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Emotional Swing For Relegated Wigan, Which Could Lose $150M Despite Winning FA Cup05 / 21 / 13EPL Wigan Athletic "stunned" the football world by winning the FA Cup final against Man City on May 11, capturing the club’s first major trophy in its 81-year existence, according to Sam Borden of the N.Y. TIMES. Men "wept" and children "shrieked." Just 72 hours after its shocker at Wembley, t... Tags: United Kingdom, Franchises |
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Blackburn Adimts Being 'Out Of Control'
League Championship club Blackburn Rovers admitted in court that they are a football club "out of control" and being run by "a renegade managing director whom they claim they are powerless to suspend," according to Ian Herbert of the London INDEPENDENT. The club’s lawyers conceded that the lat ...
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Leyton Orient Chair Loses Review
League One football club Leyton Orient Chair Barry Hearn "appears to have definitively lost his long-running crusade to reopen the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium" in Stratford, after his case for a judicial review was rejected, according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. EPL West Ham w ...
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Shanxi Zhongyu Sold To Beijing Firm
The Chinese Basketball Association said Shanxi Zhongyu confirmed on Saturday that it had reached transferrence agreement with Beijing Enterprises Group Company Ltd., according to XINHUA. The club, which will settle in Beijing in the new season, "has applied for transferrence to Chinese basketball's ...
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Documents Prove Whyte Has No Claim
Scottish Third Division Rangers Financial Dir Brian Stockbridge opened the Ibrox safe Saturday night to show the title deeds he claims prove former club Owner Craig Whyte "is on a loser," according to Gary Ralston of the Scotland DAILY RECORD. Stockbridge "has accused the former owner of holding Ran ...
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Angry Wolves Fans Confront Players
League Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers fans "demanded the removal" of Chair Steve Morgan after losing 2-1 to Burnley at Molineux Saturday, according to Rob Maul of the SUNDAY TIMES. The loss "edged them closer to relegation from the Championship." More than 1,000 supporters "surged on to t ...
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Borussia's Win A Financial Windfall
Borussia Dortmund, the only German publicly-owned team, is "enjoying the taste of success, not only athletically, but also economically after Wednesday's 4-1 defeat of Real Madrid," according to Silvia López of AS. The team's stock rose 6% Thursday, up to £3.14. According to UEFA, Boru ...
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Player's Death Accelerated By Doping
The independent report into National Rugby League Cronulla's '11 supplement program "has warned peptides given to players may have accelerated former prop Jon Mannah's fatal cancer," according to Massoud, Hooper & Wilson of the Sydney DAILY TELEGRAPH. An explosive report "has raised concerns abo ...
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QPR To Build New Training Facility
EPL club Queens Park Rangers "have been given the go-ahead to develop a new training ground at Warren Farm" in London, which will enable them to meet category one Academy standards, according to the London EVENING STANDARD. Ealing Council Wednesday night "granted planning permission for the developm ...
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Cardiff Promotion Like Winning Lottery
Cardiff, Wales Council Economy Chief Russel Goodway said League Championship side Cardiff City's promotion to the Premier League is the equivalent to the Welsh capital "winning the EuroMillions," according to Peter Law of WALES ONLINE. Goodway described City’s rise to football’s elite as ...
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Green Makes Deal To Sell Rangers Stake
Former Scottish Third Division Rangers CEO Charles Green "is believed to have told the Rangers board he intends to sell his stake in the Ibrox club to Greenock-based businessmen James and Sandy Easdale in the wake of his resignation" as CEO, according to Stephen Halliday of the SCOTSMAN. The Easdale ...
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