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Coldplay Life in Technology
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The Liberators Rags to Riches
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Blur There's No Other Way
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Lauryn Hill Can't Take My Eyes Off You
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John Murphy In The House In a Heartbeat
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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Beggin'
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West Ham FC I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
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The Cinematic Orchestra Fleur de mai
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Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
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UNKLE Awake the Unkind
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The Cinematic Orchestra To Build a Home
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John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Alex Heffes Race Against the Clock
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Simple Minds Alive and Kicking
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Oasis ******* Against The Bushes
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The Shadows Apache
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Julie Wilson I've Got You Under My Skin
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Kanye West The Good Life
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Roy Budd Get Carter
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The Twang Ice Cream Sundae
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Rob Dougan Furious Angels
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Kronos Quartet Winter Was Hard
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Hard-Fi Cash Machine
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Beastie Boys Funcky Boss
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A.C. Highway to Hell
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Death Cab for Cutie Bixby Canyon Bridge
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The Cinematic Orchestra Pas le meme lieu, ni le meme heure
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Eminem Lose Yourself
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Michael Jackson Dance
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Craig Armstrong Ball
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Sound Pollution Songs Breathe Me
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Whelan is in no doubt about the biggest problem facing football
“The big problem is wages, pay. We’re paying too much in wages. I think that is for every single club in the premier league, every single club. I think there’s only Arsenal really who are making a profit at present, so the rest of us struggle, we fight. If we could control the wages, I think the Premier league would go from strength to strength.”
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Lord Sugar on The Chairman
"Having met Dave Whelan, he is a rare breed I have to say, a very rare breed he’s put his money where his mouth is but his deep concern is players salaries and how his club is going survive, how he can compete he doesn’t want to spend the lion’s share of his income on players salaries he wants to do something about it but it seems no-one else is listening."
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Dave Whelan The Footballer
As a player, Whelan received a basic wage of twenty pounds a week.
His career culminated in the 1960 FA Cup final.
But for the Blackburn Rovers defender, the game ended in disappointment. Whelan suffered a broken leg and Blackburn went on to lose three nil to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Retiring as a player, Whelan turned to business, building the retail empire JJB sports and after creating a personal fortune of around sixty million pounds, Whelan’s football fever returned. In 1995, Whelan bought bottom division Wigan Athletic for half a million pounds.
Over the next ten years, his support provided Wigan with a new stadium - and promotion up through four divisions.
But achieving top flight football has come at a cost. Wigan’s debts, largely underwritten by Whelan, are the tenth highest in the Premier League-around one hundred million pounds.
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- Lord Sugar
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- Dan Trelford
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- Dan Trelford
- Executive Producer
- Michael Tuft
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