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''This article describes the '''FA Premier League 1993-94''' season.''

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From the start of the [[1993]]-[[1994]] season, the [[FA Premier League]] would be sponsored by [[Carling]] Breweries - an association which would last for eight years. 

New members of the division were [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]], [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]] and [[Swindon Town F.C.|Swindon Town]]. Newcastle had been relegated from the old [[Football League First Division|First Division]] in [[1989]] and West Ham United had been relegated the season before the start of the Premier League. Swindon, meanwhile, had never played top division [[football (soccer)|football]] before. They had won the old First Division playoffs in [[1990]] but were later denied promotion because of financial irregularities. 

==Football Competitions==

[[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] led the 1993-94 Premier League virtually all season long, eventually finishing as champions seven points ahead of runners-up [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]]. In third place came Newcastle United, whose 22-year-old striker [[Andy Cole]] was the Premiership's leading scorer with 34 goals in 40 games, with a total of 41 goals in all competitions. He was credited with the Young Player of the Year Award. In fourth place came [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]], who achieved success in [[Europe]]an competition with a 1-0 win over [[A.S. Roma|Roma]] in the [[Cup Winners' Cup]] final. 

PFA Player of the Year Award went to [[Eric Cantona]], who scored 25 goals in all competitions (including 2 penalties against [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] in the F.A Cup final) to secure Manchester United's Premiership/F.A Cup double. Football Writers Player of the Year Award went to Blackburn's 31-goal striker [[Alan Shearer]].

Just before the start of the season, [[Roy Keane]] became the most expensive footballer signed by an English football team. The 22-year-old [[Ireland|Irish]] [[midfield]]er left relegated [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] and was transferred to Manchester United for £3.75million, playing a key role in their double success. 

During the 1993-94 season, many players were transferred between Premiership clubs for seven-figure (£1million plus) fees. They included [[David White]] ([[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] to [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]]), [[David Rocastle]] (Leeds United to Manchester City), [[Roy Wegerle]] (Blackburn Rovers to [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]]) and [[Tim Flowers]] ([[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] to Blackburn Rovers). At £2.5million, Flowers became the most expensive [[goalkeeper]] in English football.

The season also brought many managerial changes. Before the season started, [[Glenn Hoddle]] left newly promoted Swindon Town to replace [[David Webb (footballer)|David Webb]] as manager of Chelsea. [[Osvaldo Ardiles]] left [[Football League Second Division|Division Two]] playoff winners [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] to take charge of [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]], where he had to spells as a player during the [[1980s]], as replacement for joint coaches [[Raymond Clemence]] and [[Douglas Livermore]].

During the season, [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] dismissed [[Graeme Souness]] and replaced him with long serving coach [[Roy Evans]]. Southampton axed [[Ian Branfoot]] and appointed the [[Exeter City F.C.|Exeter City]] manager [[Alan Ball]] as his replacement. [[Howard Kendall]] resigned as Everton manager for the second time, and was replaced by [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]]'s [[Mike Walker]] - who in turn was replaced by player-coach [[John Deehan]]. Four games into the season, Manchester City sacked player-manager [[Peter Reid]] and appointed [[Oxford United F.C.|Oxford United]]'s [[Brian Horton]].

[[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] won the [[League Cup]] with a 3-1 win over Manchester United, who would otherwise have completed a unique domestic treble. However, the previous season's Premiership runners-up suffered a dip in league form and finished 10th in the final table.

Swindon Town managed just five league wins all season and were relegated in bottom place having conceded 100 league goals in just 42 games. [[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic]], who had survived on goal difference the previous season, were relegated on the final day of the season after failing to win at Norwich City. The final relegation place went to [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]], whose four-year tenancy in the top flight was ended by a 3-2 defeat at Chelsea. [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] occupied the place above the relegation zone.

The Division One promotion places at the end of 1993-94 season were decided by [[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]] (champions), Nottingham Forest (runners-up) and [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] (playoff winners).

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[[Category:1994 in sports'Islamofascism''' is a term used by some [[Western]] commentators for a group of political ideas within [[Islam]]ic culture. The term is commonly applied to groups that promote [[theocracy]] and oppose [[Westernization]] and [[capitalism]], as opposed to moderate groups that see no contradiction between Islam and Western-style modernism.  Some writers use Islamofascism specifically to refer to [[Wahhabism]] and similar movements in [[Sunni]] Islam, while others use it to refer to all highly politicized strains of Islam, including [[Shiite]] fundamentalism as practiced in [[Iran]].  The term is strongly associated with the [[War on Terrorism]], which many [[conservative]] writers in the [[United States]] describe as a war between [[Western]] ideals and Islamofascism.

In polemical use, ''Islamofascism'' is often applied to semantically connect radical Islamic groups to the [[fascist]] ideology of the [[Nazi]]s, by emphasizing common features such as [[antisemitism]] and [[totalitarianism]], while ignoring or downplaying the differences between radical Islamic and Nazi ideology.  Associating one's current enemies rhetorically with hated enemies of the past is a common techique in [[propaganda]]. A similar recent example is the term [[feminazi]].

A more neutral alternative for Islamofascism is [[Islamism]]. Some writers also use [[Muslim fundamentalism]], popularized at the time of the [[Islamic Revolution]] in [[Iran]]; however, proponents of the use of the labels ''Islamism'' or ''Islamofascism'' argue that the label ''Muslim fundamentalism'' is historically and theologically inaccurate, and invites unjustified generalizations about all [[fundamentalist]] religious movements.

Evil exists. And militant Islamism (the militant Islamism of bin Laden, the Saudis, Saddam Hussein, the Baathists, and the Palestinian suicide bombers) or Islamofascism is the enemy of freedom and the distilled essence of evil. Totalitarian ideologies and fanaticisms have come in gone and have been defeated by America. All these ideologies are one in the same. They hate modernity, hate America, hate freedom, hate capitalism, hate liberal democracy, and love terrorism, oppression, genoicide, and fanatic hatred. In Germany the tyranical enemies of freedom and capitalism rallied behind Nazism, in Italy they rallied behind fascism, in Russia they rallied behind totalitarian socialism and communism, and now in the Middle East, where a lot of dictators and tyrants are threatened by freedom and American values, they rally behind militant Islamics. It is fact that there isnt a single Arab democracy. Muslim leaders (Saddam was just the worst of the lot. There will be more dictators/terrorists to fight like the Syrians) are all tyrants and terrorists who stifle the free press, kill their own people, crush their citizens hopes and dreams, and want to kill Americans like they did on 9/11. Their desire to kill Americans and supprot terror rests on one deep, abiding hatred: their irrational fear of America, which sticks up for freedom and opposes their tyranny with great scarafices, like America is doing right now defeating evil in the Arab countries of Iraq and Afghnaistan. 
The ideology of militant Islamist terrorism is the totalitarian enemy that America confronts today. And patriotic Americans say it will be defeated like America defeated totalitarianisms in the past through heroic struggle: Communism, fascism, Nazism. 

A lot of conservative commentators who speak with moral clarity call America's struggle against the evil of Islamofascist totalitarianism right now World War IV. That this is freedom's fourth struggle against a totalitarian evil. In WWI it was the despotic rule of the Kaiser, in WWII it was the Nazis, in freedom's third struggle it was the communists in the Cold War (although it wasnt a "hot war" it was another global stuggle like a world war). Now America's forth stuggle is a worldwide campaign against states like Iraq that hate the free world, kill their own people, desire weapons of mass destruction, and support terrorism. 

The antiwar liberal left appeases totalitarian evil, which they love to do. They rallied to defend the Communists in Vietnam. Now the amoral liberal left is opposing America's commander in chief George W Bush in his struggle in Iraq. Hundreds of millions were slaughtered (Communism murdered 100 million people while the liberals opposed the Cold War at every step) and Communism threatened the freedom of America and her allies. Conservatives say that America must stop this new totalitarian enemy before its murderous hate claims as many victims as Communism. 


See also:
* [[World War IV]]