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Former Liverpool midfielder Steve McMahon claims his Singapore-based investment company have launched a bid to buy Newcastle.

The Profitable Group, who McMahon represents, are believed to be one of the interested parties who have tabled a bid for the Championship side.


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From what I've read its not thought that they are a preferred bidder, especially as they have broken the non disclosure clause by speaking out.

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Beckham confronts angry fans



I can't seen him staying with Galaxy for much longer after this.

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Evening All

I'm moving to Ottawa in a little over a month. Got lots of things to sort out/find out etc etc. But one of the most important first of all, can anybody recommend anywhere that shows the footy? Decent bar/pub, with decent beer to go with it?

Thanks

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I assume you are referring to the Premier League....if you get basic cable and add 'Setanta Canada' ($15/month), you'll get all the Premier League games (10 per round) either live or on tape delay, plus some other leagues.

I'm not sure where in Ottawa they show Setanta....most pubs show games (1 or 2 per w/e) and when the World Cup is on, all the pubs are showing it.

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Or you can stream games live online for free ;)

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Try the Georgetown on Bank St.

I believe you can catch the 7 bus from Carleton University O-Train station, or the 1 bus from downtown Ottawa.

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Toon Crisis

Newcastle have made the 'crisis club' moniker their own over the past 12 months but at Brisbane Road, in a pre-season friendly against Leyton Orient, the Toon slumped to new depths in falling to a 6-1 defeat.

Never mind that they've won three other friendlies (one of those 7-1). :p

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Here we go again. :thumbup:

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OMG Please no

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More like this.

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thats a relief

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What's the scores on the doors, David Moyes????

Bring on the Celtic. :thumbsup:

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Areet m8 wer did u pop oop frum theen

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Didn't have you down as a hoops man.............other than the ones on your sailor shirt;)

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2-1 Spurs. Easy, easy, easy.

Title contenders my backside. :rofl:

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and what a shame that the Spanish reserves lost..........they only lost twice last season and still didn't win the title..................:)

well done Spurs

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We dominated them in the first half. 60% possession and 10 -1 shots on goal. An their penalty was lame. Just shoulder to shoulder. Anyway they had been kick the cr*p out of us all game. Bunch of dirty bast**ds.

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I had my suspicions but now I know......hello Spurs fan;)
Check your karma:lol:

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Spot on. :rofl: Come on you Spurs

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How many years have I been telling you that Spurs are the wrong London club mate!

The Boys in Blue, all the way......you know it makes sense:lol:

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Of course, if you're a Johnny-Come-Lately chav. :sneaky:

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:wub:You say the sweetest things honey...:lol:

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ho ho ho, another tropheyless season on merseyside beckons, wait till iain gets on biting.

worrying injuries at the back and unconvincing from valencia aside, not a bad start from utd.

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predictions for tonight,

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-1
Burnley v Man Utd, 0-2
Hull v Tottenham, 1-3
Liverpool v Stoke, 1-1

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I like the Spurs predication. :thumbup:

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i like spurs, we always get them when we need a win and they always oblige.

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Well, that didnt turn out quite as expected, but you were right that Spurs would out class Hull;)

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Well I like all but the Liverpool result. ;)

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Spot on. :D

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Ah - an Arse-nal fan ;)

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No, Oink's a Spurs fan.

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gutted, owen is a donkey, he should have scored last game, and he certainly should have this game, have not commented so far as i really was not sure whether it was a good gamble or bad one, on the evidence so far, bad, can't even trust him with a penalty, unbelievable. all credit to burnley, played us off the park.

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I will give this the "kiss of death" but should the Mighty Spurs win at West Ham on Sunday it will be our best start to a season since winning the double in 1961.

Yid Army!

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Nice one Cyril. :thumbup:

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Kiss of Death: Spurs fans on Sky Sports News talking about finishing "Top Four" :rofl:

You Spuds crack me up. So deluded.

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Rational heads prevail here. But I do think we can do the double this season. :)

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Isnt two games in just a wee bit premature for this kind of speculation. As a liverpool fan, with at least living memories of winning trophies, even I waited until christmas before getting wildly overexcited at our propects last year.


Still, I suppose I shouldnt begrudge a Spurs fan the chance to get over optimisitc, it only happens a couple of times a generation for them...

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Errr, no. Every season is "their turn". They are as delusional as Magpie fans and both sets have a very strange sense of entitlement "this is our year"

Things like this only serve to make the near misses (Lasagne-gate anyone :rofl:) more hilarious to the rest of us.

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BTW- Here's a great little articel lifted from Auntie:

Aston Villa are top of the Premiership, Manchester United 13th and West Ham languishing in last place.

It doesn't quite ring true does it, even this early in the season?
But the league table in question is based not on footballing performance on the playing field but the performance of the owners and boards of the 20 Premier League clubs.

So how were these rankings arrived at and what exactly are they telling us about the Premier League?

'Next generation'

Mark Goyder, of the business think tank Tomorrow's Company is the man who decided Stoke City, for example, should come above Liverpool. He claims it's about something called "stewardship".

"Stewardship means handing something on to the next generation in better shape than you inherited it, and not just the next quarter's results," says the Arsenal fan.

THE 'STEWARDSHIP' LEAGUE 1. Aston Villa2. Arsenal3. Wigan Athletic4. Everton5. Blackburn Rovers6. Stoke City7. Birmingham City8. Hull City9. Burnley10. Bolton Wanderers10. Sunderland10. Wolverhampton Wanderers13. Manchester United14. Manchester City15. Chelsea16. Fulham17. Portsmouth18. Tottenham Hotspur19. Liverpool20. West Ham United

Source: Tomorrow's Company

This, of course, strikes at a huge worry for many football fans; that their clubs are simply viewed as assets by owners without regard to their long term viability.

Tomorrow's Company describes itself as a not-for-profit research organisation which seeks a future for business "which makes equal sense to staff, shareholders, and society".

Using this template Mr Goyder says we should not be looking only at league position and which players are bought and sold.

Equally important, he says, is looking at whether boards "focus on management continuity, youth development, improved facilities, and the club giving something back to the community."

In compiling the rankings, five criteria were used to judge club boards.
These include whether the board is putting the club first - is it using the club to make money or does it act to ensure the club continues to prosper in the future?

'Clarity of purpose'

Also important is the issue of "long termism" - for example, is there a strong youth policy, has the stadium been improved, and is the debt level manageable?

Another measure is about issues of clarity of purpose - who makes the decisions, can the board be trusted not to meddle in team affairs?
Boards must be as passionate as fans

And, something which often taxes the patience of supporters, does the club listen to and respect its fans and local community?

The final criteria is about passion and whether the board is obsessive about doing the right thing for the club and football more generally.

These rankings may well provoke some rather heated debate and doubtless some of the clubs towards the bottom of the league will protest they have been unfairly treated but the point is not simply about football, it's about UK plc.

Not just tactics

Following the collapse of the banking system there has been a lot of thinking and debate about why boards of companies allowed risks to be taken that ultimately threatened the survival of such big names as RBS and HBOS.

In February of this year the Treasury asked Sir David Walker, a former financial regulator, to look at corporate governance in the financial services sector, his final report is due out in the Autumn but in his preliminary report released in July Sir David uses the phrase "stewardship" often.

And this is because it's a phrase which describes not the tactical decisions made on the trading floor but the long term strategic decisions that the board must take in order to safeguard the future of the company.

Mark Goyder hopes one day all companies will be given a stewardship ranking alongside their share price, but such an index seems a long way off and so, like all football fans, he'll just have to carry on dreaming.