Npower and Robbie Savage looking to break record

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Robbie Savage is going to attempt to set the new World Record for wearing the most football league shirts at once as part of a new Club 72 initiative for Npower.  Although Savage officially retired last year, he is teaming up with the npower Club 72 group this year in an attempt to take home the record for wearing the most npower football league at once.

Savage has played professional football for the last 17 years, so in reality there are not too many colors that he has not actually worn on the field, but with Crawley Town and AFC Wimbledon joining the Premiere League this season you can bet that at least two of the shirts are going to look new to him.

Outside of simply tossing on the colours of Leicester City and Derby County, there are a few shirts that Savage and his fans most likely would rather forget.  Savage himself is getting a bit nervous as he stated that the attempt seemed easy, but the more he looks at pictures at other people who have tried for the world record the harder it looks.

“Throughout my playing career I was fortunate enough to weigh exactly the same in my final season at Derby as when I first started out with Crewe Alexandra – I certainly don’t think there is any room to be carrying any extra pounds for this challenge.

“The t-shirts’ collective weight will obviously put my shoulders and back under a lot of pressure and heat stroke is also something else to consider.

“Naturally I’m hugely proud of my playing career and this is a great way to end it. If I break the record, I expect that makes me the only player in the world to wear every single npower Football League team strip.”

The record attempt is to celebrate the launch of npower’s Club 72 initiative which will be an interactive platform for football supporters to chart their own performance throughout the season.

Launching to coincide with the start of the 2011/12 season, Club 72 will offer fans the chance to document their own performance in terms of attending football league games at npowerclub72.com. The site will allow fans to record the Football League stadiums they’ve been to and show how far they’ll go to follow the beautiful game. For every stadium visited, you’ll be awarded a virtual badge as well as bonus points for being a “lucky charm” (seeing three victories in a row) and reaching certain milestones such as “all Championship grounds visited”.

Jim Jefferies rejects Hearts offer

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Jim Jefferies rejects Hearts offer After being replaced as manager by the former coach of Sporting Lisbon Paulo Sergio, Jim Jefferies has turned down the offer by Hearts to become their director of football.

Jeffries sacking took place on Monday, and reports quickly emerged that 34 year old Sergio had been lined up to take over the reins at Tynecastle.

The one time Journeyman striker, who hails from Portugal, has been duly appointed and when Hearts confirmed his appointment they also announced that Jeffries had rejected their offer to stay at the club. Jeffries also released a statement, in which he voiced his disappointment at leaving the club, especially with the strong connection he had with the Hearts.

He went on to thank the club for the opportunity the club had given both him and Billy Brown over the past 18 months. He went onto say that while he appreciated the offer to stay at Hearts and develop in a new role, he didn’t think the time was right for him to make that move, but he may reconsider it in the future. He ended by wishing the staff and players the best of luck for the new season

The reports that Jeffries was on his way out the door first emerged on Monday following a meeting at the club. It’s understood that the players, probably thinking about their crucial Europa League second leg game against the Hungarian team Paks, were very unhappy when the news was delivered to them on Monday.

The players were the apparently told that they were getting a manager who had previous European experience and that they were to come to Tynecastle on Tuesday to meet that man. Ironically, Sergio’s Sporting Lisbon side were dumped out of the Europa Cup at the last 32 stage in February, by Rangers.

Craig Thomson gets the boot after all

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Craig Thomson gets the boot after all Craig Thomson, the 20-year-old defender for Heart of Midlothian football club who was convicted last month of sexual misconduct on the internet, will not be playing again for the Scottish Premier League.

According to the announcement on Hearts website, Thomson’s suspension on June 28th will be permanent.  This decision is an about-face from the club’s original statement of support for the offender, reportedly following a meeting between owner Vladimir Romanov and Thomson’s family.

When the scandal first reached the media in June, Thomson’s behavior was put down to “outside influences” and underplayed by club spokespersons as a sort of youthful indiscretion.  However after the young man pleaded guilty to charges of “lewd, libidinous and indecent” contact with two underage girls in internet chat rooms, both the public and the team’s sponsors raised an outraged protest.

The outcry was enough to cause Romanov to retract or at least modify his former tirade against those he claimed were conspiring against the club.  Former Hearts player Alan McLaren was quoted as saying he hoped Thomson would never play for the club again, and one major sponsor, MacB Water, has withdrawn its support, with others likely to follow suit.

Jay-Z and Ashley Cole to open sports bar

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Jay-Z and Ashley Cole to open sports bar Jay-Z and Ashley Cole will be teaming up to open in Pall Mall an upscale sports bar that will be staffed by people currently unemployed and set up as a WAG wannabe hangout. Cole said it was great to work with someone that is a star like Jay-Z. Also the fact that this will help people that are unemployed by training and putting them to work at a great place makes it all the more worthwhile.

The same as Jay-Z’s four places in the US, this club will be named 40/40 a term used in baseball which is quite rare when a player hits 40 home runs and steals 40 bases in the same season. That is similar to being one of the best left-backs in the world and winning your ex-X Factor wife back all in the same year.

Co-owner with Jay-Z in the clubs in the US, Juan Perez said the marketing behind the 40/40 is to create an atmosphere favorable for men as well as women with it being a combination of an upscale hip lounge and sports bar.

Without coming out and saying it, it is a call out to all those that want to be WAGS. Membership at the club in New York is £1,000. But with that you get access only to the second level private VIP room.

To get to the top you need the Purple Membership which will set you back about £1,700. Along with the usual comfortable arm chairs where you can catch some live sport members and their guests will hope to get a glimpse of a celebrity that is drawn in with the Jay-Z cachet.

Gabby Logan and Robbie Savage back SELLEBRITY AUCTION fundraising initiative to support The Prince’s Trust

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The Prince’s Trust youth charity is backing the most famous of its ambassadors in a brand new fundraising initiative. This will give ordinary members of the general public the opportunity to own a piece of their favourite celebrity, be it a part of their lifestyle or something personal from inside their wardrobes.

The online auction site SELLEBRITY is the brains behind this great initiative, run by Prince’s Trust Ambassador and ex Norwich City footballer Darren Eadie. He has been joined in the launch of this charity venture by Gabby Logan the sports presenter and premier league footballer Robbie Savage. The London offices of the Prince’s Trust are the location for the launch.

Darren Eadie has explained the inspiration behind him setting up the SELLEBRITY auction site. He said that many famous people who have a large disposable income accumulate furniture, clothes and other possessions over time that end up in cupboards, lofts or garages. SELLEBRITY encourages them to have a spring clean in the name of charity.

When these stars denote their unwanted items for auction on the SELLEBRITY site, they give their fans the chance to bid on items belonging to their favourite celebrities, and raise much needed funds for charity at the same time. Darren Eadie is clearly very proud to be an Ambassador of the Prince’s Trust, the first charity to be officially named as a SELLEBRITY beneficiary.

Anne Lycett, the Head of Ambassadors, said that the new partnership with SELLEBRITY was highly significant and that all the funds raised through the auction site would allow the Prince’s Trust to change for the better even more young peoples lives in the UK. She added that the timing as perfect with youth unemployment being very high and the jobs market on the whole being very uncertain.

She added that the additional funding would help them to get more disadvantaged children into education, training and work. She also said that the Trust extended its heartfelt thanks to Darren Eadie and to all of their wonderful Ambassadors who have donated personal items to be auctioned for this extremely worthwhile cause.

Famous Ambassadors of the Prince’s Trust including Sir Richard Branson, Sharon Osbourne, Carol Vorderman, Jools Holland, Gary Lineker, Sir Ben Kingsley, Rob Brydon and Brenda Blethyn, along with many others, have joined Darren, Robbie and Gabby to support the SELLEBRITY partnership.

Gabby happily posed for pictures with her personal donation to the auction, a cream handbag by Mulberry, and joked that now she was looking at her Mulberry bag she didn’t think she could part with it! She added that she was delighted to donate the bag for such a good cause and that her husband Kenny has also donated a jacket. She also said that as an Ambassador of the Prince’s Trust it was great to support any initiative that was going to raise funds for the trust.

Soccer bad boy Robbie Savage also posed in his donation, a leather jacket by Dolce & Gabbana worth over  £3,500. This is just one of many designer items that the hard man with a soft heart has generously donated for the SELLEBRITY auction. He spoke of his great desire to support such worthwhile causes and how he hoped many people would register and subsequently bid for the favourite items he had donated.

By logging onto the official SELLEBRITY website at www.sellebrity.org.uk you can keep up to date with all the latest news and see which of your favourite stars have made a donation.