Football News & Gossip from
the British Papers
Updated every morning, we bring you a round up off all the
latest football stories which are doing the rounds in the
back pages of Britains newspapers. Of course to keep tabs
on Sven we will occasionally refer to the front pages too!
We will give you a daily dose of football transfer news, transfer
speculation, player bustups, form, fitness, transfer bungs,
mystery investors, badly behavoured players, tapping up scandals,
the managerial merry go round, pre-match hype as well as all
the comments and predictions as the season draws to a climax
and the build up to the FIFA World Cup in Germany 2006 begins.
Tuesday Gossip
There is "no chance" that Barcelona will make a
move for Frank Lampard, says a senior club source. (Daily
Telegraph)
Early favourite Martin O'Neill is now behind the English
trio of Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Stuart Pearce in
the running for the job as England coach. (Daily Express)
Citeh manager Stuart Pearce is ready to be interviewed
by the Football Association for the England job. (The Guardian)
Man Yoo will offer Ruud van Nistelrooy a new three-year
contract and a £10,000-a-week pay rise this summer.
(Daily Mirror) If he wants more
games, though perhaps a trip down the M62 to Anfield would
be a good idea?
Birmingham chairman David Gold says Chelski owner Roman Abramovich
is "rude and aloof". (Daily Mirror) Is
this sour grapes due to the fact that both clubs share the
same nickname, and sometimes a few players offloaded on the
cheap or on loan, Forsell, Mario Melshite and Jarosik. They
wont be sharing the same division next year.
Tottenham will battle Celtic to sign 19-year-old Clyde midfielder
Craig Bryson. (The Guardian)
Frank Lampard defends Chelski boss Jose Mourinho and says
other teams "envy" the Londoners' recent success.
(The Sun) Of course they do. No
one likes to accept second best.
Gooners chairman Peter Hill-Wood describes reports his club
will move for David Beckham as "absolute nonsense".
(Daily Star) Yes it does seem like
a strange rumour. If Bergkamp and Pires had to accept one
year deals, it would be a little unfair and be inconsistent
with the over 30 policyto sign Becks on a mega contract, since
there would be a transfer fee and therefore you would expect
the contract would be longer than one year. Still he will
sell shirts. i wonder when will teams sign a top salesman
like Richard Branson to stand on the touchline selling shirts.
Will be cheaper, get better results, and you wont have to
have him kicking a single ball in anger. Plus he does not
need to be match fit!
Northern Ireland boss Chris Coleman has "told pals" he does
not fear getting the sack. (The Sun) He
also told his wife that he does not fear getting in the sack!
The Republic of Ireland have appealed to Fifa as they hope
Kevin Nolan will be made available for them. (Daily Telegraph)
England play him quick - he must
have an Irish grandfather!!!
Celtic are to ask permission for all of their players to
wear the number seven in Sunday's CIS Cup final in a tribute
to Jimmy Johnstone. (Daily Record) The
referee will have to be good with faces or the players will
have to be on their best behaviour. Otherwise there could
be a lot of 7s getting sent off for second bookable offences
when its only their first. Still at least the suspension would
be rescinded later by UEFAs policy of allowing mistaken identity
to be corrected.
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Of course most of the gossip is nonsense, but some of it
is true. We at Goal Flashers merely report what has already
been written in the papers and are in no way associated with
the articles as they appear when we see them. You will notice,
however, that we do enjoy speculating on the stories as much
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