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    Gold Coast coach defends owner Palmer

    By By Jim Morton & Tony Bartlett

    Monday, November 2, 2009

    Gold Coast United coach Miron Bleiberg has defended controversial owner Clive Palmer's hands-on approach which has negatively affected his disgruntled players.While the FFA denied they were underwriting United's home games after they scrapped their cost-saving crowd cap, Bleiberg on Tuesday went into bat for billionaire Palmer.The iron ore baron admitted he knew little about soccer before gaining the A-League licence of the expansion club last year but is now influentially involved in all facets ...

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