lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 28, 2005 at 11:04 AM UTC
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Inside scoop!!!!
Sir Alex Ferguson, frustrated at the delay tactics by Carroll and his agent, took matters in his own hands by calling Carroll into his office and presenting a three year contract to him. He tossed the pen to Roy, but unfortunately he dropped it……Carroll was released shortly thereafter.
Fergie is reported to be partial to Italian goalies, but Given or Robinson are both eager for European experience. I would like to see Given because not only is he a great keeper with big-game experience, he has a presence back there, not unlike the great Dane used to have. Plus he's Irish which gives him the edge for me to be honest.
Yank
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 28, 2005 at 04:13 PM UTC
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I'd demand a better return for my hard earned £! Come on boys, buy those t-shirts so the Bucs can buy some more quality players. Surely we can get some kind of cup next season! Being a Man B supporter is the same as letting your wife loose to shop at Macy's. ;)
Yank
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 29, 2005 at 05:53 AM UTC
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Oh man, bummer! Hee,hee,hee…
LONDON (AFP) - Global sportswear giant Nike could back out of its sponsorship deal with British football giants Manchester United if the side fails to return to its winning ways, it was reported.
Nike has a 303-million-pound (440-million-euro, 553-million-dollar) sponsorship deal with United, but since the 13-year deal was signed in 2000 – the year after the team won the European Champions League – the club's fortunes have waned.
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This past season United – taken over earlier this month by US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer despite an outcry from diehard fans – has won no major honours, and finished a distant third in the Premiership.
"Chelsea won the league this year, Arsenal won the FA Cup and Liverpool won the Champions League, so you could argue that Manchester United is only the fourth-best club in England at the moment," Ian Todd, Nike's vice president for sports marketing, was quoted in the Sunday Telegraph as saying.
He added: "If, for example, Manchester United failed to qualify for the Champions League next season, that might be a problem. We will look very carefully at this situation, as we do with all our sponsorship agreements."
Todd said Nike was due to meet Glazer next month to discuss his strategic vision for the world's most famous football club.
United fans angered by Glazer's takeover have called a rally for Monday in Manchester, northwest England, where Nike and other sponsor products can be surrendered for charity as a gesture of protest.
Yank
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 29, 2005 at 06:19 AM UTC
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Here's something else that could wipe the grin off the smug Man B supporters….
From the Liverpool Echo
The Supergroup of European football clubs today demanded that the Reds be allowed to defend their trophy.
G14, the grouping of elite European clubs, has thrown its weight behind the calls to see justice being done.
Uefa bosses must decide if they can make an exception and allow five British clubs into the Champions League, the top four in the Premiership and cup holders Liverpool.
G14 was the body that forced Uefa to expand the Champions League in 1998 by threatening to se up a breakaway competition and now it has thrown its weight behind Liverpool, one of the founder members.
A G14 spokesman said: "We support the desire to see Liverpool defend their trophy and the matter will be raised at our management board meeting next month.
"We believe Uefa should look at ways of allowing this to happen."
The organisation is made up of 18 powerful clubs including Real Madrid, AC Milan and Bayern Munich - as well as Manchester United (now known as Manchester Buccaneers) and Arsenal - and a formal approach will be made in Uefa after the G14 meeting in Amsterdam on June 9.
Meanwhile, the FA's chairman Geoff Thompson, who is also a Uefa vice-president, has continued lobbying for there to be five English clubs in the Champions League so Liverpool can defend their crown.
His main arguement is that nearly all the 52 Uefa member countries would be given an extra place in the Champions League in similiar circumstances - apart from England, Spain and Italy because they are already allowed four teams in the competition.
The FA believes that is an inconsistency in the regulations and that even if Uefa is not convinced on this occasion it should change the rules for the future.
Thompson said: "We are working extremely hard to try to secure the extra place for Liverpool."
"Our basic concern is to ensure that all 52 countries have the same opportunity. There is an additional place guaranteed should the champions come from 49 countries in Europe but not for the other three - England, Italy and Spain.
"We are saying that there should be a level playing field and that every country should have the same opportunity."
Liverpool will have to wait three weeks before they will know one way or another - the issue will be decided by Uefa's 15-man executive committee at their meeting in Manchester on June 17.
There is some hope for Liverpool because Ufea's president Lennart Johansson is understood to be broadly supportive, and his influence is extremely important though not necessarily decisive.
Mario Lefkaritis, a Cypriot member of Uefa's executive committee, said he would approach the meeting with an open mind.
He said, "It is very dangerous to pre-judge anything. If the issue is raised in Manchester we have to listen to all sides and then make a decision."
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 31, 2005 at 08:36 AM UTC
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Defend the fucker all you want, it's at least another 20 years before you get a sniff.
As for Nike….who gives a toss? I mean really….some other clothing manufacture will be more than happy to take their place….it's all about business, and Man Utd is a huge business
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 31, 2005 at 08:38 AM UTC
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Man Utd boost after Nike warning
Manchester United have been backed by two of their sponsors a day after sportswear giants Nike issued a warning to the Old Trafford side.
Nike say they may reconsider their sponsorship deal - worth up to £303m - if the club continues to under-achieve.
But brewers Anheuser-Busch, who make Budweiser beer, say they remain "fully committed" to the club and its fans.
Bookies Ladbrokes said: "We're refusing to enter into this debate. We hope this matter eventually settles down."
Manchester United's takeover by American billionaire Malcolm Glazer has contributed to apprehension about the future.
Nike's deal began three years ago but it contains a break clause that can be invoked after six years.
Manchester United shirt sponsors Vodafone, the mobile phone group, also intend to discuss the terms of their deal with new owner Glazer.
ratioci nation
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 31, 2005 at 04:25 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Mr Dodgy Slapper:
Anheuser-Busch? That's sounds about right. I think Walmart should stake a claim too.
isn't budweiser the hip beer to drink in the uk?
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 31, 2005 at 07:33 PM UTC
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These scouse *unts crack me up…even the psuedo variety….they crawl from under a rock every 20 years, scrape a victory via penalties, expect the whole European Football Authority to change it's rules because they sucked so much they didn't even qualify to re-enter the bloody competition…and become so full of themselves it's unbearable.
With the Liverscum "let us play next year even though we aren't good enough" mentality….even though the winners of the world cup aren't even guaranteed qualification the next time round unless they happen to be the host nation… United should've won the FA Cup because they were hands down the far better team on the day, but they didn't they lost to a much weaker side on penalties, just like AC Milan did the following Wednesday, but that's the breaks of the game….Ipswich should've been promoted to the premiership because over the season they were the third best team in the championship, but they didn't, West Ham did…again, that's the breaks get over it!
GET OVER IT, YOU JUST AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY IN THE COMPETITION NEXT SEASON Support your neighbours in blue and see you in 2025!
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
May 31, 2005 at 07:34 PM UTC
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Originally posted by general grievous:
Originally posted by Mr Dodgy Slapper:
Anheuser-Busch? That's sounds about right. I think Walmart should stake a claim too.
isn't budweiser the hip beer to drink in the uk?
unfortunately yes, and in Ireland…..
and at room temperature :eek: (puke,barf,vomit)
Yank
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 01, 2005 at 06:02 AM UTC
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You can't change the facts Mank. With all that money spent, the Bucaneers have nothing to show for it. Liverpool may be shit, lucky or whatever term you want to use, but they are still the European Champions of 2005. You and your silly lot can't take that away from them! Come and see me when Man B have a Champions League trophy that can permantantly stay at Old Trafford.
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 01, 2005 at 08:14 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Mr Dodgy Slapper:
You can't change the facts Mank. With all that money spent, the Bucaneers have nothing to show for it. Liverpool may be shit, lucky or whatever term you want to use, but they are still the European Champions of 2005. You and your silly lot can't take that away from them! Come and see me when Man B have a Champions League trophy that can permantantly stay at Old Trafford.
Okay, fine…whatever. Liverpool football club are the greatest thing since toilet paper, especially in the last 20 years. Their record speaks for itself. Congratulations on being the greatest football team that ever donned a pair of shorts. I'm sure you'll be battling giants of the sport such as Charlton, Wigan, Manchester City and West Bromich Albion for mid-table suprememcy next season.
Happy now?
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 01, 2005 at 12:36 PM UTC
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If you were to check my posts you'd find that I was happy scum won, I said I was neutral with a slight bias for scum a week before the match. I was even supporting scum over chelski.
It just cracks me up that because they got lucky, apart from 6 minutes of pure genius, scum fans are acting like it's the hey days of Shanks all over again….if that's the case then why is Benitez dismantling this 'amazing' team?
Everton didn't have two pennies to rub together and finished 4th….so it's not always about the money, although it doesn't do any harm I admit, as £218,000,000 of Chelski's cashola proves. Besides, scum fans as yourself are only using the money excuse because your team doesn't have any…..what would scum do if they had it? Put it in the bank for a rainy day?? Well it's been pissing down over Anfield for the last 20 years. Of course they would spend it, so don't come the holier than though shite.
bags
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 01, 2005 at 01:53 PM UTC
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Woops, this ended up in an entirely different thread! I SO have nothing to say here….
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 02, 2005 at 11:27 AM UTC
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I bet it was Jerzey Dudek!!!
Dropped trophy dents celebration
Celebrating Liverpool players got so carried away after winning the Champions League that they dropped the trophy, damaging it.
The club's museum said the famous silverware, which the club now owns after winning the competition five times, now sports a dent on one handle.
There are no plans to get the trophy fixed, the club said.
Curator Steve Done said: "We decided not to get it repaired because it is part of the character of the cup."
The trophy was reportedly dropped by a player during celebrations at the team's hotel in Istanbul.
They won the competition after beating AC Milan on penalties last Wednesday following a dramatic comeback from 3-0 down at half-time.
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That's Gerrard kissing his own reflection, not the cup….
lwoxley
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 02, 2005 at 04:21 PM UTC
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THE PRIDE OF MERSEYSIDE <img src="
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Everton in talks with investors
Everton have held talks with a London-based consortium over investing in the Premiership club.
The group is led by former Tottenham director Howard Shore, but Everton chief executive Keith Wyness insisted they had only held "preliminary talks".
He said: "We have talked to several parties and always have an open mind about such things.
"But as a club we obviously have a duty to look seriously at any offers that come along."
The Shore consortium also includes Everton fan and London media man Keith Young.
Barcelona
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 02, 2005 at 05:03 PM UTC
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I am glad for Liverpool's catalan, basque and other players and coach from Spain. To me Benitez is the best coach you can get along with Barcelona's Rijkaard and Milan's Ancelloti. He is a good coach and he is humble, doesn't get into the type of stupid behaviour of Mourinho. I hope they get into next year's Champions League.
vansmack
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Re: HEY SMACKIE!!!
June 02, 2005 at 05:08 PM UTC
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Originally posted by O'Mankie:
I bet it was Jerzey Dudek!!!
No doubt.
