In the ’80s and ’90s, Manchester City Football Club was not one of the Premier League’s top teams. Their 1976 League Cup victory stands as one of the most recent expressions of their competitive potential. However, business transactions behind-the-scenes often dictate much of what transpires on the field. Manchester City was not blessed with the necessary capital to spend on the best players in the past. In September 2008, these fortunes have significantly changed; Abu Dhabi United Group purchased the team in a late Sunday evening deal. Now owned by …
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Liverpool Football Club: Dire Straits To Say The Least
To say the last 6 months have been turbulent for Liverpool FC would be a great understatement, current owners Gillette and Hicks have driven the company into unbearable debts and are doing all they can to sell it off and selfishly salvage some profit. Previous manager Rafa Benitez came under huge criticism as he led the club into one of their poorest seasons in history. It seems like it all went downhill since they won the European Champions League in 2005. New manager Roy Hodgeson had the odds stacked against …
Hull City Football Club – Tigers Takeover – Done Deal! New Owners Move In!
Once again, the sports reporting outlets are buzzing around Hull City Football Club. Despite reports you may have heard and read elsewhere, the word coming from fanzine websites confirm that Hull City Football Club have new owners with the deal struck during the witching hours, following the Tigers gritty 2-2 with Leeds United at Elland Road just hours earlier. Many established media organisations have been reporting an ‘on-off’ takeover deal is occurring at Hull City Football Club at the present. Yet, by contrast, the fanzine based publications have consistently been …
Manchester United Football Club Fans Are The iest Football Fans
Manchester United supporters are England’s iest Football Fans, according to new research. Female followers of Fergie’s boys, who boast Corrie star Kym Ryder and telly presenter Zoe Ball among their number, were voted the country’s best looking by 1,500 male fans. Second place in the poll were Chelsea fans, who include Sienna Miller, Danni Minogue and Isla Fisher – followed by the attractive followers of Liverpool. Arsenal may be riding high at the top of the Premiership, but they could only manage fourth place, despite having singer Rachel Stevens and …
Chelsea Set to Dominate European Football
There is a new heavyweight force in European football, they are being bankrolled seemingly by the Russian economy, they mean business, and their name is Chelsea F.C. Chelsea Football Club have always been a decent club in the second strata of English clubs. In London alone Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have invariably been ahead of the Chelsea Blues, even West Ham have often put Chelsea in the shade. But no longer, for in the season 2004-2005, Chelsea won the English Premier League title for the first time in fifty years, …
History of Fulham Football Club
Formed in 1879 by members of the church on Star road, West Kensington makes Fulham the oldest club in London. It was here that schoolboys kicked a ball around to each other on ramshackle playing fields that established the English club we all know today. Their first conquest in a Cup tournament was winning the – West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and 12 months later changed their name from the long drawn out, Fulham St Andrews Church Sunday School Football Club to the shorter name of Fulham FC. In …
English Football – Clubs Entering Administration
When a football club finds itself in financial difficulty there is a way it can avoid liquidation and continue to trade as a business. It is called entering administration and is sometimes referred to as going into admin. A team of administrators is appointed to run the club. This is embarrassing for the chairman and directors as it gives the impression they have run the club in a bad way. In most cases, that is exactly what has happened. Some argue the penalties for an English football club entering administration …