaction. They know the team is in a bit of trouble in a position Aston Villa fans don't expect the team to be in."

McLeish, who was relegated with Villa's arch-rivals Birmingham before moving across the city last summer, admitted he had never suffered criticism on such a scale from his own supporters.

"It was a first, but as I say understandable," he said. "I couldn't say I didn't expect that to happen. We had three points in our grasp but we then lost the game. We are in a relegation fight and obviously they are not happy."

But the Scot was in defiant mood as he added: "I'm not somebody who shirks a challenge. I will keep going and keep fighting to get the points that will make us safe."

And after speaking to Villa's American owner Lerner and Faulkner, he revealed: "They were supportive. They said we have got to keep our heads up and that everybody has to stay together and battle together to see it through."

Bolton boss Owen Coyle said he gave his players a dressing down at half-time following their disappointing first-half display but was impressed at how they fought back in the second half.

"We felt aggrieved to go a goal behind in the second half because we started reasonably well," said Coyle.

"But the character, belief and the quality we showed after going behind was there for everybody to see.

"Every time we passed the ball, we looked pleasing on the eye, culminating in some good chances.

"Many a team would feel sorry for themselves at one goal down but we picked ourselves up. They're a credit to themselves.

"With a game in hand, we're the masters of our own destiny and we will decide our own fate."

Villa's woes
With four home wins and one more match at Villa Park to go, Aston Villa can only equal their lowest number of home wins in a top-flight season. They won five home matches in the 1890-91 season.
Aston Villa have won two league matches in 2012, only Wolves have fewer (1).
Villa can finish with a maximum of 45 points if they win their remaining three matches. That would already be their worst points total since 2005-06.

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zudomiriku

27-04-2012, 12:55 PM

Capello targets Premier League job

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Former England manager Fabio Capello has revealed that he wants to stay in the game for another few years and has admitted the prospect of managing a Premier League side interests him.

Capello, who turns 66 in June, had repeatedly insisted during his time in charge of England that he intended to retire after Euro 2012, saying in 2010 that he would be "too old" to remain in the game and adding: "I want to live my life like a pensioner."

However, the Italian is considering an offer to take charge of China till 2014 and he has also been linked to a host of managerial positions in England and Italy. While Capello stopped short of naming any clubs, he did reveal that he would like to coach in the Premier League.

"I want to be a coach for another two years," he told Sky Sport 24. "I love London. I prefer to coach in the Premier League. In Italy, I can coach only if it will be an interesting project."

Speculation had emerged that the former AC Milan manager was set to take over at the Rossoneri as director of football, but Capello said that was pure speculation.

"I'm not interested," he said. "I only see these stories in the Italian newspapers. I was a director for four years, when I managed England. I want to work on the pitch."

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wah seru neh kalo Capello ke EPL ditambah Guardiola yg juga ingin ke EPL jika gak jadi perpanjang kontrak dengan Barca

zudomiriku

27-04-2012, 01:59 PM

Premier League suspends John Terry and Anton Ferdinand handshake

• Legal problems mean pre-match ritual abandoned
• Chelsea captain has vowed to clear name at trial

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The Premier League has suspended the pre-match handshake at Sunday's game between Chelsea and QPR due to the legal situation involving John Terry and Anton Ferdinand.

Ferdinand's lawyers had advised him not to shake Terry's hand, the first time the pair would have met in a Premier League match since the Chelsea captain was accused of racially abusing the QPR player in October. After taking legal advice, the Premier League has now decided to suspend the handshake convention.

A Premier League statement said: "The Premier League position on the pre-match handshake convention remains consistent. In all normal circumstances it must be observed. However, after discussions with both Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers about the potential and specific legal context in relation to John Terry and Anton Ferdinand the decision has been taken to suspend the handshake convention for Sunday's match."

Terry was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence in December last year following the game. The former England captain has vowed to fight "tooth and nail" to clear his name in his trial, which takes place on 9 July.

The Football Association cancelled the pre-match handshake when the two clubs met in the FA Cup in January but the Premier League had initially said the handshake between the two sides should go ahead this weekend.

That had been its policy when Liverpool met Manchester United after Luis Suárez's ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra, when the Liverpool striker then caused a storm by snubbing the French defender. The Premier League felt it had little option in relation to Sunday's game at Stamford Bridge after legal advice. Ferdinand's lawyers had advised their client that to shake Terry's hand might prejudice the trial of the Chelsea centre-back, while Terry's legal team suggested that it could also prejudice the trial if the QPR player refused to do so. Ferdinand maintains he is in the right frame of mind to play despite the hostile atmosphere he will face in Sunday's game.

The Premier League says the fair play ritual, which it introduced into the top flight in 2004, remains an important part of the game. Its chief executive, Richard Scudamore, said in March: "It's not a handshake that says everybody loves everybody else. It's a handshake that says: 'Whatever crap's gone on before now and whatever crap will go on after this game is over, for the next 90 minutes, let's just play a game of football.'"

Terry regained the England captaincy in March 2011 after originally losing the armband following newspaper allegations about his private life, but he lost the honour again in February after he was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service for allegedly racially abusing Ferdinand.

The pre-match handshake has been a source of controversy this season, with Suárez refusing to shake Evra's hand before Liverpool's 2-1 defeat at United in February. That followed on from Evra accusing Suárez of racially abusing him. The Liverpool player later apologised and served a suspension when the FA found Evra's allegations to be proved.

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zudomiriku

05-05-2012, 12:56 AM

Fabrice Muamba Makes Emotional Bolton Return Before Tottenham Clash

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Reebok Stadium midfielder, who was declared dead for 78 minutes after suffering a cardiac arrest at White Hart Lane, makes emotional return to Bolton.

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VaDLi

07-05-2012, 09:21 PM

Musim 2012-2013, 3 klub dari div. Championship akan bermain di EPL

2 yang sudah pasti adalah Reading & Southampton

1 lagi masih akan ditentukan di partai play-off antara West Ham, Cardiff, Birmingham & Blackpool.
Semifinal pertama, West Ham menang 2-0 di kandang Cardiff, sedangkan Blackpool menang 1-0 atas Birmingham.

Semifinal kedua
West Ham v Cardiff, 07.05.2012 22:30wib
Birmingham v Blackpool, 10.05.2012 01:45wib

Final Play Off 19.05.2012 21:00wib

novanprihasa

08-05-2012, 12:17 PM

sungguh luar biasa.. =D>

Newcastle United Sediakan Mushala untuk Pemain Muslim

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEWCASTLE - Kabar baik bagi pemain muslim yang merumput di Newcastle United. Pelatih klub berjuluk The Magpies, Alan Pardew mengaku berencana menyediakan mushala di stadion Sports Direct Arena.

Rencana ini, diakui Pardew demi memudahkan pemain beragama Islam seperti Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba dan Hatem Ben Arfa untuk beribadah. Ketiganya memang dikenal sebagai Muslim taat.

"Ini adalah sesuatu yang telah saya diskusikan dengan sekretaris klub Lee Charnley. Saya pikir ini penting. Kami melihat para pemain dan latar belakang agama mereka," ungkap Pardew.

Pardew menganggap pemain religius memainkan peranan penting bagi klub berjuluk The Magpies. Karena itu, fasilitas beribadah seperti mushala penting untuk difasilitasi.

"Agama memainkan peranan penting bagi sejumlah pemain kami. Anda harus menghargai kalau beberapa pemain memiliki agama yang berbeda. Kita butuh fasilitas berbeda bagi mereka," ungkapnya.

Langkah Newcastle membangun mushala seolah menghembuskan angin segar bagi sejumlah pemain muslim lain yang merumput di Liga Utama Inggris saat ini.
Peluang bintang muslim seperti Yaya Toure dari Manchester City, Ali Al-Habsi (Wigan Athletic), Adel Taarabt (Queens Park Rangers), Salomon Kalou (Chelsea), Marouane Chamakh dan Robin van Persie (Arsenal) untuk mendapatkan fasilitas ibadah serupa semakin terbuka lebar.

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zudomiriku

10-05-2012, 01:42 PM

Steve Kean says he will not quit Blackburn after relegation

Blackburn boss Steve Kean wants to stay to help rebuild Rovers after they were relegated from the Premier League.

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Large sections of the Ewood Park crowd chanted "Kean out!" throughout Monday's 1-0 defeat by Wigan which sent Rovers down after 11 years in the top flight.

But afterwards Kean said: "I am not going to walk away.

"I will sit down with the owners and discuss a plan on how to assemble a squad to help us bounce back up straight away."

There were numerous protests by Rovers fans against Kean and Blackburn's owners during the game against the Latics, including a chicken being draped in a Blackburn flag and released on to the pitch in the first half, a reference to the Venky's poultry business.

Blackburn needed a win to have any chance of staying up, but lost out to Antolin Alcaraz's 87th-minute header.

"We are devastated, the players are numb," Kean added. "It is difficult to put into words what the atmosphere is like in the dressing room.

"A few things were thrown our way in the media last week, questioning our attitude after our defeat by Tottenham, but I felt tonight we gave it a real good go. The disappointing thing is we couldn't take it to the last game."

Kean, who replaced Sam Allardyce as Blackburn boss in December 2010, has faced calls to be sacked all season but the 44-year-old wants to stay on at Ewood Park to try to make an immediate return to the Premier League.

"We will be back to fight another day," Kean explained. "I've got to keep as many players as possible, a little like West Ham did, and add a little more experience and then we can bounce back.

"We need to try to keep the majority of the squad together and add one or two experienced players that can help us, so, from the first game of the season, we are ready to bounce back and make sure we are in the division we should be in.

"I believe we can be in a position where we can be very competitive from the first game of next season.

"I have spoken with the owners, like I do every day. We haven't mentioned what has happened tonight, but I am confident we will have a sit down and have a plan in place as quickly as possible."

Blackburn defender Bradley Orr backed Kean to stay on as Rovers boss and says he should not be blamed for a disastrous season.

Orr, who joined Rovers from QPR in January, said: "In the short space of time that I have been here Steve Kean has been absolutely magnificent - if anything it is the players that have fallen short.

"In the game that we are in the easy thing to do is point the finger and pass the blame but one man who can look himself in the mirror and say to himself that he has done everything he could, under difficult circumstances, is the manager of Blackburn Rovers."

Orr says he and his team-mates know what Rovers fans think about Kean, but feels the players are as culpable as their manager.

"We were very much aware of the atmosphere inside the ground," Orr said. "It was not just tonight, it has been a while now, but I have nothing but respect and admiration for the manager.

"He is very down and devastated because he is a proud man. Behind the scenes, the things that people do not see - training, motivation, determination and attitude - he has been absolutely different class and I am gutted that we fell short as a group of players.

"I am gutted for the manager more than anyone.

"Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think that sometimes it goes over the line and I want to commend Steve Kean for staying positive on a daily basis."

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novanprihasa

10-05-2012, 05:16 PM

Mancini Rp 300 M, Guardiola Rp 178 M

TRIBUNNEWS.COM - DUA sosok pelatih top, Roberto Mancini dan Pep Guardiola, tengah menyita perhatian dunia. Keduanya mendapat tawaran "gila".

Mancini ditawari Manchester City dengan kontrak baru bernilai 22 juta poundsterling (Rp 308 miliar). Sementara Guardiola disodori Chelsea kontrak satu tahun bernilai 12 juta poundsterling (Rp 178,19 miliar).

Mancini mendapat tawaran kontrak baru setelah sukses mengangkat prestasi The Citizens. Setelah sukses menghadirkan trofi Piala FA musim lalu, Mancini musim ini bersiap membawa City menjadi juara Liga Primer Inggris.

Hingga memasuki pekan ke-37, City bertengger di puncak klasemen dengan mengantongi 86 angka, unggul selisih gol dari Manchester United yang berada di posisi kedua.

"Penghargaan penuh untuk Mancini, bos yang luar biasa. Ia selalu yakin pada kami," kata gelandang City, Yaya Toure, pada Sky Sports News.

The Citizens bakal melakoni laga terakhirnya dengan menjamu Queens Park Rangers di markasnya, Stadion Etihad, akhir pekan nanti. Jika mampu meraih kemenangan, maka City dipastikan menjadi jawara Liga Primer musim ini.
Gelar juara itu akan membuat Mancini bermandikan bayaran senilai Rp 308 miliar dalam kontrak barunya. Tapi sekali lagi, syaratnya City wajib menjadi juara dan menuntaskan puasa gelar.

Sikap menajemen City mungkin tidak berlebihan, mengingat mantan pelatih Inter Milan itu memberikan banyak perubahan besar kepada Manchester Biru.
Jika City juara, dan Mancini mendapat kontrak baru senilai 22 juta poundsterling, maka pelatih 47 tahun itu bakal sejajar dengan Manajer United, Sir Alex Ferguson, yang dinobatkan sebagai pelatih dengan bayaran termahal di Negeri Ratu Elizabeth itu.

Dari bayaran 22 juta poundsterling untuk empat tahun, Mancini mengantongi 5,5 juta poundsterling (sekitar Rp 77 miliar) per tahun.

Artinya, gaji Mancini melonjak dua kali lipat lebih. Sebelumnya ia hanya mendapatkan gaji dua juta poundsterling (sekitar Rp 28 miliar) per tahun.
Bahkan, Mancini bakal dimanjakan untuk bisa membeli pemain yang diidamkannya guna mengarungi kompetisi musim depan.

Manajemen City sudah memberikan "lampu hijau" bagi Mancini untuk mendatangkan striker Arsenal Robin van Persie, dan playmaker Lille Eden Hazard (21) yang dihargai 25 juta poundsterling (sekitar Rp 350 miliar).

Pep Menolak

Jika manajemen City memberi hadiah kontrak baru bagi Mancini, tidak demikian dengan Chelsea. The Blues tak memberi isyarat akan mengangkat Roberto Di Matteo sebagai manajer tetap meski mampu meraih gelar Piala FA dan lolos ke final Liga Champions.

Pemilik Chelsea, Roman Abrahmovic, lebih berambisi memboyong Guardiola ke Stamford Bridge. Taipan minyak asal Rusia itu kabarnya sudah menawarkan kontrak dengan nilai fantastis untuk pelatih yang sudah memutuskan mundur dari Barcelona itu di akhir musim ini.

Tidak tanggung tanggung, The Blues, seperti dilaporkan The Mirror, sudah menyodorkan kontrak satu tahun bernilai 12 juta poundsterling atau setara dengan Rp 178,19 miliar demi mendapatkan jasa sang arsitek elegan.

Abrahmovic dilaporkan juga siap menggelontrokan uang sebanyak-banyaknya untuk Pep agar bisa membawa pemain pilihannya dari klub Katalan.

Namun, keputusan pelatih berusia 41 tahun itu sepertinya masih bulat. Ia, seperti sebelumnya, tetap memilih 'cuti' selama setahun.

Mantan Manajer Chelsea, Claudio Ranieri, mengakui Abramovich memang meminati Guardiola dan berniat menunggunya untuk kembali ke dunia sepakbola.

"Roman menginginkan pelatih dengan reputasi bagus dan nama besar. Ia bisa mempertahankan Di Matteo atau menunggu Guardiola," katanya kepada ESPN.
Ranieri, yang dipecat oleh Abramovich dari Stamford Bridge pada 2004, memandang bahwa Di Matteo bisa tetap bertugas untuk Chelsea musim depan, sebelum sang bos besar bergerak untuk membuka pembicaraan dengan Guardiola.

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novanprihasa

10-05-2012, 05:21 PM

zudomiriku

11-05-2012, 10:17 AM

Blackburn Rovers' deputy CEO Paul Hunt sacked after leak

Blackburn's deputy chief executive Paul Hunt has been sacked after calling for Steve Kean's dismissal as manager.

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According to a leaked letter seen by the Sporting Intelligence website, Hunt told the club's owners in December that it was time for Kean, 44, to leave.

However, Sporting Intelligence editor Nick Harris told the BBC the leak did not come from Hunt.

Rovers confirmed that Hunt had left Ewood Park on Thursday but Kean says he is at the club "for the long term".

Kean also told a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that he still has control of the dressing room, and that owners Venky's are "100%" right for the club.

He refused to comment on Hunt.

In the leaked letter, Hunt expressed the view that Kean's tenure "isn't working" and "is ready to go".

His departure comes days after the club were relegated from the Premier League following a 1-0 home defeat by Wigan.

Harris said Hunt was not responsible for his website obtaining the letter.

"Normally journalists don't reveal their sources but on this occasion I would like to say, unequivocally, that I didn't receive that letter from Paul Hunt," he said.

"If they sack him for leaking that letter to me, they have got the wrong man."

Kean's reign has been a troubled one, with many Blackburn fans unhappy with the way he has managed the team.

The Scot took over as manager in December 2010 following the sacking of Sam Allardyce.

Venky's, Rovers' Indian owners, have also come in for heavy criticism for their running of the Lancashire club.

Hunt's letter indicates he had serious concerns about the Premier League side's direction before Christmas.

"He [Kean] has lost the crowd and as a result of this evening's game [2-1 loss to Bolton on 20 December] has lost the dressing room as well - the players no longer want to play for him," wrote Hunt.

"It is a shame and disappointing but we must act now to save the club. The board should be asked their opinion on who should be the new manager."

Hunt insisted he had the best interests of the club at heart and also detailed worries about finances.

"I have been your senior officer at the club for six months now and I feel that I must now write to you to ask you to make some significant changes to save the club, perhaps from relegation but also perhaps from administration," said Hunt.

"We are losing fans/customers at an alarming rate. I am very concerned that fans are voting with their feet and not attending, not purchasing and not engaging with the club."

Blackburn play their final league game of the season against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Who is Paul Hunt?
He was appointed Blackburn's deputy chief executive in June 2011 following spells as commercial director at Leicester City and Wigan. He previously spent more than seven years as head of corporate sales at Bolton.

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zudomiriku

15-05-2012, 12:47 PM

Manchester City Steal Triumph from Disaster in Best Premier League Finish Ever

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Take a breath. Manchester City are English Premier League champions after two stoppage-time goals against Queens Park Rangers lifted them from the depths of heartbroken despair to the promised land.

It was, without doubt, the most remarkable climax to an English season we've seen.

Only Arsenal's 2-0 win at Liverpool to finish the 1988-89 campaign bears comparison, but the context of City's aching 44-year wait for a title—coupled with their decades spent cowering in the shadow of Manchester United—wins out.

With 90 minutes up at the Etihad, City were unfathomably—almost miraculously—losing 2-1. This was despite QPR being reduced to 10 men and barely venturing into City's half, but for their two goals.

Meanwhile, United were winning 1-0 at Sunderland. As things stood, the red half of Manchester was gearing up for the most unexpected and relished of celebrations. A 20th league title would be theirs—if only QPR could hold out for five minutes more.

By that point, some City fans had already left the grounds in tears. Others were crying their hearts out from their seats. One man was pictured throwing his arms around like a toddler in the midst of a temper tantrum.

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On the touchline, Roberto Mancini's emotions were a mirror for the blue nation. The Italian was beside himself with frustration and anger, willing his team forward with the ferocious insistence of a man fighting for his very life.

At start of the day, City were runaway favorites to win the club's first title since 1968. With five minutes to go of their season, Mancini's team were rank outsiders.

Humiliation and heartbreak loomed large, not to mention the rampant ridicule of every Red on the planet. Had they handed the title to United, City's implosion would have been hard to move on from. And that 6-1 win at Old Trafford would have counted for nothing.

And then came hope, in the form of substitute Edin Dzeko's header—90 seconds or so into the five added minutes.

And then came elation, as Sergio Aguero evaded his marker to shoot diagonally across Paddy Kenny and send 45,000 or so tortured souls into a frenzy of joyous celebration.

With just over a minute left of an enthralling 38-game season, Aguero's right boot had won City the title.

As the news reached the Stadium of Light, where Wayne Rooney's goal had secured United a 1-0 win, Sir Alex Ferguson and players lived City's emotions of the day in reverse.

United had expected nothing, then everything. And their ultimate disappointment will be all the more delightful for City fans to enjoy.

Ferguson had said it would take "something stupid" for United to win a 13th Premier League title of his reign, and he very nearly got it.

But just like Ferguson's teams of old, City found a way. And nobody can deny Mancini's team are deserving champions on the balance of the season.

City have been the best team in England and the better team in Manchester, and Ferguson now has a very big question to answer next season.

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But the implications of "Survival Sunday" didn't stop at the title race.

Arsenal's come-from-behind 3-2 win at West Brom meant they finished the season in third, thus confirming a spot in the Champions League next season.

Tottenham beat Fulham 2-0 to secure fourth, but Harry Redknapp's team will have to wait on Chelsea's fate in the Champions League final to find out which of Europe's competitions they enter next season.

If Chelsea triumph, Spurs will play in the Europa League. If they lose to Bayern Munich, it's the Champions League for Tottenham.

Newcastle will definitely be in the Europa League, after their 3-1 defeat at Everton ended any hope of finishing higher than fifth.

At the opposite end of the table, it was relegation for Bolton, who could only draw 2-2 at Stoke when they needed a victory.

That result meant Mark Hughes' QPR stayed afloat despite the loss to City.

All in all, it was quite the eventful afternoon.

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