club liga inggris



We have all heard about Think Tanks and yet few of us know much about them or what they do. In fact, generally one has to wonder what they think about anyway. Recently, someone asked me what the Online Think Tank is thinking about and working on. The answer is almost as intriguing as the question, because it always changes.
Since I happen to run the Online Think Tank, I told the gentleman and potential team member what I was thinking about and then what was slated on the agenda in the next week. Below is a short list of two items I was thinking on the day he contacted me:
1.) The American Indians used horses and moved on foot, but they also had to cross-terrain and vegetation areas that would make things difficult. In addition, they needed water to carry with them. What modern advances could we provide someone like that now that would not require fuel, self-operated, transportable and self-powered, but strong to take a beating? Why? Well for exploration, search and rescue, military, etc.
2.) I am planning a bike ride across America for Juvenile Diabetes to raise money, but many parts of the country are absolutely dangerous due to automobiles, so I am considering driving it first and finding better routes, there is very little data in many places of where is the safest to ride. If we want "thin" Americans, we need more bicycle lanes "Everywhere" and keep folks from being run over. Yes, some states are excellent, many are not.
Well those were my thoughts the day he contacted our Online Think Tank, but those have changed by now. Below are the items that were on the agenda 3-weeks ago and in reading this, maybe you should contact us if you have been thinking here and/or have other interesting ideas.
1.) The Geo-political Implications of; Using CIA to overthrow Hugo Chavez; Going into Northern Pakistan to get Al Qaeda; Stopping the Coca Plant in Bolivia funded by Venezuela; Calling N. Korea on their shell game. i.e. where are the other nuclear weapons plants?
2.) Electo-magnet and ELF weather creation - making clouds
3.) Smaller Automobiles and Public Perception of safety
4.) Redesigning speedometer/odometer and making a combo airspeed indicator for PAVs. Also (Tachometer Scheme for warranties of PAVs).
5.) Why Whole Foods Market needs to merge to provide economies of scale to lower costs and compete with healthier foods.
6.) Human Gill device implants, rescue swimmers, Navy Seals.
7.) AUV Paravane strategies for autonomous underwater surveillance of ports
8.) Electronic Attack Proof UAVs
9.) Beached Sea Mammal rescue system
10.) Robotic Farming in Africa to prevent humans getting ringworm
11.) How to get rid of all world religion
12.) How dishonest it is for a company to sell Tea with Ginseng and then on the back it says High Fructose Corn Syrup as the first ingredient.
13.) How any building that was completed in 2007 has irrelevant energy efficiency numbers due to the new materials discovered since June of 2006?
14.) How much trash humans throw out on hiking trails, dumping junk and not caring about it?
15.) Why drivers do not pick up hitchhikers due to fear.
16.) Why the Catholic Church is allowed to operate in the US after all the child molestations.
17.) Why someone needs to build a website with all sorts of "Community Plans" for locals to download.
18.) Why so many liberals and Sierra Club types work in Washington DC and continue to use all that paper cutting down trees?
19.) Why copying what everyone else has done in the past and relying on their data quells the forward progression of innovation
20.) Builders always build to make a profit not the most energy efficient, unless they will be holding the property long-term themselves.
21.) Why peace in the Middle East might be a pipe dream and why the probability for total disaster is much more likely then ever attaining long-term peace.
22.) That the biggest secret of all is there is NO Secret at all. i.e. secret societies, organizations and religions, its all BS.
Well this are a few of thoughts I was thinking on and 20 plus thoughts that were on the agenda and I even ended up writing a few articles on these subjects. Tell me your thoughts, where do you want to think today, with the Online Think Tank?

liverpool



You'll Never Walk Alone
Liverpool FC is ranked as the most successful soccer team ever in the English League with an unparalleled record in domestic and European competition. However the history of the club is
marked by sadness as much as it is by celebration.
The Early Years
Bizarrely, this incredibly successful soccer team was born as the result of a rent dispute! Anfield - the home of
Liverpool FC - was originally the home ground of Everton. When they (Everton) won the English Football League Championship in 1891, Anfield owner John Houlding tried to increase their rent substantially. When Everton refused to pay, and no agreement was reached, the club decamped to a new ground at Goodison
Park, leaving only three players behind.
Determined to see soccer remain at Anfield, Houlding recruited 13 professional players from Scotland and created the first Liverpool FC side.
The club was unable to secure election to the league until 1893, when they joined the second division. Ending their first season with an unbeaten record, they were promoted to
division one, and have never been lower than the second division again in their entire history.
Liverpool won their first Football League championship in 1901, and their second only a few years later in 1906. That same year, a significant expansion of Anfield took lace with the
construction of a massive cinder bank behind the home goal. This bank - named "the kop" after a British defeat in the Boer War where many Liverpuddlian soldiers died - is the sentimental home of every Liverpool fan.
It wasn't until 1914 that Liverpool played in their first FA Cup final, and it was 1921/2 before they won it - though they did then go on to win it again the next year!
Famous Managers
Most great soccer teams are defined in terms of their great players, and of course Liverpool has had its fair share of stars over the years. But it is managers more than anyone else who have defined the different eras of Liverpool's history - starting with perhaps the most famous of them all; Bill Shankly.
Shankly joined Liverpool as manager in 1959 when Liverpool were languishing in the second division. Although he had no real experience of managing big teams, it was Shankly who firmly set
Liverpool on the path to success and established the management and training systems that served subsequent managers well for the next 30 years or more.
The changing fortunes of Liverpool - and Shankly's personal charisma - resulted in the club fielding the greatest players of the time, including Emlyn Hughes, Kevin Keegan, Ian St John,
John Toshack and Roger Hunt.
Shankly took Liverpool back into the first division in 1962, the season in which Roger Hunt scored a record (to this day) 41 league goals. First division championships and FA Cup victories
followed through the 1960s and 70s, and then came Liverpool's first European trophy (the UEFA Cup) in 1973.
In 1974, Shankly's shock retirement resulted in the promotion of his assistant, Bob Paisley, and the beginning of a new chapter in Liverpool history. This continuity of management
may well be one of the secrets of Liverpool's success, as two of Paisley's player signings - Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness - later became managers of the team.
If Shankly is remembered as the manager that turned Liverpool around, Paisley is the manager who made it all pay and the record he established for winning soccer trophies was unbroken for twenty years after his retirement.
His record in nine years of management:
  • 6 Football League Championships
  • 3 European Cups
  • 1 UEFA Cup
  • 3 League Cups (successive years)
  • 1 European Super Cup
  • 3 Charity Shields

In the 1982/3 season, Liverpool won both the Football League Championship and the League Cup for the second consecutive year. Following this victory, Bob Paisley retired, handing over to Joe Fagan - another internal promotion to manager at Anfield.Fagan only stayed for two seasons, but they were spectacularly successful seasons, winning the League Championship for the third consecutive year as well as Liverpool's fourth
European Cup. As well as the established squad that remained from the Shankly years, Fagan was able to field players such as Ian Rush, Alan Hansen and goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar.
The end of Fagan's managerial career was also the first of two great tragedies in Liverpool's history, when crowd violence led to 39 Juventus fans being crushed by a falling wall at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium. The occasion was the 1985
European Cup final - what should have been another great night for the club turned to disaster.
The resulting six-year ban from European soccer meant that new player-manager Kenny Dalglish had to focus only on domestic competition - which he did with great success. In 1986, Liverpool were only the fifth team to achieve the double of FA Cup and League Championship - a particularly satisfying season for them as they beat local rivals Everton into second place in both competitions. A dip in form the following year led Dalglish to inject new talent in the form of Peter Beardsley, John Barnes and John Aldridge to the attacking unit, and a return to former glories followed.
The 1988/9 season saw the second great tragedy in Liverpool's history, this time in the semi-finals of the FA Cup. Playing Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough stadium, crowd control
problems resulted in 96 Liverpool fans being crushed to death, and over 700 more injured.
The end of Liverpool's ban from European competition ended in 1991, and with it came the departure of Kenny Dalglish. His replacement - Graeme Souness - was yet another manager to be
promoted through the ranks at Liverpool. Although home-grown players like Robbie Fowler and Jamie Rednapp were making names for themselves, Souness followed the trend of the day and invested heavily in new players from outside - a strategy
that did not prove successful and Souness was gone by 1994.
Souness was replaced by the last of the internally-promoted Liverpool managers - Roy Evans. While Evans tinkered with the squad, Liverpool still relied heavily on veterans like Ian
Rush to score goals, although newcomer Robbie Fowler made an impact with a 29-goal season.
The brightest playing talent from this period came in the form of the young Michael Owen who played regular first-team soccer from the age of 18.

manchester city



Who Will Manchester City Purchase This January (12/3/08)
Manchester City clearly is going to show the financial strength of its owners, the Abu Dhabi Group, this January. In fact the owners even came out by saying that they want to acquire one world-class superstar during the next transfer period. However the question is who do they realistically have a chance getting? Clearly guys like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kaka are not going to be lured over no matter what price offered. Here I am going to analyze some of their rumored targets.
Many rumors have been coming linking Manchester City with forwards. Lukas Podolski seemed like he was on his way out from Bayern Munich and headed towards Manchester City until tonight when Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stated that Podolski was staying at least until the end of the season. David Villa's name has come up once again even though he has a contract at Valencia until 2014. The reason for these rumors is the serious financial situation taking place at Valencia which might end up forcing them to sell their prized forward if the price is high enough. Ricardo Oliveira of Real Zaragoza was linked with Manchester City last week but although he is a very talented forward, I just don't see him as a big name forward that Mark Hughes would like to bring in. Luis Fabiano has been unhappy at Sevilla and even left practice due to a quarrel with the head coach. Manchester City seems interested in Fabiano and is supposedly planning to bid £20million for the forward who scored 24 goals last season in La Liga. The last forward being linked is in my opinion Mark Hughes' favorite. This is Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz who stayed with Blackburn this summer despite great interest from other clubs. However the rumor is that he is unhappy at Blackburn and is going to request a transfer. Unless I see a statement saying that this rumor is false then I seriously think Roque Santa Cruz is the man for Manchester City. Chelsea this summer supposedly bid £40million for the Paraguay international but was turned down. However with Chelsea not interested in signing anyone, I see Manchester City being able to offer a lower price due to less competition.
Defenders and goalkeeper are also being linked with moves to Manchester City in January. City has been linked with only two goalkeepers but they are two of the best in the world. Juventus' Gianluigi Buffon was supposedly offered a large bid and contract that he turned down. The same goes for Iker Casillas whom Manchester City supposedly bid £129million for. Wayne Bridge has drawn interest from Mark Hughes but Chelsea doesn't seem intent on selling him. The rumor is they were so angry that City stole Robinho from under their noses that they didn't want to deal their defender to them. Michael Turner of Hull City was linked with Manchester City however I don't see Hull making any major changes especially since they have performed above expectations this season after being promoted. Ivory Coast international Kolo Toure was linked with City but I don't see Arsenal selling any of their defenders especially since at times, due to injuries and off-field incidents, they were forced to use Djourou and Silvestre at the center of the defense. Fabio Grosso is an interesting name being linked with Manchester City today as City are supposedly planning on bidding EUR7 million for the Olympique Lyonnais defender. Of all these names I see Grosso being the most realistic but even then I don't think it will happen. As for midfielders the only name that was linked with Manchester City was Lassana Diarra but his sprained ankle has been a bump in the road. If he gets back from injury quickly and continues playing at a high quality, then I see Manchester City making a serious push for him.
After naming all these players that were linked with Manchester City, I see two realistic choices. I see Roque Santa Cruz finally moving towards Manchester City and I see Lassana Diarra joining if he can get healthy quickly. The main obstacles for these two players are whether their managers are willing to sell them. If they are willing, then these two are as good as signed.

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