Non-league Wembley FC have recruited former internationals Ray Parlour, Martin Keown, Graeme Le Saux, Claudio Caniggia and Brian McBride to play in their FA Cup campaign this season.
The north London side have hired David Seaman as goalkeeping coach and former England boss Terry Venables as technical advisor.
Parlour, 39, said: "I've always believed grassroots football is essential to the lifeblood of the game.
"So I jumped at the chance."
All five players have come out of retirement to play for Wembley FC, who are in the ninth tier of English football. The club have agreed a sponsorship deal with Budweiser, which is in the first of a three-year deal as sponsor of the FA Cup.
International caps
Wembley FC's six new recruits have won 310 caps between them:
96 caps - Brian McBride (USA)
75 caps - David Seaman (England)
50 caps - Claudio Caniggia (Argentina)
43 caps - Martin Keown (England)
36 caps - Graeme Le Saux (England)
10 caps - Ray Parlour (England)
Goalkeeper David Seaman, midfielder Ray Parlour, and defender Martin Keown all played for more than a decade with Arsenal, making 405, 339 and 311 appearances respectively.
The trio all won the league title on three occasions. Seaman and Parlour both won four FA Cups and a League Cup, while Keown won a hat-trick of FA Cups.
Former Blackburn and Chelsea left-back Le Saux won a Premier League winner's medal with Blackburn in 1995 and the FA Cup and League Cup while at Stamford Bridge.
Caniggia played for 10 different clubs, including spells at Dundee and Glasgow Rangers towards the end of his career.
He sprang to international prominence at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, scoring the 80th-minute winner against rivals Brazil that took Argentina into the last eight. Following a drugs ban, the forward returned at USA 94, scoring twice against Nigeria.
After differences with coach Daniel Passarella, he was left out of the France 98 squad but returned for 2002, although he failed to make an appearance and was sent off from the substitutes' bench against Sweden as Argentina exited at the group stage.
McBride has already worked for an England manager, having captained Fulham under Roy Hodgson. The American striker scored 40 goals in 150 appearances for the Cottagers. He also played for Preston and Everton.
Internationally, McBride played in three World Cups in 1998, 2002 - when he scored two goals as the US reached the quarter-finals - and 2006.
Wembley FC manager Ian Bates said: "The opportunity to learn from ex-professionals like Parlour and Seaman - who have been there and done it - will give us the best chance possible to go further than we ever have done in next season's FA Cup.
"A year ago we were playing in front of an empty grandstand and the clubhouse was falling down. Now the investment means great times are waiting for Wembley FC and we can't wait to kick off our FA Cup campaign."
Chairman Brian Gumm added: "We're not a big club but we have big ambitions. With Budweiser as our sponsor we now have a shot at making those dreams come true."
Despite Budweiser sponsoring both the Cup and Wembley FC, the FA are comfortable with the company's involvement because the two arrangements are separate sponsorship deals and no rules have been broken regarding a conflict of interest.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police start 185m relay run at Lewes - Lewes Today
SUSSEX Police Chief Constable Martin Richards this morning (Thursday June 21) ran the first leg of a 185 mile relay run around the county’s police stations.
The run is taking place until Saturday to raise funds for The Chaseley Trust in Eastbourne whose main home, Chaseley, is currently home to Sergeant Wendy Dowman.
Sergeant Dowman was injured in a collision on the A267 at Hellingly on September 5 2010.
As a result of the injuries she sustained in the collision Wendy appears to remain in a low awareness state, is wheelchair bound, therefore requiring full support with meeting all her physical and social needs.
The Chief Constable was joined on the first leg of the relay by Deputy Chief Constable Giles York.
Officers and staff from across Sussex Police are each running a leg of the route which goes between 15 police stations in Sussex.
Tomorrow evening (Friday) Assistant Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney will run a leg of the route.
The relay event has been organised by Sergeant Carrie Kwasniewski of Mid Sussex District Neighbourhood Policing Team.
She said: “I have known Sergeant Wendy Dowman for almost my whole career. She is a very good friend and colleague.
“I went to visit Wendy just before Christmas and she is so well looked after at Chaseley that myself and colleagues decided we had to do something to support the charity.”
Chief Constable Martin Richards said: “I am looking forward to running the first leg of the relay to support The Chaseley Trust and the fantastic work the charity does.
“Chaseley has become a home for Sergeant Dowman and now we would like to do something to assist them with continuing to care for her and others who require nursing care.
“I would like to commend Sergeant Carrie Kwasniewski for her dedication in organising this event.”
Sue Wyatt, Chief Executive from Chaseley Trust said: “It is wonderful that this event is taking place with so many officers participating to raise funds and awareness throughout Sussex for our charity.
“This will greatly benefit the people who use our services and we are enormously grateful to Sergeant Carrie Kwasniewski for taking the initiative to organise this amazing relay.”
The Chaseley Trust was initially set up in 1946 to look after servicemen and ex-servicemen at its main home, Chaseley.
The Trust also has a second innovative nursing home comprising of detached and semi-detached bungalows.
Nowadays, Chaseley cares for adults from the age of 18 with all types of disability, from spinal injury, acquired brain injury and stroke, to multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease and a wide range of other neurological conditions.
Covering a wide age range, Chaseley Home and Bungalows have a ‘family’ feel where everyone feels valued and their input welcomed.
Anyone who would like to sponsor the runners is asked to visit: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/carriekwasniewski1
During the relay the runners will be supported by a team who will be collecting money along the route.
Follow Chaseley Trust Facebook or their website http://www.chaseley.org.uk/
Today the relay is due to take place at Lewes, Newhaven, Brighton, Worthing, Bognor and Chichester.
Tomorrow it will go to Chichester, Horsham, Crawley, Gatwick and Haywards Heath and on Saturday Battle, Hastings, Eastbourne and to Chaseley.
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First glimpse at Kent & Sussex Hospital plans in Tunbridge Wells - Kent News
Kent and Sussex Hospital
Thursday, June 21, 2012
10:16 AM
Public exhibition starts today
An exhibition gets under way today showcasing proposals to redevelop the site of the Kent and Sussex Hospital.
House builders Berkeley Homes secured the site in a multi-million pound deal earlier this year, after the hospital on Mount Ephraim shut its doors for the final time.
All services were shifted to the state-of-the-art Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury.
It confirmed at the point of purchase it intended to convert the prime piece of real eastate into a mixed use development of apartments and houses.
Now the public consultation has begun, with the plans going on show during a public exhibition at the United Reformed Chuch Hall on Mount Ephraim.
It is thought it will proceed a planning application to be submitted in September.
When acquiring the site, the firm said it hoped to have permission to develop the land by the end of the year, with work pencilled in to begin in the spring of next year.
The exhibition runs today and tomorrow from 4pm to 8pm and on Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
Prior to the plans going public, Berkeley would not confirm how many homes it was planning to build at this time, but managing director Chris Gilbert hinted at its size, stating it would be the “first major new build development of this size and scale in Tunbridge Wells for many years”.
The upcoming consultation is likely to raise issues with traffic near the site, which is a hotspot for gridlock.
Source: www.kentnews.co.uk
Former council boss receives £590,000 in one of the biggest local authority payoffs after twenty months in job - Daily Mail
- Former chief exec had led major shake-up of the way the county council was run
- Council has now dished out more than 600,000 to pay off last two chief execs
- Authority has paid out 10.08m in 'exit packages' to staff made between 2011-2012
By Andrew Levy
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Big pay out: Former Kent County Council chief Katherine Kerswell got a 589,165 pay off from Kent County Council
A council chief who lasted just 20 months in her job was given a 589,165 pay-off, the local authority has been forced to admit.
Katherine Kerswell left Kent County Council in December.
The council had refused to disclose details of the settlement, saying it was subject to a confidentiality agreement. But it was forced to declare the sum under new transparency rules on executive pay.
Its Conservative administration insisted at the time that her departure was part of a cost-saving reorganisation. But there was also speculation she had fallen out with colleagues and councillors.
It is thought to be one of the highest ever remuneration packages for a council manager, and is more than four times the Prime Minister’s 142,500 salary.
The statement of accounts for 2011-12 revealed that Mrs Kerswell, 49, received 139,806 of her 197,000 salary, 420,000 in redundancy payments and a 29,359 pension contribution.
Robert Oxley, campaign manager of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said the council had shown ‘scant regard’ to value for taxpayers’ money.
He added: ‘Councils may have a legal requirement to make a redundancy pay-out, but this is staggeringly excessive.
‘Councillors need to scrap the overly generous contracts that make these deals possible before any more money is blown on gargantuan redundancy pay-offs.’
Expensive business: Kent County Council headquarters. A total of 10.08million has been paid in 'exit packages' to staff between 2011 and 2012
Mrs Kerswell had a 197,136 salary in her previous job as chief executive of Northamptonshire County Council. She had defended the pay deal by saying it was equal to only 29p for each person in the county.
She was also lampooned at the time for her ‘Taste the Strawberry’ campaign – management speak that was meant to represent the overall ‘flavour’ of the council’s services and help it to improve its performance.
She moved to Kent in March 2010 and oversaw a shake-up of the way the county council was run under its ‘Change To Keep Succeeding’ programme, which involved a cull of senior directors.
Kent County Council, which needs to make savings of 97million this year, paid out 10.8million in so-called ‘exit packages’ to about 1,000 staff in 2011-12. This included 172,000 to the authority’s former finance director, Lynda McMullan, who left in September last year and now works for the National Audit Office.
History: The council gave the chief executive who Ms Kerswell replaced a 200,000 pay off
Council leader Paul Carter said: ‘Removing chief executive posts is what more and more councils should be doing.
‘Employment law and contractual obligations mean we have to pay significant redundancy costs, but it will save a fortune in the long run. Our council is now being guided by officers who have worked their way up and know what life is like from a Kent taxpayer’s perspective.’
Last year it emerged that Phil Dolan, the former chief executive of South Somerset District Council, which has just 162,000 residents, had received a redundancy package of almost 570,000.
The transparency rules which forced the council to reveal Mrs Kerswell’s pay were introduced by the Coalition government.
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps last night criticised Mrs Kerswell’s pay deal as ‘deeply concerning’. He said: ‘I find dipping into the public purse to make such an eye-watering pay-off unacceptable.’
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Brady - Hammers have hit list - SkySports
The Hammers secured promotion through the play-offs after beating Blackpool 2-1 at Wembley in May and have already completed the signing of Mohamed Diame from Wigan and former Bolton keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen.
The vice-chairman is excited to have overseen the club's return to the top flight and says their aims go beyond simply staying there.
She told Sky Sports News: "We hope to bring in a few more significant signings to improve our team and increase our chances of remaining in the Premier League and really 'have a go'.
Compete
"We want to compete and really make a contribution to this league. West Ham are a great club who deserve to play in the greatest league in the world.
"Sam has made a very strategic plan. We have a comprehensive list of players we hope to bring in and we are working to do that."
But Brady refused to comment on reports that Grant Holt is at the top of that list.
She continued: "It's not appropriate to comment on other people's players.
"We prefer to do our business face to face with the chairmen of other clubs, and that's what we'll do."
Dream
West Ham are also hopeful of taking over the Olympic Stadium, and Brady says the club are committed to preserving the venue's legacy.
The former Birmingham City chairman added: "We still have a dream. The Olympic Stadium has been built. Someone has to use it, and provide the jobs.
"Its legacy needs to be preserved. It needs someone to come into that community, ensure supporters come in and use the park, and do that on a global stage -that's what the Premier League provides.
"We're very hopeful and we're working very hard to get it."
Source: www1.skysports.com
Kent Spitfires suffer narrow defeat to Essex Eagles in Friends Life t20 - Kent Online
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Rob Key bowled by David Masters for five Picture: Barry Goodwin
Kent Spitfires suffered a dramatic three-run defeat against Essex in Friends Life t20 South at Chelmsford on Wednesday night.
Mark Davies gave Kent a perfect start, accounting for Mark Pettini, however James Franklin (39) and Graham Napier (20) led the recovery before James Foster made a swashbuckling 51 off 27 balls - including four sixes and two fours.
He eventually fell to Matt Coles in an over which saw the Kent man go for 24 runs, including eight off a single delivery when a no-ball was despatched for six.
After piling on 53 runs in the final four overs, Essex posted 158-6, with Coles claiming 2-46 in his four overs.
Former Kent bowler David Masters accounted for Rob Key (5) and Azhar Mahmood (0) in successive deliveries as Kent reached 61-2 at the halfway stage.
However Sam Billings amassed a fine 59 off 55 balls, and shared a stand of 54 in seven overs with Brendan Nash (26) as Kent reached 118-3 at the start of the 17th over before proceeding to lose their last seven wickets for the addition of 37 runs.
Medium-pacer Greg Smith was the tormentor in chief, claiming 5-17 including the scalps of Billings and Nash in consecutive balls.
Sam Northeast clubbed two sixes to keep the visitors in touch and Kent were boosted by a six-run penalty against the hosts for a slow over rate.
Kent needed 17 off the final over, and a six from Adam Ball gave them hope, however needing four from the final delivery, last-man Davies was bowled by Napier.
It was just the second defeat of the season in all competitions for Jimmy Adams’ men, while it was the first t20 win of the year for Essex.
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Kent lose out to Essex in thrilling style - Kent News
Kent's Sam Billings. Picture by Ady Kerry.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
10:59 AM
Last over drama sees Spitfires lose by three runs
Kent looked on course for victory over rivals Essex in the t20 until a collapse of wickets led to a thrilling run chase in the final overs.
Essex hit 158 for 6 in their 20 overs, which wasn’t an unreachable target.
And Jimmy Adams’s side looked on course for victory until the 17th over, when they were 118 for three, but Greg Smith took five wickets in two overs as Kent could only add another 37 runs, falling just four short of victory in the final over.
A six-run penalty against Essex for a slow over-rate moved Kent’s chase closer but with four needed to win off the final ball, Graham Napier bowled last man Mark Davies.
Kent were initially on the backfoot on 23 for two with David Masters taking the wickets of Rob Key, and Azhar Mahmood early on. Sam Billings and Brendan Nash shared a fourth-wicket stand of 54 in seven overs to steady the ship.
But then came Smith’s contribution, first he took Billings for 59, and Nash in successive deliveries. Then Geraint Jones went for one, and Sam Northeast, after two sixes, and Matt Coles were also dismissed.
With Kent needing four runs to win on the final ball Davies was bowled by Napier.
Source: www.kentnews.co.uk
Wealthy lawyer parents who 'planted POT in car of PTA president in attempt to get her jailed after she locked their son out of tennis lesson' - Daily Mail
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A couple of California attorneys were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly planting a bag of drugs in the car of the president of their child's Parent Teacher's Association at the Plaza Vista Elementary School.
Irvine police said that Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 38, conspired to frame Kelli Peters by putting Vicodin, Percocet, marijuana and a used marijuana pipe behind the front seat of her car.
The duo sought revenge on Mrs Peters because of a longstanding feud over their son, according to police, and resorted to extreme measures to get her fired - and imprisoned.
Their feud is said to date back two years when Mr Kent filed a civil complaint after Ms Peters - then a school volunteer - for allegedly locking his son out of the school for 20 minutes during an after-school tennis lesson, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Charged: Irvine police said that Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, right, and Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 38, left, conspired to frame Kelli Peters by putting Vicodin, Percocet, marijuana and a used marijuana pipe in her car
Victim: The duo sought revenge on Mrs Peters, pictured, because they believed the woman wasn't properly supervising their son, according to police, and resorted to extreme measures to get her fired - and imprisoned
A tennis instructor found the boy 'crying and alone', according to the complaint. Mrs Peters allegedly said she locked the boy out because he took too long to line with other children.
The feud then seems to have intensified after Mrs Easter was asked by the school board not to take the matter to police.
Mrs Easter then got a retraining order against Ms Peters, claiming that she was harassing her son and had even threatened to kill her. She claimed that Ms Peters 'will stop at nothing to silence my son' and had been calling him psychotic and unstable to other parents.
'She is stalking me and attempting to intimidate me at my son's school and while I run errands in Irvine,' she alleged.
Police said that on February 16, 2011, the Easters enacted a plan to get rid of Mrs Peters.
Just after midnight, police claim Kent Easter sneaked over to the home of the Mrs Peters, who was identified by KTLA, and placed the drugs inside her unlocked vehicle in plain sight, where it would be easily visible from outside the vehicle.
Later that day, Kent Easter assumed a fake name and phone number and reported to police that he was a 'concerned parent who had witnessed an erratic driver park at the elementary school,' officials said.
He identified Mrs Peters by name, claimed he witnessed her shoving a bag of drugs into her car and even read out her license plate, police said.
Kent and Jill Easter were allegedly in constant contact with one another throughout the escapade, texting and calling each other in between every move.
'This was obviously something [the Easters] had sought out and planned with the intent of having her arrested,' Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office, said to the Los Angeles Times.
Out: Police said that on February 16, 2011, the Easters enacted a plan to get rid of Mrs Peters, who was the Parent Teacher's Association president at the Plaza Vista Elementary School, pictured
But when officers arrived at the parking lot and saw the bag of drugs, they asked Mrs Peters to search her vehicle. She complied, but was shocked at what they found.
'I thought I was on a joke show, like someone was playing a joke on me,' Mrs Peters told KTLA.
'I thought I was on a joke show, like someone was playing a joke on me.'
Victim, Kelli Peters
Regardless, she was detained for two hours while police conducted an investigation.
They quickly determined that the woman was in a classroom during the time she was supposedly stuffing drugs in her car.
After that, the focused in on the Easters, who had tried to sue Mrs Peters twice before, but the cases were dismissed.
'They tried to make me look like the worst person you could be when you’re involved with a school,' Mrs Peters told KTLA. 'I just don't understand it.'
Police said they obtained footage from a security camera near Kent Easter's work in Newport Beach while he was calling to report on Mrs Peter's 'erratic driving.'
Accomplices? Kent and Jill Easter were allegedly in constant contact with one another throughout the escapade, texting and calling each other in between every move
Party's Over: Kent and Jill Easter were arrested on Tuesday and charged with conspiring to prompt a false arrest, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to falsely report a crime
'I wouldn't have seen my daughter again,' Mrs Peters said, thanking the police for being so thorough.
'Those are the nightmares that I had.'
Kent and Jill Easter were arrested on Tuesday and charged with conspiring to prompt a false arrest, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to falsely report a crime.
If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of three years in state prison. They were released on $20,000 bail each and neither returned the MailOnline's request for comment.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Kent State must wait another day - Boston Herald
OMAHA, Neb. — Opposing coaches in the College World Series have had nothing but positive things to say about Kent State.
But the Golden Flashes refuse to let go of the chip on their shoulders that has carried them through an unprecedented run in the NCAA Tournament.
Even on Tuesday, senior shortstop Jimmy Rider hoped South Carolina would still be upset about its 2-1 loss Monday to Arkansas and overlook KSU.
"I hope they’re looking to get that Arkansas rematch," Rider said after practice at Bellevue East High School.
Kent State (47-19) was scheduled to take on two-time defending champion (46-18) South Carolina in a College World Series elimination game Wednesday night at TD Ameritrade Park. Due to heavy rain, the game was postponed and rescheduled for noon on Thursday. If Kent State wins, the Flashes will play again at 9 p.m. against Arkansas.
Kent State coach Scott Stricklin probably doesn’t want to correct the Golden Flashes’ perceived slight by college baseball’s superpowers. Of the teams KSU has faced in Omaha, Arkansas was making its seventh trip to the CWS, Florida its eighth and South Carolina its 11th.
"It’s tough for that team to play against us," Kent State center fielder Evan Campbell said Tuesday, referring to South Carolina. "They’re used to playing the Floridas and the Arkansases, they’re not used to playing Kent State. We get really pumped up to play teams like that and they’re kinda like, ’Kent State?"’
A Mid-American Conference team hadn’t reached the College World Series since Eastern Michigan in 1976.
Since the NCAA Tournament began, Kent State has eliminated Kentucky (Southeastern Conference), Purdue (Big Ten) and Oregon (Pac-12), lost to Arkansas (SEC) and ousted Florida (SEC).
Kent State’s next game will mark the Golden Flashes’ second consecutive game against an SEC foe and fifth in nine NCAA games, including two against Kentucky in the Gary, Ind., regional. KSU will have faced four of the top six seeds in the SEC Tournament รข€" the No. 2 Gamecocks, No. 3 Gators, No. 4 Wildcats and No. 6 Razorbacks. (LSU was No. 1.)
"They’re a powerhouse conference," Campbell said Tuesday of the SEC. "People underestimate the MAC a little bit, we get overshadowed by the Big Ten and schools like that. It shows the caliber of players we have."
Before Stricklin’s team left for a best-of-three super regional series in Eugene, Ore., he was playing up the "Nobody believes in us" angle. The Golden Flashes were coming off a 7-6, 21-inning victory over Kentucky, a 7-3 triumph over Purdue and a 3-2 victory over UK in the Gary regional.
"Kentucky showed us nothing but respect, but they still kind of felt like big brother looking down at little brother," Stricklin said after a practice at Kent State earlier this month. "Even if it wasn’t there, our kids felt like that and wanted to make sure we’re not going to get pushed around.
"Anyone who saw our games with Kentucky would tell you talent-wise it was the same. Both of those games could have gone either way. They played good; we played good."
Stricklin got the same vibe against Purdue.
"Purdue won the Big Ten by a large margin," Stricklin said that day at Kent State. "Everyone that saw that game, and it was on the Big Ten Network, saw that we were the better team. That was very satisfying, not only as a coaching staff, but for our players. We felt we were, but to go out there and do it and prove it, it felt really good."
Source: www.bostonherald.com
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