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Junior Golf Tournament for Kids in Nuneaton

Posted by Darren Moore on Tuesday, 22 March, 2011


:: Rotary Club of Nuneaton

The Rotary Club of Nuneaton is pleased to announce the details of its first Junior Golf Tournament. The tournament will take place on 4th August 2011 at Oakridge Golf Course, with the kind permission of the Owners and Commitee.

A shield will be presented to the winner; this will be known as the Oakridge Rotary Shield and has been kindly sponsored by LDJ solicitors, Nuneaton. Medals will also be presented to the runners-up. The rules of the tournament will be based upon a Stableford Handicap competition in order to give every golfer an even chance.

The entrance fee will be £4.00 and food will be provided on the day.

In addition, and on the same day, it is planned to stage a putting competition for younger non-golfing children, for which there will be a nominal fee. It is hoped that this will encourage families to bring along younger siblings who might like to try golf in a friendly non competitive setting.

The official launch day is 28th April 2011, so look out on the Nuneaton Rotary Club website or in the
Nuneaton News for further announcements.

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F1 Stars Hit Sao Paulo – Brazil

Posted by Darren Moore on Thursday, 4 November, 2010
F1 Brazilian Grand Prix from Sao Paulo

What Will The FIA Say?

After a nail biting end to last weeks F1 GP, the top 6 drivers have reached the Brazilian Sao Pualo Circuit for the last but one race of the season, and it all could be decided this weekend before they get to Abu Dhabi in 7 days time.

As it stands, the coverted ‘Numero Uno’ could be taken by one of 5 drivers – Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel or Mark Webber. So, as the temperature rises at the circuit, the heat is on for racing driver of 2010.

But, with so much at stake for some of the bigger teams, it’s time to question the ethical behaviour of team bosses, with $millions at stake if they get their car to the number one spot.

So what will happen if one of the ’2nd drivers’ pops up in first position this weekend, yet can not win the chamionship because a rival has finished higher than they expected?

If the truth be known, this is all taken care of in advance after the Ferrari issue which raised it’s ugly head earlier in the season, where by Massa was instructed by his Chief Mechanic to move over, letting  Alonso pass because he was faster. The FIA made it’s point clear, which will mean all of the teams will no doubt have certain signals and messages for their drivers – indicating what they have to do should things start to go the wrong way.

The race will be live on Sunday, so don’t miss what could well be the end to the season – in a big way.

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NFL Return To Wembley With Enthusiasm

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Sunday, 31 October, 2010
NFL at Wembley Stadium Oct 2010

NFL Wembley London 2010

The game of American Football returned to Wembley Stadium this weekend, and with such an amazing crowd eager to see the battle commence, it questions the point – should this be taken on by British as a regular pre-season or post season spectacular?

It was apacked house at the stadium, where the Denver Bronco’s took on the Sanfransisco 49′ers in one of the biggest NFL games hosted in the UK.

The crown were buzzing considering the greay October evening, and they were not to be dissapointed for their £90+ ticket prices. It took a litle while for the game to be fully charged, with the first touchdown coming in the second half by Tim Tebow as he piled over a heap of bodies on the ground.

The 49′ers looked pretty much dead and buried when like a bullet out of a gun came Jabar Gaffney took a pass from Kyle Orton in the end zone, only to have it quashed and called back for a penalty.

Of the four games which have been played at Wembley for the British NFL crowed, this certainly had to be classed as the best so far. The first two were extremely low quality, the third was a complete walkover and one sided, where as this was a complete end to end game.

With rumours that tickets could have sold out 5 times over, we can safely say that this one off event may just stretch into a small series over a week or so on closed season. Whichever way it happens, it needs to judging by the response from the crowd during the game, plus the 38,000 which turned up at Trafalger Square on Saturday for a pre-match rally.

Final result: 49′ers (24) v Bronco’s (16)

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Another Bad Day At The Office For Jenson

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Sunday, 24 October, 2010

After a couple of days of testing in Korea, and what could only be described as being another wet day on the track, Jenson Button confirmed his lack of energy for McLaren with a pretty poor 12th place finish – 10 places behind his team mate.

Yet watching both the Redbull cars go out in pretty spectacular way’s, you would have thought that McLaren and Ferrari had seen all of their Christmas’ come rolled up in a real short space of time.

During the race, Mclaren engineers were in contact with both drivers and the responses of the pair couldn’t have been so different. With Jenson reading one hymn sheet and saying he couldn’t get the car to stay on the track, Lewis sounded like he had just been given the biggest bag of sweets and had no one to share them with.

Slowly but surely, Button began to go backwards with reported tyre degregation, when it is something which Hamilton normally reports. But with a Ferrari in front of him, and one not too far behind, Hamilton managed to keep hs composure and slide the McLaren into a sweet second place behind Alonso, with Massa taking the third spot.

With only a couple of races to go now, it looks like the chamionship is over for Button being 48 points behind. But now that Webber added another DNF to his team, it leaves Alonso in a very nice place to bring Ferrari a potential world title.

After the race, Button seemed to be extremely down beat about the whole weekend – but then you could hardly expect him to be jumping for joy after witnessing Hamilton close the race at the top of the chamionship leader board.

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It’s Wayne’s World For Another 5 Years

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Friday, 22 October, 2010

Wayne Rooney Stays At Mancher United

Well, At Least for Manchester United It Is

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You never know what it takes for a footballer to start rumours that he want’s to leave a club, but obviously for Wayne Rooney there was a financial goal he needed to score.

Just as the boy is clearing out his locker, Sir Alex spills the news that a deal has been done where by Rooney will secure another 5 year contract with the club, for around £250,000 per week.

I ask you, why the hell would anyone want to pay a football player £13 million per year when they have been struggling for performance ever since the end of last season?

Well, there are some great speculative theories bounding around the press, which I just have to share with you.

  • Firstly, there is the situation with his bestranged wife and the amount of money she could achieve from his crock of gold.
  • Secondly, he knows something about his boss which they don;t want leaked to the press?
  • Thirdly, and probably the more obvious of the the three – is that ‘No One’ really fealt that the club had any back bone with the £700 million debt hanging round their shoulders, so Ferguson & Rooney plotted up the plan to see if they could get a vote of confidence from the owners?

This really does bring a big reality issue up again, where by the problem we have in this country with ‘Great’ sports people is that we don’t want to see the good ones leave the country and fly off abroad like David Beckham did.

I guess the only positive side is that the tax man will get 40%!

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World Cup 2018 Bid Delayed Due To Bribery Claims

Posted by Darren Moore on Sunday, 17 October, 2010

2018 World Cup Bid

President Will Delay 2018 World Cup Bid Decision Until Investigation is Complete

As the 2018 World Cup bid was nearing the final stages, someone releases a firecracker showing how the poorer nations will accept potential bribes for votes to secure who will host the event.

The scandal has been bouncing around for the last 24 hours, but it now looks like the two executive members of FIFA who were placed under the spotlight have been named and shamed by one of the UK’s national press organizations for attempting to sell their bids so that one of the final 5 nations could secure the hosting of the 2018 football clash.

First under the lamp was Amos Adamu who is a Fifa Executive Committee Member, who has allegedly offered to pass his vote on to support the USA bid for the event for a sum in the region of £500,000. In a bid to give some cover for his reasoning, the Nigerian was supposed to have said it was a way of securing the future of football in his home country – by building 4 artificial pitches.

The second FIFA committee member, Tahiti’s Reynald Temarii, has also been accused of selling his bid, for an estimated £1.5million. Yet what has confused many people is the fact that his story was pretty much the same, by saying that he wanted to build a sports academy in New Zealand.

Obviously, when this was leaked to the world press, FIFA had no alternative than to suspend the decision of the board until they had looked further into the allegations, which prompted a full scale investigation.

With a £1 billion income tag for who hosts the event, it is no surprise that FIFA have decided to call off their decision, which means we are now looking at the 2nd December 2010 before the announcement is made.

The undercover sting was plotted by the Sunday Times, who sent a team of reporters to pose as lobbyists acting on behalf of an underground consortium of business men who wanted the event to be hosted in the USA.

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Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button Back The Decision

Posted by Darren Moore on Saturday, 9 October, 2010

British F1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button today backed the decision made by race officials to postpone the qualifying of the Japanese GP due to the sudden downfall of rain over Sazuka.

The British pair who are not too unfamiliar with ‘torents’ or rain, said that it was one of the best decisions made by race officials considering that the practice had already been affected and with bad light closing off the chance of getting anywhere for today.

From where we are, you look out over the track and all you can see is water pooling across the track, which meant that the race director Charlie Whitting had no other choice but to completely abandon any opportunity of the qualifying session being completed based on that safety had already been compromised on three occasions which had delayed the day.

This will mean that final qualifying will take place on Sunday morning at 02:00 (BST) – 10:00am local time, just 5 hours before the race us due to get underway, so let’s keep everything crossed for an incident free session or the teams may not have time to repair cars ready for the starting grid.

Jenson said: “The good thing is tomorrow is going to be a very exciting day, having qualifying and the race on the same day adds something, and it’s slightly different to what we normally have, and that could be a good thing.”

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Tom Hicks and George Gillett Battle For Liverpool FC

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Thursday, 7 October, 2010

LFC Anfield Road in True Colour

Pre Season @ Annfield Road


Anfield Awaits Court Rulling Over Red Sox Takeover.

Whilst Liverpool FC are experiencing some major problems on pitch, off pitch seems to be taking the limelight away from poor performance of some of the highest paid players in the premiership, with the battle for ownership now entering courts in the UK and potentially the USA as well.

Takeover aside, Gillett and Hicks will have the biggest uphill climb to even consider keeping tight hold of the club, based on their financial performance since they took ownership of the club not so many years ago. And with anger still on the faces of the supporters, I’m not sure even if they get to counter the takeover, that they will get any support from the thousands of loyal fans around the globe, let alone in the UK.

This whole situation only brings one major problem into the spotlight, which is businesses and people who buy into british clubs and companies who are not cash rich, taking them directly into debt upon takeover.

Liverpool was no different when Hicks and Gillett signed the deal a few years ago, taking the clubs debts to a record high, whilst still paying heavy payments to the Royal Bank of Scotland for what they borrowed from day one. In short, this meant that the income Liverpool was seeing from gate receipts, TV endorsements and retail sales was being swallowed up by interest payments to RBS.

And they are not alone, because whilst all this “pie in the sky” talking telephone numbers is bound around the media, we seem to be forgetting that Manchester United are in double the amount of trouble than Liverpool, with an average of 20% greater revenue into club funds.

This fiasco which is happening right now with Liverpool, should be an early warning to the FA that they need to get some tighter guidelines put in place to stop this ever happenening again.

We are still potentially days if not weeks away from the final outcome – let’s just hope that once it is settled either way, that the team and Roy Hodgson can buckle down and concentrate of performance related issue’s, before the fan base lose complete faith in what was not so long ago, one of the top 5 teams in Europe.

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Twitter Ban By Ryder Cup Captains

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Tuesday, 28 September, 2010

Ryder Cup 2010 | Celtic Manor Resort – Cardiff – Celtic Manor Hotel and Country Club

Only days before the start of the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor, the captains have issued a stern warning to players that they must refrain from using any type of social networking site during the competition, which included Twitter.

That is hardly surprising considering the ‘unwritten’ law of the game of golf, and that mobile devices should not be used on the course and any player caught using one by the club captain, will be fined.

May be they should ban the twittering scenario from all pro sports men and women, so they can concentrate on the situation in hand without having to tell the world and his dog what is happening on the inside of those four walls?

The story behind the captains placing a ban on social networking broke shortly after Kevin Pietersen was dragged over the coals for using Twitter to release the news that he had been dropped from the side in the Twenty20 series against Pakistan. Kevin Pietersens Twitter Message

Mean while, Ian Poulter who regurlaly sends out Tweets from the course, had to remove one this week which basically said that he had been evacuated fro his room at the Celtic Manor Hotel due to a fire alarm, and called it “a shocker.”

The American’s flew into Cardiff yesterday morning in preperation for Friday’s start. But, as soon as they had arrived at the Celtic Manor course, Cory Pavin and his English counterpart revealed that they had requested players not to engage in social networking till at least after the event.

Monty said; ‘It’s not a ban as such because if somebody does it, how can you punish them for it? I have just asked my team not to and they have said, ‘okay, that’s fine, we’ll start tweetering or twittering again on Monday, 4 October’.

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David and Victoria Beckham to Issue Legal Against In Touch Magazine

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Friday, 24 September, 2010

David and Victoria BeckhamIn a month where we have seen more footballer’s come under fire for their off pitch antics, it appears that David Beckham is the next one under fire from ‘In Touch’ magazine which has published a story about David playing away from home with a prostitute and another woman.

It has been published that both David and Victoria Beckham are going to issue proceedings against the magazine, with a formal front page apology from them saying that the story was untrue.

And if that won’t keep their legal team busy, David also confirmed in the press today that he will be pressing for liable against the ‘vice girl’ Irma Nici – with one report saying that they will be seeking in excess of £5 million in damages for the story she passed to the press of the alleged threesome between herself, David and an undisclosed third person.

Obviously, this all comes at a dangerous time as Beckham head’s the campaign for the World Cup 2018 bid for the UK.

It’s reported that Victoria is firmly standing by her LA Galaxy playing husband, claiming that she believes him and his denial of the event.

Reports say that the ‘legal proceedings’ are going to be issued in the UK, even though the magazine is US based and only published for the US market plus Germany.

And the reason for this, is because since the magazine published the article, it has been banded about through the UK press.

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