SPORTS
Hua Hin Pool League
PREMIER PROPERTIES FIRST DIVISION
P MW MD ML CPD TPD MPS
Lucky Shot A 14 12 1 1 58 60 25
P & P Bar 14 11 0 3 48 48 22
Jungle Juice B 14 5 4 5 2 4 14
Billy’s Bar 14 6 1 7 -14 -16 13
Rose Bar 14 4 4 6 -6 -6 12
U-Turn Bar 14 5 1 8 -20 -22 11
Billy’s Babes 14 4 2 8 -6 -6 10
Sabai Bar 14 2 1 11 -62 -62 5
JUNGLE JUICE SECOND DIVISION
P MW MD ML CPD TPD MPS
Halex SugarCane 12 9 1 2 52 58 19
Jungle Juice A 12 9 0 3 14 14 18
Butterfly Rockers 12 7 0 5 22 26 14
JW Black 12 7 0 5 6 6 14
London Boys 12 6 0 6 8 10 12
Dick’s Office A 12 2 1 9 -38 -50 5
Lips 12 1 0 11 -64 -64 2
PINK FLAMINGO & BAMBOO GROVE THIRD DIVISION
P MW MD ML CPD TPD MPS
Pink Flamingo A 14 10 3 1 40 44 23
Nung Bar 14 8 3 3 45 43 19
Limelight Lions 14 8 2 4 41 47 18
Nervana A 14 8 1 5 26 28 17
Lazy Daze 14 6 2 6 -12 -6 14
Good Friends A 14 5 2 7 -6 0 12
Bamboo Grove 14 3 1 10 -54 -54 7
JW Red 14 1 0 13 -80 -102 2
PINK FLAMINGO & BAMBOO GROVE FOURTH DIVISION
P MW MD ML CPD TPD MPS
Pink Flamingo B 18 16 1 1 96 96 33
Red Bar 18 14 2 2 58 58 30
Moonlight 18 11 5 2 52 52 27
Dolphin Bar 18 9 5 4 20 18 23
Luck Shot B 18 9 1 8 4 8 19
Baan Suan 18 4 7 7 -22 -24 15
Dick’s Office B 18 5 2 11 -40 -38 12
Love Bar 18 3 3 12 -70 -74 9
Good Friends B 18 2 2 14 -46 -50 6
Nervana B 18 2 2 14 -76 -72 6
The new 8-ball season is scheduled to start in August but details of fixtures were not available at press time. There is also a 9 Ball team competition currently running but space does not permit printing the details. Please contact the organisers on huahinpoolleagues@yahoo.com, or your team captain for more details of both the above, or visit the website at www.huahinpoolleagues.multiservers.com.
Halex Toby Charnaud Memorial Cup Hua Hin Cleaning & Maintenance Shield
Lucky Shot A 17 - 8 Jungle Juice B Pink Flamingo A 14 - 12 Halex SugarCane
The finals of the individual competitions were taking place as the magazine was going to press, and the results will be in next month’s issue.
Hua Hin Darts
league table
Team P W D L PF-PA Pts
JW Black 16 15 1 0 132-28 31
Pink Flamingo 15 11 2 2 98-52 24
CAT 16 11 1 4 105-55 23
JW Red 16 11 0 5 98-62 22
Jungle Juice 15 9 2 4 94-56 20
Bamboo Grove 16 9 1 6 92-68 19
Jaew Bar 16 6 2 8 67-93 14
Good Friends A 16 5 4 7 84-76 14
Dick’s Office 16 4 3 9 68-92 11
Bamboo Shoots 16 3 2 11 48-112 8
Good Friends B 15 3 1 11 55-95 7
Ecosse 15 1 5 9 56-94 7
Love Bar 16 1 2 13 30-130 4
Top 16 Individuals
Name Bar Sgl Dbls Ton’s Clss 180s Pts
Tao JWB 75 36 76 57 3 247
Dicky JWB 60 28 37 46 1 173
Noi CAT 55 18 56 39 1 169
Tao CAT 60 20 47 40 1 168
Peter PF 50 26 29 41 1 147
Martin E 45 18 45 38 0 146
Linda JB 50 26 21 43 0 140
M JWB 35 46 22 36 0 139
Mick GFA 45 30 23 36 0 134
Anna JWR 45 26 27 35 0 133
Leon BG 35 30 23 39 1 128
Erro JWR 40 26 23 34 0 123
Steve DO 35 26 20 37 0 118
Golf PF 35 24 22 31 0 112
Osmo BG 30 30 16 35 0 111
Barry JWB 35 30 17 27 0 109
Fixtures for August
Week 23 – 7th August 2007
Cup Semi Finals
Jungle Juice v Good Friends A (to be played at Pink Flamingo), JW Black v Pink Flamingo (to be played at Good Friends)
Week 24 – 14th August 2007
JW Red v JW Black, Jaew v Bamboo Grove, CAT v Good Friends, Butterfly Rock v Dicks Office, Bamboo Shoots v Pink Flamingo, Jungle Juice v Love Bar, Good Friends B v Ecosse
Week 25 – 21st August 2007
Love Bar v Butterfly Rock, Dicks Office v CAT, Bamboo Grove v JW Red, Good Friends A v Jaew, JW Black v Bamboo Shoots, Pink Flamingo v Good Friends B, Ecosse v Jungle Juice
Week 26 – 28th August 2007
JW Red v Good Friends A, Jaew v Dicks Office, CAT v Butterfly Rock, Jungle Juice v Pink Flamingo, Ecosse v Love Bar, Good Friends B v JW Black, Bamboo Shoots v Bamboo Grove
Observer Fantasy Football League
Now the new English Premier League season is about to start, the Observer has set up a Fantasy League with the Premier League’s competition at
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/
Just join up on the website above, and then to join our league enter the code
129396-29572. The Observer will be offering fun prizes for the best performing fantasy managers - more details next month! More details contact to design@observergroup.net
Football Crazy
You can hear the plaintive cry from the ladies around Hua Hin, ‘but it’s only just finished! Yes the football season is on us again. Have you washed your precious football jersey, is the cable paid up, are you prepared?
The transfer market is glowing white-hot as we write and we fill in all the details on your team to date.
In addition we have an exclusive interview with Joe Cole (Chelsea & England), from his visit to Hua Hin to purchase property at the zephyr valley project. And finally for those closet managers out there, turn to local news for details of the observer fantasy league.
The new EPL season begins on Saturday August 11 and promises to be another exciting and even more closely contested campaign.
There has already been a flurry of transfer activity (see Premier League transfers club by club guide on the next spread) and it makes predictions even trickier than last year (when we were hopelessly wrong on most counts!).
The top four from last season, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are obvious contenders, but their stranglehold on the Champions League places could well be broken this season by a posse of clubs, with Tottenham leading the charge. Their bitter rivals Arsenal can only be weaker for the loss of Thierry Henry and all does not seem to be well with the club at the moment, they could be the ones to relinquish their position.
Other teams who should be pushing the top four are unfashionable Portsmouth, a potentially resurgent Newcastle, waking giants Aston Villa and the mercurial West Ham. All these teams have spent and are spending big to improve their squads while also removing dead wood and unhappy players. Safe mid table teams are likely to be Blackburn, Everton and Reading, while the remainder all have question marks hanging over them and could all be involved in a season long struggle to avoid relegation. Those in particular danger are the newly promoted clubs Derby and Birmingham, although Sunderland looks like they might be strong enough to survive. Wigan will almost certainly be involved while one of Bolton, Manchester City, Fulham or Middlesbrough may well fall out of the top tier this season – much will depend on the quality of new players they are able to attract, and how they fare with injuries as well as the experience of their managers.
As far as the title goes it is likely to be a three horse race between Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool; all three have added quality to their squads, and in the case of the Blues they will be hoping that last seasons signings will finally come to terms with the Premiership. Liverpool have made the star signing in Fernando Torres, and it will be crucial for their bid that he settles in quickly – if he does they are a real threat. However Manchester United have really upped the ante with their signings, and it will be hard to unseat the Champions.
ARSENAL
IN: Bacary Sagna (Auxerre, undisclosed), Lukasz Fabianski (Legia Warsaw, £2m), Eduardo da Silva (Dinamo Zagreb, undisclosed), Havard Nordtveit (FK Haugesund, undisclosed).
OUT: Jeremie Aliadiere (Middlesbrough, £2m), Fabrice Muamba (Birmingham, undisclosed), Mart Poom (Watford, free), Arturo Lupoli (Fiorentina, free), Thierry Henry (Barcelona £16.1m).
ASTON VILLA
IN: Nigel Reo-Coker (West Ham, £8.5m), Harry Forrester (Aston Villa, undisclosed), Marlon Harewood (West Ham, undisclosed).
OUT: Gavin McCann (Bolton, £1m), Jlloyd Samuel (Bolton, free), Juan Pablo Angel (New York Red Bulls, free), Stephen Henderson (Bristol City, free), Aaron Hughes (Fulham, £1m), Lee Hendrie (released), Steven Davis (Fulham, undisclosed), Chris Sutton (retired).
BIRMINGHAM CITY
Ins: Garry O’Connor (Lokomotiv Moscow, £2.7m), Stuart Parnaby (Middlesbrough, free), Fabrice Muamba (Arsenal, undisclosed), Olivier Kapo (Juventus, £3m), Daniel de Ridder (Celta Vigo, free), Richard Kingston (Antalyaspor, free), Rafael Schmitz (Lille, season-long loan)
OUT: Bruno N’Gotty (Leicester, free) , Stephen Clemence (Leicester, £1m)
BLACKBURN ROVERS
IN: Gunnar Nielsen (BK Frem Copenhagen, undisclosed), Maceo Rigters (NAC Breda, undisclosed).
OUT: Andy Todd (Derby, undisclosed)
BOLTON WANDERERS
IN: Gavin McCann (Aston Villa, £1m), Jlloyd Samuel (Aston Villa, free), Gerald Cid (Bordeaux, undisclosed), Blerim Dzemaili (FC Zurich, undisclosed), Zoltan Harsanyi (FC Senec, undisclosed), Danny Guthrie (Liverpool, season-long loan).
OUT: Tal Ben Haim (Chelsea, free), Henrik Pedersen (released), Quinton Fortune (released), David Thompson (released), Cesar Martin (released).
CHELSEA
IN: Florent Malouda (Lyon, undisclosed), Tal Ben Haim (Bolton, free), Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich, free), Steve Sidwell (Reading, free), Danny Philliskirk (Oldham, undisclosed).
OUT: Khalid Boulahrouz (Sevilla, season-long loan), Yves Makaba-Makalamby (Hibernian, free), Geremi (Newcastle, free).
DERBY COUNTY
IN: Andy Todd (Blackburn, undisclosed), Robert Earnshaw (Norwich City, £3.5m), Tyrone Mears (West Ham, £1m).
OUT: Seth Johnson (released), Paul Peschisolido (released), Morten Bisgaard (released), Paul Boertien (released), Lee Grant (released), Ryan Smith (Millwall, £150,000).
EVERTON
IN: Phil Jagielka (Sheffield Utd, £4m)
OUT: Gary Naysmith (Sheffield United, £1m), Richard Wright (West Ham, free), Alessandro Pistone (released).
FULHAM
IN: Aaron Hughes (Aston Villa, £1m), Steven Davis (Aston Villa, undisclosed), Diomansy Kamara (West Brom, £6m), Chris Baird (Southampton, £3.025m), Paul Konchesky (West Ham, £3.25m), David Healy (Leeds, £1.5m).
OUT: Claus Jensen (released), Mark Pembridge (released), Tomasz Radzinski (released), Mark Crossley (released, now at Oldham).
LIVERPOOL
IN: Andrey Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen, free), Kristian Nemeth & Andras Simon (both MTK Hungariam, undisclosed), Nikolay Mihaylov (Levski Sofia, undisclosed), Fernando Torres (above) (Atletico Madrid, undisclosed), Yossi Benayoun (West Ham, undisclosed) , Ryan Babel (Ajax, £11.5m).
OUT: Bolo Zenden (Marseille, free), Robbie Fowler (released), Florent Sinama Pongolle (Recreativo Huelva, £2.7m), Danny Guthrie (Bolton, season-long loan), Luis Garcia (Atletico Madrid, undisclosed), Craig Bellamy (West Ham, £7.5m).
MANCHESTER CITY
IN: Rolando Bianchi (Reggina, £8.8m), Gelson Fernandes (FC Sion, undisclosed).
OUT: Sylvain Distin (Portsmouth, free), Trevor Sinclair (released), Stephen Jordan (released), Hatem Trabelsi (released), Joey Barton (Newcastle, £5.8m), Nicky Weaver (Charlton, free).
MANCHESTER UNITED
IN: Owen Hargreaves (below)(Bayern Munich, undisclosed), Anderson* (FC Porto, undisclosed), Nani* (Sporting Lisbon, undisclosed), Tomasz Kuszczak (West Brom, undisclosed)
(* Combined transfer fee for Anderson and Nani was £30m)
OUT: Kieran Richardson (Sunderland, undisclosed)
MIDDLESBROUGH
IN: Tuncay Sanli (Fenerbahce, free), Jeremie Aliadiere (Arsenal, £2m), Jonathan Woodgate (R. Madrid, £7m).
OUT: Mark Viduka (Newcastle, free), Stuart Parnaby (Birmingham, free), Abel Xavier (LA Galaxy, free), Malcolm Christie (released), Danny Graham (released).
NEWCASTLE UNITED
IN: Mark Viduka (Middlesbrough, free), Joey Barton (Man City, £5.8m), David Rozehnal (Paris St Germain, £2.9m), Geremi (Chelsea, free).
OUT: Scott Parker (West Ham, £7m), Titus Bramble (Wigan, free), Antoine Sibierski (Wigan, free), Craig Moore (released), Olivier Bernard (released), Alan O’Brien (undisclosed).
PORTSMOUTH
IN: David Nugent (Preston, undisclosed), John Utaka (Rennes, undisclosed), Arnold Mvuemba (Rennes, undisclosed), Sulley Muntari (Udinese, £7m), Sylvain Distin (Manchester City, free), Hermann Hreidarsson (Charlton, free), Martin Cranie (Southampton, undisclosed).
OUT: Svetoslav Todorov (Charlton, free)
READING
IN: Kalifa Cisse (Boavista, £1m).
OUT: Steve Sidwell (Chelsea, free), Greg Halford (Sunderland, £2.5m).
SUNDERLAND
IN: Dickson Etuhu (Norwich, £1.5m), Kieran Richardson (Manchester United, undisclosed), Greg Halford (Reading, £2.5m), Russell Anderson (Aberdeen, £1m), Michael Chopra (Cardiff City, £5m).
OUT: Kenny Cunningham (released), Tommy Miller (released).
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
IN: Gareth Bale (Southampton, £5m), Adel Taarabt (Lens, undisclosed), Yuri Berchiche (Athletic Bilbao, undisclosed), Darren Bent (Charlton £16.5m), Younes Kaboul (Auxerre, £8m).
OUT: Emil Hallfredsson (Lyn-Oslo, undisclosed), Reto Ziegler (Sampdoria, undisclosed), Mark Yeates (Colchester, undisclosed).
WEST HAM UNITED
Ins: Scott Parker (Newcastle, £7m), Julien Faubert (Bordeaux, £6.1m), Richard Wright (Everton, free), Craig Bellamy (Liverpool, £7.5m)
OUT: Nigel Reo-Coker (Aston Villa, £8.5m), Tyrone Mears (Derby, £1m), Yossi Benayoun (Liverpool, undisclosed), Paul Konchesky (Fulham, £3.25m), Marlon Harewood (Aston Villa, undisclosed).
WIGAN ATHLETIC
IN: Antoine Sibierski (Newcastle, free), Titus Bramble (Newcastle, free), Mario Melchiot (Rennes, free), Andreas Granqvist (Helsingborg, undisclosed), Carlo Nash (Preston, £300,000), Jason Koumas (West Brom, £5.3m).
OUT: Lee McCulloch (Rangers, £2.25m), Matt Jackson (Watford, free), Arjan de Zeeuw (released), David Unsworth (released).
ITALIAN SERIE A
(fixtures not announced yet but probable start is 9 September 2007)
Tough to predict this season because last season was so overshadowed by the match fixing scandal, and with so many clubs docked points or relegated it left Inter Milan romping home with a 22 point lead over Roma, who themselves had a 13 point lead over one of the teams docked points, Lazio. The new season will be much closer, and the joker in the pack is Juventus, who will be keen to show their mettle after spending a ‘punishment’ season in Serie B, overcoming a 9-point penalty to win that division. None of the teams have really been that active in the transfer market to date, although several teams have lost key players to other European leagues.
FRENCH LIGUE 1
(season starts 4 August 2007)
Lyon won this at a canter last season, finishing 17 points clear of Marseille, and judging by the various ins and outs of the top clubs, there won’t be much of a challenge to them this season either. Marseille may get a bit closer this season, but almost all of the chasing clubs have lost their best players without replacing them, many of them to the Premier League.
SPANISH LA LIGA
(season starts 26th August 2007)
Only in Spain could a team who had been desperate to win the title for several seasons then do so before sacking the manager who had achieved it! Real Madrid may live to regret that, and with the loss of several of the ‘Galacticos’ over the last couple of seasons (this season Beckham to LA Galaxy, Roberto Carlos to Fenerbahce) will they be the same force as before? They have made some signings (Saviola from Barcelona, Reyes from Arsenal, Christoph Metzelder from Borussia Dortmund and the Brazilian defender Pepe from Porto) but look a very top-heavy side at present. Barcelona look the team most likely, having splashed the cash on Henry (Arsenal, £16.1m), Gabriel Milito (Real Zaragoza, £13.53m), Eric Abidal (Lyon, £10.09m) and Yaya Touré (Monaco, £6.06m).
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA
(season starts 10th August 2007)
Last season was quite surprising with Stuttgart ending up as champions, but it will be tough for them to retain this crown. Despite losing some high profile players (Owen Hargreaves to Manchester United, Roy Makaay to Feyenoord and Claudio Pizarro to Chelsea), Bayern Munich have made some impressive signings (Franck Ribery from Marseille, Miroslav Klose from SV Werder Bremen and Luca Toni from Fiorentina to name a few), and were obviously stung into action by their poor showing last time out. None of the other clubs have made many significant signings, so expect the title to be heading back to Munich.
PORTUGUESE LIGA
(season starts 18th August 2007)
There were only 3 clubs in the title race last season, and it looks like being the same again in Portugal. Porto were champions, with Sporting Lisbon and Benfica one and two points behind them respectively. Benfica were 17 points ahead of 4th place! Porto will be weaker for the loss of Pepe however, so it will be interesting to see if the other two can take advantage.
DUTCH EREDIVISIE
(season starts 17th August 2007)
More exciting than the Portuguese Liga was the Eredivisie last season, with the top two, PSV and Ajax finishing on the same number of points, with PSV claiming the title because their goal difference was 1 goal superior! Third place AZ were only 3 points behind as well, so this may well be tight again. There has been a lot of transfer activity amongst the top clubs, mainly domestic transfers between them, but as always there has been a leak of the quality players to the English, Spanish, Italian and German leagues, with Ajax once again proving to be the European ‘feeder’ club.
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