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  Peter Shilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Leslie Shilton OBE (born Leicester, England, September 18, 1949) was an outstanding goalkeeper who holds the record for most international appearances for his country.
Lineker scored twice and Peter Beardsley once as England coasted through 3-0 and into a quarter final meeting with Argentina, a match which again would utimately form part of the definition of Shilton's whole career.
In 1990, following his retirement from international football, he was awarded the prestigious Order of Merit by the PFA and a year later he received the Football Writers' Tribute Award.
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 BBC - Devon Sport - Gary Peters turns down Exeter City manager's job
Gary Peters says he does not want the job of permanent manager at Exeter City - leaving the club managerless while a new coach is found.
Peters was in charge of City for the last 13 games of the season.
Peters said he considered his future while on holiday but recent events have "blown everything out of the water".
www.bbc.co.uk /devon/sport/2003/05/exeter_peters_decision.shtml   (402 words)

  
 soccer
FOOTBALLER Paolo Di Canio of Italy will soon pay the price of his hot-headed action during an English Premier League match between his club Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal when he allegedly pushed referee Paul Alcock to the ground.
In the provincial league of Fab (Football Association of Border) one referee is known to have officiated in seven consecutive matches involving one team.
Peters led his club to the Farrers Cup competition, and finals of the Kwitsa knockout and runners-up in the league.
www.dispatch.co.za /1998/10/02/sport/SOCCER.HTM   (852 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (1975 in sports)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
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 Coffee and PC: October 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Football fans have never been slow to voice their opinions on any subject, be it the merits of a 4-5-1 formation, or the tactical flaws of Kevin Keegan, but the sport itself is current under evaluation from its own kind like never before.
Football took a battering, quite literally, in the 70s and 80s with the large hooligan element that permeated the terraces.
Footballers have always been idolised by their fans, but that’s because the fans knew that their heroes weren’t that different from the ordinary man. They still liked a pint, they still struggled to make ends meet with their wife and kids, in short people you wouldn’t mind to share a couple of beers with.
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 PNEFC The Preston North End fans site pne
The first football match under the Association rules, against Eagley, followed in 1878, though at that point, and for a couple of years thereafter, most of the games were played under the rugby code.
Arthur Wharton was the first ever fl professional footballer, and Bob Holmes survived until the 1950s, long enough for him to give advice to one of North Ends most promising young players, "Keep the ball along the ground Tom, it's not a balloon".
Professionalism in football was against FA rules at the time, so payments to the players had to be concealed through ruses such as providing them with bogus jobs.
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 Coffee and PC: It could have been a brilliant career...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Gazza being Gazza, newspapers and football fans alike will be keeping an eye on the rookie's fortunes as he adds the prefix of 'Gaffer' to his already well-known nickname.
Faced with a meeting with a drunk footballer in conjunction with a position of responsibility at an indeterminable point in the near future, Russell and Lewis asked themselves, not unreasonable, "What the hell are we doing here?" and promptly turned the car back to the West Country.
At the end of the 2002/03 season Exeter were relegated from the football league for the first time in their history.
coffeeandpc.blogspot.com /2005/10/it-could-have-been-brilliant-career.html   (1089 words)

  
 The Observer | Sport | Moyes own story (part 1)
Footballers are notoriously tough on young wannabes, but the other players, all much older, seem to accept Rooney as one of their own - because of what he can do with a football.
And with a football he appears a personality transformed: his youth and a natural shyness render him pretty much silent off the pitch, but he is animated and smiling when a football is there to be kicked.
Now changed, the future of English football looks exactly what he is: a boy wearing jeans and a shirt, silent, humble before the managerial desk.
observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,6903,928669,00.html   (3866 words)

  
 Soccernet.com Euro 2000 News: Heartbreak was the key to Beckham's success
And he was concerned that even that modest hatchback might give his new team-mates the impression of 'a big-time Charlie' come to put Preston's lesser lights firmly in their place.
The feeling was not exactly helped by the response of Preston's manager, Gary Peters, to his new young star.
Just as Gary Peters had hoped, the player who now enjoys an unrivalled status as the king of the set-pieces seized the opportunity to score from a free-kick and a corner.
www.soccernet.com /euro2000/news/20000604beckhamfeat.html   (1089 words)

  
 Exeter Exiles - Exeter City People Everywhere
There are some circumstances in which it might make sense to relocate a football club to an out of town site, but they simply do not apply in a small and compact city like Exeter - especially when millions have already been spent to build much of what is needed at St James Park.
My point, and sorry to labour it, is that success in football may be down to many things, but who happens to be the manager doesn’t seem to be a particularly decisive factor.
I want her initials to be a heartfelt reminder of the pride, vitality and friendship that ECFC represents to me. I'd rather not saddle my precious daughter with the initials of a dead football team.
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 JockBio: David Beckham Biography
Stocked with talent—including Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes—they captured the FA Youth Cup in j1992.
Preston manager Gary Peters welcomed David with open arms, and when the rest of the team discovered he wasn't a prima donna, they gladly accepted him, too.
He also finished second to Brazil's Rivaldo in voting for both the European and World Footballer of the Year, and was runner-up to Lennox Lewis as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
www.jockbio.com /Bios/Beckham/Beckham_bio.html   (4527 words)

  
 World Soccer News
This question will haunt the football fans until Bang-ladesh get another chance to meet their regional soccer rivals India in another final and...
Peter Crouch scored twice as European champion Liverpool marched into the Club World Championship final with a 3-0 victory Thursday over Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica.
SINGAPORE: Key milestones were reached in Asian football in 2005, and there was plenty of controversy getting there as the region continued to build its profile as a credible soccer continent.
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 shrewsburychronicle.com - Sport - Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The experienced striker has hardly featured for Town since Peters took over in November and, just like Kevin Street and Trevor Challis, has been told he can move on to try and secure regular first team football elsewhere.
Darby was injured when Peters was appointed but has worked his way back to fitness and is itching to play.
Darby added his current frustration was heightened by the fact he has been impressed with the revival Peters has inspired at the Meadow and believes he could do well for him.
www.shropshirestar.com /cgi-bin/weeklies/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=5627   (552 words)

  
 Living legend still proud of Preston
That he was the club's best footballer ever is unquestioned, but some judges, Shankly included, deemed him the finest of all Englishmen.
The current revival began after Gary Peters took over as manager and it was he who turned to the maestro's experience.
Preston is a footballing town, and if we got a winning side in the First Division things could take off.
sport.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/04/30/sfnpre30.html   (1018 words)

  
 Preston North End | History | Legends | The Ryan Kidd Interview: Part Three
"I hadn’t really heard much about him but Gary Peters was over the moon and brought him into the dressing room to introduce him to everybody, he said he was going to be the brightest young thing ever and we all thought ‘yes, alright Gary whatever’.
Beckham may have made an immediate impact during his short spell at Deepdale but it was the arrival of a Scotsman one year earlier that would transfer Deepdale and spark a PNE revolution.
Not in the way he played but more in his mentality towards football, he was a leader straight away and I always thought to myself that he was cut out for management and coaching which he was, he was doing his badges at an early age.
www.pnefc.premiumtv.co.uk /page/LegendsDetail/0,,10362~532152,00.html   (1457 words)

  
 CLARETS: Nogan sold to Preston - This Is Lancashire
Gary Peters was very keen for me to join them and I was impresseed by him."
Preston tabled a second offer to Burnley last night and the bid was accepted by the Turf Moor board of directors after a hastily arranged meeting.
I think the whole situation could have been handled better on everybody's side and it doesn't do a football club any good when you get a scenario like this.
archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /1997/03/13/832683.html   (930 words)

  
 Ciderspace News Page
Gary Johnson has so far refused to comment on the validity of the rumours, preferring to talk to the WDP about the current good form of left-sided flank player Abdelhalim El Kholti, who ironically had been linked with Hereford as a possible replacement for Parry, until his recent surprise return to the first team.
They didn’t play much football but at the end of the day they have come and got a result so whatever their tactics were, whether they played to them or not doesn’t matter - they won the game.
Two first half strikes by the visitors Mark Peters and Gary Alexander were enough to give the travelling side all three points despite a consolation goal from Nick Crittenden in the second half.
www.ciderspace.co.uk /ASP/news/news.asp?NewsItemId=756   (15764 words)

  
 Football | Preston motoring with upwardly mobile Moyes
Preston had been floundering around the lower divisions for the best part of three decades, seemingly washed up, when Moyes was invited to replace Gary Peters as player-manager three years ago.
It was an offer he could not refuse, yet he can still remember the apathetic, almost begrudging, response to his appointment.
Moyes, by contrast, after his experience with Celtic reserves, Cambridge, and Shrewsbury, among others, is building a reputation as one of the game's most progressive thinkers.
football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4185512-103,00.html   (968 words)

  
 SWANSEA CITY FC - Press Cuttings
The director of football agreed a deal only until the end of the season when he replaced Nick Cusack back in September and as yet there have been few noises from the club's boardroom over an extension.
To their credit, after the break Scunthorpe came back well from this and their mixed first half showing when they were given a testing time by a Swansea side whose neat passing and movement made a mockery of their lowly position.
In Peter Beagrie they had the most dangerous player on the pitch, but quite apart from that they are a team chasing automatic promotion, a cause they are as desperate to achieve as Swansea are to avoid the trapdoor.
www.scfc.co.uk /press/press209.html   (12815 words)

  
 BBC - Devon Sport - Exeter City FC directors deny allegations
Their arrests came just days after the Grecians were relegated out of the Football League.
Exeter were relegated from the Football League at the end of the 2002-3 season, amid reports of debts of £2m.
Mr Lewis said he had considered throwing in the towel and walking away from the club.
www.bbc.co.uk /devon/sport/2003/05/exeter_lewis.shtml   (324 words)

  
 SWANSEA CITY FC - Press Cuttings
The Football Association have told the club that its preparations for handling the 7,575 strong crowd were more than adequate, while the FA have passed on their completed report of the incidents to the FA of Wales, who will decide whether or not to take any further action against the Welsh club.
Gary Jones, Matt Gilks, Scott Warner and Neil Edwards are the others, while Gareth Griffiths and Tony Gallimore this week verbally agreed to extend their stay at Spotland.
This is a football club which, after all, has seen 10 managers come and go in barely a decade.
www.scfc.co.uk /press/press246.html   (20629 words)

  
 rushinandrantin :: Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Bury seem to be blaming the ref for making trhe decision, but considering every other Football League club and Conference club managed to play their fixture (apart from Shrewsbury who called their game off due to a death), then why was Bury's pitch not up top scratch.
There experience is proof that football clubs require sustained support and stability to really develop and maintain a presence in the football league.
Shrewsbury manager Gary Peters is demanding improvements at both ends of the pitch as his team aim to “turn draws into wins” at Rushden tomorrow.
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 Cartwright is happy to - This Is Lancashire
The game is now a multi-million pound business full of multi-millionaire footballers, all seemingly looking for their next big move and their next lucrative signing-on fee.
The winger is one of a rare breed in football nowadays -- a one man club.
Another part of 'being a footballer' is giving out and taking stick but Lee says he stays out of all the mickey taking.
archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /2001/03/10/689054.html   (986 words)

  
 Ciderspace News Page
Gary Johnson said: It’s a blow for us and Jake, however an operation is needed and we will look forward to his speedy return.
But I thought both teams played a bit of football and I thought both teams were very passionate, but where it matters in the goal, they got two and we didn’t get any.
Yes of course it is, but we’ve all been involved in other football matches and we all support other teams and that happens all the time.
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 Deva Chat - CCFC Supporter's Forum -> Reflection on todays game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The fact that opposing keepers are scarcely being needed for large parts of football matches Vs city causes a real fear that we could go down.
Something needs to be done and done quickly (i wish i knew what) before we catch up with Kiddy and the other deadbeats of this division vying for a return to the conference.
They selected players who are not good enough and were totally outsmarted by Gary Peters tactically.
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 Sports News
According to the OK, Friday's draw for the finals, running from June 9 until July 9, is set to pull in a record global TV audience of 320 million and be broadcast to 145 countries.
The defeat and the absence of European football is a major blow to United's season and a huge setback for Ferguson.
Albert Jorquera made his European debut in goal, while first choice attackers, European Footballer of the Year, Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o were among the regulars rested with Swede Henrik Larsson leading the line.
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 1980 to 1989
It was that same determination to climb out of the Football League basement that began a quite incredible journey just seven short seasons ago...a journey that was to lead to the very top.
A month's football was lost to the weather and although Wimbledon resumed with a frosty draw against Brighton, they were soon back on the winning trail with a succession of solid victories.
It was a match remembered not for its football, but for a photograph of Gascoigne grimacing as Jones applied the big squeeze.
historicaldons.com /1980.htm   (7322 words)

  
 CLARETS: Heath's facing fight for Murdock - This Is Lancashire
And that raises speculation still further that Preston manager Gary Peters could be ready to make a serious bid for the Northern Ireland Under-21 international.
We know what Colin can do and he is a good footballer.
Not surprisingly, Peters denied he is poised to strike for Murdoch and said: "Alex Ferguson was just helping us out because we were short of bodies.
archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /1997/05/06/828629.html   (393 words)

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