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The English Football League has secured a £117.5million financial package from MetLife Investment Management to help Championship clubs survive the coronavirus pandemic. The loan – provided by the institutional asset management business of MetLife Inc. – matches the figure requested by the 24 second-tier clubs in order to meet PAYE liabilities as they continue to […]
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Harvey Elliott stands out in Premier League out-on-loan XI packed with players from Manchester and Chelsea – originally posted on Sportslens.com The loan system is one of the most prominent parts of the transfer window. Fringe players get some more minutes out on the pitch, their parent clubs aren’t stuffed full of players sitting in […]
Derby handed big boost, Cardiff pair pushing for recall, Norwich sweating on defender – originally posted on Sportslens.com The 2020/21 Championship season rolls on this weekend, with the Championship league table far from decided and some eye-catching games taking place across the next three days. The action gets underway on Friday evening with Derby County […]
This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ comes from the FA Cup Fourth Round tie between Queens Park Rangers and Barnsley in the 1996/97 season.Last week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ came from the round before in the same season and was scored by Arsenal’s Dennis Bergkamp. It lead to one of the toughest decisions ever for viewers and pundits to […]
Apologies for the poor picture, but it is the only photo that I could get! Port Vale vs Queens Park Rangers is hardly the highest profile of fixtures, but back on 19th January 1997 it produced an eight goal thriller. The game will be remembered by both sets of fans for QPR’s incredible second half […]
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Jamie Pollock after his famous own-goal in 1998 If you start typing ‘Jamie Pollock’ into Google, the search engine predictive text facility’s first guess is that you are looking up ‘Jamie Pollock Own Goal’!This must be particularly frustrating for Pollock as he had made 367 appearances in the Football League over the course of his […]
Michael Robinson with team-mate Bruce Grobbelaar after the 1984 European Cup win Former Liverpool, Brighton and Hove Albion and Osasuna Michael Robinson died today at the age of 61.Robinson probably became more famous after his playing career, having spent 30 years in a variety of roles on Spanish television. It was at Second Division Preston […]