Couple of Rangers jokes I heard:
Glasgow police are investigating a coin throwing incident at the Rangers v Kilmarnock match.
They're not sure if it was hooliganism or a takeover bid.
Rangers fans were pleased to hear that an Italian billionaire is looking at taking over Rangers.
No-one quite knows how to tell them it's the Pope.
Oh so that's who it was.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17114875
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17178936Manchester United's Federico Macheda, Newcastle United's Nile Ranger and Walsall's Manny Smith have all been charged by the Football Association for alleged homophobic comments on Twitter.
The players are alleged to have acted in a way which was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute.
Each has until 1600 GMT on Wednesday 29 February to respond to the charges.
West Ham's Ravel Morrison and ex-Leicester player Michael Ball have recently been fined for similar cases.
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FA launches anti-homophobia campaign
Morrison was fined £7,000 by the FA in February after he admitted a charge of using abusive and/or insulting words on Twitter, including a reference to a person's sexual orientation.
Ball, who also played for England, Manchester City and Everton, was fined £6,000 for tweeting about Coronation Street actor Anthony Cotton.
The FA launched a new six-year inclusion and anti-homophobia plan last Monday called 'Opening Doors and Joining In' where it outlined its aims to rid the game of prejudice.
Macheda, 20, is currently on loan at QPR, having joined the west London club in January.
You'd think FA would have more important things to do
http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...eason-was-overGabriel Agbonlahor has admitted he is looking forward to getting this season out of the way so that Aston Villa can rebuild in the summer.
Manager Alex McLeish stated from an early stage of the campaign that he was expecting a transitional period after replacing Gerard Houllier at the helm last year.
It has turned out to be a difficult season, with Villa struggling for consistency and currently languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League.
Supporters again made their feelings clear during Saturday's goalless draw with Wigan, but Agbonlahor is grateful they keep coming to try and get behind the team.
The 25-year-old is now looking beyond the end of this term to what he hopes will be a bright future for the club.
Battling
"It's one of those seasons you want to get out of the way and get through it," he said in The Sun.
"Then you rebuild. We know it's going to be difficult but we're battling away as a team.
"The fans are sticking with us with the way they turned out in numbers.
"We can't hear things on the pitch. We're just concentrating on the game so that doesn't affect us."
Villaeven the players don't want to be there.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...cle872081.htmlPremier League clubs could be in for another massive television cash windfall with a serious challenge to Sky's domination of top-flight domestic TV coverage by Al Jazeera now a "realistic prospect", according to the European head of ESPN.
The possibility of the Qatar-owned broadcaster going head to head with Sky has been speculated on ever since it beat Canal Plus to the French Ligue 1 and Champions League rights.
Now Ross Hair, head of ESPN for Europe, Middle East and Africa, believes Al Jazeera are likely to challenge Sky - a move which if successful would pose a serious threat to the Murdoch-owned satellite broadcaster.
The spin-off of a bidding war for the clubs could be a lot more cash for the 2013-16 domestic rights - the current three-year deal is already worth £1.782billion.
Hair told the Evening Standard: "We're expecting another Premier League auction in April or May. An Al Jazeera bid is a realistic prospect.
"They have done something very interesting in France in buying first division football against the incumbent satellite broadcaster Canal Plus and we've also looked at what they've done in other markets.
"You can draw parallels with the upcoming auction in the UK. Al Jazeera have the ambition to grow further in sport and into other markets."
ESPN are also set to bid as they are desperate to retain their foothold in the Premier League market - they currently show 23 live matches a season.
Premier League football has been the driving force of Sky's satellite TV success in the UK but they have not had a challenger of such potential threat before.
The financial muscle of Qatar has seen Al Jazeera become a major player in football rights, a process that accelerated when the Middle Eastern country won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
Clarke Carlisle on BBC Question Time tonight at 10:35. It'll be his second appearance. Surprised he has been invited back after his poor showing in January 2011; in which he clearly had the questions given to him beforehand (the rules are the panel have no idea what they will be), shoehorned awkward 'team' metaphors into everything, and continually called Alan Johnson "Mr Clark". Still, as long he gives Starkey a few pelters today, then I'll be happy.
(Also in attendance, this gonk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIwBvjoLyZc)
Good start for Carlisle.
Shame about Starkey.
He's right about wimmin.
Whenever Starkey wheels out "Let me give you an example", my blood runs cold.. Practically cryogenic now.
Clarke has been a bit level-one/populist, but okay enough for that - it has served as a good foil for the more crackpot views on show. Far superior to his last showing anyway.
Hope the bloke in the audience Starkey tried to pick a fight with earlier gets a comeback...
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