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Adam Clayton shaves off brilliant blue and white beard after Huddersfield Town midfielder raises over £3000 for charity

Adam Clayton's brilliant beard is no more after the Huddersfield Town midfielder shaved it off following their 2-0 loss to Leicester on Saturday, but not before raising more than £3,000 for charity.

Clayton had been working on the epic face fluff since November in a bid to make some money for the Huddersfield Town Foundation.

For the final home game of the season the 25-year-old went the extra mile and dyed the beard to match his team's blue and white stripes.

Face off: Adam Clayton shaved off his giant blue and white beard after raising over £3,000 for charity


Celebrated: Clayton's beard was impressive even before he dyed it in Huddersfield Town's home colours


Heartbreaker: The midfielder scored a late winner last week against Yeovil for a valuable 2-1 victory


Not so lucky: For the last home game of the season Clayton went blue and white in the 2-0 loss to Leicester

But after the match, he was unrecognisable with just some light stubble as remnants of the effort.

The Terriers have had an indifferent season and are sitting just seven points clear of the relegation places after Saturday's defeat to the Championship leaders. But at the very least Clayton's work will provide a memory worthy of celebration.

It will be a disappointing day though for those behind the Facebook page in his honour, 'Adam Clayton's beard appreciation society', which has almost 1800 likes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2614281/Adam-Clayton-shaves-brilliant-blue-white-beard-Huddersfield-Town-midfielder-raises-3000-charity.html

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Russell Slade could become new Cardiff boss after resigning from Leyton Orient

* Russell Slade has resigned as manager of Leyton Orient
* The resignation could pave the way for a move to Cardiff City
* The Bluebirds had three approaches rebuffed by Orient
* The 53-year-old led Orient to the League One play-off final last year

Russell Slade has resigned as manager of Leyton Orient, paving the way for him to become the new boss of Cardiff City.

The Bluebirds had three approaches rebuffed by the Brisbane Road side for permission to open talks with Slade.

But Vincent Tan’s move to land his No 1 target took a new twist when Slade tendered his resignation to the Orient board early on Wednesday evening.


Russell Slade has quit Leyton Orient and a move to Cardiff for the 53-year-old now looks imminent

His decision means the Bluebirds can forge ahead with their wish to appoint Slade as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s full-time successor.

Orient released a short statement on their official website.

It read: 'The Chairman and the CEO of Leyton Orient have received a resignation letter from Russell Slade a few minutes ago.

'This has not happened by chance after the Club rejected this afternoon, a proposal from the General Manager of Cardiff City regarding the transfer of Russell Slade. The lawyers of the Club are now studying the file.'

After the success of last season, Orient have struggled in the new campaign and currently sit 17th in the table.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2768488/Russell-Slade-new-Cardiff-boss-resigning-Leyton-Orient.html

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Neil Lennon: Bolton have appointed the former Celtic boss after Dougie Freedman's exit earlier this month

TEAMtalk - Sunday 12th October 2014 14:25
Lennon takes over at Bolton


Former Celtic manager Neil Lennon has been appointed as the new boss of Championship club Bolton.

Following a poor start to the new campaign, Bolton dismissed Dougie Freedman nine days ago with the team sitting bottom of the league.

Lennon will arrive at Bolton with Johan Mjallby and Gary Parker, who were both part of his backroom team at Celtic.

A statement on the club’s official website read: “Bolton Wanderers are delighted to announce the appointment of Neil Lennon as the club’s new manager.

“The extensive list of high calibre applicants demonstrated how those candidates viewed the opportunity to manage the club, even in its present position at the bottom of the Championship table. * * * * * *

“Following a process of first and second interviews with a shortlist of initial candidates, a unanimous decision was taken by Eddie Davies, Brett Warburton and Phil Gartside.

“He will officially take charge of the Bolton Wanderers team from Monday morning in the run up to our upcoming game away at Birmingham City.”

The Irishman quit his position at Celtic Park in May, after guiding the Hoops to a third successive title win.

During his spell in charge of the Glasgow club, Lennon also won the Scottish Cup twice and guided Celtic into the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League.

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Malky Mackay sacked by Wigan Athletic with club on verge of relegation from the Championship following Textgate scandal revealed by Sportsmail in August

* Sportsmail revealed in August that Malky Mackay and Iain Moody were being investigated by FA over 'sexist, racism and homophobic' texts
* Mackay became manager of Wigan Athletic in November 2014
* Wigan are eight points from safety as they sit in the relegation zone
* The Championship club are on the verge of dropping into League One

Come the end of this season, Malky Mackay’s tenure at Wigan Athletic might just be remembered as one of the costliest appointments in the history of English football.

A second relegation in three seasons would be damaging enough for a club that enjoyed eight largely successful years in the Barclays Premier League.

And after failing to secure a single win at home in six months in charge — culminating in a woeful 2-0 defeat by Derby on Monday — Mackay would certainly shoulder much of the blame for that.


Malky Mackay's tenure at Wigan Athletic came to an end on Monday following a 2-0 defeat by Derby

But Dave Whelan will also have to accept that his misguided decision to appoint the controversial Scot in the first place has cost him his reputation and seriously harmed the image of a fine football club too.

People did try to warn Whelan when he first entertained the idea of replacing Uwe Rosler with Mackay last November. But Whelan demonstrated how little regard he had for an Football Association investigation into an exchange of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages between Mackay and his former Cardiff City colleague, Iain Moody, by not only appointing him but then trying to justify the decision with some deeply offensive remarks of his own.

Whelan was punished by the FA for his comments about the Chinese and Jewish communities and was left with little choice but to step down as chairman, wisely handing the reins to a grandson who can now begin the process of repairing some of that damage.

It will take time, of course. Particularly when the response of too many in and around the club was to try to defend the indefensible, refusing to take any responsibility for the problems the club was enduring.

It could yet prove that the ‘very difficult decision’ announced by the new chairman, David Sharpe, on Monday night has been made too late. Wigan are eight points from safety with only five games remaining, after all.

But it might have become an awful lot more uncomfortable before it got better, irrespective of where Wigan finish up in the Championship.

As Sportsmail revealed last month, an FA investigation first launched last August — with the publication of the Textgate scandal messages in this newspaper — was close to being concluded in February. But new evidence was presented to the FA that forced the governing body’s disciplinary chiefs to reopen the investigation, with sources suggesting it could be the summer before we have an outcome.

The FA had already spent months wrestling with the issue of private and public communication, and whether they could charge an individual when the emails and text messages were exchanged between Mackay and Moody in their capacity as manager and head of recruitment at Cardiff. Reports that suggested Mackay and Moody were likely to escape punishment prompted more witnesses to come forward, however, with individuals Mackay might have considered allies among those to have submitted fresh information.

Despite trouble on and off the pitch, Sportsmail understands he was granted a stay of execution in February after a 1-0 away victory at Reading.

Wigan were said to be content with keeping their boss until at least the end of the season and sources at the DW Stadium indicated Mackay was ready to build a similar recruitment structure to that at Cardiff and had been sanctioned to do so.

And hours before the Scot was sacked he talked up Wigan’s chances of Championship survival, despite overseeing a 10th home defeat in 13 matches.

‘It’s still mathematically possible,’ insisted Mackay. ‘I’ve got a team which is putting performances in every week. It’s fine lines between winning and losing in this league.’

Substitute Chris Martin and Darren Bent struck for Derby as they moved up to fifth in the table. In their dugout was Steve McClaren — a man overlooked for the Wigan job in June 2013 when Owen Coyle replaced the departing Roberto Martinez.

Ultimately, Mackay lost his job not because of an FA investigation but because he failed to win football matches. As a brief club statement highlighted, a return of only 19 points from a possible 72 is disastrous.

But at least the outcome of the FA enquiries is no longer Wigan’s concern. At least they can now turn to someone like Gary Caldwell, Alan Stubbs or Danny Wilson — the names thought to be in the frame on Monday night — without the baggage that arrived with Mackay.

The harm has been done but now begins the recovery.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3027940/Malky-Mackay-sacked-Wigan-Athletic-club-verge-relegation-Championship-following-Textgate-scandal-revealed-Sportsmail-August.html

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Watford have secured a return to the Premier League for the first time since the 2006-07 season

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setelah Watford, AFC Bournemouth sepertinya akan menemani Watford langsung lolos ke Premier League musim depan

menyisakan hanya 1 pertandingan, terpaut 3 point dari Boro di peringkat 3 dgn beda selisih gol keduanya 17 gol, hanya keajaiban yg harus memaksa Bournemouth ikut play off dulu

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dan di matchday terakhir Championship Division, akhirnya AFC Bournemouth berhasil menjadi juara setelah menggeser Watford ke posisi runner up, congrats

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klasemen akhir Championship Division, papan atas
, serta play off schedule

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dan final play off musim ini akan mempertemukan Norwich City dengan Middlesbrough, senen minggu depan …

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udah 2-0 aja nih, Norwich sementara unggul atas Middlesbrough ……