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What this is about, is the big clubs taking total control of European football. They are taking the power from the bodies such as UEFA, the PL. Between them they are cementing their position of runnin

simongarnerisgod
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i actually hope it happens,it`ll be a clean slate,all the greed will be in one league and eventually they`ll all turn on each other for bigger slices of the money,chuck them out of their leagues and l

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Why do people care so much? Over to the late Sir Bobby Robson... “What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the televisio

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Tense in Serie A tonight.

Spare a thought for little Carpi who are winning 2nil at Udine.

As it stands it won't be enough. Palermo are winning against relegated Verona.

A mental struggle for them, though. 10 aside. Sutton commentating.

I'd give you all an overview of Palermo's coaching merry go round, but I'd be here til midnight.

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Hibs fans have a pitch invasion like you see all the time, but Rangers are sore losers.

Luckily not a repeat of the 1980 one though.

114 years without winning the cup, losing 10 finals in that time, including a 5-1 hammering by their biggest rivals Hearts a few years ago.

Great game of football.

Reports of six Rangers players and staff having received medical attention after being assaulted by Hibs fans on the pitch. Absolutely shocking scenes and no deserved lap of honour for Hibs.

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What a surprise, Georgios Samaras plays for a tiny club like Oklahoma City now; what an odd place for him to be playing at. From Man City to Celtic to West Brom to some Arab league now to OK City.

http://uk.soccerway.com/players/georgios-samaras/2862/ And I watched some of this game. It still looks like he played for Greece this year on their national team.

Good hearted player though, I wish him the best; he did some sort of real charitable thing I think at that World Cup in Brazil a few years ago.

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Joe Cole, beautiful bicycle kick on Saturday.

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/13732/extra-time/2016/07/16/25697452/joe-cole-scores-with-incredible-overhead-finish

34 and currently playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies; maybe these fellows get long in the tooth but what a goal! What talent. This is amazing and the film clip is at the above link.

Maybe the players slow down, fall out of favour or maybe somehow he went for a better salary, the crowd is not big, see background below but whatever it is, impressive. I know, it's more like where these players go to finish their careers.

I think in the heyday of the NASL, North American Soccer League when people like Pele, Beckenbauer, Bobby Moore and others went to play, Tampa Bay Rowdies were a good team. Moore may have played for them in the '70s but in the meantime, most of those teams totally went under and out of business.

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Tampa Bay 3 0 Puerto Rico

http://tbtpics.tampabay.com/sports/soccer/joe-coles-bicycle-kick-goal-lifts-rowdies/2285695

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I think in the heyday of the NASL, North American Soccer League when people like Pele, Beckenbauer, Bobby Moore and others went to play, Tampa Bay Rowdies were a good team. Moore may have played for them in the '70s but in the meantime, most of those teams totally went under and out of business.

And let's not forget that Ken Furphy and at least two of his Rovers side were prominent in USA football in that era - Tony Field and David Bradford. I may be wrong but I seem to recall that Field played alongside Pele?

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And let's not forget that Ken Furphy and at least two of his Rovers side were prominent in USA football in that era - Tony Field and David Bradford. I may be wrong but I seem to recall that Field played alongside Pele?

and Beckenbauer , just behind Field in this line up pic

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http://www.gettyimages.com.au/event/robert-riger-archive-2010-95893854#-picture-id99157535

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Duncan Mckenzie left Rovers to try his luck in the NASL, first with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Roughnecks_(1978%E2%80%931984) and then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sting

Just finished reading his autobiog 'The Last Fancy Dan'. Although he said he enjoyed his time here, he didn't seem to like Rovers fans, who he called 'dour' and having 'a negative attitude' (was this board going in the late '70's?!) . He relates a story of one old bloke telling him ' Whe you can see Darwin Hill it's a sign of rain, and when you can't it's already raining' Shocking anecdote, and he spelt Darwen wrong.

He also relates a story about the Board not stumping up the cash for a 'players pool for spending money' on an end of season promotion-winning jaunt to Majorca, and Jimmy Branagan having to have a whip round all the players. Early in the trip Garner was getting in late hammered and singing loudly in the hotel and generally making a 'nuisance of himself' so Howard Kendall threatened to send him home (and tell the local press). At the end of the week in the airport Kendall congratulated Garner on not behaving badly for the rest of the break. Garner informed him he'd just slept on the beach all week instead! The 'lads cracked up'. That's the best bit of the book. The legend of Sir Simon. :rover:

McKenzie said he left cos HK needed to bring another striker in but had to let someone go to finance it. HK described the boards decision as a 'hammer blow'. Who did we bring in and did it cost us a consecutive promotion?

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Duncan Mckenzie left Rovers to try his luck in the NASL, first with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Roughnecks_(1978%E2%80%931984) and then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sting

Just finished reading his autobiog 'The Last Fancy Dan'. Although he said he enjoyed his time here, he didn't seem to like Rovers fans, who he called 'dour' and having 'a negative attitude' (was this board going in the late '70's?!) . He relates a story of one old bloke telling him ' Whe you can see Darwin Hill it's a sign of rain, and when you can't it's already raining' Shocking anecdote, and he spelt Darwen wrong.

He also relates a story about the Board not stumping up the cash for a 'players pool for spending money' on an end of season promotion-winning jaunt to Majorca, and Jimmy Branagan having to have a whip round all the players. Early in the trip Garner was getting in late hammered and singing loudly in the hotel and generally making a 'nuisance of himself' so Howard Kendall threatened to send him home (and tell the local press). At the end of the week in the airport Kendall congratulated Garner on not behaving badly for the rest of the break. Garner informed him he'd just slept on the beach all week instead! The 'lads cracked up'. That's the best bit of the book. The legend of Sir Simon. :rover:

McKenzie said he left cos HK needed to bring another striker in but had to let someone go to finance it. HK described the boards decision as a 'hammer blow'. Who did we bring in and did it cost us a consecutive promotion?

Viv Busby possibly? Funnily enough he came from Tulsa Roughnecks who McKenzie went to

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Viv Busby possibly? Funnily enough he came from Tulsa Roughnecks who McKenzie went to

Cheers. Could well have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Busby listed as playing for us between 1981-82.

Viv wasn't the greatest signing, 8 games 1 goal. He had a long career in management and coaching after he hung up his boots, survived cancer and then went off to retire in Spain. Every credit.

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Unfortunately this is what happens when you put high quality footballers on a pitch with low quality footballers. Anyone who has played 5/7/11 a side against even a league 1 striker will tell you the difference in quality.

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