Mark Hughes News Archives


Mark Hughes is a former Manchester United, Barcelona and Chelsea player who managed Wales before coming to the Premier League to manage Blackburn Rovers.

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Nov
11
2008

SL Daily: Tottenham v Liverpool, Newcastle and Portsmouth takeovers, Nerieda takes ‘em off, drug testing hitlist and more

While you wait for Football Manager 2009 (little over 2 days to go), here is today’s news in brief to keep you company (don’t worry, you’ll be saying goodbye...

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Nov
11
2008

Manchester City get the Tottenham and Newcastle treatment from the press

With Newcastle rumoured to be getting a new owner and Tottenham now winning their games, Manchester City are now in the spotlight and the media truly has their knives out.

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Oct
13
2008

Michael Johnson take up yoga to beat injuries

Serial sicknote Michael Johnson has turned to yoga in a bid to put his injury problems behind him. The Manchester City midfielder has never played more than ten consecutive games in one season for the club since making his debut two years ago.

The...

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Sep
3
2008

Can City’s players avoid the axe?

You can’t help but sympathise with (be jealous of) City fans at this point. Since last year, they’ve gone from despair (going nowhere fast) to joy (Shinawatra) to eventual despair (Shinawatra) and now, on the last day of the transfer window,...

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Sep
1
2008

The phone conversation after City’s takeover

Mark.

Garry.

We sold the club.

Finally that Thai cunt is gone. The only thing worse than a Thai cunt is an Arab cunt. Who’d you pawn us off to Garry?

Mark, you’re on a conference call with Dr Suleiman Al Fahim,...

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Aug
14
2008

Safe or Not? The 08-09 Manager Sack Race

Last season the manager sack race got a bit ridiculous with many managers under severe pressure and some getting fired despite being backed in the transfer window and a few dismissed without being given a full season to show what they could do at the...

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Aug
13
2008

Manchester City: Frantically weaving a larger basket case

Even Thaksin Shinawatra’s ego wouldn’t go so far as to proclaim himself the Messiah, yet for a brief period he was held in such regard at Eastlands.

His takeover of the club last summer, coupled with a supposedly huge cash injection...

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Jun
10
2008

Welsh look to wake up to their potential

England may be conspicuous by their absence in Euro 2008, Scotland and Northern Ireland may feel unlucky while Eire have retreated to lick their wounds but, out of all the home nations, the failure of Wales to travel to Austria and Switzerland hardly...

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Jun
6
2008

Shinawatra ends the chaos at Manchester City

After Manchester City’s catastrophic 8-1 reverse at Middlesbrough on the final day of the 2007-8 season, Sven Goran-Eriksson, and a substantial proportion of the club’s supporters, wanted a quick decision on the Swede’s future.

Eriksson’s...

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Jun
4
2008

Hughes swaps Blackburn for Manchester City, but can he swap Uefa Cup for the Champions League?

Manchester City have confirmed that Mark Hughes has signed a three year deal with the club and that the Eastlands outfit has also agreed to a compensation package with Blackburn Rovers.

Thaksin Shinawatra on Hughes:

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