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Jeffrey Monakana
Jeffrey Monakana (born 5 November 1993) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Monakana progressed through the youth system at Arsenal, then finally in 2008, At the age of 14, Monakana was handed a four-year contract. Monakana signed a one-year deal with Preston North End on 31 May 2012, effective from 1 July 2012. The 18-year-old winger became the ninth summer signing for Preston manager Graham Westley. Monakana performed well in pre-season, notably his contributions against Athens and Wimbledon. He made his full debut in a home League Cup tie against Huddersfield Town, on 13 August 2012, Playing for 70 minutes, and had an excellent game, setting Jack King up for the first goal in a 2–0 win. His first senior goal came in a second round League Cup tie against Crystal Palace. He went on to score six goals and 10 assist in his first year at professional football. In the game against Brentford opposing manager Uwe Rosler stating that Monakana was a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton, London
Edmonton is a town in north London, England within the London Borough of Enfield, a Districts of England, local government district of Greater London. The northern part of the town is known as Lower Edmonton or Edmonton Green, and the southern part as Upper Edmonton. Situated north-northeast of Charing Cross, it borders Enfield, London, Enfield to the north, Chingford to the east, and Tottenham to the south, with Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill to the west. The population of Edmonton was 82,472 as of 2011. The town forms part of the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London and until 1965 was in the Ancient counties of England, ancient county of Middlesex. Historically a Civil parish, parish in the Edmonton Hundred of Middlesex, Municipal Borough of Edmonton, Edmonton became an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district in 1894, and a municipal borough in 1937. Local government took place at the now-demolished Edmonton Town Hall in For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir
Ungmennafélagið Fjölnir (, ), commonly known as Fjölnir, is a multi-sport club from Iceland. The club is located in Grafarvogur, Reykjavík. The club was founded in 1988 under the original name (Grafarvogur Youth Club); however, because another team already had the abbreviation UMFG, the name was changed to , commonly referred to as . A total of nine sports are practised at the club: football, basketball, handball, taekwondo, karate, tennis, swimming, athletics and gymnastics. Chess is also played at the club. Each one of these sports has their own department with their own board but all are under the main board and the club office. Football Men's football Current squad Out on loan Trophies and achievements * 1. deild karla (1): **2013 Women's football , Fjölnir women's football competes in 2. deild kvenna, the third tier of women's football in Iceland. Current squad Trophies and achievements * 1. deild kvenna ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football League Championship
The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Betting & Gaming, Sky Bet Championship, is a professional association football league in England and Wales. Contested by 24 clubs, it is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, sitting below the Premier League. Introduced for the 2004–05 in English football, 2004–05 season as the Football League Championship, the division is a rebrand of the former Football League First Division. The winning football team, club of this division each season receives the EFL Championship trophy, which was the previous trophy awarded to list of English football champions, the winners of the English top-flight prior to the launch of the Premier League. As with other divisions of professional English football, Welsh clubs can be part of this division, thus making it a cross-border league. Each season, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford City A
Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdom, city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough. It had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 Census for England and Wales, 2011 census, making it the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately to the east. The borough had a population of , making it the List of English districts by population, most populous district in England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city grew in the 19th century as an international centre of Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest Industrialisation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EFL League One
The English Football League One, known as Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons, or simply League One, is a professional association football league in England. EFL League One is the second-highest division of the English Football League and the third tier overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League and the EFL Championship. It is contested by 24 clubs. Introduced in the 2004–05 English football season as Football League One, it is a rebrand of the former Football League Second Division. Burton Albion currently hold the longest tenure in the division following relegation from the Championship at the end of the 2017–18 season. There are nine former Premier League clubs currently competing in this division, named Barnsley (1997–98), Blackpool (2010–11), Bolton Wanderers (1995–96, 1997–98, and 2001–12), Bradford City (1999-2001), Cardiff City (2013-14 and 2018-19), Huddersfield Town (2017–19), Luton Town (2023-24), Reading (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brentford F
Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings which mark the start of the M4 corridor; in transport it also has two railway stations and Boston Manor Underground station on its northwest border with Hanwell. Brentford has a convenience shopping and dining venue grid of streets at its centre. Brentford at the start of the 21st century attracted regeneration of its little-used warehouse premises and docks including the remodelling of the waterfront to provide more economically active shops, townhouses and apartments, some of which comprise Brentford Dock. A 19th- and 20th-century mixed social and private housing locality, New Brentford is contiguous with the Osterley neighbourhood of Isleworth and Syon Park and the Great West Road which has most of the largest business premises. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal Palace F
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable by their Geometry, geometrical shape, consisting of flat face (geometry), faces with specific, characteristic orientations. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography. The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called crystallization or solidification. The word ''crystal'' derives from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning both "ice" and "Quartz#Varieties (according to color), rock crystal", from (), "icy cold, frost". Examples of large crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, and table salt. Most inorganic solids are not crystals but polycrystals, i.e. many microscopic crystals fused together into a single solid. Polycrystals inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack King (footballer, Born 1985)
Jack Andrew King (born 20 August 1985) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. After spells in the youth academies at Oxford United and Swansea City respectively, King played for local club Didcot Town in 2004. He subsequently joined Brackley Town in August 2004, before returning to Didcot a year later. He spent four years at Didcot before joining Farnborough, where he helped the club earn promotion to the Conference South. King then signed for Woking ahead of the 2011–12 season, with the club winning the Conference South title during his one season there. A move into full-time professional football followed when he joined League One club Preston North End in 2012. He spent three seasons at Preston, culminating in promotion to the Championship during the 2014–15 season. King then signed for Scunthorpe United in the summer of 2015. He joined League Two club Stevenage on loan in August 2016, with the deal being made permane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFC Wimbledon
AFC Wimbledon is an English professional association football club based in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton, London. The team competes in , the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded in 2002 by former supporters of Wimbledon F.C. after the Football Association allowed that club to Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes, relocate to Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, about north of Wimbledon. Most of the Wimbledon supporters were very strongly opposed to moving the club so far away from Wimbledon, feeling that a club transplanted to a distant location would no longer represent Wimbledon or the club's historic legacy and tradition. Wimbledon moved in 2003 and formally changed the name of the club to Milton Keynes Dons F.C., Milton Keynes Dons in 2004. When AFC Wimbledon was formed, it affiliated to both the London Football Association, London and Surrey County Football Association, Surrey Football Associations, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEK Athens F
A.E.K. (; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a major Greece, Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K. Athens. Established in Athens, in 1924, by Greek refugees from Constantinople, after the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22), 1919–22 Greco-Turkish war and the subsequent population exchange between Greece and Turkey, it is the most successful club in Greece, as it maintains more than 30 sports departments (football, basketball, handball, volleyball, futsal, etc.), under the control of its amateur sports arm, Amateur AEK (; Erasitechnikί AEK), with noteworthy departments, such as its AEK H.C., handball team, which is the best Greek handball club, in terms of European achievements, having obtained 1 EHF European Cup in 2021 and having also reached the final in 2018 and in 2025 and the semi-finals in 2019. AEK sports club is best known for its professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Westley
Graham Neil Westley (born 4 March 1968) is an English professional football manager and former professional footballer. Westley's playing career, spent mostly as a striker in non-League football, was curtailed due to injury whilst playing for Kingstonian. It was at Kingstonian that he started his managerial career, at the age of 28, managing them for five months before spending a year as manager of Enfield. In 1999, Westley became manager of Farnborough Town, helping the club earn promotion to the Football Conference in 2002. He left Farnborough the following season, to become manager of Stevenage Borough in January 2003. He took the club to within one game of promotion to the Football League, but left the club in 2006 when his contract expired. Westley then had a brief spell as manager of Rushden & Diamonds, as well as acting as caretaker manager at Conference North club Kettering Town. Westley rejoined Stevenage in May 2008 and managed the club to FA Trophy success in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
