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12 unusual facts about Premier League


Absolute Radio sister stations

Established in 2010, this enables Absolute to carry its FA Premier League football coverage on DAB.

Belmont Park Pty Ltd v BNY Corporate Trustees Ltd

The Football Association Premier League Limited intervened in the Belmont Park appeal for that reason, and had postponed its own litigation in that regard until the disposition of that case.

British Forces Broadcasting Service

It also started a movie channel on 2 May 2008, using money that it saved following the Premier League's decision to waive the £250,000 rights fee.

Carnlough

Carnlough man Brendan Rodgers, a former Northern Ireland schoolboy international and manager of Chelsea reserves, is the current manager of the Premier League side Liverpool F.C..

Dick's Sporting Goods Park

The stadium is owned by Commerce City and operated by Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE) who also own the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, and the Colorado Mammoth, and who is a co-owner of English Premier League club Arsenal F.C. via subsidiary.

Gary Lavery

His previous coaches at Glenavon F.C. are backing him to be a success in the English Premier League.

Intelligent Giving

In March 2007, Intelligent Giving claimed that English Premiership football clubs were not giving enough to charity.

Norrington Table

Up until 2004, a key criticism was that students were allowed to withdraw their names from the public lists and were thus not counted — Trinity College President Sir Michael Beloff likened this to a Premiership final league table, only with several random results missing.

Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth

Taylor's recommendations, published on 29 January 1990, stated that all First and Second Division (which became the Premier League and Division One in 1992) stadiums had to be all-seater by August 1994, and that the rest of the Football League should follow suit by August 1999.

The Four Year Plan

The film chronicles the take over of the nearly bankrupt club in 2007 by a consortium of billionaires and their effort to promote the team to the Premier League by 2011.

The Secret Footballer

The Secret Footballer is the pseudonym of an alleged Premier League footballer who contributes articles to The Guardian newspaper and has authored two books, I Am The Secret Footballer and Tales From The Secret Footballer.

World Football Insider

The publication’s growing readership includes: FIFA members, officials from the six confederations (CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA and AFC); organizers of the next three World Cups in Brazil, Russia and Qatar; England's Premier League and other leagues from around the world; football clubs; football agents and consultants; sponsors and sports marketing companies; officials from sports ministries; and national governing bodies.


1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final

Instead, after barely surviving the next season, they steadily improved until achieving promotion to the Premier League by finishing second in the 2001-02 season.

1994–95 Belarusian First League

These teams were replaced by the worst team of Premier League Stroitel Starye Dorogi and two best teams of 1992–93 Second League - Kardan-Flyers Grodno and Ataka-Aura Minsk.

2002–03 Southampton F.C. season

The 2002–03 season was Southampton F.C.'s 11th season in the Premier League, and their 25th consecutive season in the top division of English football.

2005–06 Stoke City F.C. season

With the Icelandic board failing to gain promotion to the Premier League and with debts now at around £5million chairman Gunnar Gíslason put the club up for sale and he sold the club back to former chairman Peter Coates.

2009–10 Sunderland A.F.C. season

The 2009–10 season is Sunderland's third consecutive season in the top division of English football, the Premier League.

2011 World Seniors Championship

The draw for the last 16 was made on the evening of 1 September 2011 at the Guildford Spectrum during the Premier League.

2012–13 Football League Championship

Wolves’ relegation was the first time a team had been relegated from the Premier League to Football League One in consecutive seasons since Swindon Town in 1994 and 1995.

Albert Scanlon

On 13 May 2007, Scanlon presented the Premier League trophy to Manchester United along with former team-mate Bill Foulkes.

Aliko Dangote

On 23 May 2010, Britain's Daily Mirror reported that Dangote was interested in buying a 16 percent stake in Premiership side Arsenal belonging to Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith.

Álvaro Arbeloa

In 2006 he moved to Deportivo de La Coruña, joining Liverpool after half a season and going on to appear in 98 official games over the course of three Premier League seasons.

Bandung F.C.

When they signed midfielder Lee Hendrie on a free transfer on 27 January 2011, Bandung became the first Indonesian club to obtain an Englishman or a player with experience of the Premier League.

Boylesports

Boylesports were the Official Online Gaming Partner of Premier League club Aston Villa F.C. for the 2008/09 season.

Brett Pitman

Pitman scored a 16 minute hat-trick in the first home game of the season 2010–11 against Peterborough United and on 17 August 2010 it was reported by Sky Sports News that newly promoted Premier League side Blackpool had made a bid of £400,000, possibly rising to £600,000, to sign Pitman.

Burmah Oil

Burmah sponsored Swindon Town Football Club from 1991 to 1995, during which time they were promoted to the Premier League but then suffered two successive relegations.

Cleidson Rodrigues dos Santos

A promising, versatile player who can deputise at centre back should the need arise, Cleidson was linked with several European clubs during the 2012 summer transfer window, most notably VfB Stuttgart of the German Bundesliga as well as Queens Park Rangers and Swansea City, both of the English Premier League.

Daniel Cousin

On 21 January 2008 it was reported that Premier League side Fulham had had a £2 million bid rejected by Rangers manager Walter Smith.

Darren Ferguson

Ferguson played in United's first 15 games of the new Premier League in 1992–93 during the absence of the injured Bryan Robson, and although he did not start a league game after November, he played enough games to qualify for a title winner's medal at the end of the season.

Dean Moxey

Dean Moxey (born 14 January 1986) is an English Footballer who plays at the full back position for Premier League side Crystal Palace.

Doug Livermore

Shreeves was axed, and Livermore was promoted to the role of Team Manager for the 1992–93 season – the first season of the Premier League.

Forensic speechreading

John Terry was alleged to have made a crude racist remark against Anton Ferdinand in the course of a televised premier league soccer match between Chelsea football club and Queen's Park Rangers.

Fraser Valley Mariners

Colin Miller left Abbotsford in the 2006 close season to become Billy Davies' assistant at Derby County in the Premier League, and he was replaced by former Canadian international Shaun Lowther for the 2007 campaign.

Futera

Futera held Official Trading Card Licences in the '90s/early 2000s for UK Premier League clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Aston Villa, West Ham and Scottish Premier League club Celtic plus Newcastle, Derby County, Middlesbrough and Manchester City.

George N. Gillett, Jr.

It has been reported that former manager Rafael Benítez's relationship with Hicks and Gillett had become increasingly strained and he was fired on June 2, 2010, after a poor season which saw the club finish seventh in the Premier League, missing out on UEFA Champions League football next term.

Goalissimo

As Premier League and La Liga broadcasting rights are not owned by Channel 4, still images from the games that fade in and out with each other are used instead, with voice-over commentary and a bongo-drum based soundtrack.

Kenyan Provincial League

For the 2013 season, all 7 promotion play-off league winners would be promoted to their corresponding zones in Division One, in addition to the two relegated teams from the Premier League, given the disbandment of Mathare Youth late in the 2012 FKF Division One season.

Kyle Legault

He began his British speedway career in 2005, with Premier League team the Sheffield Tigers where he recorded a 5.80 average in his first season.

Madejski Stadium

In 1994, the Taylor Report made all-seater stadiums compulsory in the top two divisions (the Premier League and the First Division).

Mehmet Topal

In the 2008 summer transfer window, there were rumours surrounding a move to Everton in the Premier League, with David Moyes apparently keen to bring the player to Goodison Park.

Mikel Alonso

After brother Xabi had already settled in England with Liverpool (having arrived during the summer of 2004), Alonso also decided to move to the Premier League.

Neil Redfearn

In the 1996–97 season, Redfearn scored 17 goals as Barnsley won promotion to the FA Premier League for the first time in the club's history.

Professional Referee Organization

Heading up PRO is Peter Walton, a former referee who officiated just under 200 matches in the English Premier League.

Rémi Garde

Garde became known for his tidy and reliable performances as backup for Vieira or Emmanuel Petit; he played a total of 45 matches over three seasons for Arsenal, and was a member of the Double-winning side of 1997–98, making 10 league appearances that season meaning he just about qualified for a Premier League winners' medal.

Rob Styles

In awarding Birmingham City a penalty 13 minutes from time during the Premier League game at St Andrews on 29 March 2008, Styles caused many observers in the media to question whether the away side's Sun Jihai had actually fouled home striker Gary McSheffrey in the penalty area, or merely been punished for a legitimate shoulder-to-shoulder challenge, which would ordinarily have brought no sanction whatsoever.

Ronald Reng

The Keeper of Dreams, the story of the German non-league goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League, won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

Sam Reynolds

Reynolds has played in several international exhibitions including in July 2005 with Portland Timbers in a friendly against Sunderland of the English Premier League; friendly matches with Chivas USA against Mexican Primera A sides Necaxa in October 2006 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and Chivas Guadalajara at Estadio Jalisco in November 2007; and on August 2, 2008 for Miami FC in a friendly match against the Haiti national football team in Miami.

Shai Haddad

He made his premier league debut on 30 May 2008, coming on as a substitute in a match against Bnei Sakhnin.

Simon Brotherton

In 1990 Brotherton joined the BBC network, where, as well as commentating on the Premier League, he has commentated on a variety of football tournaments including the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1996, UEFA Euro 2000, UEFA Euro 2004, the African Cup of Nations, the UEFA Champions League Final and the UEFA Cup Final.

Stewart Greacen

He, therefore, chose the safe option of playing in the Airtricity Premier League with championship favourites Derry City hoping to gain a move to a bigger club in the summer.

Terry Fleming

Halesowen Town signed Fleming in 2007, along with two other former Football League players in the form of Stephen Cooke (who also played in the Premier League for Aston Villa) and Duane Darby.

Tony Kane

On 22 May 2009, it was announced by Carlisle United manager Greg Abbott that a deal had been verbally agreed between Carlisle United and Premier League side Blackburn Rovers to make the loan move a permanent one.

Vlado Zadro

Vlado Zadro (born 17 March 1987 in Mostar) is a professional Bosnian football player currently playing in Premier League club Široki Brijeg.

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The program usually aired at 10pm either the night of a UEFA Champions League match or a Premier League match that is aired on Sky Sports.