I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
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PREPARING for the start of the new Premier League season can be an expensive business, and a rich benefactor is certainly a huge bonus when it comes to the transfer market and securing (poaching) the best players.
Even pre-season tours can have a significant effect on the bank balance.
For example, Premiership high fliers Chelsea went on a pre-season tour that took them on a 19,091 mile round trip to Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong.
By contrast, top-flight new boys, Swansea, travelled just 19 miles - playing away friendlies against Neath and Port Talbot.
There’s lovely! The pie’s the limited!
ACCORDING to a BBC survey on the cost of a day out at a professional football match, Tottenham Hotspur have the most expensive pies in the Premier League, costing a stonking £3.50. The cheapest were found at Bolton and Wigan at £2.10 - content not known!
The survey concluded that the cheapest day
out can be had at Newcastle United or Blackburn Rovers - for just £17.50 - assuming you bought their cheapest
match day ticket (£10) and also a cup of tea, a pie and a programme.
Following the same criteria, the most expensive day out is to be had at Liverpool at £46.95, substantially more than the two Manchester clubs and Everton. The Gunners offer the most expensive match day ticket at £100.
survey, Fulham, Man City and Chelsea were unable (or is that unwilling?) to divulge the cost of a pie or a cuppa.
Monty’s ‘rough’ justice ...
WRITING in the Daily Mail, celebrity gardener and TV presenter, Monty Don, has been praising the virtues of unmown grass.
He writes; “If we want to encourage more insects into our gardens, there is no better or easier way to do so than by simply not mowing our grass. If we wish to officially make this a ‘wildflower' meadow then all well and good, but the flowers in it make very little difference to the quality of wildlife.”
The solution, says Monty, is to set aside 152
an area of long grass which will look good and make a huge difference to the insect population and the food chain.
Monty goes on to say; “This will maximise the chance for wild flowers to thrive among the grass, adding to what will be, in my opinion, as beautiful as any neatly mown lawn - and far more environmentally friendly.”
Strange, isn’t this what all golf clubs have been doing for years whilst copping flack for being blots on the landscape?
At the time of the Cock-ney rhyming slang?
ADIDAS have announced that the 2012 Olympic football will be known as The Albert!
The name was suggested by Robert Ashcroft (pictured) of Long Ashton in Derbyshire, who submitted his suggestion because of the link to cockney rhyming slang - with ‘Albert Hall’, one of London’s most iconic landmarks, meaning ‘Ball’.
Adidas say that other ‘albert’ references, such as Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses, Albert Square from EastEnders, Albert Bridge over the River Thames and the Albert Docks are also relevant to London.
Of course, there could also be a connection between the Olympic Rings and Prince Albert... but who would want five about their personage?
Harper Seven heaven
A GREENKEEPER at Newcastle Golf Course was thrust into the media spotlight after finding that he shares a name with David Beckham’s newborn daughter.
James Harper set up his account on Twitter in 2009 with the name Harper7 to tie in with his surname.
However, the coincidental choice of David and Victoria Beckham to name their daughter Harper Seven sparked an early-morning call
from Capital FM presenter Lisa Snowdon.
James said: “I’d just got into work and they were like, ‘Do you know the name of the Beckham's latest child?’ I didn’t and then they told me.
“The next thing, Lisa Snowdon was on Twitter asking if they could have a word.”
He added: “He’s my favourite ever football player so I love it - the fact my Twitter name is the same as his daughter.”
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