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No dignity for old men

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Created: Wednesday, 22 July 2009 23:43

Written by David Moftakhar

We are living in straightened times. Gone are excesses of the early part of the decade and now everyone - young and old, rich and poor - is feeling the pinch. In particular the fortunes of those who led the charge have dissipated. Bankers and brokers, formerly on multi-million pound bonuses, now also find themselves in the dole queue.

Likewise, the fortunes of two top managers have followed a similar trajectory. In 2002, during the height of the Naughties’ hyper-active bubble, Sven Goran-Erikson was the highest paid  manager in the world, raking in a massive £5m per year as England boss. In the same year Luiz Filipe Scolari guided Brazil to their fifth World Cup triumph.

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Penguin bars, piggy banks, Porto and other words beginning with P

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Created: Monday, 20 July 2009 13:47

Written by Ian Shine

Penguin chocolate bars each come with a pun-tastic joke about, well, penguins.

What does a mother penguin say to her children when they go out at night? Beak careful.

Where does a penguin go to the toilet? The igloo.

And in homage to the snack that has helped make England the floating fat farm that it is today, everything below will be tenuously linked to the letter P.

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Championship Chase and Folly for Newcastle

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Created: Friday, 17 July 2009 17:31

Written by Darren Douglas

With only three weeks to go until the football league season begins afresh, time is of the essence for clubs to make their final tweaks and preparations. Relatively speaking the beginning of a new season acts as a clean slate for each and every club, regardless of if they have suffered relegation, promotion or mid-table mediocrity in their previous season.

In that way football, and all sports are an endless cycle of trying to achieve. Of course those teams that win trophies, or individuals that set personal records will be noted down in the sands of time of sporting history. With sport, though there are the peaks and pinnacles the difficulty lies more in trying to match and repeat such feats, rather than getting there in the first place. For those for who have this positive 'problem' the only inevitable worry is that there will be a time when being the best is no longer a certainty. Instead there is the unavoidable decline that comes with competing in professional sports.

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No love lost for Adebayor, but do Manchester City know the score?

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Created: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:52

Written by Darren Douglas

Rumours have persisted over the weekend and yesterday that Adebayor will be the latest 'big-money' acquisition for Manchester City. It now seems more and more likely that such a deal will be going ahead, and if rumours are to be correct the money changing hands will be in the region of £20 million. If Manchester City do eventually sign Emmanuel Adebayor it will represent and confirm a shift in their potential transfer dealings of late.

Manchester City should confirm their purchase of Carlos Tevez today and along with Adebayor both players demonstrate new ground being broken in the clubs potential market. Obviously the purchases of Robinho, Gareth Barry and Shay Given amongst others have shown a statement of intent and purchase power by the Citizens up to now. They are all good signings, but for the players the move was either a step-up club wise, or a step-up wage wise.

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