Alors que son équipe a plongé dans la zone rouge après une série de cinq défaites en six matches, Roy Keane a démissionné jeudi de son poste de manager de Sunderland. L'ancienne icône de Manchester United, lassée des pressions extérieures, ne retrouvera donc pas Old Trafford où les Black Cats sont attendus samedi lors de la 16e journée de Premier League.

Roy Keane leaves Sunderland after two years and 100 games in charge, the Premier League side confirm on Thursday. Pressure has been mounting on the former Manchester United star after a string of poor results saw the Wearsiders drop into the relegation zone.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/edition_sport/~4/-f3lLN5K72U" height="1" width="1"/

Antonio Valencia, le milieu de terrain de Wigan pourrait quitter les Latics cet hiver. Le joueur est convoité par plusieurs clubs de Premier League.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/356/f/4939/s/27f69c7/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Foot - Wigan : Valencia très convoité ?link=http://www.footanglais365.com/la-une/article_280604_Wigan-Valencia-tres-convoite-.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Foot - Wigan : Valencia très convoité ?link=http://www.footanglais365.com/la-une/article_280604_Wigan-Valencia-tres-convoite-.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853571899/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/41904583/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853571899/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/41904583/a2.img" border="0"//a

Antonio Valencia, le milieu de terrain de Wigan pourrait quitter les Latics cet hiver. Le joueur est convoité par plusieurs clubs de Premier League.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/20330?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Keane+parts+company+with+Sunderland%2C+claim+reportsch=Footballc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Sunderland+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Mike+Adamsonc7=2008_12_04c8=1128794c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Sunderlandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FSunderland" width="1" height="1" //divpSpeculation is mounting that manager Roy Keane has parted company with Sunderland. Keane is understood to have been in talks with the chairman, Niall Quinn, and other members of the Sunderland board this morning. There has been no confirmation from the Stadium of Light yet, but Keane is due to hold his pre-match press conference at 1pm for Saturday's trip to Manchester United./pp/ppSunderland sit 18th in the Premier League, having lost five of their last six games. Keane was booed after their most recent match, a 4-1 defeat to Bolton on Saturday, and admitted afterwards that he had doubts as to whether he should be in the job. "I ask myself every day if I'm the right man for Sunderland," he said. "I asked myself this morning, and I said I was. Sunday morning, if the answer's no, we'll have to look at it."/pp/ppKeane took on his first managerial role at Sunderland four games into the 2006-07 season and took them from the bottom of the Championship table to the title and promotion. Last season they finished 15th in their first year back in the Premier League, avoiding relegation by three points. They started this season brightly, climbing to sixth in September. However, despite spending nearly £70m on 33 players since his arrival at the club, Sunderland have since plummeted into the relegation zone after a dreadful run of results./pp/ppemMore details to follow/em/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/sunderland"Sunderland/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UTX6YvgaUAt4JfFgQ3nK3O4BCdE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UTX6YvgaUAt4JfFgQ3nK3O4BCdE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

div style='clear:left;'img style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" src="http://www.faz.net/m/{80BC313E-98F1-4D53-80A1-49A8E614A065}File2.jpg" width=111 height=151 border=0 /Rory Delap hat eine besondere Spezialität: Er ragt unter den Fußarbeitern in der Premier League als Handwerker heraus und ist dennoch kein Torwart. Seine Vorliebe gilt den Einwürfen.div style="margin: 5px 0 5px 0; border-top:1px solid #7A89CC; font: 10px arial; color: #7A89CC; clear: both;" a href="http://www.faz.net/s/homepage.html" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"FAZ.NET - Homepage/a a href="http://www.faz.net/politik" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Politik/a a href="http://www.faz.net/gesellschaft" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Gesellschaft/a a href="http://www.faz.net/wirtschaft" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Wirtschaft/a a href="http://www.faz.net/finanzmarkt" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Finanzmarkt/a a href="http://www.faz.net/sport" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Sport/a a href="http://www.faz.net/feuilleton" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Feuilleton/a a href="http://www.faz.net/reise" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Reise/a a href="http://www.faz.net/wissen" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Wissen/a a href="http://www.faz.net/auto" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Auto/a a href="http://www.faz.net/computer" style="font-size: 10px; color: #7A89CC; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" | Computer/a /div /div

Flightline Ltd's collapse left Premier League players stranded at Southampton airport before European tie pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7JcrRyRfeCLeUxx3VE0DkNd7ThI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7JcrRyRfeCLeUxx3VE0DkNd7ThI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/62952?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+England+prepare+to+fly+out+after+India+all-clearch=Sportc3=The+Guardianc4=England+in+India+2008-09%2CIndia+cricket+team%2CEngland+cricket+team%2CEngland+cricket+series%2CCricket%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CCricketc6=Mike+Selveyc7=2008_12_04c8=1128468c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=England+in+India+2008-09c13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FEngland+in+India+2008-09" width="1" height="1" //divpEngland are ready to resume their tour of India after a security report from Chennai alleviated safety concerns. That, coupled with the prospect of similar assurance from Mohali, has convinced the England and Wales Cricket Board that it is safe for the two Test matches to go ahead./ppWith the exception of Ryan Sidebottom, ruled out by a side strain, and Stuart Broad, who is being allowed a few more days to recover from a hamstring injury suffered during the recent abandoned one-day series before flying out to Chennai, it will be a full England squad - including Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison, and reinforced by nine members of the performance squad - that will fly to Abu Dhabi today for a holding camp, where they will practise before moving on to Chennai on Monday. The first of two Tests is scheduled to begin there on December 11./ppThe announcement from Lord's of the intention to resume the tour came after two days of meetings between ECB officials, security advisers and government departments. "The only consideration in all our discussions has been the safety and security of the team and support staff," explained Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket. "We have been delighted by the input of the Professional Cricketers' Association and also the willingness of the Board of Control for Cricket in India to act upon our recommendations regarding security. While we have sought to reassure players that their safety is paramount we have not pressurised any player into making the trip against their will./pp"Those who leave for Abu Dhabi are all anticipating travelling to India if both the head of the PCA, Sean Morris, and I are happy that Reg Dickason's security plans have been activated. The board and players will be kept fully informed." /ppHe added: "The PCA and ECB have worked extremely closely on this issue, and the players have been fully supportive throughout. We will access the highest calibre of security advice on a regular basis so that we can provide the players with the latest accurate information. I have been assured by the ECB that they would never compromise the players' safety and security." Both Hugh and Sean Morris were due to travel to India last night to meet Dickason and will fly on to the United Arab Emirates to brief the players./ppThe key to the unanimous decision to return was the positive assessment of conditions by Dickason, the ECB security expert. Dickason was in Chennai yesterday, inspecting the team hotel, the /ppMA Chidambaram Stadium and the route between the two, and has expressed himself satisfied with the strong arrangements that will be put in place by the Chennai police under its commissioner, Thiru K Radhakrishnan./pp"We can provide absolute total security," the police chief said yesterday after Dickason had completed his tour. Dickason will now carry out a similar exercise in Mohali, before completing his reports. Yesterday the chief executive of the ECB, David Collier, praised the way the Indian authorities had handled the situation. "Everyone has been highly cooperative and helpful," he said. "Everything that Reg has asked for has been agreed."/ppIf it has been viewed as an expensive extravagance to bring the tour party home for such a brief period, then to persuade the Test party in its entirety to return when so much talk was of dissidents is something of a triumph. There had been suggestions from influential figures that several players, possibly Flintoff and Harmison, were intent on staying at home regardless of the outcome of the security report./ppMeanwhile, it was confirmed that West Indies will tour England in the early summer in place of Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka had been pencilled in provisionally, but player commitments to the Indian Premier League, given the backing of their cricket board, meant it was no longer a viable option. The tour will feature two Tests, at Lord's and Chester-le-Street, and three ODIs. West Indies' visit will provide a lead into a busy summer that also includes the Twenty20 World Cup and an Ashes series. Its timing, with the opening Test scheduled for May 6, precludes any hope of a large window of opportunity for England players to ply their trade in the IPL./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/englandinindia200809"England in India 2008-09/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/indiacricketteam"India Cricket Team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/englandcricketteam"England Cricket Team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/englandcricketseries"England cricket series/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/cricket"Cricket/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Vnl8B9fUgtdd1RMSpOSTMcXV1KI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Vnl8B9fUgtdd1RMSpOSTMcXV1KI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/790?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+India+step+up+security+to+prevent+cash+crisisch=Sportc3=guardian.co.ukc4=England+cricket+team%2CIndian+Premier+League+%28cricket%29%2CCricket%2CMumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CCricketc6=David+Hoppsc7=2008_12_03c8=1128213c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=England+Cricket+Teamc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FEngland+Cricket+Team" width="1" height="1" //divpIndia will embark on a major upgrading of security facilities at its international stadiums in a desperate attempt to prevent the economic collapse of the international game in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks./ppEmergency levels of security, perhaps unprecedented in cricket history, have been guaranteed for England's return to India for Tests in Chennai and Mohali, but there is no guarantee that the Indian government will be so amenable to special measures — such as the provision of special security forces — in the future./ppIndian cricket has therefore concluded that permanent security measures must be introduced for all major competitions to allay players' fears about their safety, guard against mass withdrawals and to protect the country's status as cricket's thriving economic powerhouse./ppIndia's greatest worry is that the country that provides roughly 70% of cricket's revenue will become the country that nobody wants to tour — causing it to follow Pakistan towards the prospect of a depressing future playing home matches in Abu Dhabi or Dubai./ppFor India to have to take such a step would ultimately have a disastrous effect on the finances of the game and England, and its top players, would not be immune./ppThe driving force behind the security measures is, unsurprisingly, Lalit Modi, vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and commissioner of the Indian Premier League. Modi knows that the IPL will not receive such security support from the state, so he is now pressing for what amounts to a total modernisation of India's stadiums, with security the overwhelming priority./ppModi said after the Mumbai atrocities: "Security is something we need to think about seriously because becoming sidelined like Pakistan due to security threats is something that is logical. We have to ensure that the security measures we take are the best. We shouldn't allow such attacks to disrupt our determination."/ppHis response has been swift. He has written to representatives of the eight grounds that stage IPL Twenty20 cricket — to insist upon new security measures. He has contacted Shashank Manohar, the board's president, pressing for all cricketing associations to convene an emergency meeting at the earliest opportunity./ppIt is intended that all these measures will be in place long before the start of the next IPL tournament in April. Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff are among the most sought-after England players — although Flintoff is widely reported as having ruled out a return to India for the Test series when the England squad makes its expected departure at the end of the week./ppMeasures include the installation of permanent CCTV cameras at every stadium and the provision of turnstiles — rather than just manned gates — at entry and exit points to allow a more controlled check on spectator entry. Security arrangements at the eight IPL grounds will be managed by a central agency answerable to the IPL and funding will be provided by the Indian board. Modi also wants disaster management teams to be appointed to devise definite plans in the event of a terrorist strike at a cricket stadium./ppIndia has always prized its rotation system, retaining its 21 grounds, including some in such outlying places as Guwahati and Visakhapatnam, despite much criticism from touring sides, but those grounds that do not enthusiastically implement the new measures may find that security concerns end their status as an international venue./ppThe IPL's governing council had already begun to examine development needs at its eight stadiums, recognising that many of India's stadiums remain disgracefully underfunded for such a wealthy cricketing country. Security, by necessity, has now shot to the top of the agenda./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/englandcricketteam"England Cricket Team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/indianpremierleague"Indian Premier League/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/cricket"Cricket/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mumbai-terror-attacks"Mumbai terror attacks/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/91iIV3BERltue5jSAABYCuMOrJ0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/91iIV3BERltue5jSAABYCuMOrJ0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

The FA will not take any formal action against Liverpool after their players wore T-shirts carrying a message of support for jailed fan Michael Shields pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/BfKG0cy2OUwq2uIjrFkI3xKZxmA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/BfKG0cy2OUwq2uIjrFkI3xKZxmA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

p Johan Elmander apparaît enfin comme étant à la hauteur des espérances des dirigeants de Bolton. Chargé de remplacer Anelka à la pointe de l’attaque des Wanderers, L’ancien goleador de Toulouse est fin prêt à exploser en Premier League. /pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?a=lNX3O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?i=lNX3O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?a=9ef7O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?i=9ef7O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?a=EPEyo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?i=EPEyo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?a=4a0vO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?i=4a0vO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?a=YC3DO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?i=YC3DO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?a=d8PYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/sport24?i=d8PYO" border="0"/img/a /div

Arsene Wenger's young guns beaten - Manchester City want star name

Auteur : ITN
Tags : arsene wenger arsenal burnley gunners manchester city abu dhabi ac milan kaka lionel messi fernando torres cristiano ronaldo samuel eto'o rafa benitez robbie keane liverpool anfield rio ferdinand manchester united west ham premier leagu
Envoyé : 03 décembre 2008
Note :0.0
Votes :0

img src="http://media.sporever.fr/sport365/images/resized/block1/144x66_76093.jpg" alt="Wigan : Cubilier à l'essai" align="left" style="margin: 5px;" /Libéré de son contrat avec le FC Nantes, Eric Cubilier sÂ’entraînait depuis quelques semaines avec Nice. Le défenseur droit est parti en Angleterre effectuer un essai avec Wigan (Premier League).img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/356/f/4939/s/27cb0ff/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Foot - Wigan : Cubilier à l'essailink=http://www.mercato365.com/la-une/article_280355_Wigan-Cubilier-a-l-essai.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Foot - Wigan : Cubilier à l'essailink=http://www.mercato365.com/la-une/article_280355_Wigan-Cubilier-a-l-essai.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853503034/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/41726207/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853503034/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/41726207/a2.img" border="0"//a

Libéré de son contrat avec le FC Nantes, Eric Cubilier s’entraînait depuis quelques semaines avec Nice. Le défenseur droit est parti en Angleterre effectuer un essai avec Wigan (Premier League).

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/4962?ns=guardianpageName=Life+and+style%3A+Give+us+a+twirlch=Life+and+stylec3=The+Guardianc4=Fashion%2CWomen+and+women%27s+interests%2CChristmas+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+style%2CWork+and+careers%2CMoneyc5=Personal+Finance%2CFashion+and+Beauty%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CWomen%2CChristmasc6=Jess+Cartner-Morleyc7=2008_12_03c8=1127740c9=articlec10=GUc11=Life+and+stylec12=Fashionc13=c14=h2=GU%2FLife+and+style%2FFashion" width="1" height="1" //divpClose your eyes and picture the scene. The air is warm with adrenaline and fake-tanned flesh, and thick with name-dropped designer labels. The atmosphere is one of camaraderie, but also competition; the scent of hairspray and this season's cult perfume almost, but not quite, masks an underlying buzz of nerves. /ppNo, I'm not talking about a Premier League dressing room on a Saturday. I'm talking about the ladies loos in your office, or an office very near you, at around 6.30pm one night this week or next. Because we are about to face one of the toughest fixtures in the fashion calendar: the Christmas party. /ppThe top three all-time worst wardrobe-crisis-inducing moments, in no particular order, are: the job interview, the first date, and the Christmas party. But the Christmas party wardrobe crisis is, arguably, the worst of all. After all, if you dress really, really badly to a job interview or a first date, chances are you never have to see those people again. /ppDressing for Christmas parties is hard work for the same reasons that the parties themselves are often quite hard work. First, Christmas parties tend to be about getting drunk with people you already know, rather than meeting new people. It is much more difficult to impress people with your dazzling wit when they have heard all your funniest and most faux-self-deprecating anecdotes twice already. Second, there is the pressure to be all festive and twinkly and marzipan-sweet, and no one apart from Cheryl Cole manages to do this without sacrificing all fashion cred and sex appeal in the process. /ppSo it makes sense that the first coping strategy of getting dressed for a Christmas party is the same as for dealing with the actual party: fix yourself a large drink. Just enough to stop you taking the whole thing too seriously. Go slow on the top-ups - 'tis the season to be merry, not so hammered that furry antlers start to seem like an amusing accessory. /ppThe one unbreakable rule of Christmas parties is that festive-themed accessories - antlers, Santa hats, tinsel trims - are a bad idea. Not because I'm trying to be some sort of couture-obsessed killjoy, but because Dressing Up As Christmas screams of dumbed-down literal mindedness. In other words, it's not just that the Santa hat looks stupid, but that it actually makes you appear to be stupid. Beyond that, trust your instinct: the outfit that makes you look at your reflection a few seconds more, that makes you start to imagine yourself having a good time, is the outfit you should wear. And what's more: we think we've found that outfit for you. These party outfits are Christmassy in a Wonderful Life kind of a way, rather than a Four Christmasses kind of way. Some of them even have sleeves. Are we good to you or what? Why, I almost feel like wearing a Santa hat./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/fashion"Fashion/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/women"Women/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/christmas"Christmas/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/workandcareers"Work careers/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SRabOKwNu0ItR2RFEFgVwtOctUM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SRabOKwNu0ItR2RFEFgVwtOctUM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/6967?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+FA+asks+Liverpool+to+explain+show+of+support+for+convicted+criminalch=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=Liverpool+FC+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootballc5=Premier+Leaguec6=Daniel+Taylorc7=2008_12_03c8=1127848c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Liverpoolc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FLiverpool" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Football Association is to write to Liverpool for an explanation into the orchestrated support shown for the jailed fan Michael Shields during Monday's 0-0 draw with West Ham United at Anfield./ppOfficials at Soho Square are considering whether to bring disciplinary charges after taking exception at the manner in which Liverpool have publicly backed a man who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of a Bulgarian waiter, Martin Georgiev, in May 2005./ppAnother Liverpool fan admitted being responsible for the crime before later retracting his confession and Shields' case will go before a high court review tomorrow. The FA, however, is alarmed that Liverpool should openly use a live televised game to try to influence the matter./ppRafael Beniacute;tez's players wore T-shirts bearing the slogan Free Michael Now during their pre-match warm-up and the actress Sue Johnston was invited on to the pitch with Shields' parents to make a speech calling for the justice secretary, Jack Straw, to "do the right thing"./ppA mosaic was held up in the Kop spelling out Free Michael Now and the match-day programme contained an article declaring the 22-year-old's innocence. "Liverpool fan Michael Shields should be here at Anfield for tonight's game," it began. "Instead, he will be sitting in a prison cell."/ppThe FA's concern is linked to the recent disciplinary case against the Ipswich midfielder David Norris for supporting the former Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick. Norris had been charged with improper conduct after making a handcuffs gesture in dedication to McCormick, who had been sentenced to seven years in prison for causing the death by dangerous driving of two young brothers./ppThe FA's disciplinary department fined Norris pound;5,000 and is alarmed that Liverpool should also publicly back someone convicted of a serious crime and, in the process, open themselves to allegations of playing judge and jury. /ppThe matter became a subject of controversy on radio phone-ins yesterday and the FA will, at the very least, remind Liverpool that it does not believe it is the club's role to take on such issues. "We are not comfortable about this," one source told the Guardian./ppThere is also an element of concern as Liverpool, according to the FA, had not informed the authorities of their plans. In 1997, their then striker Robbie Fowler was fined 2,000 Swiss francs by Uefa for revealing a T-shirt expressing his support for the city's sacked dock workers./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/liverpool"Liverpool/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_I9J6nCzqYSY2T1vgV0CwTpWQlI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_I9J6nCzqYSY2T1vgV0CwTpWQlI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Last month, Mike wrote about how the English Premier League was a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081103/1047072724.shtml"making/a threatening overtones towards Justin.tv, after it discovered some users on the site were streaming broadcasts of its soccer matches. It's the usual stuff from sports leagues, complaining that the sites aren't doing enough to stop piracy, and that their safe harbor shouldn't protect them, and that the DMCA takedown process isn't good enough. Now, a piece in The Guardian wonders if the large-scale piracy, along with a spending slowdown, will a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/26/premierleague-bskyb"hit the value of TV rights/a deals when they come up for renewal, with broadcasters unable to justify the same level of spending should viewer figures fall. br /br / This scenario isn't hard to imagine, but should it occur, it will be thanks to a lack of business acumen, not piracy. These sites exist, and thrive, because they serve demand untapped by the Premier League and its rightsholders. For instance, the rights situation means that in England -- where the league's based and its games played -- fewer games are broadcast on TV than in many places in the world. Here in the US, nearly every match is broadcast each weekend; just a handful make it onto UK TV screens. British pub owners tried to serve the untapped demand for this by buying satellite systems from foreign countries, but the EPL a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21jazeera.html"shut that avenue off/a in the courts. Likewise, users in the UK and elsewhere turn to sites like Justin.tv because they don't have other options. The match they want to see isn't available on television, or they're not near a TV set when the match is being played. I'd argue this drives use of the services much more than a desire for free content does. br /br / The rights situation domestically in the UK is the way it is because of the long-held view that putting games on TV will hold down attendance; but the small stadium sizes and increasingly geographically distributed fan bases (along with high ticket prices) do this already. And indeed, the experience of other sports leagues around the world would indicate that giving fans the ability to watch their teams' games on television does little, on its own, to hurt attendance. That sort of view seems to color the entire TV rights situation for the Premier League: it tries to manufacture some sort of scarcity in an attempt to increase its revenues. But the popularity of sites that make broadcasts available online makes it clear they'd be better off answering this demand with services of their own. br /br / Here's a novel idea: instead of trying to crack down on the likes of Justin.tv, why not require rightsholders to offer free streams of games as parts of their deals? Then, the Premier League and its broadcast partners get to serve this demand, instead of Justin.tv or Chinese P2P services, and get to capitalize on it through advertising or other means. It might have some effect on pay services by giving fans with the least willingness to pay a free service to use, but again, I'd argue that most people would still prefer to watch their teams' games on a bigger screen and in higher quality enough to pay for it. And the additional fans the services would reach could make new converts to paid services as well. Whatever the EPL decides to do, it's impossible to understand how it thinks it can benefit by alienating fans and making it difficult, if not impossible, for them to follow their teams.p style="border-top: 1px #aaaaaa dashed;padding-top: 5px;margin-top: 10px;"emCarlo Longino is an expert at the a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"Insight Community/a. To get insight and analysis from Carlo Longino and other experts on challenges your company faces, a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"click here/a./em/p br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081126/1028552964.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081126/1028552964.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081126/1028552964op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2ce99f96fcd45c8f2cf15ab5c8c75f84p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2ce99f96fcd45c8f2cf15ab5c8c75f84p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2ce99f96fcd45c8f2cf15ab5c8c75f84" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=fvH6o"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=fvH6o" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/472956055" height="1" width="1"/

Football Tombeurs de Fulham et de Chelsea, les joueurs de Burnley aiment affronter les cadors repus de la Premier League. Ils ont disposé d'une équipe très rajeunie d'Arsenal, mardi soir en quarts de finale de la Carling Cup.

img src="http://www.myfreesport.fr/commun/n120x90/a3/arsene-wenger-entraineur-arsenal1207688232.jpg" alt="" border="" align="left" /Tombeurs de Fulham et de Chelsea, les joueurs de Burnley aiment affronter les cadors repus de la Premier League. Ils ont disposé d'une équipe très rajeunie d'Arsenal, mardi soir en quarts de finale de la Carling Cup.br clear="left"/