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West Ham United have qualified for next season's Europa League after topping the Premier League Fair Play table.
The Hammers will be one of 104 teams in the first qualifying round, which begins on 2 July, and must win through four rounds to reach the group stage.
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What the ****?!?!
Well played Coleman
These two have just got married
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West Ham are Europa League bound having been declared the cleanest team in one of the top three leagues for 2014/15Comment
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When does the Europa League begin for us?Originally posted by Bender View PostThat rug really tied the room together.Comment
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September, if Arsenal win the cup. July 2 if Villa.Originally posted by Liverpel View PostFootball without Origi is nothingComment
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Stephen Vaughan jnr bailed in connection with death of police officer.
Snr and Jnr - a right vile pair. Would shed a single tear if he went down for a long time.
Didn't know he was ex-Liverpool.Football without Origi is nothingComment
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****ing hell I remember him.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Glasgimp Rangers 0-3 at home to Motherwell in the first leg of the play-off final.
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1-3 nowTrey Nyoni: countdown to stardom-2 years1year0.5 yearsComment
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Striker Carlton Cole will leave West Ham this summer when his contract expires on 30 June.
The 31-year-old, who initially left the Hammers in 2013 before re-signing five months later, scored 68 goals in 293 appearances after first joining from Chelsea in 2006.
Veteran goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen, defender Guy Demel and midfielder Nene have also not been retained.
"It means a lot to me to have been at West Ham for so long," said Cole.
"I wouldn't like to use the word hero, but I have played my part.
"A load of players have come and gone, but I've stayed around and enjoyed every minute of it."
No edits honest!Last edited by Yozza; 29-05-15, 08:50 AM.What do you mean it could've been anyone? Name me one person who's got a grudge against penguins
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Absolutely wonderful goal by Messi there.That rug really tied the room together.Comment
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Premier League stars' racist orgy shame caught on camera during Thailand end of season tour
Leicester City budding stars, including boss Nigel Pearson's son, were filmed taking part in a vile orgy in which a local girl was racially abused in Bangkok
It was supposed to be a Premier League club’s end-of-season tour to promote goodwill in the homeland of its proud Thai billionaire owners.
But three of Leicester City’s budding stars blew that apart with a vile orgy in which a local girl was racially abused soon after the team arrived in Bangkok.
As team boss Nigel Pearson prepared for a week of helping to cement *relationships between the UK and Thailand and boosting his club’s growing Far East fan base, his defender son James, 21, and pals Tom Hopper, a striker, and goalkeeper Adam Smith, 22, had other ideas.
They were busy filming three Thai girls committing depraved sex acts with them in a hotel room.
The swaggering trio then shared the explicit videos with friends back in the UK in which one of the players can be heard calling a woman a “slit eye” while his mates snigger at the racist jibe.
The girls taking part in the orgy were also taunted as “minging” while the naked players – all on the fringe of Leicester’s first team – make other sickening comments about them too explicit to be printed here.
Concerned officials at Leicester City were made aware of the scandal
It is bound to infuriate and embarrass father and son owners Vichai and *Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha who have ploughed millions into establishing the Midlands side as a Premier League outfit after taking over the club five years ago.
And it will shock fans still celebrating their team’s miracle survival in a nail-biting relegation battle.
One video begins with the three players stripped naked and cheering as they carry out sex acts with the women.
Hopper then appears to use a mobile phone to film them having group sex together. Laughing and doing a running commentary over the footage, he is heard saying: “Go on that love” before pouring out a string of abuse.
Afterwards the three watch the women indulging in lesbian sex acts.
Filming them amid laughter, one of the men is heard off-camera saying: “Come on ... you slit-eye.”
In another clip Hopper, 22, cruelly tells one of the women she is “f***ing minging… an absolute one out of 10”.
Pearson or Smith is then heard off-camera shouting: “Oi Hops, I’ll swap you.” The video ends with Hopper and Pearson high-fiving each other as if celebrating a goal while romping with two of the women.
Days later, the video clips were shared by at least one of the players with friends in the UK who then passed them on.
The footage heaps shame on a club which has tried to take a strong stance against racism.
Manager Pearson, 51, is an outspoken campaigner and a patron of football’s Kick It Out scheme.
The players’ appalling antics with the Thai women could also damage the club’s “strategic, international partnership” with the Tourism Authority of Thailand which had been renewed for a third season.
Its Amazing Thailand branding has appeared on the back of team shirts for the last two years.
The club’s CEO Susan Whelan has said of the partnership: “We’re absolutely thrilled to continue to work with the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
“Their support in the last two years has been vital in helping us promote Leicester City to a Thai audience and in reaching our goals closer to home.
“It is important to us that we are able to build on existing relationships we have developed with key sponsors.”
The Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Thawatchai Arunyik, heaped glowing praise on the club at the time, saying: “The last two years working with Leicester City have been an amazing adventure, filled with aspiration, incredible people and some wonderful memories.
“We are very proud to be working with Leicester City and its supporters, who have embraced the Club’s increasingly strong association with Thailand and given the nation a Premier League club its people can take to their hearts.”
The Srivaddhanaprabhas – owners of Thailand’s travel giant King Power International – took over the club in 2010. They renamed the ground the King Power Stadium.
Since then, players, management and backroom staff have enjoyed adulation from the Thai public on official end-of-season visits designed to raise the club’s profile there.
At the end of the Premier League season last week squad players shared a £5million bonus for avoiding the drop into the Championship.
Boss Pearson praised the team, saying: “I think the key thing for us, even in our darkest moments, and there have been a few, is that the players have continued to support each other and believe in their own ability.
“That’s difficult when people are questioning your integrity.”
Now the integrity of his son and pals Hopper and Smith – who have all been loaned to other clubs for some of last season – is under the microscope for other very different reasons.
A spokesman for Leicester City said the club would not be making any comment.Comment
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Second leg of SPL promotion/relegation play off final 3-0 Motherwell
6-1 on aggregate to remain in the PL and for Rangers to remain in the Championship.
Managed to get £100 on Motherwell +1 goal at a generous 4/7 and another £50 on at 5/1 Motherwell -1 goal
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Rangers
Managed to win 2 games out of six against Queen of the South, Hibs and MotherwellComment
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