Üldist ja omapärast inglise jalgpallis

[Bob_Loblaw]

Chelseal ja ManU on vaatamata oma võlgadele siiski väga terves seisus, Arsenalil on ka seoses uue staadiumiga kena võlakoorem, aga ega nendel pole ka miskit viga ja siis jääb järgi Liverpool, kelle lood on vist kõige tumedamad, sest jänkidest omanikud on maad ja ilmad kokku laenanud klubi ja uute mängijate ostmiseks ja uue staadiumi ehitamine jääb ka arvatavasti katki tänu ülemaailmsele majanduskriisile ning ega CL-i koht ka enam nii kindel pole järgmistel aastatel, arvestades City rahasüsti ja seda, et suured välisinvestorid ihuvad Evertoni, Newcastle-i, Tottenhami jt peale hammast.

Minu arvates on Platini & co motiivide taga ikkagi peatada Inglise dominantsus Euroopas, sest PL liigub iga aastaga suurte sammudega teistest tippliigadest rahalises mõttes kaugemale ja kaugemale.

[boobek]

Minu arvates on Platini & co motiivide taga ikkagi peatada Inglise dominantsus Euroopas, sest PL liigub iga aastaga suurte sammudega teistest tippliigadest rahalises mõttes kaugemale ja kaugemale.

JURA!

Kui minna nüüd tõsisemaks:

English Premiership braces for fallout from market mayhem

October 03, 2008 Edition 1

LONDON: Fears are mounting that an English Premier League football club could be the next high-profile victim of the financial crisis that has brought banks across the world to their knees.

The global credit crunch is set to make it a grim winter for British business - and a football industry that has long displayed a hedge-fund manager's appetite for excess risk will be no exception, according to some within the game.

Paul Duffen, the chairman of Premier League newcomers Hull, warned this week that his club's highly geared rivals could easily go the way of Northern Rock, HBOS or Bradford and Bingley, the British banks that have been submerged by the crisis.

Hull are rare among England's top-flight clubs in being debt-free, a status their chairman savours in the present climate.

"We're not as rich as some of our competitors are but, in some ways, we are maybe one of the wealthiest clubs as we don't have any debt," he said.

"I think there could be a few casualties in the Premier League later in the season."

Portsmouth are seen as the club most likely to sink under the weight of their rising debt.

It stands at £53 million (R781 million), but outstanding instalments on the transfer deals that enabled Harry Redknapp to build an FA Cup-winning squad mean it could be nearer £80 million (R1.18 billion) by the end of the season.

The club's Russian owner, Alexandre Gaydamak, denies that he wants to cut his losses and sell up, but admits he would "listen to offers".

Portsmouth are not alone in their predicament.

Newcastle's owner, Mike Ashley, is so keen to get out that he has cut the asking price for the club from £450 million (R6.627 billion) to £300 million (R4.418 billion).

Everton are also desperate to find a new cash-rich backer with their chairman, Bill Kenwright, recognising that rising interest rates will soon start to bite.
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At the end of the 2006/07 season, the 20 clubs that then made up the Premiership had combined debts of just less than £2.5 billion (R36.8 billion).

Set against combined turnover of £1.5 billion (R22 billion), that is not an exceptional figure by the standards of other industries.

Where English football differs, however, is in the general lack of profitability born of a desire for success at almost any price.

Of that £1.5 billion generated from television rights and the sale of tickets, corporate hospitality and replica shirts, an astonishing £1.4 billion (R20.6 billion) went to pay the wages that have attracted the cream of the world's talent to the Premier League.

Now the new reality for the majority of clubs is that, unless they start cutting costs drastically, their debt can only go in one direction at a time when the liquidity crisis in capital markets is pushing the cost of financing any form of credit sharply upwards.

Just ask Liverpool's American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who last month announced an indefinite delay in the construction of the club's planned 73 000-seat stadium because they cannot raise the £400 million (R5.89 billion) needed to finance it.

Even Manchester United, England's most valuable but also most indebted club, could be vulnerable to a cocktail of rising bank rates and a downturn in merchandising and match-day revenues.

Not so, say their American owners, the Glazer family, who insist that operating profits are high enough to service debts that stood at £666 million (R9.8 billion) at the last count.

It has not gone unnoticed, however, that recent hikes in season ticket prices have eliminated the long-standing waiting list for a guaranteed seat at Old Trafford.

A sign of the times? Certainly. But United and other Premier League clubs are also arguably better cushioned against any economic downturn than companies in almost any other sector. Their main revenues - from television - are guaranteed for this season and next, and the apparently limitless loyalty of fans makes them hard to compare with any other consumer business.

A full-blown recession will inevitably have an impact, but a bit of belt-tightening all round may be what is required, rather than bank-style bail-outs. - Sapa-AFP

[eston maravilha]

kas ma olen ainus, kellel ajab sita keema see tsirkus, mis kaasneb tottenhami ja newcastle'i treenerivahetustega? alles üks palagan lõppes, kui teine algab, ja nii vähemalt korra hooaja jooksul. ning lõpptulemuseks on sama pask, mis alati.

[mcnamara]

Platini hoiatab.

[acca]

kas ma olen ainus, kellel ajab sita keema see tsirkus, mis kaasneb tottenhami ja newcastle'i treenerivahetustega? alles üks palagan lõppes, kui teine algab, ja nii vähemalt korra hooaja jooksul. ning lõpptulemuseks on sama pask, mis alati.

Veidi mõistlikku juttu ka huumori sekka. Yidsid ja Toonid on eht odavad hoorad, mis puudutab treenerikoha täitmist. See tsirkus lõppeb varem või hiljem mõlema jaoks mõnusa krahhiga ja edasi on tuleb mõned aastad tagasi Unitedi esituses nähtud vabalangus...

[marcello]

Ma pole ju silmavärdjas ega deliiriumis aga miks tänases Sporditähes on Hullist pajatava artikli juures pilt kus Tooni vastu mängides on Ian Ashbeel jalas Tooni vapiga püksid?

[eston maravilha]

kogu tiigrite tiim mängis newcastle'i pükstes tol päeval ning põhjus ilmselt väga lihtne - kitclashing ehk lisaks särkidele ei tohi ka püksid(ja sokid) sama värvi olla. ja kuna hull'i kodupüks on must ning võõrsile kaasa võetud püksid olid tumehallid, siis tuli koduklubi käest abi paluda. seda ennegi juhtunud.

[mcnamara]

Vabandust kui see fakt juba ammu üldteada, aga mulle tundub Liam Lawrence'i vigastuse põhjus - koperdas oma labradori otsa - päris naljakas. Kuidas on Inglise jalgpallurid veel osanud ennast rängalt vigastada? Postitage siia.

[vincent]

no tervitagem siis siinkohal kõiki kuulsaid telekapuldi järele küünitajaid, voodis ringutajaid, varbapuurijaid, pudelipillajaid, koerakuses libastujaid jne.

Kuid ka üks fakt, mida mina seni ei teadnud - aastal '93 mikihiirekarika võidu üle rõõmustades läks Arsenali Steve Morrow natuke katki. Põhjus - kukkus Tony Adamsi otsast alla. mis ta seal tegi, sellest ajalugu delikaatselt vaikib, aga no eks olnud ka natuke naiivne loota, et Tony peale enda veel kedagi suudaks püsti hoida.


aa, ja roy carroll olevat kunagi pärast trenni väravast palle korjates (obviously) võrku kinni jäänud. kahjuks päästeti ta sealt küll õige pea jälle vabaks.

[vello99]

The Date Sunday December 5th 2004. Playing in the Swiss league, Servette midfielder Paulo Diogo scored against Schaffhausen, then jumped into the crowd to celebrate. On the way, he managed to catch his wedding ring on a fence and tore off the top half of his finger. He was booked for excessive celebration.
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Arsenal's Perry Groves was on the bench When Arsenal went scored he jumped up to celebrate only to hit his head on the roof of the dug-out! He knocked himself out and needed treatment from the physio.
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Back in the 70s, Norwegian International defender Svein Grondalen had to withdraw from an International after an accident which happened while he was out jogging. He collided with a moose.
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David Seaman once broke a bone reaching for his TV remote.
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In 1970 the career of Brentford's Goalie Chic Brodie was ended by injury following a mid-match collision with a dog that had invaded the pitch.
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Brazilian star Ramalho was in bed for three days after swallowing a suppository intended to treat a dental infection
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Milan Rapaic once missed the start of Hajduk Split's season after sticking his boarding-pass in his eye at the airport.
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Indonesian star Mistar, 25, was tragically killed by a herd of pigs that invaded his team's training pitch before a Cup fixture in 1995.
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Portsmouth's Johnny "Lager" Durnin, playing a round of golf with Alan McLoughlin, crashed his buggy into a fairway hollow because he was admiring the view rather than watching the ground in front, and dislocated his elbow putting him out for 6 weeks.
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In 1993 keeper Dave Beasant was kept out by a foot injury caused by a falling jar of salad cream. Yes, he fumbled it, and because his hands were full he stuck out a foot to stop it hitting the floor!
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Barnsley's Darren Barnard slipped in a puddle of his new puppy's pee on the kitchen floor. The resulting knee ligament damage kept him out of action for five months.
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Irish International Robbie Keane ruptured his knee cartilage in 1998 after stretching to pick up his TV remote control
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Steve Morrow broke his collarbone after falling off Tony Adams while celebrating the 1993 League Cup final win

David Batty's return from an Achilles tendon injury was put back when he was run over by his toddler on a tricycle.
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Allan Nielsen of Spurs missed several matches after his daughter poked him in the eye
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Alan Wright, Villa's little full-back, needed treatment for a knee strain caused by stretching to reach the accelerator in his new Ferrari. 'It gave me grief,' said Wright, who swapped the car for a Rover 416.
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Arsenal legend Charlie George never fully recovered from cutting off his big toe with a lawnmower.
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Lee Hodges of Barnet slipped on a bar of soap in the shower, wrenching his groin
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Alan Mullery missed England's 1964 tour of South America after putting his back out while brushing his teeth.
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Reserve Liverpool keeper Stensgaard once injured himself in an incident with an ironing board. We don't know if he was ironing at the time.
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Richard Wright, was warming up in the goalmouth in preparation for an FA Cup tie against Chelsea for his club Everton, when he twisted his ankle. He did it landing on a wooden sign instructing people not to practise there.
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Spain (and Valencia) keeper Santiago Canizares was ruled out of the 2002 World Cup finals after a bottle of aftershave dropped on his foot caused cuts and serious tendon damage.
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David Beckham needed stitches above his left eye following a dressing room incident after Arsenal's 2-0 FA Cup win at Old Trafford on 15th Feb 2003. The injury was caused by his manager Sir Alex Ferguson kicking a football boot at him.
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Crystal Palace keeper Alex Kolinko was hit around the head by his boss Trevor Francis in October 2002. Kolinko was on the bench, and Francis took offence when he laughed at their conceding a goal. The FA fined Francis 1000 pounds over the incident.
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In 1996, Grimsby manager Brian Laws broke midfielder Ivan Bonetti's cheekbone after the Italian threw food at him in a dressing-room row. Laws escaped punishment, but they both were forced to make public apologies.
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Shaun Goater injured a foot while playing for Man City against Birmingham in the autumn for 2003. The injury was sustained when he kicked an advertising hoarding in celebration of a goal by Nic Anelka. Goater had to be substituted.
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Also in 2003, Villa striker Darius Vassell injured himself while attempting DIY surgery on his own foot. He had a blood blister under the toe-nail on his big toe and was using a power drill to drill through the nail and drain the wound. Drilling to drain such blisters is not an uncommon procedure, but normally it is conducted by a qualified person under sterile conditions. Vassell made it worse, picked up an infection, and had to have half the nail removed.
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Stalybridge Celtic keeper Mark Statham missed a game in 1999 after trapping his head in a car door. We presume that his absence was caused by a resulting injury (rather than that he was still stuck in the car at kick-off) but we don't know what the injury was.
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Halifax defender Dave Robinson put his shoulder out falling off a kid's slide

[mcnamara]

Eestis ju ometi on ka Burnley fänne? Tahaks neid pükse kellegi jalas näha.

Burnley fans are desperate to buy replica copies of Robbie Blake's pants. The striker dropped his shorts after scoring last week revealing a pair of red pants with the words 'Bad Beat Bob.'
Burnley have ordered more replicas after the first 50 pairs sold out. (The Sun)

[Tofoa]

Kurat, mis toimub? Kui keegi viimaseks jääb siis kohe hakkab võitma! Vähemalt PL-is.

[budu]

Kurat, mis toimub? Kui keegi viimaseks jääb siis kohe hakkab võitma! Vähemalt PL-is.

aga nii ongi ju põnevam kui see alati nii läheks.kuigi ei usu et NUFC seda suudaks

[Tofoa]

aga nii ongi ju põnevam kui see alati nii läheks.kuigi ei usu et NUFC seda suudaks

Ei tea midagi, Aston Villaga kodus mäng. Kerge see olema ei saa, aga ega Boltonil ja Tottenhamil ka kerge olnud

[budu]

Kurat, mis toimub? Kui keegi viimaseks jääb siis kohe hakkab võitma! Vähemalt PL-is.

nu spurs tegi seda jälle läbi sita aga kas West Brom seda suudab?