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Hammer Gabbidon close to Cardiff homecoming

Published 23:00 28/01/11 By Football Spy




Cardiff are close to a deal to bring Wales and West Ham star Danny Gabbidon home.
The versatile defender has fallen out of favour at Upton Park since the 5-0 thrashing at Newcastle on January 5 and has lost his place to Wayne Bridge, on loan from Manchester City. He is out of contract this summer after failing to agree a new contract with Avram Grant's strugglers.
That has opened the door for Cardiff boss Dave Jones to snap up the 37-times capped player – who spent the five years to 2005 with the Bluebirds – in a £250,000 deal.
Jones said: "I'm still looking to bring in two more players."



 
Burnley snatch Swindon hotshot Austin

Published 23:00 28/01/11 By Football Spy




Burnley boss Eddie Howe has snatched Swindon striker Charlie Austin in a £1.8million swoop.
Austin headed for Turf Moor after walking out on a deal with Ipswich chief Paul Jewell. Howe had tried to land the hitman while boss of Bournemouth.
His arrival will mean Scotland striker Chris Iwelumo will be sold, with Clarets' neighbours Preston keen on the target man.


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Wigan boss prepared to throw the kids into FA Cup derby clash

Published 23:00 28/01/11 By Alan Nixon




Roberto Martinez will throw his kids into the heat of a local derby FA Cup clash – to turn them into men.
The Latics boss plans to put out a ‘shadow squad' for the trip to neighbours Bolton because he needs his top team for two crucial Premier League clashes with West Brom and Blackburn.
But he's not afraid to let the babes have their moment of glory. "We want to develop young players. It's easy to say it but not to do it," said Martinez.
"These players made the decision for me with how they played in the third round at Hull under difficult circumstances.

 "It's important that we use players who are desperate and frustrated that they have not been playing.
"This is a game to add players to the squad and it's a welcome distraction. I am still excited about getting through to the fourth round."
Callum McManaman is the star of Wigan's emerging youngsters and Martinez said: "He has been magnificent since he came into the squad. He is a great example and we want to develop more like him."
Wigan keeper Mike Pollitt will be the grandad of the side at 38 – and Bolton chief Owen Coyle wants to end his Cup hopes like he did as a player 17 years ago.
Coyle said: "I remember Mike playing against us for Lincoln – and I scored against him. I think I beat three or four in the box and rolled it in.
"Mike is from Bolton and he has always been a good keeper and a top lad. If he gets the chance he'll show his quality."
David Wheater may come in for his first start under Coyle, but changes will be limited.
Wheater was introduced to his team-mates with a movie of his other hobby. Coyle said: "We had a DVD of David's dance moves. The lads enjoyed it and have really taken to him."


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Wigan boss prepared to throw the kids into FA Cup derby clash

Published 23:00 28/01/11 By Alan Nixon




Roberto Martinez will throw his kids into the heat of a local derby FA Cup clash – to turn them into men.
The Latics boss plans to put out a ‘shadow squad’ for the trip to neighbours Bolton because he needs his top team for two crucial Premier League clashes with West Brom and Blackburn.
But he’s not afraid to let the babes have their moment of glory. “We want to develop young players. It’s easy to say it but not to do it,” said Martinez.
“These players made the decision for me with how they played in the third round at Hull under difficult circumstances.

 “It’s important that we use players who are desperate and frustrated that they have not been playing.
“This is a game to add players to the squad and it’s a welcome distraction. I am still excited about getting through to the fourth round.”
Callum McManaman is the star of Wigan’s emerging youngsters and Martinez said: “He has been magnificent since he came into the squad. He is a great example and we want to develop more like him.”
Wigan keeper Mike Pollitt will be the grandad of the side at 38 – and Bolton chief Owen Coyle wants to end his Cup hopes like he did as a player 17 years ago.
Coyle said: “I remember Mike playing against us for Lincoln – and I scored against him. I think I beat three or four in the box and rolled it in.
“Mike is from Bolton and he has always been a good keeper and a top lad. If he gets the chance he’ll show his quality.”
David Wheater may come in for his first start under Coyle, but changes will be limited.
Wheater was introduced to his team-mates with a movie of his other hobby. Coyle said: “We had a DVD of David’s dance moves. The lads enjoyed it and have really taken to him.”


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Moyes: I haven't even opened my FA Cup 2009 losers' medal

Published 23:00 28/01/11 By David Maddock




David Moyes picked up a losers' medal after defeat to Chelsea in the 2009 FA Cup Final – but still hasn't opened the box.
The Everton boss, whose team face the Blues again in the cup today, takes pride in reaching Wembley but the memory is bittersweet.
Moyes said: "I've never *bothered with my medal – it's in the house somewhere. I'll open the box if we get back there and win the cup.
"Maybe it will be this year. I think I gave the medal to my son, David. Maybe he's opened it up and had a look at it, maybe he's got it somewhere.

"That's not being disrespectful. The medal wasn't the big thing. The achievement was getting to the final and the route that we took and the teams we beat to get there."



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Why selling Torres to Chelsea after just signing Suarez would be madness for Liverpool
By Mark Lawrenson
Published 07:02 29/01/11







Kenny Dalglish is fighting to keep Fernando Torres – even after signing Luis Suarez.
Selling Torres to Chelsea at this stage would mean Liverpool are effectively raising the white flag.
And knowing Kenny as I do, he would go berserk. There's no way he would give up Torres without a fight.
It's an easy conclusion to jump to that Liverpool signing Suarez for £22million means Torres is about to be sold to Chelsea.

But you cannot chuck Suarez into the Premier League and expect him to adapt immediately – especially if he's playing up front on his own.
Suarez needs support and Dalglish will have seen signing the Uruguay striker as a top-class partner for Torres.
Dalglish will not see him as a potential replacement for Torres. That would be madness.
Liverpool are now seventh place in the Premier League – so why would you sell your best striker?
It doesn't make sense for Liverpool either in football or financial terms.
Maybe in the summer Liverpool can think again if they can get £40m or £50m for him, have Suarez settled in and then sign a good replacement.
But to sell Torres and replace him with a player lacking Premier League experience would be madness.
Of course Chelsea want him. And you have to accept any player would have his head turned by their interest. It goes without saying Torres will be interested. It's only human.
And while Chelsea looked at Torres last summer, why leave making a bid until the last minute of this window?
It leaves them in a race against time to get the deal done and a cynic might suggest Roman Abramovich needs some good PR rather than having a genuine belief that the deal can get done.
Yes, there's time before Monday's deadline, but anyone involved in big transfers will tell you of the complexities involved.
Chelsea need to rebuild an ageing squad and signing Torres would be massive for them. Not only would it give the club a lift, it would send a strong message to everyone that Chelsea are back.
It would dismiss all talk that Chelsea have been blown out of the water by Manchester City's billions.
Chelsea would be getting a World Cup winner, a world-class striker and a player capable of firing them to the top again.
Can they win the Premier League this season? Not from 10 points behind the leaders, Manchester United.
Chelsea stand a better chance in the Champions League. They will surely beat FC Copenhagen in the next round.
But Chelsea want sustained success. Carlo Ancelotti won the Double last season yet this season has exposed gaps in his squad.
There is no doubt they are ageing. Look at Didier Drogba. World-class, but he's not getting any younger or better.
The defence needs rebuilding. That's why they've gone for David Luiz. But all areas need strengthening.
To fail to do that this month would be a huge blow. To strengthen with two world-class players would give Chelsea such a lift.
In contrast, it would be a devastating blow to Liverpool, their fans and Dalglish.
The next 48 hours or so will tell us a lot about the future ambitions of *Liverpool and Chelsea.


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Elin Nordegren said she never had an inkling.
She said she never hit her famous husband with a golf club.
She said she's never felt so sad and devastated, and hopes she never will again.

 Alleged mistresses

Here are some of the women with whom Tiger was allegedly intimate.

All this and more from the woman the world has waited to hear from since that Thanksgiving night in November that shattered her marriage and the carefully crafted image of Tiger Woods.
"I've been through hell," Nordegren said in an interview with People magazine released Wednesday, two days after she and Woods were officially divorced. "It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me."
She and the couple's children, 3-year-old daughter Sam and 18-month-old son Charlie, have settled a mile from her ex-husband in a rented, five-bedroom house in a gated community in Windermere, Fla. - where Woods needs her permission to get past the guard. The two are sharing custody of their children.
She credits therapy and long runs with helping her deal with the last nine months, and she also kept a journal of her thoughts and emotions. "I haven't gone back to read what I wrote in December and January; I'm afraid to," she said.
She has not watched "one minute of golf." But she can laugh at things now, calling those "Saturday Night Live" and "South Park" parodies of her "pretty hysterical" (though totally untrue).
"She's been amazing," said Mia Parnevik, for whom Nordegren was working as a nanny when she met Woods more than a decade ago. "She has held her head high. To go through a divorce is not easy for anybody. To go through what she's gone through is not humane."

 Elin's hell

Elin says she went 'through hell' since finding out the truth about Tiger. Here's a look at their time together.

She is not, however, without scars. In the days before the divorce was finalized, Nordegren's long, blonde hair began falling out.
"She's held her head high. She has not caved in," said Parnevik, wife of pro golfer Jesper Parnevik. "She's not said bad things about him, and that's kind of an easy game to get into."
The Swedish-born Nordegren always has guarded her privacy as fiercely as Woods, if not more so. Even in happier times she was rarely quoted. She kept to herself at golf tournaments, staying well beyond the ropes and once turning away when she noticed photographers taking her picture.
Years ago, a reporter mentioned that he had never seen her on the 18th green after Woods won a tournament.
"That's just not my personality," she said.
But the car crash outside the couple's Florida home shattered any hopes she had of a normal life for her and her children.
The world knew the tawdry details of Woods' philandering, and many wondered if Nordegren had a hand in the accident, perhaps going after him in a fit of rage when she caught him.

 Tiger's Troubles




"This was one of the things I had the hardest time with people thinking," Nordegren said. "There was never any violence inside or outside our home. The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous."
The interview with People, conducted at her home over four visits lasting a total of 19 hours, will be her only one, she said.
Nordegren approached People, and magazine spokeswoman Claudia DiRomualdo said no one was paid for the story. Nordegren would not disclose the amount of the divorce settlement but did say "money can't buy happiness or put my family back together."
Nordegren said she had never suspected Woods of cheating. She hadn't traveled as much the last few years, busy with the couple's children and her psychology classes at Rollins College.
"I felt stupid as more things were revealed - how could I not have known anything?" Nordegren said. "The word betrayal isn't strong enough. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart. It seemed that my world as I thought it was had never existed. I felt embarrassed for having been so deceived. I felt betrayed by many people around me."
Still, Nordegren said the couple tried for months to reconcile. Woods even spent two months in therapy at a Mississippi clinic in hopes of saving the marriage. The child of divorced parents herself, Nordegren said she wanted her children to have a "core family," a happily married mother and father.
Nordegren leaned heavily on her family during the turmoil. Twin sister Josefin, a London-based attorney, was part of her legal team, and her mother, Barbro Holmberg, traveled to Florida to be with her daughter.

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But even that was not without drama. Holmberg, who has very low blood pressure, collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital during a December visit after the flu swept through Nordegren's house.
In the end, Nordegren said she decided that a marriage "without trust and love" wasn't good for anyone.
"I am now going to do my very best to show them that alone and happy is better than being in a relationship where there is no trust," she said.
Asked about his ex-wife's interview, Woods said Wednesday, "I wish her the best in everything."
"You don't ever go into a marriage looking to get divorced. That's the thing," Woods said from The Barclays golf tournament in New Jersey. "That's why it is sad."
Nordegren wasn't even interested in Woods when she was first introduced to him. But she eventually fell in love with him because they had "so much fun, and I felt safe with him." She called their Oct. 5, 2004, wedding in Barbados "one of the happiest days of my life" and told People she still has her Vera Wang wedding dress.
Now she is on her own, just her and the children.
Woods' golf game has suffered amid his personal turmoil, and he said Wednesday that his children's well-being remains his priority. But Nordegren said she still believes he'll wind up as the "best golfer that ever lived."
Just don't expect her to be watching. "Forgiveness takes time," and she's still working on it, Nordegren said.
"She should get a lot of credit for how she portrayed herself," Parnevik said. "The integrity and respect, that's her - not him."

 
oods' ex-wife went 'through hell'

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Tiger Woods and wife Elin watch as Pete Sampras and Roger Federer of Switzerland play an...


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Updated Aug 26, 2010 12:08 AM ET
WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP)

Elin Nordegren said she never had an inkling.
She said she never hit her famous husband with a golf club.
She said she's never felt so sad and devastated, and hopes she never will again.

 Alleged mistresses

Here are some of the women with whom Tiger was allegedly intimate.

All this and more from the woman the world has waited to hear from since that Thanksgiving night in November that shattered her marriage and the carefully crafted image of Tiger Woods.
"I've been through hell," Nordegren said in an interview with People magazine released Wednesday, two days after she and Woods were officially divorced. "It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden — was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me."
She and the couple's children, 3-year-old daughter Sam and 18-month-old son Charlie, have settled a mile from her ex-husband in a rented, five-bedroom house in a gated community in Windermere, Fla. — where Woods needs her permission to get past the guard. The two are sharing custody of their children.
She credits therapy and long runs with helping her deal with the last nine months, and she also kept a journal of her thoughts and emotions. "I haven't gone back to read what I wrote in December and January; I'm afraid to," she said.
She has not watched "one minute of golf." But she can laugh at things now, calling those "Saturday Night Live" and "South Park" parodies of her "pretty hysterical" (though totally untrue).
"She's been amazing," said Mia Parnevik, for whom Nordegren was working as a nanny when she met Woods more than a decade ago. "She has held her head high. To go through a divorce is not easy for anybody. To go through what she's gone through is not humane."

 Elin's hell

Elin says she went 'through hell' since finding out the truth about Tiger. Here's a look at their time together.

She is not, however, without scars. In the days before the divorce was finalized, Nordegren's long, blonde hair began falling out.
"She's held her head high. She has not caved in," said Parnevik, wife of pro golfer Jesper Parnevik. "She's not said bad things about him, and that's kind of an easy game to get into."
The Swedish-born Nordegren always has guarded her privacy as fiercely as Woods, if not more so. Even in happier times she was rarely quoted. She kept to herself at golf tournaments, staying well beyond the ropes and once turning away when she noticed photographers taking her picture.
Years ago, a reporter mentioned that he had never seen her on the 18th green after Woods won a tournament.
"That's just not my personality," she said.
But the car crash outside the couple's Florida home shattered any hopes she had of a normal life for her and her children.
The world knew the tawdry details of Woods' philandering, and many wondered if Nordegren had a hand in the accident, perhaps going after him in a fit of rage when she caught him.

 Tiger's Troubles




"This was one of the things I had the hardest time with people thinking," Nordegren said. "There was never any violence inside or outside our home. The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous."
The interview with People, conducted at her home over four visits lasting a total of 19 hours, will be her only one, she said.
Nordegren approached People, and magazine spokeswoman Claudia DiRomualdo said no one was paid for the story. Nordegren would not disclose the amount of the divorce settlement but did say "money can't buy happiness or put my family back together."
Nordegren said she had never suspected Woods of cheating. She hadn't traveled as much the last few years, busy with the couple's children and her psychology classes at Rollins College.
"I felt stupid as more things were revealed - how could I not have known anything?" Nordegren said. "The word betrayal isn't strong enough. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart. It seemed that my world as I thought it was had never existed. I felt embarrassed for having been so deceived. I felt betrayed by many people around me."
Still, Nordegren said the couple tried for months to reconcile. Woods even spent two months in therapy at a Mississippi clinic in hopes of saving the marriage. The child of divorced parents herself, Nordegren said she wanted her children to have a "core family," a happily married mother and father.
Nordegren leaned heavily on her family during the turmoil. Twin sister Josefin, a London-based attorney, was part of her legal team, and her mother, Barbro Holmberg, traveled to Florida to be with her daughter.

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  • Will Elin ever forgive Tiger?
    • Yes
    • No
    • Who cares?

But even that was not without drama. Holmberg, who has very low blood pressure, collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital during a December visit after the flu swept through Nordegren's house.
In the end, Nordegren said she decided that a marriage "without trust and love" wasn't good for anyone.
"I am now going to do my very best to show them that alone and happy is better than being in a relationship where there is no trust," she said.
Asked about his ex-wife's interview, Woods said Wednesday, "I wish her the best in everything."
"You don't ever go into a marriage looking to get divorced. That's the thing," Woods said from The Barclays golf tournament in New Jersey. "That's why it is sad."
Nordegren wasn't even interested in Woods when she was first introduced to him. But she eventually fell in love with him because they had "so much fun, and I felt safe with him." She called their Oct. 5, 2004, wedding in Barbados "one of the happiest days of my life" and told People she still has her Vera Wang wedding dress.
Now she is on her own, just her and the children.
Woods' golf game has suffered amid his personal turmoil, and he said Wednesday that his children's well-being remains his priority. But Nordegren said she still believes he'll wind up as the "best golfer that ever lived."
Just don't expect her to be watching. "Forgiveness takes time," and she's still working on it, Nordegren said.
"She should get a lot of credit for how she portrayed herself," Parnevik said. "The integrity and respect, that's her — not him."

 
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