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Archive for December, 2009
Happy New Year from ATD!
Posted in General on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Thursday Challenge: And now a word from our sponsors…
Posted in Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This week it’s all about shirt sponsors. Here is your only hint: do not be thrown by “small” changes in a sponsor. For example, if Apple sponsored a club but chose to have “iPod” on the shirt one year and “iBook” on it another year, it’s all “Apple,” got it?
Last Call – 30 December 2009
Posted in Last Call, tagged Last Call on December 30, 2009 | 82 Comments »
It’s Last Call for New Year’s Eve eve. I feel like I’ll be happy to be shut of 2009 all things considered, despite it not being such a horrible year for me personally. I guess that’s a decent theme for the evening, what did you like about 2009? It can be personal, public, what have [...]
Is New Anfield Coming in 2010?
Posted in English Premier League, Financials, tagged Financial Disasters, George Gillett, Liverpool, Tom Hicks on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If there’s one promise that Tom Hicks and George Gillett broke that Liverpool fans really, really want them to live up to, it’s the promise to build a new stadium. Back when they took over the club, Hicks & Gillett promised fans that that would be there first priority; now, three years on, and nothing’s [...]
Halftime in the Premier League
Posted in English Premier League, tagged English Premier League on December 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Premier League season is 38 games long. Every team’s going to play the full schedule by the middle of May; that makes this particular time of year – right before the break for the FA Cup – the de facto “middle” of the season. It doesn’t quite come out that way on the schedule [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, here are the answers to the holiday edition of the Thursday Challenge:
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Adrian Mutu, Alex McLeish, Birmingham City, Bolton, Chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo, Fabio Capello, Financial Disasters, Gary Megson, Hull City, Japanese National Team, Jose Mourinho, Ken Bates, KILLER JELLYFISH!, Leeds United, Portsmouth, Real Madrid, Roman Abramovich, Sir Alex Ferguson, West Ham, Yemeni National Team on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you missed while “The Guardian” was asking the tough questions, like can vegetarians eat jellyfish?
And another one bites the dust
Posted in News, tagged Bolton, Gary Megson on December 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Happy New Year, Gary Megson. You’re sacked. Megson, who was lustily booed after the Trotters gave up a two-goal cushion to Hull City yesterday and ended up getting a 2-2 draw, was sacked this morning. He becomes the second manager sacked in two weeks (following Mark Hughes’ departure from Manchester City), and the third this [...]
So How Was Christmas?
Posted in Whimsy, tagged Christmas Presents on December 29, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Things are, as you’ve seen, a bit slow around here; between Christmas, New Year, days off, families, and (occasionally) work, we’ve all been a little preoccupied. Don’t take it personally; it’s not that we don’t love you, and things will be back to normal next week. Probably. That said, there was a major gift-giving holiday [...]
