2011-2012 English Premiership [R]

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] turned his ire on football's foul-mouthed supporters, after [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] was subjected to sickening abuse from the travelling [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] supporters during [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]'s 2-1 derby victory.

The
Arsenal fans chanted that they wished their former striker had been
killed in the armed ambush of the Togo team bus in January of last year,
leaving Redknapp to describe the abuse as "disgusting".

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] turned his ire on football's foul-mouthed supporters, after [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] was subjected to sickening abuse from the travelling [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] supporters during [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]'s 2-1 derby victory.

The
Arsenal fans chanted that they wished their former striker had been
killed in the armed ambush of the Togo team bus in January of last year,
leaving Redknapp to describe the abuse as "disgusting".

Funny that he never mentions what his team's supporters were chanting or calls it disgusting.

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Premier League leaders Manchester City have announced losses of $307.8
million for the financial year 2010-2011 -- the highest-ever recorded in
English football.

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NOW:
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AFTER EXPANSION:
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I think my GPS is broken. It says Manchester is no longer in Europe

American's influence on the Premiership continues to gain in positivity

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BOLTON
1. Stuart Holden 2. Ivan Klasnic 3. Jussi Jaaskelainen
Where would Bolton be right now if Stuart Holden was not broken? Absence
inevitably makes the heart grow fonder but it cannot be a coincidence
that Owen Coyle's Bolton side began to be utterly rubbish at pretty much
the same time as they lost the class act that is Holden. Elsewhere, the
unheralded Klasnic is at least scoring goals while it seems at times
that Jaaskelainen is on a one-man mission to keep down the score. No
sign of Gary Cahill? That's the problem.

FULHAM
1. Clint Dempsey 2. Danny Murphy 3. Brede Hangeland
We're massive fans of Moussa Dembele here at F365 but he hasn't quite
made himself undroppable at Fulham. Unlike Dempsey, who is not only a
consistent goal threat but can operate from the left, behind a
centre-forward or even as the lone striker in dire straits. Meanwhile,
the whole team looks to Murphy to orchestrate proceedings while
Hangeland has been keeping Fulham pretty hard to beat since January
2008. Martin Jol might be on a mission to change the old guard at
Fulham, but for now he's still uber-reliant on Roy Hodgson's henchmen.

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Google and Apple may not exactly be the first names that spring to mind when looking for alternatives to challenge Sky’s dominance of sports broadcasting in Britain, but it should be no surprise that two of the giants of the tech and online world are eyeing up sport as a way to lure consumers into their new offerings. It was, after all, a key part of Rupert Murdoch’s strategy as he battled to establish his satellite broadcasting operation in Britain at the start of the 1990s.

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Fox is showing [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
the first live Premier League match ever shown on that network. The
match at 10:30 a.m, eastern time, will take place before a National
Football League playoff later that afternoon.

This is no
charitable gesture by the friendly folks at Fox. They have figured out
there is a whole (younger, demographically vital) generation that has
learned to love the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
Italian Serie A and Spanish La Liga because of the growing exposure on
television (and of course over the Internet and some of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.])

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The Manchester rivalry has taken an amusing turn with Manchester
United fan and businessman Shaun O’Brien to divide the land at his
vehicle recovery company, OB Trucks, near City’s Etihad Stadium, into
18,500 square-foot plots for sale in a bid to disrupt a proposed council
order to make him sell it.

He is selling the plots for £250 each (you can get them here if you’re interested: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]). Although a lot of what he’s saying is a joke (comparing United v City to David v Goliath – as if United were a struggling [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
club), he’s got a fair point – he wants City to pay what he feels is an
acceptable price for buying his land and he won’t be pushed aside
without a fight.

And now, thanks to the Internet, he might just be able to fulfill the
5,000 minimum sales that are necessary to make the club negotiate
individually and fairly for each plot.

At £250 / square-foot, the 18,500 square-foot land would be worth
£4,625,000 – 4.6x more than the £1m offer City were willing to pay
before moving for the proposed council order.

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For most normal souls outrage can only last so long, and at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
supporters' fury at the Glazer family's pillage of their club has been
tempered by titles won, the glories of Wayne Rooney, Nani and the rest
in full flow, as well as the passage of nearly seven years. The Glazers
have sat across the Atlantic, not communicating with the club's fans,
and ridden it out until battle weariness has consigned green and gold to
the fringes. The release of impassive accounts for "MU Finance plc" has
become a quarterly ritual, with the world pointed to the growth in the
club's income, from TV deals which would have increased anyway, and
commercial operations the Glazers have required to be sweated until the
brand squeaks.

Yet the latest figures, covering the Glazers'
financial machinations with United for the final three months of 2011,
document a landmark. From October to December 2011, the cost of the
Glazers' "leveraged buyout" of United, when they loaded their own £525m
borrowings on to the club itself to repay, was £17.5m. The club paid
£12.2m in interest and other financing charges, and £5.3m paying off
some actual debt, which nevertheless remains over £400m. As documented
with forensic anger by Andy Green in his "Love United, Hate Glazer" [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
the total drained out of United in interest, bank charges and other
payments before these latest figures was £480m. So the total cash taken
out of United, to pay for a takeover the fans and then board did not
want, was £497.5m by 31 December. In round figures, and anyway now, with
two months further interest from December, the Glazer family have been
responsible for £500m going out of United.

Most United supporters
know this and have never become reconciled to the damage done, only,
slowly, to the frustration that there is nothing they can do about it.
The Premier League, Football Association and government, after unrolling
the red carpet for the Glazers in 2005, have ever since been silent.

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Carlos Tevez marked his first public appearance in a Manchester City shirt for more than five months with a goal.

Striker Tevez scored a second-half equaliser as City's
reserves beat Bolton 3-1 in the Manchester Senior Cup in front of a
1,000 crowd at Hyde.

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But the Argentine [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and could make a first-team return.

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Bolton manager Owen
Coyle says he has held a "brief" conversation with Fabrice Muamba for
the first time since the midfielder had a cardiac arrest.

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"There's still a long way to go but that is really positive," said Coyle.

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Athletes fall down all the time. They
get tackled. They lose their balance trying to make a move. They hit the
ground diving for a loose ball. It's a little strange, when you think
about it. I mean, who just falls down? If you're a stockbroker or
a car salesman, chances are you don't hit the turf during the course of
a normal workday. But in most sports, learning how to fall is part of
your job. It's something you train for.

And most of the time, for those of us watching on TV or in the
stands, this is no big deal. Athletes fall. Even when there's an injury,
we know there's a procedure in place to take care of it as efficiently
as possible. He's holding his ankle, here comes the trainer, they're
helping him off, light smattering of applause. Cue Geico commercial.
It's part of the game.

Every once in a while, though, an athlete goes down and it's …
different. There's no good way to describe this, but if you've watched
sports long enough, chances are you've seen it once or twice and never
want to see it again. A player goes down, and almost immediately there's
this miserable, crawly sense that something is different; something is
wrong. It's a sensation, a sort of tingle that spreads from the other
players to the fans in the stadium to the people watching at home. Oh
no. You can tell when this has happened because within about 10 seconds,
no one at the game remembers which team they're cheering for. Fans on
both sides look on with their hands clasped in front of their faces. The
top half of the player disappears under a dome of medics. You stare at
the player's foot and will it to move. Did it just twitch? Please get up, please get up, no one is supposed to die playing sports, please get up …