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So Wayne Rooney has hit the headlines again today – but not for the reason he would have liked. Ronney was in fine form on Saturday, as he scored a superb match-winning hat-trick to secure a 4-2 win for Manchester United against West Ham United. However, Rooney appeared to swear directly at the television camera – when celebrating his third goal. The Manchester United striker recognised he was in the wrong and has since apologised for his actions and must now await a decision by the FA on a potential charge. The FA could impose a ban and/or a fine, but it’s likely Rooney will get away with just the fine.

The real question here is should Rooney put a stop to his antics on and off the field? The obvious answer to that question is yes, but I don’t totally agree with that viewpoint. Although, Rooney is not everyone’s cup of tea, few people can doubt his ability as a footballer. Furthermore part of that ability is shown with him mouthing off at players, managers, referees and fans. I honestly believe he does it because of his passion for the game and his desire and determination to win. In much the same way as Andy Murray does when he is playing an important tennis match.

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I would agree Wayne Rooney should act in a responsible manner in the public eye and be careful about what he says in interviews and when out and about, but please don’t change as a footballer. As far as the incident on Saturday goes, let’s remember that it was a tense game and was a reaction in the heat of the moment to a thrilling comeback from Manchester United. I would also add that Rooney was probably getting grief from the West Ham fans for much of the match and this may have been a reaction from Rooney to this.

Football grounds are places where swearing does take place and the majority of it comes from the supporters. Also Wayne Rooney is not the only footballer that would have sworn over the weekend, but he is the most high profile player and he was caught on camera.

Although, Wayne Rooney should refrain from such outbursts in the future, he should not change his style. That attitude makes him the player he is and every football fan surely wants to see a fiery and determined player. Yes, he will get the occasional red card and fine from the FA – but that is just part and parcel of Wayne Rooney. In summary, don’t change a thing on the field.

So that’s my view, but what is yours? Is it time for Wayne Rooney to grow up or do we just need to give the lad a break?

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Newcastle haven’t exactly splashed the cash this summer, as Mike Ashley has kept a tight rein on Chris Hughton’s spending, but the Magpies have brought in one high profile player. That has come in the form of former Tottenham, Arsenal and England defender Sol Campbell. Sol will add some experience to Newcastle’s back line and will be hoping to contribute to a fair few clean sheets in the 2010/11 Premier League season. Since joining Newcastle on a free transfer, a lot has been made in the media about the 35-year old being a little on the large side. Whether he’s fat or fit, he won’t be ready in time for Newcastle’s first match of the season against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Here’s Campbell watching a Newcastle friendly at St James’ Park that celebrated the management career of Sir Bobby Robson, but will this be the last time Sol is sat in the stands this season?

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Tottenham winger Gareth Bale has heralded Gary Speed after the manager’s death, and has vowed that the Wales side will continue the work he started.

The former Newcastle and Everton midfielder was found dead in his Cheshire home at the weekend, with sources confirming that he took his own life.

Bale was part of Speed’s Wales team that has won four of their last five games, and the 2010/11 PFA Player of the Year wants the good form to continue in the departed coach’s honour.

“It was a massive shock, I don’t think anybody ever thought anything like this would happen,” Bale told The Telegraph.

“Everyone is devastated and it is a massive loss to everyone in football. It is a tragedy, everyone still can’t get their head around it and all our condolences go out to his family and his kids. It is a hard time.

“We were on the up, he changed the way we play and the whole mentality of our game. It is a massive loss, but we will try and carry on the best we can in his honour,” he concluded.

Bale is only one of countless players, coaches and officials in the game to herald Speed’s contribution to the sport and offer messages of condolences to his family.

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With the bad boy theme running on Football FanCast this week I thought it would be apt to supply you with a video list of some shocking incidents seen over the last few years on the football pitch. From player bust-ups, to dodgy tackles and even the bizarre actions involving referees and fans, there were many to choose from. Players are expected to be professional on the pitch, respecting the referee, respecting the opposition and being able to control their anger but football is a passionate game, which the following top 10 shows.

10: Mascots Fighting – This is one of the most bizarre incidents and although it does not feature football players, when do you see opposing mascots having a real punch up on the pitch? Well it happened between Wolves’ mascot Wolfie and Bristol Rovers’ three little piggies. Unfortunately this is the most light hearted of the entries in the list.

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9: Ruud Van Nistlerooy receives Arsenal attack – After winning a last minute penalty against Arsenal, Ruud Van Nistlerooy steps up to smash home a winner from the spot for Manchester United but it hits the crossbar and comes back out into play. The match is shortly over and Martin Keown along with his team mates decide to let the Dutchman know what they think of him.

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8: Di Canio pushes Ref – Although this incident is bad it is rather humorous at the same time, Sheffield Wednesday’s Paulo Di Canio was sent off in a game against Arsenal at Hillsborough and the passionate Italian shoves referee Paul Alcock. But the way the ref falls to the ground makes it look more comical than a serious matter.

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7: Gattuso loses it – Recent incident involving the AC Milan captain gradually losing the plot in the Champions League game against Tottenham Hotspur. He takes exception to Spurs coach Joe Jordan on the touchline first grabbing him by the throat and later trying to head butt him. Although his actions were disgraceful, I’m sure many of us would’ve liked to have seen Joe Jordan retaliate and stop the Italian in his tracks.

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6: Team-Mates Fight – There’s been a few of these incidents over the years but this one is probably one of the best (or worst) depending on how you look at it. Newcastle United’s Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer exchanged some heated words on the pitch which quickly turned to blows. It reminds me of a similar incident in the 1990s between Blackburn Rovers pair David Batty and Graeme Le Saux. There’s also been quite a few from the training ground, Sweden’s Mellberg vs Ljungberg and West Ham’s John Hartson vs Eyal Berkovic are two examples.

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5: Another Muscat tackle – One thing I have never understood in football is how Kevin Muscat made a career in the sport from assaulting players? This was just one of the latest from playing in his homeland of Australia getting sent off for a horrendous over the ball tackle. He had just come back from suspension after landing a kidney punch on a player during a game. In England, he made some horrible tackles, most notably on Mattie Holmes which ended his career short.

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4: Zidane – You know what, during the 2006 World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane bows out to the football world with a shocking headbutt on Italy’s Materazzi. Cursing between players happens in every game but Zidane took exception to whatever Materazzi said to him and knocked him completely off his feet to the millions of live viewers watching.

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3: Roy Keane’s retribution – This incident made me lose any respect I had for Roy Keane as a player. He even admitted in his autobiography that he deliberately set out to injure Haaland and should’ve received a lengthy ban. Keane saw it as revenge for an incident a few years earlier, Keane had tried to deliberately kick Haaland in front of him but ended up injuring his own leg. Haaland accused Keane of faking it, which is why Keane set out for revenge. Haaland never played a full game of football after this incident and Roy Keane was left to continue playing football for many years to come.

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2: Thatcher elbow – The defender has had previous for his over aggressive challenges on the pitch but this incident on Tottenham’s Pedro Mendes topped it all. Thatcher’s over enthusiastic tackle led with his elbow caused Mendes to be knocked out and hospitalised. The alarming thing is, Thatcher acts like it was a fair challenge. Maybe Wayne Rooney should watch this to see how dangerous flying elbows could be?

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1: Kung-Fu Cantona – An incident that shocked the football world. When Eric Cantona was sent off for Manchester United against Crystal Palace a Palace fan gave him abuse that sent the Frenchman over the edge and resulted in the flying kung-fu kick attack on the fan. He was banned for several months and it somewhat overshadowed the talented footballer’s career.

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Portsmouth manager Steve Cotterill has urged England goalkeeper David James to make a decision over whether he will remain with the club next season in the near future.

The Pompey hierarchy have held talks with the 39-year-old following England's dismal World Cup campaign, but James has not yet indicated if he will remain on the South Coast following relegation to the Championship.

Cotterill told The News:"I probably think we will know very soon as to what David is going to do. We need to know if it's not going to be with us. We need to move on.

"So sooner or later there's going to have to be a decision made there. We're definitely going to need to know and maybe if David can't make his mind up, we've got to make a decision.

"He could contribute as a coach here. We've chatted about a few things in the area. But, like I say, at the end of the day, sooner or later there's got to be a decision made.

"We need to know what he is going to do."

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It must be difficult when your brother is a multi-millionaire footballer who all the fame and fortune in the world when you are a run-of-the-mill footballer just trying to get by in the lower leagues.

There are many brothers in football who have had equal amounts of success as each other and have made it to the top of their game but what about the players whose brother has dwarfed their own success. These footballers remain forever in the shadow of their famous brother and some struggle to make a career for themselves.

This is a list of players who had to take a back seat while their more famous brother developed into a household name. We’re sure that their parents love them just the same…

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Liverpool’s lacklustre defeat to West Ham this week has only served to highlight that the second-coming of Kenny Dalglish has merely been papering over the cracks. Expectations were lessened around the club at the beginning of this season and yet the side have still struggled to meet them at times. So with that in mind, what should be considered a realistic expectation in terms of the club’s ambitions with concern to next season?

Dalglish’s much heralded return to the club after the sacking of Roy Hodgson has prompted a resurgence of sorts for the club both on and off the pitch. Dalglish has united the club in a way only a true club legend can. He’s galvanised the club and the players seem all the more happier on the pitch for it. His appointment on a full-time rather than interim basis looks all but assured at the end of the season, perhaps even sooner.

The Scot is often credited with being a master man-motivator, rather than an astute tactician. To be honest with you, that would appear to be being unkind to Dalglish who hasn’t been afraid to chop and change and experiment since he took charge of the club once again and to great effect. But his arrival and the improved results and performances on the pitch have left many fans giddy at the prospect of next season, as they estimate that Dalglish will have more of a chance to mould the side into one of his own making.

The fact of the matter remains though, that the playing squad is woefully under prepared to mount anything more than a sustained challenge for a European place at the minute, let alone a Champions League place. The arrivals of Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll in the January transfer window to point to a promising future, but that is all it is at the moment – promise. The arrivals of Suarez and Carroll have addressed the imbalance with the forward line at the club, yet the imbalance throughout the rest of the squad remains a pressing issue.

The side lacks sufficient depth and quality all over the park. It lacks width and at times a degree of guile. Dalglish will know more than most the effect a new manager can have on a club. It creates a competitive atmosphere that more often than not leads to an increased level of performance. The real test starts now.

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To return to the subject matter, I’d say that 6th place in the league and a decent cup run should constitute the minimum expectations for next season and that anything more should be considered a bonus. Many of you may have realised that the above expectations were what the club had hoped to achieve this season and it’s worth noting that the club maintain on course, despite their troubles, to do just that this term.

It’s also worth remembering that Roy Hodgson was appointed as the club’s manager with the mission statement of achieving stability. He was thought to be a steady hand on the tiller. His tenure proved to be anything but stabile in the end, yet there needs to be a reality check with concerns to future ambitions.

A rebuilding process was always required for the club to achieve anything in the future. The same ethos remains today despite the improvement under Dalglish. It’s easy to get carried away by what many outsiders may perceive as the ‘cult of Dalglish’ and there must be a very real worry that a over-estimation of expectations may occur in the near future.

Upon taking control of the club from those that shall not be named, NESV stated that they came to the club with a long-term vision in mind and that they understood that the success the fans so craved, was not likely to happen over night. They espoused the virtues of incremental steps in terms of development on and off the pitch as opposed to a radical overhaul. This sensible leadership in the boardroom can only help foster sustained success on the pitch and their approach will pay dividends if it’s adhered to.

There appears to be a real sense of togetherness under Dalglish at the club and it feels as if a burden has been lifted. The West Ham result, while a setback, does not mean that all of the hard work since Dalglish’s return to the club has been undone; no, the bubble-bursting defeat merely serves to put the result and the club’s current relative standing into some sort of perspective.

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The club finally appears to be heading in the right direction, but a modicum of realism needs to return to the club after the honeymoon period is over. This current Liverpool side is brittle and in need of serious investment. Their deficiencies are clear for all to see, but this change must come over a long period of time, as NESV quite correctly proposed.

Dalglish has done brilliantly so far since his return and he’s helped to create a positive atmosphere at the club, something which has been missing around Anfield for quite some time. But please forgive me for this dose of cynicism, but it may take the club a little more than the return of the King to truly challenge for anything in the near future. Liverpool can finally look forward rather than back for the first time in nearly two years, and the relief has been evident.

However, when it comes to next season, while the playing staff may need addressing in certain areas, the expectations placed upon them do not and fans of the club will be wise not to even consider altering them for the foreseeable future. The mission remains the same and the rebuilding process looks to be back on track under Dalglish, but patience is a virtue as the old adage goes, and it’s a quality Liverpool fans may have to rather reluctantly accommodate over the course of next season.

After an awful summer for the England team following a dismal World Cup campaign many believe Fabio Capello should be moved on as many questioned his tactics, regime and selection. It would appear that the bookies favourite to succeed Capello as England coach is Harry Redknapp, are Tottenham set for an uncomfortable few weeks as the rumours gather pace?

Redknapp has already stated that the post is one that interests him:

“I’m English, who wouldn’t want to manage England?

“There’s not an Englishman – whether it’s me, Roy Hodgson or Sam Allardyce – who would turn the job down because it’s our country and we want to manage our country.

“No-one is ever going to turn that job down.”

Are these sorts of comments a come-and-get-me plea towards the FA, or just a show of patriotism from the Tottenham manager who says any manager should be proud to take charge of his country’s national team?

The White Hart Lane faithful will obviously be hoping that it is the latter, but the bookmakers think otherwise and Hodgson’s imminent arrival at Anfield to take the Liverpool hot seat will shorten the Spurs man’s odds even further.

Many people in football such as Lawrie McMenemy and former England international Paul Merson have touted Redknapp as a perfect candidate for the England job.

McMeneny believes that Redknapp is able to handle the big name players for England as he has done so well at Spurs when many initially had their reservations about him taking the job at the north London club.

The ex-Southampton manager said:

“He would be able to handle the dressing room as well as anyone and when it comes to handling the big players, Harry has proved he can do it.

“They’re all different and they don’t need coaching, but they do need managing. Harry has proved he can do that.”

Whilst Merson argues that although Capello is a proven manager it is time for a change as he argues that England’s World Cup campaign was disastrous. Merson has bemoaned England’s showing over the past few weeks as there wasn’t one single impressive performance out of their four matches, which suggests that the Italian is perhaps wrong for the role.

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Merson, the former Arsenal man, also believes that there is no better candidate for the job than the current Tottenham manager, but admits that the FA will have to pay a fortune in compensation to both the current boss and Spurs to make such a move come to pass.

“People will think I am only saying it because I’ve played for him [Harry Redknapp], but believe me everyone of those players would want to play for him.

“They need to play with the confidence that if they do give the ball away it won’t be the end of the world, they won’t get that with the manager waving his arms around, elbowing Stuart Pearce off the bench.”

As for Redknapp himself, I’d question whether it would be worth it for him to leave the Lilywhites after working so hard to earn the right to compete in the UEFA Champions League. Surely the chance to manage in the Champions League is a strong enough pull to keep ‘Arry at Spurs and away from the Three Lions position?

However, some critics in the past have questioned Redknapp’s loyalty considering his actions in the past. In 2004 Redknapp left Portsmouth to go to bitter south-coast rivals Southampton (relegated them), then he returned to Portsmouth, won the FA Cup with them then ended up walking out on them again to replace Juande Ramos at Tottenham.

Although the Tottenham fans won’t like it Redknapp is also many England fans’ favourite to take over from Capello and will hope that he can bring a younger look to the squad. Some quarters are also arguing that the next national coach should be English as someone like Redknapp may play a style which suits our players more than Capello’s laborious and predictable 442. But England had a bad experience under their last English coach Steve McClaren and have since found some stability under the current boss.

Are the Tottenham fans worried that they could lose their manager to England?

Do the England fans want Harry Redknapp as the England coach, should the FA stick with Capello, or would you prefer another candidate for the Three Lions role?

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David Beckham has stated that he hopes Rio Ferdinand stays at Manchester United, despite rumours the veteran could be set for a move to the MLS.

The centre half has lost a place in the national squad, and with persistent injury concerns and the emergence of Phil Jones and Chris Smalling at Old Trafford, is no longer guaranteed a starting berth in Sir Alex Ferguson’s starting XI.

Rumours in the press state that Chicago Fire are keen to offer the ageing defender one last bumper payday, but Beckham feels Ferdinand should stay with the Premier League champions.

“It’s unfair for me to even comment on a player that’s under contract at Manchester United, loved by the fans. He’s a very good player,” he told The Daily Mail.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard those rumours but I’m not even going to comment because he’s a Manchester United player and as a [former] Manchester United player I want him to stay there,” he stated.

Beckham’s own future has been subject to speculation, with a move to big spending Paris St Germain of interest to the LA Galaxy man.

“I love Leonardo. He’s a great manager, a great person. I’m flattered that he wants me to go and join the team in Paris.

“I think there are big things happening in France at a number of clubs. It’s an exciting time. Leonardo going there and the money that’s at the club. It’s an interesting club,” he concluded.

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Looking back over his time at Newcastle United, sports-retail business tycoon Mike Ashley has had an eventful few years on Tyneside as owner of the club. First impressions of Ashley lead us to believe that he was a genuine supporter by donning the Black and White striped shirt and sitting with the fans at away games instead of sticking to the corporate seats. However, from the business side of it, you have to give Ashley credit for steadying a sinking ship at St James’ Park given the large amount of debt that was paid off during his takeover. Now with more details on the Andy Carroll transfer coming out, it looks likely that Mike Ashley simply couldn’t refuse a good business deal when he sees one, regardless of what the fans or player think.

The whole debate about Mike Ashley and Newcastle United is as intriguing as it is puzzling. As a neutral looking in on this conundrum, it’s easier to look at both sides of the scale in order to assess what is really going on. In the past, I’ve spoke in favour of Mike Ashley due to the fact that despite his controversial decisions, he has tried to do the right thing in terms of running a successful football club – but by (metaphorically) slapping fans in the face on the way. The statement by the club in spring last year detailed a 5-year-plan that would see the club break even by 2016, which would leave them in a very healthy position with the new financial rules that will be coming into play and also in comparison to other clubs. That is why the transfer bid by Liverpool for Andy Carroll was one that Ashley simply couldn’t reject.

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Former chairman Freddie Shepherd has said: “When I was chairman Liverpool tried to buy Alan Shearer and I refused point blank. It can’t be done…” But despite the emotional attachments to keeping Carroll, Ashley saw too much business logic in accepting the deal. With £30 million paid up front it was like Newcastle have been given a healthy bonus to improve the squad as whole. Also with a 25-per-cent sell on fee on the deal too, Ashley certainly got his worth although many Newcastle fans would say that Carroll was priceless. It remains to be seen whether manager Alan Pardew will have the £30 million to spend on the squad come the summer.

Perhaps selling Carroll on deadline day was a bad business decision given the gamble on the team being able to stay up without him thus putting pressure on Pardew and the squad. Despite looking from a distance on the positives Ashley has made at the club it is clear why the loyal Toon Army have a problem with the running of their club. When Alan Pardew took over in December he made clear that keeping Carroll at the club was his main aim and that he’ll do everything in his power to make it happen, but despite any reassurances that he got from Mike Ashley and Director Derek Llambias – it proved a failure. It’s not just Pardew’s comments that have been contradicting, Llambias’ statements since 2009 have been highly contradictive; no wonder the fans have a lack of trust.

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