|
|
|
|
Arsenal F.C.
Manager:
Arsene
Wenger
|
|
The Gunners |
|
|
60,000 |
Arsenal
-
Emirates Stadium,
Ashburton Grove, ,London. N5 1BU
Telephone
No: 0207 619 5003
Fax No: 0207 704 4001
Ticket Office: 0207 619 5000
24 Hour Ticket Info: 0207 704 4242
Stadium Tours: 0207 619 5000
Fixture List
2009/10
|
www.arsenal
.com |
Aston Villa
F.C.
Manager: Martin O'Neil
|
|
The
Villans |
|
|
43,000 |
Aston
Villa
- Villa Park
Trinity
Road Birmingham. B6 6HE
Main
Telephone
No: 0121 327 2299
Main Fax No: 0121 322 2107
Ticket Office: 0800
612
0970
Ticket Office Fax: 0800 612 0977
Stadium Tours: 0800 612 0970
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
www.avfc
.co.uk |
Birmingham City
Manager:
Alex McLeish
|
|
Blues
|
|
|
30,009 |
Birmingham City - St Andrew's Stadium
St. Andrew's Stadium, St
Andrew's Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4NH
Telephone : 0844 557 1875
Email: reception@bcfc.com
St Andrew's stadium was built in 1906 to replace the Muntz Street
ground.
Fixture
List 2009/10
|
Birmingham City |
Blackburn
Rovers F.C.
Manager: Sam Allardyce
|
|
Rovers |
|
|
31,367 |
Blackburn
Rovers
- Ewood Park ,
Blackburn,
Lancashire. BB2 4JF
Main
Telephone No: 0871 702 1875
Fax No: 01254 671 042
Ticket Office: 0871
222
1444
Fixture List
2009/10
|
www.rovers.
co.uk |
Bolton
Wanderers
Manager:
Owen Coyle
|
|
The Trotters |
|
|
28,000 |
Bolton
Wanderers
- Reebok Stadium
Burnden Way, Lostock,
Bolton, Lancashire. SE7 8BL
Main
Telephone
No: 01204 673 673
Main Fax No: 01204 673 773
Ticket Office: 0871 871 2932
Ticket Office Fax: 0871 871 8183
Stadium Tours: 01204 673 650
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
www.bwfc.
co.uk |
Burnley
Manager :
Brian Laws
|
|
The
Clarets |
|
|
22,546 |
Burnley - Turf Moor
Harry Potts
Way, Burnley, Lancashire, BB10 4BX
Telephone: 0871 221 1882
Email: info@burnleyfc.com
The home of Burnley FC since 1883, Turf Moor
is one fo the oldest
football grounds still in use in the United Kingdom. It has hosted one
FA Cup semi-final, when Huddersfield Town beat Notts County 3-1 in
1922.
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
Burnley |
Chelsea F.C.
Manager:
Carlo
Ancelloti
|
|
The Blues |
|
 |
42,440 |
Chelsea
-
Stamford Bridge
Fulham Road, London. SW16 1HS
Main Telephone
No: 0871 984 1955
Fax No: 020 7381 4831
Ticket Office: 0871 984 1905
(Outside
UK:
00 44 207 915 2900)
Stadium Tours: 0871 984 1955
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
www.chelseafc.
co.uk |
Everton F.C.
Manager:
David Moyes
|
|
The
Toffees |
|
|
40,170 |
Everton
-
Goodison Park
Goodison
Road, Liverpool. L4 4EL
Main
Telephone No: 0870 442 1878
Fax No: 0151 286 9112
Ticket Office: 0870 442 1878
Ground Tours: 0151 330 2305
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.evertonfc.tv |
Fulham F.C.
Manager: Roy Hodgson
|
|
The Cottagers |
|
|
19,250 |
Fulham
-
Craven Cottage
Stevenage Road,
Fulham, London. SW6 6HH
Main
Telephone
No: 0870 442 1222
Fax No: 0207 384 4715
Ticket Office: 0870
442
1234
Ticket Office Fax No: 0207
384 4810
Fixture
List 2009/10
|
www.fulhamfc.com
|
Hull City
Manager:
Phil Brown
|
|
The Tigers |
|
|
25,504
|
Hull
City
- Kingston Community Stadium
The Circle, Walton St, Hull, HU3 6HU
Main Telephone No:
0870 837 0003
Fax No: 01482 304 882
Ticket Office: 0870 837 0004
Ticket Office Fax: 01482 304 923
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.hullcityafc.net |
Liverpool
F.C.
Manager: Rafael Benitez
|
|
The
Reds |
|
|
45,400 |
Liverpool
-
Anfield
Anfield
Road, Anfield, Liverpool. L4 0TH
Main
Telephone No: 0151-263-2361
Main Fax No: 0151-260-8813
Ticket Office: 0870-220-2345
Ticket Office Fax: 0151-261-1416
Ground Tours: 0151-260-6677
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.liverpoolfc.tv |
Manchester
City F.C.
Manager:
Roberto Mancini
|
|
Blues |
|
|
48,500 |
Manchester
City
- City of Manchester Stadium
SportCity,
Manchester. M11 3FF
Main
Telephone No: 0870 062 1894
Main Fax No: 0161 438 7999
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
www.mcfc.co.uk |
Manchester
United F.C.
Manager: Sir Alec Ferguson
|
|
The
Red
Devils |
|
 |
67,500 |
Manchester
Utd
- Old Trafford
Sir Matt
Busby Way, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0RA
Main
Telephone No: 0870-442-1994
Fax No: 0161-868-8804
Ticket Office (Sales): 0870-442-1999
Ticket Office (Enquiries):
0870-442-1994
Stadium Tours: 0870-442-1994
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.manutd.com |
Championship
Middlesborough
Manager :
Gordon Strachan
|
No
Pic |
Boro or Ironsiders |
|
|
35,100 |
Middlesbrough
-
Riverside Stadium
Middlesbrough,
Cleveland. TS3 6RS
Telephone
No: 0844 499 6789
Main Fax No: 01642 757 690
Ticket Office: 0844
499
1234
Ticket Office Fax: 01642
757 693
Stadium Tours: 0844
499
6789
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
www.mfc.co.uk |
Championship
Newcastle
United
Manager:
Chris Hughton
|
No
Pic |
The
Magpies |
|
|
52,219 |
Newcastle
Utd
- St James' Park
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. NE1 4ST
Main
Telephone
No: 0191-201-8400
Fax No: 0191-201-8600
Ticket Office: 0191-261-1571
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.nufc.co.uk |
Portsmouth
F.C.
Manager:
Avram Grant
|
|
Pompey |
|
|
19,400 |
Frogmore Road,
Southsea, Hampshire. PO4 8RA
Main
Telephone No: 02392 731204
Main Fax No: 02392 734129
Ticket Office: 0844
847
1898
Ticket Office Fax: 0871
230 1899
Fixture
List
2009/10
|
www.pompeyfc.co.uk
|
Stoke
City
Manager:
Tony Pullis
|
|
The
Potters
|
|
|
28,383
|
Stoke
City
- The Britannia Stadium
Stanley Matthews Way,
Stoke On Trent, ST44EG
Main
Telephone
No: 01782-592-222
Main Fax No:
01782-592-221
Ticket Office: 0871-663-2007
Ticket Office Fax:
01782-592-201
Fixture
List 209/10
|
|
Sunderland
Manager:
Steve Bruce |
|
The Black Cats |
|
|
49,000 |
, Sunderland,
SR5 1SU
Main Telephone Number: 0871 911 1200
Main Fax No: 0191 551 5123
Ticket Office: 0871
911
1973
Ticket Office Fax No: 0191 551 5150
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.safc.com |
Tottenham
Hotspur
Manager:
Harry Rednapp
|
|
The Spurs |
 |
 |
36,200 |
Tottenham
Hotspur
- White Hart Lane
Bill Nicholson Way,
748 High Road, London, Middlesex.
N17 0AP
Main Telephone No: 0844 499 5000
Main Fax No: 020
8365 5005
Ticket Office:
0844 844 0102
Fixture
List
2009/10 |
www.spurs.co.uk |
Championship
West Bromwich Albion
Manager:
Roberti Di Matteo
|
No
Pic |
The Baggies |
|
|
28,003 |
Halfords Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B71
4LF
Main Telephone No: 0871 271 1100
Main
Fax No: 0871 271 9861
Ticket Office: 0871 271 9780
Ticket Office Fax
No: 0871 271
Fixtures List 2009/10
|
www.wba.co.uk |
West Ham
United
Manager:
Jean Franco Zola
|
|
The Hammers |
|
|
30,056 |
West
Ham
Utd - Upton Park
, Green Street,
London. E13 9AZ
Main
Telephone No: 020 8548 2748
Fax No: 020 8548 2758
Ticket Office: 0870 112 2700
Fixture List 2009/10
|
www.whufc.co.uk |
Wigan
Athletic F.C.
Manager:
Roberto Martinez
|
 |
Latics |
|
|
25,000 |
Wigan
Athletic
- JJB Stadium
Loire
Drive, Robin Park, Wigan, Lancashire. WN5 0UZ
Main
Telephone
No: 01942 774 000
Fax No: 01942 770 477
Ticket Office: 0871 663 3552
Fixtures
2009/10
|
www.wiganlatics.co.uk |
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Manager:
Mick McCarthy
|
|
Wolves
|
|
|
28,525 |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers
- Molineux
Molineux Stadium, Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton, WV1 4QR
Telephone: 0870 222 2220
Email: info@wolves.co.uk
The home of Wolverhampton Wanderers since
1889, The Molineux was one
of the first grounds in the country to install floodlights and went on
to host some of the first European club games in the 1950s.
Fixtures
2009/10
|
Wolverhampton
Wanderers |
|
English Football Hall of Fame inductees
| The National
Football Museum is a museum in Preston, Lancashire, England, founded to
preserve, conserve and interpret several important collections of Association Football memorabilia. It
was built outside Deepdale
as the stadium is, as of 2008, the oldest continuously used football
league ground in the world. The trustees have voted to move the museum
to the Urbis exhibition
centre in Manchester, with Preston
becoming a secondary site. However, this depends on funding from
Manchester City Council and the North West
Development Agency. The FA, however,
are reported to be committed to spending around £10million on a
state-of-the-art museum at Wembley by 2011.
Its president is
Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton. English Football
Hall of Fame is housed at the museum |
| Tony Adams |
Liam
Brady |
Stan
Cullis |
Alan
Hansen |
Tommy
Lawton |
Bill Nicholson |
Bill
Shankly |
Ian
Wright |
| Viv
Anderson |
Billy
Bremner |
Kenny Dalglish |
Johnny
Haynes |
Gary
Lineker |
Bob
Paisley |
Alan
Shearer |
Gianfranco Zola |
| Alan Ball, Jr. |
Matt
Busby |
Dixie
Dean |
Glenn
Hoddle |
Nat
Lofthouse |
Lily
Parr |
Peter
Shilton |
|
| Debbie Bampton |
Eric
Cantona |
Peter Doherty |
Mark
Hughes |
Sue
Lopez |
Martin
Peters |
Graeme Souness |
|
| Gordon
Banks |
Philip
Carter |
Duncan Edwards |
Roger
Hunt |
Dave Mackay |
Hope
Powell |
Marieanne Spacey |
|
| John Barnes |
Herbert Chapman |
Alex
Ferguson |
Geoff
Hurst |
Frank McLintock |
Niall
Quinn |
Nobby
Stiles |
|
| Cliff
Bastin |
John
Charles |
Tom
Finney |
Alex James |
Wilf
Mannion |
Alf
Ramsey |
Bert Trautmann |
|
| Colin
Bell |
Bobby Charlton |
Paul Gascoigne |
Pat
Jennings |
Stanley Matthews |
Don
Revie |
Karen Walker |
|
| Dennis Bergkamp |
Jack
Charlton |
Ryan
Giggs |
Roy
Keane |
Billy Meredith |
Bobby
Robson |
Arsène Wenger |
|
| George
Best |
Brian
Clough |
Dario
Gradi |
Kevin
Keegan |
Jackie Milburn |
Bryan
Robson |
Arthur Wharton |
|
| Danny Blanchflower |
Pauline
Cope |
Jimmy
Greaves |
Howard Kendall |
Bobby
Moore |
Ian Rush |
Walter Winterbottom |
|
| Sepp
Blatter |
Gillian Coultard |
Ron
Greenwood |
Denis
Law |
Stan Mortensen |
Peter Schmeichel |
Billy Wright |
|
TV
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Football Writers' Association
Footballer of the Year
Football
Writers' Association Footballer of the Year (often called the FWA
Footballer of the Year, or in England simply the Footballer of the
Year) is an annual award given to the player who is adjudged to have
been the best of the season in English football. The award has been
presented since the 1947–48 season, when the inaugural winner was
Blackpool winger Stanley Matthews. The latest winner of the award as of
2008-09 is Steven Gerrard of Liverpool. Eight players have won the
award on more than one occasion, the most recent being Cristiano
Ronaldo, who won his second award in the 2007–08 season.
The winner is
selected by a vote amongst the members of the Football Writers'
Association (FWA), which comprises around 400 football journalists
based throughout England. The award was instigated at the suggestion of
Charles Buchan, a former professional footballer turned journalist and
one of the Association's founders. The change in English Football is
shown in that until 194-5 Only two footballers from outside the UK
& Eire had won. Since then 11 European Footballers have won and
only 4 from the UK & Eire. Back in 1955 when Chelsea applied to be
the first English team to play in the European Cup the Football League
refused them. For the Football League read Alan Hardaker, Secretary and
unbending autocrat, who said that he didn’t like dealing with football
in Europe: “Too many wogs and Dagoes”. His attitude was supremely
negative and self-aggrandising, probably influenced by the fear that
his own competition would be overshadowed by the new one. How very
right he was!
|
| Year |
Nationality |
Player |
Club |
| 1947–48 |
ENG
 |
Stanley Matthews |
Blackpool |
| 1948–49 |
IRE
 |
Carey,
JohnnyJohnny
Carey |
Manchester United |
| 1949–50 |
ENG
|
Mercer,
JoeJoe
Mercer |
Arsenal |
| 1950–51 |
ENG
|
Johnston,
HarryHarry Johnston |
Blackpool |
| 1951–52 |
ENG
|
Wright,
BillyBilly Wright |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
| 1952–53 |
ENG
|
Lofthouse,
NatNat
Lofthouse |
Bolton Wanderers |
| 1953–54 |
ENG
|
Finney,
TomTom
Finney |
Preston North End |
| 1954–55 |
ENG
|
Revie,
DonDon
Revie |
Manchester City |
| 1955–56 |
GER
 |
Trautmann,
BertBert Trautmann |
Manchester City |
| 1956–57 |
ENG
|
Finney,
TomTom
Finney |
Preston North End |
| 1957–58 |
NIR
 |
Blanchflower,
DannyDanny Blanchflower |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1958–59 |
ENG
|
Owen,
SydSyd Owen |
Luton Town |
| 1959–60 |
ENG
|
Slater,
BillBill
Slater |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
| 1960–61 |
NIR
|
Blanchflower,
DannyDanny Blanchflower |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1961–62 |
ENG
|
Adamson,
JimmyJimmy
Adamson |
Burnley |
| 1962–63 |
ENG
|
Matthews,
StanleyStanley Matthews |
Stoke City |
| 1963–64 |
ENG
|
Moore,
BobbyBobby
Moore |
West Ham United |
| 1964–65 |
SCO
 |
Collins,
BobbyBobby
Collins |
Leeds United |
| 1965–66 |
ENG
|
Charlton,
BobbyBobby Charlton |
Manchester United |
| 1966–67 |
ENG
|
Charlton,
JackJack
Charlton |
Leeds United |
| 1967–68 |
NIR
|
Best,
GeorgeGeorge
Best |
Manchester United |
| 1968–69 |
ENG
|
Book,
TonyTony
Book (joint
winner) |
Manchester City |
| 1968–69 |
SCO
|
Dave MackayDave Mackay
(joint winner) |
Derby County |
| 1969–70 |
SCO
|
Bremner,
BillyBilly
Bremner |
Leeds United |
| 1970–71 |
SCO
|
McLintock,
FrankFrank McLintock |
Arsenal |
| 1971–72 |
ENG
|
Banks,
GordonGordon
Banks |
Stoke City |
| 1972–73 |
NIR
|
Jennings,
PatPat
Jennings |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1973–74 |
ENG
|
Callaghan,
IanIan
Callaghan |
Liverpool |
| 1974–75 |
ENG
|
Mullery,
AlanAlan
Mullery |
Fulham |
| 1975–76 |
ENG
|
Keegan,
KevinKevin
Keegan |
Liverpool |
| 1976–77 |
ENG
|
Hughes,
EmlynEmlyn
Hughes |
Liverpool |
| 1977–78 |
SCO
|
Burns,
KennyKenny
Burns |
Nottingham Forest |
| 1978–79 |
SCO
|
Dalglish,
KennyKenny Dalglish |
Liverpool |
| 1979–80 |
ENG
|
McDermott,
TerryTerry McDermott |
Liverpool |
| 1980–81 |
NED
 |
Thijssen,
FransFrans Thijssen |
Ipswich Town |
| 1981–82 |
ENG
|
Perryman,
SteveSteve Perryman |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1982–83 |
SCO
|
Dalglish,
KennyKenny Dalglish |
Liverpool |
| 1983–84 |
WAL
 |
Rush,
IanIan Rush |
Liverpool |
| 1984–85 |
WAL
|
Southall,
NevilleNeville Southall |
Everton |
| 1985–86 |
ENG
|
Lineker,
GaryGary
Lineker |
Everton |
| 1986–87 |
ENG
|
Allen,
CliveClive
Allen |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1987–88 |
ENG
|
Barnes,
JohnJohn Barnes |
Liverpool |
| 1988–89 |
SCO
|
Nicol,
SteveSteve
Nicol |
Liverpool |
| 1989–90 |
ENG
|
Barnes,
JohnJohn Barnes |
Liverpool |
| 1990–91 |
SCO
|
Strachan,
GordonGordon Strachan |
Leeds United |
| 1991–92 |
ENG
|
Lineker,
GaryGary
Lineker |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1992–93 |
ENG
|
Waddle,
ChrisChris
Waddle |
Sheffield Wednesday |
| 1993–94 |
ENG
|
Shearer,
AlanAlan
Shearer |
Blackburn Rovers |
| 1994–95 |
GER
|
Klinsmann,
JürgenJürgen Klinsmann |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1995–96 |
FRA
 |
Cantona,
EricEric
Cantona |
Manchester United |
| 1996–97 |
ITA
 |
Zola,
GianfrancoGianfranco Zola |
Chelsea |
| 1997–98 |
NED
|
Bergkamp,
DennisDennis Bergkamp |
Arsenal |
| 1998–99 |
FRA
|
Ginola,
DavidDavid
Ginola |
Tottenham Hotspur |
| 1999–00 |
IRE
|
Keane,
RoyRoy
Keane |
Manchester United |
| 2000–01 |
ENG
|
Sheringham,
TeddyTeddy Sheringham |
Manchester United |
| 2001–02 |
FRA
|
Pirès,
RobertRobert Pirès |
Arsenal |
| 2002–03 |
FRA
|
Henry,
ThierryThierry
Henry |
Arsenal |
| 2003–04 |
FRA
|
Henry,
ThierryThierry
Henry |
Arsenal |
| 2004–05 |
ENG
|
Lampard,
FrankFrank
Lampard |
Chelsea |
| 2005–06 |
FRA
|
Henry,
ThierryThierry
Henry |
Arsenal |
| 2006–07 |
POR
 |
Ronaldo,
CristianoCristiano Ronaldo |
Manchester United |
| 2007–08 |
POR
|
Ronaldo,
CristianoCristiano Ronaldo |
Manchester United |
| 2008–09 |
ENG
|
Gerrard,
StevenSteven Gerrard |
Liverpool |
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FOOTBALL'S HALL
OF SHAME
Playing
Away:
The A�Z of Soccer Sex Scandals chronicles the antics of the stars
who moved football from the back page to the front. It�s the first
definitive guide for fans, agents, managers�and even cheating players'
unsuspecting partners. As well as recording the latest scandals it puts
the record straight on long-running rumours � did Eric Cantona really
bed Leslie Ash? Playing Away reveals the:60s and 70s bedhopping
of superstuds Malcolm Allison, George Best and Frank Worthington. 80s
excesses of Pat Van den Hauwe, Mark Dennis and Peter Shilton. 90s
naughtiness of Viv Anderson, John Barnes and Bryan Robson.
Post-Millennium madness of cross-dressing Dwight Yorke and Mark Bosnich
and the daftest love rat of the lot, Gary Flitcroft.
|
Plus
the:
Jail
disgrace
of Graham Rix, Peter Storey and Mickey Thomas. Courtroom
battles
of Celestine Babayaro and David Jones. Tragedies
of
Justin Fashanu and Alan Hudson.
And
it�s
not just about players. It chronicles the:
Bedroom
games
of boardroom giants Martin Edwards, Ken Bates and Matthew Harding.
Two-timing
tactics
of bosses like Ron Atkinson, Ruud Gullit and Glenn Hoddle.
Secrets
of
the men behind the microphones - colourful commentators like Andy
Gray, Jimmy Hill, Des Lynam and Gerald Sinstadt.
Read more at :
http://soccersexscandals.com
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Mark Bosnich
|
Adrian Mutu
|
Peter Storey
|
Tony
Adams
|
Lee Hughes
|
Marlon King
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Russell
Beardsmore
|
George Best
|
Alan Brazil
|
Gary Charles
|
Stuart Duff
|
Terry Fenwick
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Rio Ferdinand
|
Stuart Fleetwood
|
Andy Gouck
|
Bob
Newton
|
Luke McCormick
|
Jermaine Pennant
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Ian Porterfield
|
Adam
Tanner
|
Bob
Taylor
|
Terry Yorath
|
Graham Rix
|
Dave
Gilbert
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Tony Kay
|
Jody Morris
|
Mark
Ward
|
Peter
Swan |
David Layne |
Jonathan Woodgate
|
 |
2008:
ACCRINGTON
STANLEY v BURY
Accrington
Stanley
stars Peter Cavanagh, David
Mannix .,
Robert
Williams F.,
James
Harris and
Bury
player Andrew
Mangan were alleged to
have bet more than £10,000 on the outcome of a game between the
two teams. Harris was handed the heaviest ban - one year - and was also
fined £4,000. Mannix was fined £4000 and suspended for 10
months while Williams was fined £3,500 and banned for eight
months. In addition, Mangan was given a£2,000 fine and suspended
from all football for five months.
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Stan Collymore
|
Justin Fashanu
|
Ronaldo
|
Sven-Goran Eriksson
|
Mickey Thomas
|
|
AND
NOW
THE PEOPLE WHO RAN THE CLUBS
Foreign
players
dominate our teams, foreign coaches manage all our leading
clubs and now the
foreign owners are elbowing their way into our boardrooms. I don't
know, they come over here,
nicking our clubs, using the word 'franchise', eating pumpkin pie.
Anyway, we've found 10
reasons why they can't be any worse than some of the home-grown rascals
who have run our
precious clubs.
This is not a definitive list. Sadly there are plenty more where these
came from.
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This list Compiled by http://www.midfielddynamo.com/ |
What was he like?
He rarely spoke with fans.
At the first game of 1981, at
Brentford, he was sat on the team coach when a young supporter leaned
in and said ‘Happy New Year Mr. Lord’. He would have been around 7 or 8
years old and was wearing new scarf, bob cap etc. He was ignored so
tried again. Again ignored he climbed onto the first step of the coach
and repeated his greeting. This time a reply, ‘Get off this bus,’ said
the Burnley chairman.
He did have an amazing ability to upset
people though and didn’t like it when things didn’t go his own way. He
once stood for President of the Football League and was totally
confident that he would be elected by a comfortable margin. In the end
he lost out to Newcastle’s Lord Westwood, a dodgy looking character
with a patch over one eye. People who he thought would back him didn’t
and he didn’t like it. He called the decision a disgrace and said the
problem was the fact that Lord came at the wrong end of his name. "I
wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth," he added.
He always
put Burnley first. On one occasion, during one of his regular
disagreements with the television companies, he decided he didn’t want
the cameras inside Turf Moor. He said very publicly, "If the BBC
don’t shift their cameras from Turf Moor I’ll be down there myself and
personally burn them. They are on the ground without our consent and I
don’t care if even Harold Wilson (then Prime Minister) has given them
permission."
The year of 1974 though was his peak for TV
arguments. He banned all the Burnley directors from Elland Road because
then Leeds chairman had took offence at his remarks about Jews and the
way television was being run by them. The banned directors missed a
treat as Burnley won 4-1. Only weeks before the BBC had to show a
League game on their FA Cup special as Lord banned the cameras yet
again from Turf Moor for a 6th round tie against Wrexham, a
game they won 1-0.
When we complain today about the lack of
positive comment from the media this might explain why to some extent.
Rogue Directors of Football Clubs abound & some stories are
unbelieveable- they include the self sstyled Teenager "Property Tycoon"
who was the saviour of Aldershot Town and Ken Bates who called a
Football Press Conference to announce he was leaving him wife. See more
about Ken in The Battle
of Stamford Bridge
1066/Today
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| No.
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Owner
/ Club |
Details
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| 1 |
Ken
Richardson
Doncaster
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In
1995 Ken Richardson hired two local crooks to burn down the main stand.
One, an ex SAS man, left his mobile
phone at the scene and even the South Yorks plod managed to rumble the
protagonists. Richardson was found guilty
in 1999 and jailed for four years. Other stunts pulled included
attempting to sell the ground even though it was
owned by the council and his eccentric managerial appointment of a
certain Mark Weaver who'd previously run the
club shop. At Stockport. |
| 2 |
Darren
Brown
Chesterfield
|
Brown
came to prominence with his ownership of the Sheffield Steelers ice
hockey team, a dominant force in the
sport. Brown wanted to branch into football and `bought' Chesterfield,
a well run and profitable club, with
money borrowed from the previous owner. He proceeded to run the club
into the ground by robbing them of around
£1m to fund a lavish lifestyle and prop up his other, ailing
sports clubs. His extravagances included
using club funds to buy a £2,500 lawn mower and paying the
council tax of numerous American ice hockey
players. The Serious Fraud Office investigated Brown and he was found
guilty and sentenced to 4 years for his
plundering of the club in 2004. |
| 3 |
Anton
Johnson
Rotherham
Southend
Scarborough |
Johnson
was a scoundrel who ran Rotherham into the ground in the early
1980s before owning Southend, without giving up his holdings at
Millmoor. He illegally owned two clubs and was guilty of financial
malpractice at both. In 1985 the FA banned him from ever being involved
in football again. Naturally he washed up at Scarborough in 1998 after
an abortive attempt to buy Doncaster off our old pal, Ken Richardson.
Scarborough were relegated from the Football League in 1999. |
| 4 |
Peter Ridsdale
Leeds Utd
Barnsley
|
"We
lived the dream". Those words, we think, we're used to justify his
suicidal financial gamble to establish Leeds as a major force in
European football. It failed. Currently they're not even a force in
Yorkshire football. Ridsdale was a self proclaimed fan in the
director's box. He was also a media whore with an eye for a photo op
(see his walk on the pitch to the Leeds fans at the height of his
grandstanding). He left Leeds with a disastrous legacy which he's never
properly acknowledged and after washing up briefly at Barnsley (who
were also in free-fall) he is now fronting the consortium running
Cardiff. The proverbial guy who falls in a dung heap and comes out
smelling of aftershave. Well, Blue Stratos anyway. |
| 5 |
Freddie Shepherd
Newcastle
|
A man
with the looks of Austin Powers' foe Fat Bastard, but without the
charm. Shepherd represents a corporate fat cat mentality that has come
with the advent of the Premiership. He is owner caste equivalent of the
footballing badge kisser, always ready with a trophy signing, P45 for
the gaffer or yet another attention deflecting speech about the
`Geordie Nation'. This odious man really showed off his true colours,
and sadly much else, when he was the victim of a News of the World
sting, where he laughed at the fans that bought overpriced shirts and
slated Newcastle women. All this from the comfortable vantage point of
a far eastern brothel. |
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| No.
|
Owner
/ Club |
Details
|
| 6 |
George
Reynolds
Darlington
|
This
ex-con was a self made multi-millionaire who washed up at
Darlington in 1999 promising to take them into the Premiership.
Bizarrely, he then built the club a superb 27,000 seater stadium.
Staggering, as the clubs average crowd was around 4,000. He totally
failed to bring in the players necessary for progress and saddled the
club with massive debts and a white elephant of a stadium. In 2005
after leaving the club, he was convicted of tax evasion and was
sentenced to 3 years. A classic rags to riches to rags story. |
| 7 |
Douglas Craig
York City |
Craig
first sprang to prominence in 1994 when he became the only club
chairman to refuse to sign up to a
national anti-racism campaign, a stance he maintained for six years.
Craig almost sent City to the wall in 2002
when he `transferred' ownership of Bootham Crescent to a holding
company for £165,000 and then tried to
force the club to buy back the ground (for £4.5m!) or he would
close the club down. A supporters Trust
was founded and after a gargantuan effort, secured the ground and the
clubs future. Craig, of course, made a
massive profit. What was particularly galling was his role at the FA
enabled him to participate in decisions
such as the relocation of Wimbledon to Milton Keynes. It so reassuring
to know that the fate of the game lies
with such genuine people. |
| 8 |
Terry Venables
Tottenham
Portsmouth |
It's
debatable whether El Tel has ever truly owned a club, but those which
he has run have always managed to be
in a much worse state than when he took over. Alan Sugar installed him
as managing director at Spurs in 1991
after he'd failed to land the club with another business partner. Sugar
dismissed Venables in 1993 after an
acrimonious split. He later bought a 51% stake in Portsmouth in 1997
for £1, grabbed as much money as
he legally could and disappeared back out of the door with the club
bottom of the league. The DTI managed to
get Venables disqualified from being a company director in 1998, partly
down to his dealings at Tottenham.
He then settled down to the job he was surely destined for. Ruining a
once formidable coaching reputation
by playing Phil Neal to McLaren's Graham Taylor. |
| 9 |
Robert Maxwell
Oxford Utd
Derby County |
The
bouncing Czech rolled into the university city, not noted for its
footballing heritage, in 1982. Within 2 years he'd shown his commitment
to the club by trying to buy Manchester United and attempting to merge
Oxford with local rivals Reading, to form the ludicrously titled Thames
Valley Royals. To be fair, the team performed miracles under his
stewardship as the astute management of Jim Smith took them into the
First Division in 1985 and then to a Milk Cup final victory in 1986. In
1987 Maxwell bought Derby and installed his son, Kevin, as Chairman at
the Manor Ground. Oxford suffered heavily from the aftermath of
Maxwell's suicide in 1991 and have never really recovered. |
| 10 |
Stan Flashman
Barnet |
Flashman
was a Cockney ticket tout of the old school, operating in
circles, shady even for lower league chairmen. More in the rogue than
villain category, Flashman owned Barnet as they made it to the Football
League under the gregarious management of Barry Fry. He ran the club
from 1985 to 1993 and Fry reckoned he was sacked and reinstated 8 times
during his tenure. Flashman died in 1999 aged 69. |
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