The 24-year-old former Bolton Wanderers player collapsed on the pitch at White Hart Lane during a game against Tottenham Hotspur.
"My retirement doesn't mean the end of a life with the club, " he told fans on the pitch at Old Trafford.
Rugby club spokesman Gezz Higgins said it was Mr Nicklinson's wish that his ashes be scattered on the pitch at Cranbrook.
Jeffries put pen to paper on the pitch at half-time during Sunderland's Premier League match against Bolton at the Stadium of Light.
Duffy was hurt in a seemingly innocuous collision with Irish Amateur team keeper Adrian Walsh, and collapsed in agony on the pitch at Malahide United's Gannon Park home.
Former player John Aldridge, who was also on the pitch at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster, said he wanted to keep memories of the day fresh.
Even though it is one of the most successful clubs in recent years, on the pitch at least, the club's General Manager, Itzik Kornfein, admitted they were fighting an uphill battle.
From the kitchen-sink ordinariness of the working-class Belfast upbringing towards stardom on the pitch at United, renown as a Sixties socialite and eventually the infamy of alcoholism with the despair and trouble it brought.
"It's almost impossible not to be engaged with what's happening on the pitch at the Millennium Stadium, especially when it's enclosed with the retractable roof on and the Welsh rugby fans singing, " says Sheard, who worked on its design.
"They had a video set up, they had photographs and they had laid out photographs as well and it was them who said to me, 'I want to show you your vehicle coming on the pitch at 3:35', " he said.
Johnson, who spent three seasons with Fulham in England before returning to MLS last year, says that stepping on the pitch at the Seattle Sounders' CenturyLink Field is akin to playing at some of the game's most hallowed cathedrals, including Manchester United's 76, 000-seat home.
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Everton's new Croatian striker Jelavic, signed from Rangers, was paraded on the pitch at the break in an effort to inspire the home crowd, although it was City who began to attack with purpose when play resumed, Aguero having a penalty shout when his driving run was brought to an end.
When the Poland national team walk out on to the pitch at their stunning new national stadium in Warsaw on Friday, they will walk with the ghosts of the past in more ways than one.
Luton beat a Norwich squad that included just four players who appeared in at least half of the Canaries' Premier League games this season but it is likely that the lowest-paid Norwich player on the pitch made at least 10 times as much as the highest-paid Luton player.
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The coffin was carried into the church to the Liverpool anthem You'll Never Walk Alone and left to the Z Cars theme, which plays every time Everton players run on to the pitch at Goodison Park.
The Costa Rican Federation is unhappy the lines and markings on the pitch were invisible at times during the game in Commerce City, while also claiming the movement of the ball was impeded by the snow.
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When, in one of the most symbolic moments, United legend Sir Bobby Charlton, a survivor of the Munich air crash, handed flowers to former Liverpool striker Ian Rush, who was on the pitch that day at Hillsborough and spent much of the next year attending victims' funerals, applause rang out throughout Anfield.
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It was a night of high drama on and off the pitch at the Racecourse Ground.
Since his arrival in the UK, Balotelli has made headlines for setting his house on fire with fireworks, handing out wads of money to the homeless, tussling with teammates on the pitch and throwing darts at his club's youth team players.
After the 1-1 second-leg draw, Drogba ran on to the pitch to confront Ovrebo at the final whistle and was booked.
After signing superstars like David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid saw their income from merchandise explode (despite limited success on the pitch), peaking at 45% of revenues in 2005.
While Andy Milligan, a partner at business consultancy, Caffeine, and author of football business book "Brand it Like Beckham, " said that club owners, the Glazers, may go into "overdrive" in the next 24 hours to reassure global stakeholders that the club's stability, on the pitch, is not at risk.
It was applauded long and loud by the legends on the pitch as well as the crowd who have marvelled at his Arsenal displays for the last 11 years during which he has scored 120 goals in 423 games.
When we were doing the pre-match stuff on the corner of the pitch last Sunday Jonathan Davies looked at Banahan warming up and said there was no way physically he could high tackle him because he would not be able to reach.
Cole made only 28 league starts in his final two seasons at Chelsea, was on the pitch for only 10, 613 of the 23, 940 Premier League minutes the Blues played in his seven years at Stamford Bridge and has started one England match since 2008.
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Details about the student, who worked part-time selling refreshments at Manchester United, were flashed on the pitch-side digital advertising board and there was an announcement before kick off.
It is as if he sees gaps and decides to back himself to hit the ball to those regions, at times regardless of where the ball may pitch on the wicket.
Glasgow chief executive Kenny Baillie believes the trio have signed at a time when the club is growing both on and off the pitch.
Some visitors smirked at the long grass on the pitch in one opening match.
Ferguson was charged after he came on to the pitch to remonstrate with referee Mike Dean at the end of the 4-3 win against Hull at Old Trafford.
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