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Mansion do pay Spurs 8m a year but then it was one of the new "superdeals" signed this summer by Chelsea, Spurs, Mancs and Arsenal that has seen sponsorship almost double in value. The Carlsberg deal was worth 5m a year and runs out this summer. We're a year out of phase.

It's the Italian version of TeamTalk ...

except it was more like 14m for Alves and we'd then not have been able to afford Kuyt. Swings and roundabouts.

Nah, you've just been consumed by your own cynicism so you can't cope with anything beyond the most puritanical purveyance of cold facts. In the 30 seconds it took Hall to paint the perfect portait of the first half 99.9% of other reporters would still have been waffling on about rotation policy. "A first half of pure Sibelius: sounding brass, tinkling cymbal, soaring fortissimo. Liverpool magnificent. Gerrard on a loose reign orchestrating. Alonso El Imperious. Garcia a sparkling jewel. Fluid, electric football that mesmerised Villa. Kuyt the flying Dutchman lashed the first goal on the half hour. Flamingo Crouch defying gravity tickled the second. The third on 43 minutes a gem. An epic. Gerrard on the rampage, a flick to Kuyt, a one-touch to Crouch, intuitive ball to Garcia stealing in on the left, clinical finish, 3-0. The Colosseum erupted”

to be really pedantic it's: come ALL within, come ALL without ...

A man who is tired of Stuart Hall's match reports and interviews is tired of football and life itself.

There's no pressure on Benitez Oct 27 2006 By Chris Bascombe, Liverpool Echo LIVERPOOL football club have reacted angrily to suggestions that manager Rafael Benitez was under pressure. An unnamed director claimed that the Spaniard's future at the club was up for debate after a disappointing start to the Premiership season. But Anfield chief executive Rick Parry today hit back saying the club was right behind Benitez. The club has launched an internal investigation into the outburst.

And if the international team in question has the best two keepers in the world?

A Dubaian interest in LFC has been going on in the background for ages now - I know RP was always on the ball with it - was first mentioned to me in April 2005 when I was also told Kraft was still involved in talks despite L4 disappearing off. Not really heard anything more substantive since apart from them still being around - think it was Eskimo/RP who specifically mentioned Dubai Holdings first.

injured - Dave Usher mentioned it yesterday.

Babbel hasn't. Bayern won it the year after he joined us (the same season we won the UEFA Cup).

It wouldn't be anywhere near that amount. Arsenal got £45m for 15 years of naming rights.

Not heard any rumours but Rick Parry said just after the Arsenal Emirates deal was announced that it was something we'd have to look at given the amounts being talked about.

The ex-Formula 1 person linked was Robin Herd - he was meant to be behind a "European consortium". Name: Robin Herd Nationality: Great Britain A graduate of St Peter's College, Oxford, Herd began working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1961 as a design engineer on the Concorde supersonic aircraft project. In 1965 he was recruited by McLaren and his first project was a revolutionary test car, for the Firestone tire company, which was built from an aerospace material composed of plywood and aluminum sheeting which was called Mallite. The first car was fitted with an Oldsmobile V8 engine but a F1 version of the car was built and run in 1966 with both Ford and Serenissima engines. It was not a success. His sportscars were successful in CanAm racing with titles for McLaren in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Herd designed the McLaren F1 M7 for 1968 before moving to Cosworth to design a four-wheel drive F1 car. This project was canceled and in 1969 Herd joined forces with Max Mosley, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker to establish March Engineering which quickly became a very successful racing car manufacturing business. The company's efforts in F1 were less successful. After a major sponsorship deal with STP ended, the company struggled in F1 but managed to win one race in Austria in 1975 when Vittorio Brambilla scored an unexpected triumph in wet conditions. By the end of 1977 Herd was the only one of the original owners left. He pulled the team out of F1 and concentrated on building customer cars with great success in Formula 2 and Formula 3. The company made a brief return to F1 in 1981 with the RAM March team but it ended in debacle after just a few months. That year Herd began concentrating on the United States market, winding down his European activities, although the company continued to enjoy considerable success in F2 and F3000. Success in the United States was dramatic, however, with the March Indycars becoming the dominant force in the mid-1980s including five successive Indy500 wins. As a result of the success Herd floated the company on the Stock Exchange in 1986 - the same year in which he was awarded a CBE for his services to the motor racing industry. Herd took March Racing back into F1 in 1987 with backing from the Japanese property company Leyton House. He sold the new team to the Japanese company in 1989 and created Robin Herd Ltd., a design office in Bicester. This designed an F1 car but money could not be found to run it and so in 1991 the company became Fomet 1 and supplied the car to the Fondmetal team. In 1992 a new deal was struck with French team owner Gerard Larrousse and the company became Larrousse UK Ltd. Larrousse ran out of money at the start of 1995 and the design bureau became GenTech (UK) and began doing development work for the Forsythe Racing CART team. That year Herd quit racing and bought the Oxford United soccer team with big plans to rebuild the team's stadium. He also established a company investigating natural ways of producing energy. Neither project was very successful and Herd stood down from Oxford United after two and half years. In 1999 there was talk of Herd joining forces with Mike Earle to set up a new F1 team but money could not be found although in the autumn of that year Herd announced the formation of an Indy Racing League team called March Indy International. ----- Can't find much info on MII apart from a few grandiose statements to the NASDAQ exchange around 2000 and then it all fizzles out. They never did return to the IRL.

The groundshare issue arose out of some comments he made at AGMs late 90s/2000. It was exacerbated by his abstension at the AGM a couple of years back when it was put to the vote. This is what he said to a journalist's question at his press conference on Sky to launch his £73m share proposal: Reporter: There's some speculation that you'd be interested in groundshare proposals with Everton. Morgan: Like any true Liverpool supporter, I would always always prefer us to have our own ground. And that would be the premise of it to start with. The only thing I have said and I've been misquoted on this, I'm glad for the opportunity to state the issue, is that if the offer is accepted, if I am on the board and if I have my [breath] I clearly would have my say, I think you have to always look at all options, but clearly and unequivocably my preferred option is definitely for Liverpool Football Club to have its own ground.

couldn't agree more ...

Try telling that to Tiger Woods as he chalks up his next major. The Ryder Cup is an overblown coporate invitational. It should have the same standing as the Boat Race in international sport. If Clark had lost all three matches Europe would still have won - too much sentimental guff clouding real sporting achievement on here.

Ian St. John scored from Hunts Cross ... also there's loads who have scored from Gerrards Cross which is even further out ...

It's a team event and he wasn't even the best player on the team. Stuff the sentimentality and give it to someone who has achieved at the highest level - Clark is 38 and has only managed 5 top ten finishes in Majors. The Ryder Cup is an overhyped load of nonsense, and giving him the award because his wife died of cancer would be as tokenistic as giving it to Monty because he wears a head scarf.

There was talk that the Bank of Ulster was involved with some sort of takeover talks 2-3 months back.

BBC Worldwide up to their old tricks again? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sduc1HQpNoI 2 minutes 6 seconds into the clip http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=144589.0 I'm sorry to bring this topic up after a good night for the reds. I just caught the last episode (19/09/06) of "The Daily Show" and they used some footage of Hillsborough in one of their features entitled "Papa Don't Preach" (available to see at ComedyCentral.com) in a comedic context. There was about 3 seconds in all, but it just goes to show that ignorance continues to lead to horrible misuse of the tragedy. ---- I actually saw that particular John Stewart episode last night myself and immediately knew it was Hillsborough... and immediately felt pissed off, revolted and upset all in the one emotion because my cousin died there. Comedy or not, meaning to or not, it still f***ing hurt. End of. If someone doesn't understand the significance of the footage, don't f***ing use it! Simple. ------- The footage is owned by BBC Worldwide. They have promised after previous incidents that they would be far stricter in the sale of Hillsborough footage with regards to things like this. You can complain formally here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ and here's some background info: http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/bowling.shtm

that was in Saturday's Post Huyton. All a bit strange as well as it contradicts itself - the Councillor Flo Lucas seems to be claiming there was a deadline last Friday, but then states the deadline is this coming Thursday, which in itself isn't the actual deadline but a pre-deadline in certain circumstances.

So given your lack of sporting knowledge you're not best placed to choose then

depends on your definition of "major sport".

A list of recent winners: # 1981: Ian Botham (cricketer) # 1982: Daley Thompson (decathlete) # 1983: Steve Cram (middle-distance runner) # 1984: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (ice dancers) # 1985: Barry McGuigan (boxer) # 1986: Nigel Mansell (Formula One racing driver) # 1987: Fatima Whitbread (javelin thrower) # 1988: Steve Davis (snooker player) # 1989: Nick Faldo (golfer) # 1990: Paul Gascoigne (footballer) # 1991: Liz McColgan (long-distance runner) # 1992: Nigel Mansell (Formula One racing driver) # 1993: Linford Christie (100m sprinter) # 1994: Damon Hill (Formula One racing driver) # 1995: Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper) # 1996: Damon Hill (Formula One racing driver) # 1997: Greg Rusedski (tennis player) # 1998: Michael Owen (footballer) # 1999: Lennox Lewis (boxer) # 2000: Steve Redgrave (rower) # 2001: David Beckham (footballer) # 2002: Paula Radcliffe (long-distance runner) # 2003: Jonny Wilkinson (rugby union player) # 2004: Kelly Holmes (middle-distance runner) # 2005: Andrew Flintoff (cricketer)