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17 September 11:22:15	The FA may invoke the "Fit and Proper Persons' Test" governing football club directors as a result of "Crashgate" as Flavio Briatore is chairman of QPR's parent company QPR Holdings. More at The Standard.   Evening Standard
17 September 05:25:37	The 'Archer's Bow' - "It is the mother of all fabrication, the daddy of the dives. Think Cristiano Ronaldo, any time, any place." More + photo at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
16 September 10:17:07	Flavio's fall from F1 has fall-out for football. "Flavio Scandal - What It Could Mean For QPR". More at Vital QPR.   Vital QPR
16 September 10:09:45	Flavio Briatore, who openly aims to get QPR into the Premier League, has "left his position as the team principal of the Renault Formula One team after the alleged plan to fix last year's Singapore Grand Prix." More at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
16 September 09:59:18	The "archer's bow" occurs only in a faked fall and is the key to distinguishing a footballer's dive from a genuine fall caused by a foul, according to Paul Morris and David Lewis, researchers at Portsmouth university. More at the FT.   FT.com
16 September 05:57:10	True cost of Tevez: "Manchester City are paying twice the amount originally stated for services" of Carlos Tevez according to The Times.   TimesOnline
15 September 10:19:14	The FA has brought two charges against Emmanuel Adebayor. He now faces "a three-match ban for violent conduct" and "additional punishment of a one-match ban for the celebration that followed his goal..." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
15 September 06:13:14	The chairmen of the Premier League clubs have agreed new rules which will prevent them from "buying players in the transfer market and from increasing players’ wages if they run into financial difficulties..." More at the FT.   FT.com
15 September 05:57:46	The £80,000,000 from Liverpool's shirt sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered will go to football rather than finance - "None of that money will go anywhere other than into the development of the club." More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
7 September 05:26:07	"Elite clubs draw fire for poaching overseas talent" - the Financial Times comments on the "growing army of talented, foreign-born teenagers lured by the promise of stardom in England's internationally renowned - and lucrative - Premier League."   FT.com
4 September 11:07:26	It looks like football authorities plan to have a ban on international transfers of U18 players in place by the start of next season. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
4 September 05:40:48	Manchester United could be next to be hit by a transfer ban according to the Daily Mail. French club Le Havre have suggested that Man U "offered cash to France Under 16 captain Paul Pogba to lure him to Old Trafford." More at MailOnline.   MailOnline
4 September 05:30:42	"London United" - not a football team but a "group of clubs in the capital working with mayor Boris Johnson..." London United is chaired by Simon Greenberg, director of communications at Chelsea. More at MailOnline.   MailOnline
2 September 07:10:18	Manchester City - Sheikh Mansour has so far spent £200,000,000 on players and committed almost £340,000,000 on players' wages. It cost him a rumoured £200,000,000 to buy the club. More at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
2 September 06:34:15	Premier League transfer spending is expected to total £450,000,000 - down 10% on last summer. Manchester City spent over £120,000,000. More in the FT.   FT.com
14 August 05:37:13	'Media Man' Rio Ferdinand (www.rioferdinand.com) is reports on #5, his webzine which is the world's first digital lifestyle magazine - "You loved issue one so much that we had to move office and hire private security..."   #5 Mag Issue 2
14 August 05:15:54	Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole are executive produers (they put up some money) on Dead Man Running (www.deadmanrunning.com). The gangster flick stars rapper '50 Cent' as a loan shark who comes to london to collect a debt. More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
11 August 07:38:41	"Has David Beckham's American dream turned into a nightmare?" - The Mail on Sunday reports on the decline and fall of Brand Beckham USA.   Mail on Sunday
9 August 10:28:05	Managers don't matter - "Hardly any of them make any difference to results...The fact is that players’ salaries alone almost entirely determine football results." Strong stuff from Simon Kuper in the FT.   FT.com
8 August 11:31:42	Newcastle United is reported to be available for a down payement of just £20,000,000 according to The Times. Current owner Mike Ashely will lend the buyer the rest of the purchase price, now thought to be £70-90 million.   The Times
7 August 06:43:29	"Spurs chairman Levy used club’s shares to get £40m loan" - the Evening Standard reports on documents from collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing leaked to WikiLeaks (http://wikileaks.org).   Evening Standard
7 August 06:42:39	Arsenal FC's 'Charity of the Season' is the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Keep up to date on the 'Be A Gooner Be A Giver' (www.beagoonerbeagiver.org) website. More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
2 August 11:36:46	"Sir Bobby Robson 1933-2009: the bravest knight" - The Sunday Times pays tribute to "football's grand old man."   Sunday Times
2 August 11:36:09	"Newcastle United in last-ditch sales push" - Mike Ashley to lend up to £40,000,000 to a buyer? More in The Times.   The Times
2 August 11:26:36	"Cut-price football clubs desperate to sell" - West Ham now available for £50,000,000? More in The Times.   The Times
31 July 07:15:27	Former England, Newcastle United and Ipswich manager Sir Bobby Robson has died aged 76 after a long battle against cancer.   Daily Telegraph
31 July 04:53:11	Tottenham Hotspur is investigating a verbal attack on chairman Daniel Levy allegedly made by Darren Bent on the Twitter social networking site. "Early on Friday morning, the account in Bent's name was removed from Twitter" -more in the Daily Mail.   Daily Mail
28 July 11:04:40	"You're not going any more" - The Evening standard reports that "a third of football fans plan to go to fewer matches this season..." as the "the average match day now costs supporters more than £100 for their ticket, food, travel and drink..."  Evening Standard
21 July 16:40:46	Soundbites from Sir Alex in The Times - Ronaldo ("huge loss"), City ("will struggle"), Rome ("we threw it away").   The Times
21 July 16:28:01	Soundbites from Sir Alex in the Daily Telegraph - Ronaldo ("best player in the world"), Tevez ("not worth £25 million"), Wenger ("Arsenal are struggling cash-wise"), Terry ("plenty of phone calls going on").   Daily Telegraph
20 July 11:38:06	Having nearly doubled his money by moving from Arsenal to Manchester City, £150,000 a week Emmanuel Adebayor says his motivation is success on the field. More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
14 July 06:27:47	Manchester City - Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz and Gareth Barry in. John Terry and Emmanuel Adebayor may follow as the club "uses Middle Eastern petrodollars to become a global force."   Times of India
14 July 06:14:53	Sir Alex Ferguson says the Manchester United chequebook is now closed. Prices too high or constrained by the enormous debts incurred by the Glazer family? Or a combination of both? More in The Times.   The Times
11 July 10:30:55	The Times reckons that the deal to take Carlos Tevez from Manchester United to Manchester City will be completed on Tuesday. The £25,500,000 transfer has been complicated by the involvement of Media Sports Investments (www.mediasportsinvestments.com).   The Times
10 July 10:51:38	The Evening Standard reports that "Manchester City have been given fresh encouragement in their pursuit of John Terry by the player's reluctance to publicly pledge his future to Chelsea."   Evening Standard
5 July 09:55:25	The MoS reckons that Manchester City boss Mark Hughes and the club's billionaire owners from Abu Dhabi are "preparing a quickfire £200,000,000 spree on transfer fees and wages unprecedented in English football."   Mail on Sunday
3 July 10:56:55	The BBC reports that Michael Owen, now out of contract at Newcastle, is undergoing medical tests with a view to signing a deal with Manchester United.   BBC
1 July 11:33:08	Freddy Shepherd, ousted from Newcastle by Mike Ashley 2 years ago, is now rumoured to be putting together a consortium to make an offer for the troubled football club. Word is that the offer would be £60,000,000 rather than the £100,000,000 asking price.  The Guardian
25 June 09:39:25	Three new Spurs its for 2009/10 all contain the club colours of white, blue and yellow. In addition to the 2 main shirts in blue and white, there is an all-yellow third strip.   Tottenham Hotspur