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This article is going to be about my favorite soccer team of all times. I remember when I first saw Fc Barcelona play at the age of 12 I fell in love immediately.
They had a very different style from all the other teams and they focused on playing very aggressive and attacking football without being overly concerned about their defense. At the same time they had very high class players and have always been known to have a lot of big profiles in their team. The fact that Fc Barcelona was more than soccer and also had a political ideology they fought for made it extra interesting and from that day on I started following each single game they played.
At the time they were struggling and weren’t as good as they are today, but they always played some of the most entertaining soccer in the whole world. They had profiles like Sonny Anderson, Patrick Kluivert, Rivaldo, Luis Enrique, Josep Guardiola (who is the manager of FC Barcelona Today) and Figo. Their defensive skills was never anything to write home about, but boy could they play offensive football. One of the most emotional matches for me ever was when it was the last game of the season and FC Barcelona had to win the match in order to qualify for the Champions league.
A team like Fc Barcelona not qualifying for the champions league was unheard of and because of the missed financial purse of not getting into this tournament they would be close to going bankrupt and would have to sell a lot of their star players.
As mentioned it was the last game of the season and it was against Valencia who were at the time a very strong team and probably top 3 in the whole Spanish league. Barcelona needed 3 points in order to get qualified for the champions league and everyone was extremely nervous. It was a very close match and with 3 minutes left the score was 2-2.
The match went into overtime and there was only 2 minutes left, suddenly out of nowhere Rivaldo (greatest player ever) receives the ball with his chest on the outside of the goal area, bear in mind that there is no real danger here since he has his back to goal and he is very far away from goal. Suddenly he jumps up in the air out of nowhere and scissor kicks the ball, the tensions rises and It is a goal!!! Everyone on the stadium went crazy as he had just single handedly saved the future of FC Barcelona.
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So many great players have represented Aston Villa in their illustrious history that putting together a list of twelve or so greats is close to impossible. Nevertheless, we’ve given it a go. With apologies the great players we’ve excluded, here is our list of Aston Villa Legends. (Current Aston Villa players are not included).
George Ramsay
Position: Forward (later secretary of the club)
Aston Villa Career: (as a player) 1976-1884
(as secretary) 1884 -1926
The earliest of Aston Villa legends, Ramsay served the club both as player and secretary (a role that effectively made him manager of the team).
He was responsible for transforming the team from a disorganized group playing ‘kick and rush’, to an effective unit playing the passing game. And he was a skillful player himself with people coming to Villa matches just see him play.
Ramsay retired from playing in June 1882 but took up the role of Secretary which he held from 1884-1926. During this time Villa won the League and FA Cup 6 times each, and establishing themselves as the premier club in England.
Archie Hunter
Position: Forward
Aston Villa Career: 1878-1890
Appearances: 367
Goals: 150
Villa’s first great captain, Hunter joined the club in 1878, ten years before the commencement of League football, and remained until the premature end of his career in 1890.
Ensured his status as an Aston Villa legend by being the first Villa captain to lift the FA Cup, and also the first player to score in every round of the cup during Villa’s victorious 1887 campaign.
Tragically, during a League match against Everton in 1890, he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. He would never play again, and died four years later at the age of just 35.
Billy Walker
Position: Forward
Aston Villa Career: 1920-1933
Appearances: 531
Goals: 244
Aston Villa legend, Billy Walker joined the club in 1914 and spent his entire playing career at Villa Park.
A skillful centre forward, he made 531 appearances, scoring 244 goals, and is the club’s all-time leading goalscorer.
He also stands second on the list of highest appearances and was a member of the 1920 FA Cup winning side.
After retirement Walker had a successful management career, leading both Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest to FA Cup success.
Eric Houghton
Position: Forward / Manager
Aston Villa Career: 1927-1946
Appearances: 392
Goals: 170
An Aston Villa legend who is often referred to as “Mr Aston Villa”. Houghton played for the club for two decades and scored 170 goals in 392 games. He was something of a deadball specialist with a powerful shot that yielded 58 goals from the penalty spot and 30 from direct free kicks.
After finishing his playing career at Notts County he went on to become Aston Villa manager and led them to an FA Cup win in 1957.
He then had a spell as Notts County manager before returning again to Villa Park, this time as a director.
Trevor Ford
Position: Forward
Aston Villa Career: 1947-1950
Appearances: 128
Goals: 61
A prolific striker, Ford had a relatively short Villa career, playing 128 games over 3 seasons and scoring 61 goals. Still, he was the hero of the Holte End before a British record transfer fee of £30,000 took him to Sunderland. At Sunderland he was even more prolific, hitting 67 goals in just 108 appearances before another big money move, this time to Cardiff City.
Ford retired in 1956 but returned a year later to play for PSV Eindhoven in Holland. He returned to the Football League and played his last season with Newport County in 1960-61.
Peter McParland
Position: Winger
Aston Villa Career: 1952-1962
Appearances: 340
Goals: 120
Arguably Villa’s greatest player of the 1950′s, McParland was signed from Dundalk in 1952 for a fee of £3,880. He spent 10 years at the club, making 293 appearances and scoring 98 goals.
During this time he won the FA Cup in 1957 (scoring twice in the final), the Second Division title in 1960 and the League Cup in 1961.
He later played for Wolves and Plymouth before finishing his career in the North American Soccer League with Atlanta Chiefs.
Charlie Aitken
Position: Defender
Aston Villa Career: 1959-1976
Appearances: 660
Goals: 16
An Aston Villa legend who is the club’s all-time appearance record holder with 659 appearances spanning an incredible 17 seasons from 1959 to 1976.
He was a member of the 1975 League Cup winning team, and also won the Third division title in his time at Villa.
Spent the last two seasons of his career playing for New York Cosmos in the NASL.
Brian Little
Position: Forward / Manager
Aston Villa Career: (as a player) 1970-1979
(as manager) 1994-1998
Appearances: 301
Goals: 82
Little played his entire career at Aston Villa, making 247 appearances and scoring 60 goals, many of them in a prolific partnership with Andy Gray.
Joining on schoolboy terms when the club had just dropped into the Third Division, he was part of a successful youth setup, and after progressing through the ranks he helped Villa back to the First Division in the early Seventies.
He was also part of the League Cup winning teams of 1975 and 1977, before a knee injury brought his career to a premature halt at the age of just 26.
Moving into management he coached Wolves, Darlington and Leicester City before being handed the Aston Villa job in 1994. He led the team to fourth place in the Premiership in 1995–96 and also won the League Cup. In February 1998, with the club in the bottom half of the table he resigned after three years in charge.
He has since held managerial posts at Stoke, West Brom, Hull, Tranmere and Wrexham with little success.
Ron Saunders
Position: Manager
Aston Villa Career: 1974-1982
A free-scoring centre-forward during his playing career, Saunders had spells as manager of Yeovil Town, Oxford United, Norwich City and Manchester City before taking over at Aston Villa – then a second division side – in 1974.
In his first season, he guided Villa to promotion and also won the League Cup. He won the League Cup again in 1977, and in 1981, led Villa to the League title for the first time in 71 years.
In January 1982, with Villa in the quarter-final of the European Cup, Saunders surprisingly resigned due to a contractual dispute. His assistant Tony Barton took over, and guided the club to European Cup glory four months later.
Subsequent moves to rivals Birmingham City, and West Bromwich Albion do not sully his status as an Aston Villa legend
Denis Mortimer
Position: Midfielder
Aston Villa Career: 1975-1985
Appearances: 405
Goals: 36
Villa’s European Cup winning captain began his career at Coventry City, where he made over 200 appearances before moving to Villa Park in 1975. He made 403 appearances in Villa colours, scoring 39 goals and winning the League title, League Cup and, the crowning moment of his Villa career, the European Cup in 1982.
After leaving Aston Villa, Mortimer moved to Brighton and then blotted his copybook somewhat by joining Birmingham City. Still, he remains an Aston Villa legend and one of the club’s greatest ever captains.
Gordon Cowans
Position: Midfielder
Aston Villa Career: 1976-1985; 1988-1991; 1993-1994
Appearances: 528
Goals: 59
A product of Aston Villa’s youth system Gordon Cowans joined the club as an apprentice in 1974, and was part of a successful team that won the FA Youth Cup. He signed as a professional in 1976 and made his first team debut as a 17-year-old.
Cowans had three spells with Villa broken by stints with Bari and Blackburn Rovers. During his career with the club he won the First Division title, the European Cup, European Super Cup, and the League Cup.
After leaving the club for the final time in 1994 he played for Derby, Wolves, Sheffield United, Bradford City, Stockport County and Burnley before retiring in 1997.
Peter Withe
Position: Forward
Aston Villa Career: 1980-1985
Appearances: 182
Goals: 90
Something of a late-bloomer in the game, Withe had spells in South Africa and the US before signing for Nottingham Forest in 1976, where he won the League title. He then spent two seasons at Newcastle United, and in 1980 moved to Aston Villa for a club record £500,000.
It was to prove an inspired signing as Withe and Gary Shaw delivered the goals that drove Villa to the League title in 1981.
All in all Withe scored 74 goals in 182 appearances for Villa, but his status as an Aston Villa legend is secure thanks to one strike – the winner in the 1982 European Cup final against Bayern Munich.
Paul McGrath
Position: Defender
Aston Villa Career: 1989-1996
Appearances: 321
Goals: 10
Aston Villa legend McGrath began his professional career with League of Ireland club St Patrick’s Athletic. In his first season he won the PFAI Player of the Year Award and attracted the attention of Manchester United.
He moved to Old Trafford in 1982, but his time at United was disappointing, plagued by knee injuries and an alcohol problem, although he did help the club to an FA Cup win in 1985.
In 1989, he signed for Aston Villa, where he would play some of the best football of his life, helping them to two second-place finishes and two League Cup triumphs. He also received the PFA Footballer of the Year award in 1993.
McGrath left Aston Villa in 1996, and had short spells with Derby County and Sheffield United before retiring in 1998.
The Emirates stadium is home to Arsenal Football Club where the average number of fans to attend a premiership game in a season is 1,140,000.
Business Challenge
Arsenal FC required a fast, reliable card processing solution to seamlessly integrate with the chosen Micros point of sale (POS) systems which were situated at bar and restaurant outlets in the club and box levels within the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal FC required a technology that would be able to cope with the predicted increase of transaction volume that the new stadium was to bring. Previously, Highbury Stadium had match day visitor capacity of 38,419, the new Emirates stadium has a capacity for 60,000, a significant increase of 21,500 thousand people per match. We needed to ensure that the solution would enhance the level of customer service and add to the overall visitor experience.
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The installation involved the Micros POS system working with Thyron Chip and PIN devices, which are driven by enterprise editions of PC-EFT and connected to Arsenal FC`s chosen acquirer via a high speed X25 link.
The solution, running on clustered Microsoft SQL Servers provides a fully redundant and failover system.
Results
Since the Emirates Stadium opened its gates, Servebase`s tailored PC-EFT software solution has consistently coped with the high number of transactions. When the half time whistle blows, the system has proven to have the capability of supporting the huge volumes of near simultaneous transactions. The multi-threading application has ensured that our outlets have been able to accept up to sixteen authorisations per second, whilst others are being systematically queued for authorisation.
Key Benefits Centralised reporting Function Efficient transaction reconciliation Fast transaction authorisation Speed and reliability has enabled the stadium to manage queuing times and improve levels of customer service and maximise revenue potential
Manchester United Football club play their football games at Old Trafford which has a capacity of 76,212 the highest in England, but despite this United sell out the stadium for every game.
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Old Trafford is around 3 miles from Manchester City Centre and is easily reached by car, bus, train and tram. There are several pubs and restaurants in the area and you can also purchase alcohol, soft drinks and food within Old Trafford itself.
There are four stands that make up The Theatre of Dreams, the Stretford End, North Stand, South stand and East Stand, with most of the atmosphere coming from the World famous Stretford End.
On non match days visitors to Old Trafford can visit the Manchester United Museum and can also go on a stadium tour that takes around an hour to complete and is well recommended to all Manchester United fans. The club has a very large Megastore where visitors can buy all the merchandise they want.
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Chelsea football Club, nicknamed’The Blues’ are a professional soccer club in Britain. They play in the select England Premiership League and are one of the most successful teams in the history of English football. They have been English League champs three times and have won the FA cup on 4 occasions.
Chelsea’s home ground is Stamford Bridge in Fulham, West London. They have played there since the team was founded in 1905. On a barely pedantic note of geographical accuracy, Chelsea are not actually based in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, rather in Hammersmith and Fulham. Chelsea FC was set up in March 1905 in the Rising Sun bar opposite Stamford Bridge. They occupied Stamford Bridge shortly later, taking over the site from the London Athletics Club which had used the facility for the previous twenty-eight years.
The Chelsea Shirt for home games has long been blue, although it was not always the same dark shade it is today. The strip was finished with white shorts and blue socks. In 1912, royal blue shirts were introduced. The now familiar blue shorts were added by Tommy Docherty in the 1960s. White socks were also added at this time as it was thought that this suggestion, not in use by any other club made Chelsea more specific. The away kit is typically all yellow or all white, however this has gone thru some engaging deviations over the years. The first away shirt made up black and white stripes. In the 1980s a strange mint green kit was sported by the Chelsea players. The 1990s saw the Chelsea shirt for away games at its most special with red and white checks, and a grey and tangerine colour scheme all being tried. Massive numbers of sponsors have enhanced the front of the Chelsea shirt over time. These have included Gulf Air, Coors and most latterly Samsung.
The club crest attached to the Chelsea shirt has gone through four major iterations during the history of the club. The 1st crest design was based round the picture of a Chelsea Pensioner. This gave rise to the club’s nickname of’The Pensioners’. This crest was in use for fifty years when the design was changed as part of a modernization program going on at the club. A non permanent solution was to use the C.F.C initials for a year till in 1953 when the new crest of a blue lion locking backwards and holding a staff was introduced. This crest took it’s inspiration from the coat of arms of the Borough Of Chelsea. The crest also featured two footballs and 3 red roses. This was the 1st crest to appear on the Chelsea shirt, which was unadorned until this time. Another wave of modernisation in 1986 saw the heraldic lion replaced by a more practical looking lion in yellow standing over the C.F.C initials. The final large design change came in 2004 where the old design was reinstated for the approaching centenary. This design has appeared on the shirts in different colour schemes. Such as white and gold.
It is to be hoped that this brief article has given an engaging background into the shirt and crest of one of England’s most successful and famous groups.
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Tottenham Hotspur FC is an English professional football club located in White Hart Line stadium in Tottenham, North London. Its capacity is 36, 240 people; Tottenham club plays in the stadium for over a century, starting from 1899. The club is also known by the name Spurs. Its home colors are white and away colors are blue. The club’s moto is Auedere est Facere (“To Dare is To Do”).
The club was founded in 1882 at All Hallows Church by schoolboys, also members of Hotspur Cricket Club, who called themselves Tottenham Hotspur. At first Tottenham tried to join the Southern League, but failed to do so, when receiving no votes. In 1895 the group has turned professional and managed to be admitted to Southern League. Several years later they were promoted to the First Division. The club’s first chairman was Charles Roberts.
According to Tottenham news, they have a long-standing rivalry with another professional English football club, Arsenal; the matches between two teams are called “North London Derby”, which refers to individual matches as well as to general ongoing rivalry between the teams. Tottenham also has rivalries with several other football clubs, such as West Ham United and Chelsea.
Tottenham Club is one of the most successful clubs playing in the Premier League. The club achieved FA Cup double, the European Cup Winner’s Cup, FA Community Shield and many other important trophies. Tottenham Hotspur has a large fan base, which includes more than 1.4 million fans in Britain, mostly in North London and Home Counties. Their home matches attract high attendance; Tottenham fans read news articles about Tottenham, search the Internet for Tottenham rumors and gossip.
Liverpool Football Club have been League Champions 18 times, FA Cup winners seven times, League Cup winners seven times, European Cup winners five times and UEFA Cup winners three times.
The Football League was founded in 1888 and Anfield was one of their original grounds, and Everton FC won the League Championship there in 1891. Everton left Anfield in a dispute with chairman John Houlding over rent ? in 1884 Everton were paying £100 but by 1889/90 he was charging them £250. The majority of the players and the board left to build a new ground but he, John Houlding, the Mayor of Liverpool, stayed behind and created Liverpool Football Club.
Liverpool F.C. was formed on the 15th of March 1892 at John Houlding’s house in Anfield Road with his closest friends left from Everton FC. He had basically been left with an empty ground so had to form a new team to play in it! The Clubs initial application to join the Football League was rejected so they played their first match in September 1892 at Anfield against Rotherham in the Lancashire League. Houlding adopted the city’s colour of red and by 1901 they were using the Liverbird as their crest. It was ‘Honest’ John McKenna who did most of the team building work, recruiting over a dozen players from Scotland, and is highly regarded as the brain behind the early success of the Club.
By the end of their first season Liverpool had taken the League as well as the Liverpool District Cup and Everton were getting worried. By the end of 1900/01 season the players and directors of LFC were proudly made their way back to Anfield by horse-drawn carriage with the League Championship trophy for the first, but by no means the last time.
The team played their first Wembley final in 1950, with Arsenal as opposition but sadly they were defeated 2-0, which made their wait for FA Cup glory even longer, but the fans continued to be as supportive as ever. Bill Shankly moved the team from second division mediocrity when he took over as manager in 1959, and he remained the manager until 1974. The Club finally won the FA Cup in 1965 which was an event so sought after it was joked that the mythical Liver Birds would fly from their perch the day a Liverpool team brought home the FA Cup. They went on to win the European Cup in 1977.
Tragedy struck in Brussels when Liverpool were playing Juventus in the European Cup final when 28 Italians and one Belgian died when supporter chaos occurred, resulting in a crush and a wall collapsing on top of them. 1985/86 started in misery but ended a lot better by winning a 16th championship crown. Disaster struck again for the team in 1989 when 250,000 supporters travelled to Hillsborough to watch the FA Cup semi-final with Nottingham Forest. 96 of these supporters were crushed to death in the Leppings Lane end just after kick off.
Liverpool Football Club have battled against the odds for the entire running of their club, but this is one of the reasons why they have such a dedicated fan base ? having gone through some horrendous tragedy, they always go on to triumph over adversity, and proved this yet again when they won the Champions League in 2005 and the FA Cup in 2006.