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It was bound to happen. King Kev is no more. The silver haired and apparently mild mannered gaffer of Newcastle United has departed the club after eight months in charge. To be fair noone expected the ex England manager’s reign to last as long as it did.
Rumour has it that he wasn’t too chuffed with the lack of control over transfers and he may have expressed his concerns with the board on tuesday. Not so mild mannered after all, Keegan upset the apple cart (owner Mike Ashley) by suggesting that Newcastle wouldn’t penetrate the top 4 during his reign. His exact words were, "maybe the owner thinks we can bridge that gap but we can’t", blimey no wonder they got …
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Amir Khan’s getting just a little bit boring. It’s been four pretty long years since he starred at the Athens Olympics and still we’re waiting for the guy to fight someone decent. Even Khan himself must be getting more than a little hacked off by the softly-softly approach taken by his promoter, Frank Warren. Warren is taking his time with his young protégé and some would say way too much time. He’s nurturing him almost to the point of mothering him; it was Khan who once claimed he wanted a world title shot by the age of 20. Then it became 21. He passed that birthday last December, and still Warren is picking his fights carefully.
Khan is busy enough. His …
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Man Utd may have finally signed Dimitar Berbatov, but it was their city rivals who stole the show on transfer deadline day with the amazing signing of Robinho from Real Madrid.
The Brazilian striker was expected to either sign for Chelsea, or stick it out at Real – until Man City came blazing in with an offer of £32.5m. That’s a new British transfer record, and Real snatched their hands off. Robinho, perhaps a little perplexed by it all, found himself sitting down for urgent talks with Mark Hughes instead of Luiz Scolari, and now City have recruited the kind of talented superstar which could push them on to another level.
“I’m delighted to get the opportunity to work with such …
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Okay we may have flogged the Andy Murray dead horse more times than we reckon is good for us, but we just can’t help seeing where our boy is going? But this is the US Open what else can we do but root for homegrown talent? We’re sure as hell sick to the back teeth of Nadal’s muscles and continuous victories. Not that he doesn’t deserve them but we often wonder if Murray is doing a Tim Henman on us.
The fiery Scot certainly does his fair share of teeth-baring and he must have been flying by the seat of his pants on saturday when he did his comeback kid routine against Jurgen Melzer. This is how it looked at …
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Arsenal served timely notice to those of us who considered the 2008/9 Premier League title a two horse race at the weekend.
The Gunners´ 3-0 spanking of improving Newcastle United was without question the performance of the season from any of the "Big Four" sides.
Dutch ace Robin van Persie bagged a brace as the north Londoners produced some sublime football to fire the Gunners into the top three in the table.
It would seem that many bookies have written off Arsenal´s title chances because of a perceived lack of transfer funds available at the Emirates Stadium.
But Arsenal director Danny Fizsman publicly stated at the end of last week that "if Arsene comes to me and says he wants a guy and …
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Not since the jellied eel draught of 1952 had there been such wailing and gnashing of teeth in the East End of London Town.
But the day Paul Ince posed in a Manchester United shirt whilst still a West Ham player will never be forgotten by those unforgiving citizens of Upton Park.
The man they once feted as the Guvnor takes his new Blackburn Rovers side back to his old stomping ground and to say there may be a few fireworks is putting it mildly.
Ince returned as a player to Upton Park on several occasions, each time to a reception normally associated with that of the Pope rocking up at a Glasgow Rangers supporters club meeting.
But this time, instead of being out …
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Gareth Barry will be the focus of attention on Sunday where we fancy Aston Villa to beat Liverpool. Despite some mediocre efforts on the pitch the Reds have somehow mustered a 100% start to their Premier League campaign but their luck will surely end at Villa Park.
Anyone who witnessed Liverpool´s awful midweek display against Standard Liege will be fully aware that it is only a matter of time before they are beaten.
Devoid of any attacking ideas, not even Dirk Kuyt´s 117th minute winner can paper over the current cracks. To play nearly three-and-a-half hours against an average Belgian side and only score one goal is unacceptable for a team that has Championship ambitions.
Villa were beaten by a well drilled Stoke …
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What can we say, our faith in the England cricket squad is truly restored and the South Africans have been been put in their place. Yeah, we let them get away with it for a while, our shambolic attempts may have given a false sense of security but it is over - for now at least!
And indeed, Stuart Broad is the saviour of English reputations. The Nottinghamshire lad has come up trumps giving the performance of his career in the Second ODI against South Africa at Trent Bridge. It was all pats on the back from skipper Kevin Pietersen but words of caution not to get carried away in the five match series. He said:
"I’m not going to stand here …
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Some shock transfer news hot off the Beat UK press - Dimitar Berbatov has been packed off to Coventry. We can´t believe it.
We all thought the moody Spurs striker was on his way to Manchester United but it would seem that his White Hart Lane team mates have become fed up with the Bulgarian´s bench-warming, refusal-to-play antics - so they´ve sent him to Coventry.
We love a bit of history at Beat UK and have actually discovered that the origin of the phrase comes from that nasty man Oliver Cromwell´s time.
In 1684 the evil tyrant sent some Royalist soldiers to be imprisoned in Coventry jail. The parliamentary supporting locals shunned them and refused to have anything to do with them.
Fast forward …