March 12, 2009
• Sir Alex let criticism fly in half-time talk• Mourinho says United have good chance of clean sweep Manchester United may have safely navigated a route into the Champions League quarter-finals, but Sir Alex Ferguson was disappointed with his players, accusing them of losing possession "frivolou...
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February 27, 2009
• Club exasperated with Brazilian's problematic attitude• Terry would listen to offer, according to City sources Manchester City are giving serious consideration to selling Robinho at the end of the season and have hatched a remarkable plan to offer him as bait in a player-plus-cash exchange for...
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January 05, 2009
Mark Hughes has identified a small but influential group of Manchester City players he fears are trying to lead a dressing-room mutiny against him. There has already been one meeting at which the ringleaders shared their grievances, and a fringe player has complained about Hughes to the club's execu...
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January 04, 2009
Manchester City confidently expect to conclude another £30m worth of transfer business this week, and possibly within 48 hours, after responding to their FA Cup exit at the hands of Nottingham Forest by lodging bids for Scott Parker of West Ham United and their long-time target Roque Santa Cruz of ...
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December 15, 2008
There are times here at Yankee where I feel that the only platform that anyone notices is the mobile one. But for something as simple as television, the mobile platform drives miniscule audiences and even tinier revenues. Meanwhile, traditional Pay TV platforms such as cable, satellite, IPTV, VoD an...
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December 05, 2008
Paul Ince epitomised a manager under siege yesterday when he claimed to be a victim of English football hypocrisy and of a public desperate to see him and Roy Keane fail because of their notoriety as "snarling" Manchester United stars. After only 19 games in charge of Blackburn, and with a slender s...
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December 03, 2008
Strap a polygraph to Sir Alex Ferguson and he might just be forced to admit that he often finds the Carling Cup a hindrance in an already cluttered fixture list. At this stage of the competition, however, the good outweighs the bad and Manchester United will not overly mind the extra dates in their ...
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November 28, 2008
It all comes back to a variation of the old Mrs Merton question. So, Robson de Souza, what was it that first attracted you to the multi-billionaires Manchester City? Or to use the phrase that has been cruelly bandied about in the Brazilian media, what could it be that possessed you to join the club ...
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November 17, 2008
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the past couple of weeks talking to reporters about the ailing economy and whether or not the slow market will affect the online advertising market. As I’ve said before, advertising spending is linked to GDP, and if GDP drops, so does advertising spend...
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June 16, 2008
You gotta love the progression of the communications bundle. After a decade of getting into each others’ businesses, the cable companies and telecoms operators are thinking long and hard about their bundles. Brian Stelter at the New York Times has written an interesting piece about how interne...
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