Canal + became the club's majority shareholder in 1997 and the sole shareholder of PSG in 2005.

He scored 15 goals during the 2007 – 08 season as Stoke won promotion to the Premier League, he also won the club's goal of the season award for his sole effort against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

:; Bounce: Technically, the measure of the angle from the front edge of a club's sole to the point that rests on the ground when addressing the ball.

Valencia started playing with Independiente Santa Fe, where his stellar performances earned him a transfer to Germany's FC Bayern Munich ; in his sole season ( although he still played the first game of 1994 – 95 ), he was instrumental in helping the Bavarians clinch the league title, and finished as the club's top scorer ( alongside Mehmet Scholl, with 11 goals ).

Owner and Vice President Adrián Castro Velásquez became the club's new President and sole proprietor.

Scally is the sole owner of Priestfield Developments Ltd., a company formed in 2007 with the sole purpose of purchasing Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium for £ 9. 8m as part of the restructuring of the club's debts.

The demise of Airdrieonians was personified by the sudden and unexpected death of Joey Rowan, the club's sole remaining director.

The Shamrock Rovers Members Club was originally formed as the 400 Club in November 2002, by the then privately owned football club's board of directors, to raise funds through the fan base, with the sole purpose of facilitating a mortgage for the development of the stalled stadium project in Tallaght.

Despite being recalled Hunt played no further role for Bolton in the ensuing year and was again loaned out to a Championship side, this time Derby County on 7 January 2010 as competition for the club's sole available rightback Paul Connolly.

He became chairman of the plc board at Charlton in 1995, after which he appointed Alan Curbishley as the club's sole manager ( Curbishley had previously been joint manager with Steve Gritt ).

More specifically in regards to the Mets, critics point out that with Selig's personal relationship with Wilpon has allowed him to stall any possible removal of Wilpon as that club's principal owner.

As the owner of Anfield and founder of Liverpool, John Houlding was the club's first chairman, a position he held from its founding in 1892 until 1904.

According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

There were reports of dissension among the Dolphin team arising from owner Joe Robbie's decision to allow married players to bring their wives at the club's expense.

John Koch, the club's owner, kept automobile license number " 2 ", only second to the governor-a telling sign of his influence.

Comedian Lenny Bruce and the club's owner, Howard Solomon, were arrested there on obscenity charges in 1964.

This new trend in corporate naming ( or renaming ) is distinguishable from names of some older venues, such as Crosley Field, Wrigley Field, and the first and second Busch Stadiums, in that the parks were named by and for the club's owner, which also happened to be the name of the company owned by those clubowners.

The idea of officializing it is being studied by the club's owner.

The media repeated rumors of coarse and even criminal behavior by Jordan, including supposed cocaine usage and anonymous sex at the infamous Studio 54 disco in New York City, by the club's owner Steve Rubell.

Golenbock, other Cardinal historians, and Caray's former wife have suggested the cause was a purported affair Caray had with the daughter-in-law of Cardinals owner August A. Busch, Jr. ( who also owned Anheuser-Busch brewery, the club's broadcast sponsor ); Caray first called it a business grudge while never necessarily denying or affirming the rumors.

The club's owner blamed Gascoigne's alcohol problems, stating that he drank almost every day he worked.

Even though it was very usual for whites to go into a black club, the three asked the club's owner, Frank " Fat Sam " Boyd, if they could enter.

Houlding and the club's committee initially disagreed about the full purchase of the land at Anfield from minor land owner Mr Orrell and escalated into a principled disagreement of how the club was run.

When Werber convinced the club's owner to give the untested Trio a chance, Guard sent out five hundred postcards to everyone that the three musicians knew in the Bay Area and Werber plastered the city with handbills announcing the engagement.

The club was founded in 1898 with John Brickwood, owner of the local Brickwoods Brewery as chairman, and Frank Brettell as the club's first manager.

During the 2009 – 10 season, it had become apparent to the club's new owner Balram Chainrai that Portsmouth were approximately £ 135 million in debt so to protect the club from liquidation, Chainrai placed the club into administration on 26 February 2010, and the club appointed Andrew Andronikou, Peter Kubik and Michael Kiely of accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young as administrators.

The departure of Keegan from the club, on 4 September, saw Wise and club owner Ashley come under mounting pressure from the club's supporters to quit.

Crawley's cup run and the death of owner Bruce Winfield, didn't halt their progress in the league as just 19 days after Winfield's death Crawley secured the Conference title by beating Tamworth 3 – 0 and reaching The Football League for the first time in the club's history.

The club's darkest hour came during this period when in 1994 the receivers were called in after former chairman Victor Green lost interest in the club in favour of Stevenage Borough, but the club was saved at the 11th hour by businessman Ivor Arbiter, at the time owner of distribution rights for Fender in the U. K.

As a result a woman on the stage, believed to be the club's owner, grabbed him from behind, and Ben mistaking her for an attacking fan turned around and punched her twice in the scuffle.

Despite claims by others to the rights to the club's name, the owner of the name of the club that went bankrupt, " Third Lanark Athletic Club Ltd ", is former Glasgow MP Sir Teddy Taylor.

The club's owner, wealthy Armenian businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, took a much more serious approach to the club and brought star players such as Artavazd Karamyan and Arman Karamyan from other Armenian clubs.

In Association football it refers to the amount of money a manager has been given by a club's chairman, owner or investors to acquire new players, as in the newspaper headline, " Defoe and Brown top Keegan wishlist as Ashley grants £ 25m war chest ".

To his credit, Mäkinen also enhanced the club's junior organisation by launching a competition of their own, called Kanada-sarja, with 500 participating junior players, a figure that cumulatively tripled in a few years.

When a replacement candidate turned up in 1980, Mäkinen retired from the ownership, though he went on in the club's junior organisation up to the 1990s.

On 18 January 1939, the club's committee, on the casting vote of the chairman, chose former Test batsman Vernon Ransford over Bradman.

The club had left its Plough Lane stadium in 1991 to ground-share with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, with numerous plans to build a new stadium in a number of different locations ( including back in London and even in Dublin or Cardiff ) being considered over the following decade before the club's owners chose Milton Keynes as their destination.

PSG. fr chose " The Eagle of Azores " as the best player in the club's history.

France Football chose Sušić as the best player in the club's history.

During the early-1980s it became the first all-seater stadium in English football, but by the end of the following decade the club's directors decided it was time to construct a larger stadium and chose a site in the Rowley's Green area of the city.

He was slated to begin a third season as the Millers ' boss in 1960 when, in mid-April, just prior to the start of the American Association's season, the Phillies chose him to replace Eddie Sawyer, who had resigned after the club's opening game of the regular season.

During the summer of 2004, several other Premiership teams were interested in purchasing Yakubu for up to £ 10 million, but he chose to stay and help consolidate the club's Premiership position.

The founding students chose Cambridge and Oxford Blue as the club's colours to reflect the origins of the new team.

In February 2010, following the conclusion of the club's disappointing 2009 – 10 season, McKinna chose to move into a new role, becoming the club's Football and Commercial Operations Manager.

Also João Viana Seiler was chose as the club's first president.

Members enjoy the privilege of watching all matches from the members only clubhouse free of cost as per their rights enshrined in the club's constitution, something the club was unwilling to let go of and hence chose not to host IPL matches.

They gave their new organization the name Halmstads Bollklubb and chose Axel Winberg as the club's first chairman.

All three players, plus Still, chose not to turn professional following the club's promotion to the football league in 1989 ( Still later changed his mind and managed Peterborough United and Barnet ).

In his final two years, Quini appeared little with Barcelona ( but scored the club's 3000th goal in the league, in a home match against CD Castellón ), and chose to retire in 1984, at 35, even being awarded a testimonial match by the club.

In rugby union, San Isidro adopted its traditional colors after club's first season playing the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires tournament, when then president Rafael Cullen chose the black and white which have remained since.

The club's mascot is an Indian, chose after the first inhabitants of the city, who were from the tribe of the Goytacazes.

The name they chose was Associação Atlética Portuguesa and Lino do Carmo was elected as the club's first president.