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  1. According to reports, Sven Goran Eriksson is set to be named manager of Notts County later today!!! Wonder if Hughes knew that when he was offered a deal?

     

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...icle6721474.ece

     

     

    Notts County will confirm the most unexpected managerial appointment of the summer later today when Sven-Göran Eriksson is announced as the club's new manager.

     

    The former England head coach has been lined up by Arab consortium Munto Finance, which took charge at Meadow Lane last week. The new owners see the appointment as the first step of their ten-year plan, which they hope will take the club into the upper echelons of the Premier League.

     

    County are one of the founder members of the Football League and the oldest league club in the country but finished last season in 19th place in the bottom division. The world's oldest professional club were in the top division as recently as 1992 but have flirted with bankruptcy in recent seasons, struggling in the lower reaches of Division Two since 2005 and playing to crowds of less than 5,000.

     

    Peter Trembling, the club’s new chairman and chief executive, said the club’s potential would finally be unlocked after announcing the takeover deal earlier this month. "I firmly believe this is a momentous day for all those involved with Notts County, particularly the club’s loyal supporters,” he said

     

     

    Eriksson has been out of work since being sacked as manager of Mexico in April. The former Lazio coach, who was linked with Portsmouth when the Barclays Premier League club dismissed Tony Adams in February, was paid about £2 million in compensation after his dismissal by the Mexican federation, the Swede’s third seven-figure payoff in three years.

     

    He is said to have received compensation of about £3 million from the FA after standing down as England head coach in 2006 and another £1 million when he parted company with Manchester City in June 2008.

     

     

  2. Taggart a few months back:

     

    ''Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob?" he said. "No chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'no' by the way.''

     

     

    "Real blame anybody but themselves," he said. "I said to (chief executive) David Gill a year last summer when we sold Gabriel Heinze he could bet his life this stuff will all start up around Ronaldo in January. It will happen again''

     

    "We just have to ignore it. If we worry about what Real Madrid have to say we are not concentrating on our own publicity and the programme of difficult games we have got coming up.

     

    "Sometimes they create an angry situation and sometimes I get really annoyed with them. But we know their game. I think we should play ours and ignore them."

     

     

    :laught16:

  3. Oasis returned to the stage after around 40 minutes to successfully kick-start the set again with 'The Shock Of The Lightning' and 'Cigarettes And Alcohol', with the Gallaghers promising to give fans their money back.

     

    "Really sorry about that," Liam Gallagher told the crowd. "This is a free gig now. Everyone will get a refund."

     

    His brother Noel added: "The curfew's 11, but we'll play 'til they kick us off. Keep your ticket and you'll get your money back."

  4. Oasis were forced to abandon the stage at their huge headline show at Manchester's Heaton Park tonight (June 4) due to technical difficulties.

     

    At around 9pm (BST) the band began their set with 'Rock 'N' Roll Star', but the song was stopped due to sound problems.

     

    The band headed off stage for around ten minutes to the sound of boos from the crowd.

     

    They then returned and began to play 'Lyla' – although that song was cut short, again due to sound troubles.

     

    Liam and Noel Gallagher and co left the stage again, while a message appeared on the stage screens declaring that the problems would be fixed as soon as technical staff could sort them out.

     

    The message explained that generator failure was causing the issues, while smoke could be seen emanating from the equipment.

     

    The band are currently still backstage. Keep checking NME.COM for updates.

     

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