According to this article in the Hartlepool Mail the 27 year old striker has had inquiries from some unnamed club or clubs in MLS.

At yesterday's club AGM, chairman Ken Hodcroft said: "There is no way we can pay the wages of a Championship player".

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Want to keep up with all of the latest news and info on your favorite English Championship club? Want to read up on your club's opponent ahead of a big league clash? We've compiled links to the official club sites and news, squad, fixtures/results, and NewsNow sections for each Championship club so that you don't [. Click to continue reading...

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Manchester United will host Queens Park Rangers at Old Trafford on Tuesday ,November 11, 2008. Kickoff 8:00 pm. (QPR victory celebrations hopefully to begin around 10-10:30 pm!)

Manchester United Official Site Date set for QPR clash
United will host Championship side Queens Park Rangers in the Carling Cup fourth round. Click to continue reading...

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QPR move into the Fourth Round!


QPR Official Site: Aston Villa 0 QPR 1

Damion Stewart's second half header booked Rangers' place in the Fourth Round of the Carling Cup, on a night to remember for Iain Dowie's side.

The Jamaican international leapt to head home Daniel Parejo's pin-point cross, as the R's - backed by 2,500 fanatical fans - claimed the notable scalp of a Villa side currently sitting pretty in fourth spot in the Premiership. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United captain Michael Owen has told his team-mates to "snap out of the doom and gloom" that he thinks is adversely affecting the team. Newcastle have lost their last three games and sit only one from the bottom of the Premier League. The club is manager less and for sale. There is no doubt that the players must be affected by it, but Owen says it is time to move on. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Torres believes the slow start to Robbie Keane's Liverpool career will be forgotten once the Republic of Ireland international gets his first goal for the club. The Spain striker, who scored three goals in his first eight appearances after moving to Merseyside from Atlético Madrid, expects his forward partner to make up for lost time once he has broken his duck. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool Under-18s take on Sheffield Wednesday this morning boosted by the return of wing wizards David Amoo and Alex Kacaniklic.

The pair missed last weekend's 3-2 win over Newcastle United with injury but are back to face the Owls. German youngster Christopher Buchtmann is also in line for his first start of the season for Hughie McAuley's team at left back. Click to continue reading...

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Despite their loss, QPR stay 4th (would have moved up to 2nd with a win) - Updated Table


QPR Official Site Coventry 1 QPR 0

QPR's impressive start to the season suffered its latest setback as - despite dominating the second half - Elliott Ward's first half penalty gave Coventry City all three points. Click to continue reading...

After two successive victories on the field (including the great win at Norwich), and the uproar over the announced increase in ticket prices, QPR return to the field, with a tough game at Ian Dowie's recent team, Coventry City. Coventry's playing squad --- Coventry's Results : After winning their opening three games (including one in the cup), Coventry then lost three and then drew two. Click to continue reading...

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QPR Official Site - CONNOLLY SUSPENDED
Matthew Connolly will miss the R's trip to The Ricoh Arena on Saturday, owing to the red card he received at Carrow Road on Wednesday night.
The former Arsenal defender received his marching orders for two bookable offences in Rangers' 1-0 victory against Norwich City and will now serve a one-match ban. Click to continue reading...

This week, we at Some People Are On The Pitch have been focusing heavily on the recent World Cup 2010 qualifiers. That's all well and good, but we've always prided ourselves on our ability to bring you a running buffet of stuff across the football spectrum.

To prove our point, we'd like to bring to your attention today's First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup (sponsored by E. Click to continue reading...

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QPR Official Site - STAN TALKS UP R'S CHANCES
QPR legend Stan Bowles believes the R's have a 'good chance' of promotion this season.
Speaking at a Sportsman's Dinner at Stevenage Borough Football Club on Monday night, the 59 year-old - who made 315 appearances for the R's, scoring 96 goals - said: "Rangers have got a good chance this season. Click to continue reading...

As I sit here watching the start of the CONCACAF Champions league second leg I have to look back at all the happenings this past week in football. This week featured more tournament play, the start of La Liga and Serie A and the close of the fall transfer season for the EPL. The big transfer news is that Man City stole Robinho out from under Chelsea and Manchester United finally got Berbatov from Tottenham. Click to continue reading...

Here's one of those random news stories we read about every season:

Born in the same Liverpool suburb as current well-known midfielders Steven Gerrard and Joey Barton, Peter Reid had a solid playing career, most notably at Bolton, Everton, and Manchester City. He won the FA Cup and old First Division twice (both at Everton). Click to continue reading...

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Perspective of one of the historically truly great football journalists, Brian Glanville

KICKING AROUND / BRIAN GLANVILLE COLUMN - SPORTSTAR
Funny game
".....And then, there is the curious case of Queens Park Rangers. Hardly analogous, since QPR, the West London club, have been taken over by three very rich men indeed. Click to continue reading...

James Milner was on top form for Newcastle last night as they beat Coventry City 3-2 in the Carling Cup, but the young English winger doesn't see his future being at Newcastle and so has decided to hand in a transfer request. This news will no doubt be frowned upon by Keegan and all the [...] Click to continue reading...

The Newcastle United manager Kevin Keegan had every right to be proud of his players last night, after their Carling Cup extra-time victory over Coventry City. Jose Enrique challenges Coventry captain Jay Tabb for the ball Newcastle looked like they were cruising home with two goals in the first half from N'Zogbia (21) and Milner (38) and [. Click to continue reading...

Michael Owen came on with just 15 minutes to go against Coventry City last night, and with the game going to extra tiume, he got a 45 minute run out. Oh yes, and he scored the winner again in extra time. Michael Owen - scored the winner again - in extra time His manager, Kevin Keegan, has once [... Click to continue reading...

Coventry City hasn't been in the Premiership since the 2000-2001 season, when they were relegated after finishing 19th with 34 points. The Sky Blues have spent every season since then in the Championship, so close to England's top flight, but yet so far. They're a proud club — they've been in existence since the [. Click to continue reading...

Coventry City hasn't been in the Premiership since the 2000-2001 season, when they were relegated after finishing 19th with 34 points. The Sky Blues have spent every season since then in the Championship, so close to England's top flight, but yet so far. They're a proud club — they've been in existence since the early 1880's, they were a founding member of the Premier League, and have won the FA Cup. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United are very likely to be without both strikers Ob Martins and Damien Duff for tonight's 2nd round Carling Cup tie at Coventry City. Oba is out for at least 2 weeks with a groin injury and we doubt very much that Damien will be risked tonight after sustaining a knee injury. Both injuries [. Click to continue reading...

Tuesday 26 August

18.00 FC Nordsjaelland v Queen of the South, UEFA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2nd Leg (Agg; 1-0), BBC2 Scotland
The dream may finally be over for Queen of the South, but they got out of worse scrapes than this last season.

19.45 Coventry City v Newcastle Utd, Carling Cup 2nd Round, Sky Sports 2 & HD2
I'm feeling strangely confident about Newcastle's ability to have a good season. Click to continue reading...

Keegan will hope the Tyneside team can continue their good form at Coventry City tonight, in what is another important game for the club, in the 2nd round of the Carling Cup. Kevin Keegan - we'll try to win the game tonight We say this every season, but our best chance of breaking our 39 year duck, [. Click to continue reading...

Well yesterday proved an interesting day in the English football league didn't it?

Fulham v the Arse - Oops! Another furrow in Wenger's forehead. You couldn't say they were robbed though could you

Tottenham v Sunderland - I have thought for some time that Sunderland are going to offer us a few surprises this year. Click to continue reading...

After a brief managerial spell in Spain's second division, Chris Coleman is back in England, this time with Championship club Coventry City. And the club is off to a flying start, winners of their first two matches and in first place in the league.

Coleman enjoyed success at Fulham, guiding the Cottagers to their best ever finish in the top flight, 9th place in 2004.

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Newcastle United have been drawn against Coventry City in the Carling Cup.  Chris Coleman - Coventry manager - played for Kevin at Fulham Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United have been drawn against Coventry City in the Carling Cup.  Chris Coleman - Coventry manager - played for Kevin at Fulham It seems like it's big news in Coventry and it will certainly not be an easy task for the Tyneside club. But the Carling Cup is the best chance we have of winning something this [. Click to continue reading...

Soccerword's Championship Predictions
1. Birmingham
2. Reading
3. Sheffield United
4. Crystal Palace
5. Queens Park Rangers
6. Ipswich
7. Bristol City
8. Watford
9. Coventry City
10. Nottingham Forest
11. Charlton
12.

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We're set to announce later today that the club has acquired Ivan Guerrero from the San Jose Earthquakes for a partial allocation. Guerrero is expected to be in D.C. shortly and may very well be available for Saturday's game against the Wizards.

Able to play in either the defense or midfield, Guerrero has seen time in 14 games (13 starts) this year after being picked up by San Jose in the 2007 Expansion Draft.

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Tomorrow sees Indonesia host the New Zealand Olympic side as they prepare for their bid for gold in Beijing.

Tickets go on sale on the day of the match from 9 am and are available in four categories:

VIP West - 100,000 rupiah
VIP East - 75,000
Category 1 - 50,000
Category 2 - 25,000

Last night I went to a reception hosted by the New Zealand ambassador at his place and managed to meet the squad and coaches. Click to continue reading...

Aberdeen (home)
1976-1979

When you go into business as a football kit manufacturer, the chances are you'll produce some designs that prove very popular with the supporters and some that will turn out to be absolute stinkers. No maker of football kits can ever claim to have hit the bullseye with every design, but if they at least come up with something original, they'll at least have achieved something. Click to continue reading...

On my recent trip to Singapore I was lucky enough to have an interview their national team coach Radojko Avramović.

As a player Raddy played for Coventry City for one season and the first thing I asked his was whether he ever played against the Arsenal.

Not only did he play against us, he remembered the year, the score, the scorer and the weather. Click to continue reading...

More fuel to the fire for the Huckerby to MLS rumors courtesy of the San Jose Mercury-News.
Rating: 3 (Possible)
"The Earthquakes haven't given up hopes of snagging Norwich City's Darren Huckerby.
Although Toronto FC has the discovery rights to the English star, Huckerby plans to visit the Quakes' facilities next week. Click to continue reading...

BBC online is reporting that Chelsea are eyeing Steve Kean for a possible senior coaching role at the club. Let me be the first to say: Who?

Kean, currently an assistant at Coventry City, has been the No. 2 to Cookie Coleman since his stoic days at Fulham. During his playing career Kean spent time with Celtic and in Portugal with Académica de Coimbra.

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Well we've now seen all of the teams play and after a slow start the tournament seems to be coming to life with the quickest teams packed full of relative youngsters, Holland, Portugal and Spain, showing the value of fast, counter-attacking football and winning relatively comfortably (although both Italy and Russia were slightly unlucky to end up on the wrong side of absolute gubbings). Click to continue reading...