Football in England

Season	2010–11
Men's football
Premier League	Manchester United
Championship	Queens Park Rangers
League One	Brighton & Hove Albion
League Two	Chesterfield
Conference National	Crawley Town
FA Cup	Manchester City
League Cup	Birmingham City
Community Shield	Manchester United
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The 2010–11 season was the 131st season of competitive football in England.

The season began on 6 August 2010 for the Football Leagues, with the Premier League and Football Conference both starting eight days later on 14 August 2010.^[1][2] The Championship, League One, and League Two ended on 7 May 2011. The Premier League finished on 22 May 2011.

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted to Premier League

• Newcastle United
• West Bromwich Albion
• Blackpool

Teams relegated from Premier League

• Hull City
• Burnley
• Portsmouth

Teams promoted to Championship

• Norwich City
• Leeds United
• Millwall

Teams relegated from Championship

• Sheffield Wednesday
• Plymouth Argyle
• Peterborough United

Teams promoted to League One

• Notts County
• Rochdale
• Bournemouth
• Dagenham & Redbridge

Teams relegated from League One

• Gillingham
• Wycombe Wanderers
• Southend United
• Stockport County

Teams promoted to League Two

• Stevenage
• Oxford United

Teams relegated from League Two

• Grimsby Town
• Darlington

Managerial changes

Diary of the season

July 2010

1 July 2010: Roy Hodgson signs a three-year contract to manage Liverpool, a month after Rafael Benítez left.^[5]

2 July 2010: Israeli winger Yossi Benayoun joins Chelsea from Liverpool for an undisclosed fee.^[6] Ivorian midfielder Yaya Touré joins Manchester City for a fee of "about £24 million" from Barcelona.^[7]

7 July 2010: Leicester City appoint Swansea City's Paulo Sousa as manager to replace Nigel Pearson, who moved to Hull City at the end of June.^[8]

8 July 2010: Sunderland captain and Albanian international midfielder Lorik Cana departs to Galatasaray of Turkey for £5 million, after one season at the Stadium of Light.^[9]

9 July 2010: Sheffield United reject an approach from Swansea City for assistant manager Gary Speed to take over as manager of the south Wales club.^[10]

14 July 2010: Los Angeles Galaxy winger David Beckham rules out taking over as England manager in the future, but declares his desire to play at Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup.^[11] Manchester City sign Spanish winger David Silva from Valencia for £24 million.^[12]

16 July 2010: Trevor Brooking urges the Football Association to appoint an English successor when Fabio Capello eventually departs from the role of England manager.^[13] Former Watford and Reading manager Brendan Rodgers is appointed as Swansea City's new manager.^[14] Manchester City sign Lazio and Serbia left-back Aleksandar Kolarov for £16 million.^[15]

19 July 2010: English international midfielder Joe Cole signs a four-year deal with Liverpool, following the expiry of his contract at Chelsea in June.

22 July 2010: Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill announces that he is willing sell to midfielder James Milner after the player expressed his desire to leave the club. He is widely tipped to sign for Manchester City, who recently had a £20 million offer for him turned down.^[16]

23 July 2010: Former Millwall, Wycombe Wanderers and Bradford City striker Gavin Grant, 26, is found guilty (along with another man) of committing murder in London in May 2004. Grant was initially cleared of the murder three years earlier but charged again when new evidence came to light.^[17]

26 July 2010: Tottenham Hotspur express interest in moving to London's Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Olympic Games. West Ham United is the only club to have officially bid for the venue so far, while Leyton Orient decided against moving.^[18]

28 July 2010: After six months back at Arsenal, former England defender Sol Campbell signs for Newcastle United on a one-year contract. This means that Campbell, 35, will be playing in the Premier League for the 19th season running. He and Ryan Giggs are the only players who have played in every single Premier League season since its inception.^[19]

29 July 2010: Mark Hughes, sacked as Manchester City manager seven months earlier, is confirmed as manager of Fulham.^[20]

30 July 2010: England goalkeeper David James signs a one-year contract with Bristol City.^[21]

August 2010

2 August 2010: Ipswich Town coach Gary Ablett, who managed Stockport County the previous season and won honours as a player with Liverpool and Everton, announces that he is suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[22]

9 August 2010: Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill resigns after four years in charge, during which he guided them to UEFA Cup qualification in three successive seasons. He is replaced on a caretaker basis by Villa reserve team manager Kevin MacDonald until a permanent successor is appointed.^[23]

10 August 2010: Exeter City striker Adam Stansfield dies of cancer aged 31.^[24]

12 August 2010: Steve Coppell resigns after less than four months and just two competitive games in charge of Bristol City.^[25]

13 August 2010: Manchester City take their summer spending past £100 million with the signing of Italy and Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli for a fee in the region of £24 million.^[26]

14 August 2010: The 19th Premier League season gets underway, with newcomers Blackpool winning their first top division game since 1971 4–0 away to Wigan Athletic.^[27] Kevin Blackwell leaves Sheffield United by mutual consent following a 3–0 loss to Queens Park Rangers, having been manager for two and a half years.

17 August 2010: Sheffield United promote coach and former player Gary Speed, aged 41, to be their new manager on a three-year contract.^[28] Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka is suspended from the French national team's next 18 matches following a dispute with coach Raymond Domenech at the World Cup.^[29]

21 August 2010: Theo Walcott scores the first club hat-trick of his career as Arsenal defeat Blackpool 6–0 at the Emirates Stadium.^[30]

30 August 2010: Alan Pardew is sacked as manager of Southampton, League One promotion favourites and Football League Trophy holders, despite guiding them to a 4–0 away win over Bristol Rovers two days previously.^[31]

31 August 2010: August draws to a close with Chelsea top of the table with nine points out of nine, scoring fourteen goals and conceding none against West Brom, Wigan and Stoke. Arsenal and Manchester United are joint second on seven points, Arsenal ahead on goal difference following the win over Blackpool, while Aston Villa, still without a manager, are fourth, after recovering from a 6–0 thrashing at Newcastle to narrowly beat Everton 1–0. Bolton, Birmingham and Wolves complete the top seven. Propping up the table are Stoke and West Ham United, neither with a point this season, and Everton. Queens Park Rangers lead the Championship, with Cardiff City, Ipswich Town, Millwall, Burnley and Leeds United (joint sixth with Norwich City) completing the top six; Bristol City, Leicester City and Portsmouth lie in the relegation zone. In the transfer market, Sunderland confirm the transfer of Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan in a club record £13m deal whilst Tottenham began contact with Dutch midfielder Rafael van der Vaart.

September 2010

4 September 2010: Jermain Defoe scores a hat-trick as England open their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with a 4–0 win over Bulgaria at Wembley.^[32]

8 September 2010: Aston Villa name Gérard Houllier, former Liverpool and France manager, as their successor to Martin O'Neill.^[33]

12 September 2010: Nigel Adkins leaves Scunthorpe United after four years as manager (during which they won promotion to the Championship twice) to become the new manager of Southampton.^[34]

13 September 2010: Gary McAllister, first team coach at Middlesbrough, is reported to have been offered the role of assistant manager at Aston Villa after Phil Thompson rejected the offer for the role.^[35]

18 September 2010: Gary McAllister completes his move to Aston Villa as assistant manager.^[36] Bobby Smith, who scored 208 goals for Tottenham Hotspur and helped them win the league title/FA Cup double in 1961, retain the FA Cup a year later and win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1963, dies aged 77.^[37]

25 September 2010: The last 100% start in any of the professional divisions ends when Chelsea, who won their opening five games of the Premier League season, are beaten 1–0 at Manchester City, with Carlos Tevez scoring the only goal of the game.^[38]

30 September 2010: Despite loss at Manchester City, Chelsea still lead the Premier League by three points. Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City, Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Fulham complete the top seven, while Wigan Athletic, West Ham United and Everton lie in the relegation zone. QPR and Cardiff lead the Championship, with Norwich, Watford, Burnley and Reading in the play-off zone and Crystal Palace, Bristol City and Leicester City in the relegation zone.

October 2010

1 October 2010: Paulo Sousa is sacked after just nine league matches in charge of Leicester City, who were bottom of the Championship having qualified for the play-offs last season under Sousa's predecessor Nigel Pearson.^[39] Manchester City announce that they made a loss of £121million in the year leading up to 31 May.^[40]

3 October 2010: Former England national football team manager Sven-Göran Eriksson is appointed manager of Leicester City on a two-year contract.^[41]

4 October 2010: Bolton Wanderers striker Kevin Davies, aged 33 and uncapped at senior level, is called up to the England squad for the following week's Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro.^[42]

5 October 2010: Two potential buyers, one Asian and the other American, table bids to buy control of Liverpool from American co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillet.^[43]

8 October 2010: Liverpool directors reported to be on the verge of surrendering the club to the administrators and risk a nine-point deduction in an attempt to oust the club's unpopular owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, as they facilitate the sale of the club to an American consortium.^[44]

10 October 2010: It is reported that Liverpool's prospective new owners are planning to abandon the plan for a new stadium in Stanley Park in favour of expanding Anfield.^{[citation needed]}

11 October 2010: UK Athletics announces its support for West Ham United's bid to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Summer Olympics. Tottenham Hotspur have also expressed interest in taking over the stadium as a possible alternative to the revamp of White Hart Lane.^[45]

12 October 2010: Singapore billionaire Peter Lim becomes Liverpool's latest bidder when he tables a £320million bid for the club.^[46]

15 October 2010: Liverpool's new owners are New England Sports Ventures, who complete a £300million takeover deal of the club.^[47]

17 October 2010: In the first game under their owners, Liverpool lose the Merseyside derby 2–0 to Everton at Goodison Park.^[48]

18 October 2010: Gordon Strachan resigns after 12 months as manager of Middlesbrough, who began the season as Championship promotion favourites but now occupy 20th place.^[49]

19 October 2010: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson reveals that striker Wayne Rooney wants to leave the club, having recently decided against signing an extension to his contract which will expire at the end of next season.^[50]

22 October 2010: Wayne Rooney makes a surprise u-turn on his future and signs a new five-year contract with Manchester United.^[51] Portsmouth are reported to be on the brink of bankruptcy after talks with former owner and key creditor Sacha Gaydamak broke down.^[52]

24 October 2010: Portsmouth are saved after former owner Alexander Gaydamak agrees to sell the club to Balram Chainrai, another former owner of the club.^[53]

25 October 2010: Aston Villa will be without the services of captain Stiliyan Petrov for at least two months due to a knee injury suffered in the 1–0 league defeat by Sunderland on Saturday.^[54] Promising Wigan Athletic midfielder James McCarthy, 19, is expected to be out of action until the New Year as a result of an ankle injury suffered in Saturday's 1–1 league draw with Bolton Wanderers.^[55]

31 October 2010: Newcastle beat local rivals Sunderland 5–1^[56] at St James' Park in the Premier League, with Kevin Nolan scoring a hat-trick – the first player to do so in a game between the two clubs since Peter Beardsley in the 1984–85 season.^{[citation needed]} In the Championship, Cardiff have overtaken QPR at the top of the table, with Swansea City, Coventry City, Norwich and Reading also in the top six and Bristol City, Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace in the bottom three.

November 2010

6 November 2010: A late winning goal from Park Ji-sung gives Manchester United a 2–1 home win over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League, cutting Chelsea's lead to two points – although the West London side, who play Liverpool at Anfield tomorrow, have a game in hand.^[57] In the first round of the FA Cup, Conference South side Dover Athletic eliminate fellow Kent club Gillingham, managed by former Dover manager Andy Hessenthaler, with a 2–0 win on the League Two club's own soil.^[58]

11 November 2010: Blackpool manager Ian Holloway threatens to resign if the Football Association penalise him for fielding a weakened side in his side's 3–2 league defeat at Aston Villa yesterday evening.^[59]

13 November 2010: Fabio Capello announces his England squad for the friendly against France on 17 November. It includes first call-ups for Jay Bothroyd of Cardiff City, Andy Carroll of Newcastle United, Jordan Henderson of Sunderland and Chris Smalling of Manchester United.^[60]

14 November 2010: League One side Sheffield Wednesday are reported to be on the brink of going into administration.^[61]

16 November 2010: West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady announces that Avram Grant's job as manager is safe despite the club being bottom of the Premier League with just one win from their opening 13 games.^[62] Fabio Capello confirms that Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson and Kieran Gibbs will all play in England's friendly against France.^[63]

19 November 2010: Blackburn Rovers are taken over by the Rao family in a £43million deal, making them the first Indian owned English football club.^[64]

25 November 2010: Mayor of London Boris Johnson gives the go-ahead from Tottenham Hotspur to rebuild White Hart Lane as a 56,000-seat stadium which is set to cost around £450million.^[65]

27 November 2010: In the FA Cup second round, FC United of Manchester (the club created five years ago by Manchester United fans protesting against Malcolm Glazer's takeover) hold League One leaders Brighton & Hove Albion to a 1–1 draw to force a replay.^[66]

30 November 2010: November ends with unbeaten Manchester United top of the Premier League after thrashing Blackburn 7–1 at home, with Dimitar Berbatov scoring five goals.^[67] Chelsea, having only picked up four points from their last five matches, have slipped to second, ahead of Arsenal on goal difference. Manchester City remain in fourth, with Tottenham Hotspur one point behind. Despite beating fellow strugglers Wigan Athletic,^[68] West Ham United remain bottom of the table, joined in the relegation zone by Wolverhampton Wanderers and Wigan. In the championship, Queen's Park Rangers, still unbeaten, hold a five-point lead for promotion over second placed Cardiff City, who in turn have a three-point lead over arch-rivals and third placed Swansea City. Derby County, Norwich City and Coventry City are also in the play-off zone, while Crystal Palace, Middlesbrough and Preston North End prop up the table.

December 2010

2 December 2010: England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup fails; FIFA awards the tournament to Russia instead.^[69]

6 December 2010: Newcastle United sack manager Chris Hughton after just over a year in charge.^[70]

9 December 2010: Alan Pardew is appointed manager of Newcastle United on a contract until the end of the 2015–16 season.^[71]

10 December 2010: Queen's Park Rangers suffer their first league defeat of the season when they lose 3–1 at home to Watford.^[72]

11 December 2010: Newcastle United continue to pile the pressure on Liverpool by winning 3–1 in the Premier League in their first game under the management of Alan Pardew.^[73] West Ham United fall deeper into relegation trouble with a 3–1 home defeat to Manchester City, who go level on points with Arsenal at the top of the Premier League.^[74]

12 December 2010: Manchester City captain Carlos Tevez announces his intention to leave the club.^[75] Wolverhampton Wanderers give their survival hopes a major boost with a 1–0 home win over local rivals Birmingham City.^[76] Chelsea continue to drop points as a Didier Drogba penalty miss restricts them to a 1–1 draw at Tottenham Hotspur.^[77]

13 December 2010: Blackburn Rovers sack manager Sam Allardyce, after two years in charge, following a 2–1 defeat at Bolton Wanderers.^[78] Gary Speed, the Sheffield United manager, is given permission to speak to the Welsh football association about the national team manager's job left vacant by the recent resignation of John Toshack, and is expected to be confirmed as Wales manager within the next 24 hours.^[79]

14 December 2010: Gary Speed is confirmed as the new Wales manager on a contract until July 2014.^[79]

15 December 2010: Dale Roberts, goalkeeper with Conference National side Rushden & Diamonds, dies suddenly at the age of 24.^[80]

31 December 2010: The year ends with Manchester United top of the Premier League, separated from second-placed Manchester City by goal difference. Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Bolton and Sunderland make up the rest of the top seven and Fulham, Wolves and West Ham the bottom three. In the Championship, the top three of QPR, Cardiff and Swansea remain unchanged, with Leeds, Norwich and Reading in the top six and Scunthorpe, Crystal Palace and Preston in the relegation zone.

January 2011

6 January 2011 – The Aston Villa board announce that Gérard Houllier's position as manager is safe in spite of recent results.^[81]

7 January 2011 – Roy Keane is sacked by Ipswich Town after less than two years as manager, with the Suffolk club League Cup semi-finalists but struggling the Championship.^[82]

8 January 2011: Roy Hodgson leaves Liverpool after six months as manager and is succeeded by Kenny Dalglish as caretaker manager until the end of the season. It is Dalglish's first managerial job since he left Celtic more than 10 years ago, and his return as Liverpool manager comes a month before the 20th anniversary of his sudden resignation.^[83] The FA Cup third round sees a number of upsets as League Two Burton Albion eliminate Middlesbrough 2–1 at the Pirelli Stadium.^[84] Football League newcomers Stevenage defeat mid-table Premier League side Newcastle United 3–1^[85] and Sunderland lose 2–1 at home to League One strugglers Notts County.^[86]

9 January 2011: Kenny Dalglish's first match back in charge of Liverpool ends in a 1–0 FA Cup third round defeat at Manchester United, with a second-minute penalty by Ryan Giggs winning the game, while Liverpool's Steven Gerrard is sent off.^[87]

10 January 2011: Macclesfield Town midfielder Richard Butcher dies suddenly aged 29, just 10 months after Keith Alexander, who had brought him to the club.^[88]

12 January 2011: Ipswich Town beat Arsenal in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final 1–0 at Portman Road, three days after losing 7–0 in the FA Cup at Chelsea.^[89][90]

15 January 2011: Bolton Wanderers and England legend Nat Lofthouse dies aged 85.^[91]

25 January 2011: Arsenal reach the Football League Cup final with a 3–1 aggregate victory over Ipswich Town in the semi-finals.^[92]

26 January 2011: Birmingham reach the Football League Cup final with a 4–3 aggregate victory over West Ham after extra time in the semi-finals.^[93]

29 January 2011: The FA Cup fourth round sees Manchester United win 2–1 at Southampton,^[94] Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic draw a blank at the Reebok Stadium^[95] Burton Albion's FA Cup dream end in a 3–1 defeat at Burnley,^[96] Crawley Town match the record FA Cup run for a Conference club by winning 1–0 at Torquay United,^[97] and Brighton & Hove Albion win 1–0 at Watford.^[98] The highlights of the league action include Norwich City's goalless draw at Crystal Palace putting them into second place in the Championship,^[99] while Walsall keep their League One survival hopes alive with a 6–1 win over fellow strugglers Bristol Rovers.^[100]

31 January 2011: Chelsea pay a British record 50 million pounds for Liverpool striker Fernando Torres. Liverpool paid 35 million pounds for Andy Carroll – breaking the transfer record for a British footballer.

February 2011

2 February 2011: Gary Neville, who has played 602 times for Manchester United since his debut in September 1992, announces his retirement from playing just before his 36th birthday. He has won a total of 14 major trophies at United, and also been capped 85 times for England, but has played just over 30 games in all competitions over the last four years following injury and competition from other players at United for the right-back position.^[101]

5 February 2011: A record-breaking day for the Premier League sees Arsenal take a 4–0 lead at Newcastle United after 26 minutes, only to concede four times after half-time to see the game end 4–4 – the first time in Premier League history that a team has been four goals ahead and still not won.^[102] Louis Saha scores four goals as Everton beat Blackpool 5–3 at Goodison Park.^[103] Carlos Tevez scores a first half hat-trick as Manchester City beat West Bromwich Albion 3–0 to boost their own title hopes and push their opponents deeper into the relegation battle.^[104] Manchester United suffer their first league defeat of the season when they are beaten 2–1 at Wolverhampton Wanderers.^[105]

6 February 2011: West Bromwich Albion sack manager Roberto Di Matteo after a season and a half in charge.^[106]

10 February 2011: West Ham United win the backing of Olympic Games bosses to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games.^[107] Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2010–11_in_English_football
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