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Listed below are comments made by Howard N - BBC Sport between Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 and Saturday, 21st November 2009.

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My (brief) England career 10:53am on 21 Nov 2009 Unfortunately, a technical problem has prevented Michael Gray from logging in and responding to your posts. This will be fixed in the near future and normal service should resume. Apologies for this.
Can the man from the Gulf bridge the Anfield divide? 6:29pm on 25 Jan 2009 Mihir Bose replies to comments 25 and 34

Let me correct the points which both of you have got wrong. When I wrote about DIC’s intentions, I was not peddling anything, let alone anyone’s lies, but reporting hard and well documented facts which had come into my possession. I quoted from a DIC report entitled Project Oslo, Oslo being the code name for DIC’s proposed takeover of Liverpool. The document explained how DIC’s bid had been accepted by David Moores, then chairman of Liverpool, and George Gillett’s bid had been rebuffed. The document discussed various aspects of the bid. In a section entitled “Investment rationale” it stated that the plan was to hold the investment for seven years or so. That section also covered how the commercial business could be developed and how the equity value of the investment would be boosted once the new stadium was built.
I reported all this, and much more, quoting from the document, in December 2006.
The authenticity of the document has never been and cannot be questioned.
As regards 34’s comment that the BBC apologised for this story, this is nonsense.
I did not break the story for the BBC. I had not joined the BBC at that time.
I wrote the article for the Daily Telegraph where I was then employed by the paper as its chief sports news reporter which included writing a weekly column called Inside Sport. Why should the BBC apologise for a story that was both correct and not produced by one of its journalists?
The uncertainty of the transfer window 08:49am on 02 Jan 2009 To #5 cypruswanderer - thanks for spotting that typo which is now corrected!
Scolari will ignore Ferguson's old tricks 12:57pm on 23 Jul 2008 To (2) thellers and (5) benwiggy
Sorry - one sentence was accidentally taken out of the story when the link to Phil's blog was added in. It was a technical glitch and the sentence about Wayne Rooney has now been restored to the news story.

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