José Mourinho attempted to play down the significance of Manchester United’s exit from the Champions League as former players turned television pundits savaged his side’s limp display against Sevilla. Rio Ferdinand described the performance as lethargic and added that Alexis Sánchez looked a shadow of his former self while Paul Scholes called for the Chilean to be dropped. Clutching desperately at the thinnest of straws, Mourinho suggested United had no time for self-recrimination because they had an FA Cup quarter-final tie against Brighton coming up at the weekend. “I don’t want to make a drama out of this defeat. It’s not the end of the world. It’s football and we have another match on Saturday,” the United manager said.
“I know this has happened at Manchester United before because I have sat in this chair as manager of Porto and of Real Madrid. I don’t think it is something new for this club.”
Source :- theguardian
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Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Dylan Hartley and Elliot Daly given 24 hours to prove England fitness
Dylan Hartley and Elliot Daly have been given an extra 24 hours in their efforts to prove their fitness to face Ireland on Saturday after England named a bloated squad for their final Six Nations match.
Hartley and Daly are progressing from calf and foot injuries respectively but face a race against time as England seek to avoid three consecutive Six Nations defeats for the first time since 2006. England traditionally name a squad of 25 four days before a match – the 23-man squad and two reserves – but have taken the decision to retain 29 players for Wednesday’s training session. Hartley and Daly will be further assessed before Eddie Jones cuts his squad again on Wednesday night.
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Jones has already said Hartley – his captain for all but two of his 27 Tests in charge – will come back into the side if he is declared fit but is keeping his options open with Jamie George and Luke Cowan-Dickie also retained. Daly, meanwhile, has undergone a scan on his foot after he was seen wearing a protective boot on Monday.
Source :- theguardian
Hartley and Daly are progressing from calf and foot injuries respectively but face a race against time as England seek to avoid three consecutive Six Nations defeats for the first time since 2006. England traditionally name a squad of 25 four days before a match – the 23-man squad and two reserves – but have taken the decision to retain 29 players for Wednesday’s training session. Hartley and Daly will be further assessed before Eddie Jones cuts his squad again on Wednesday night.
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Jones has already said Hartley – his captain for all but two of his 27 Tests in charge – will come back into the side if he is declared fit but is keeping his options open with Jamie George and Luke Cowan-Dickie also retained. Daly, meanwhile, has undergone a scan on his foot after he was seen wearing a protective boot on Monday.
Source :- theguardian
Edin Dzeko sends Roma through against Shakhtar and into last eight
Roma are through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2008 after beating Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 in their second-leg tie at the Stadio Olimpico thanks to a magnificent finish by Edin Dzeko, which sent them through on the away goal they scored in a 2-1 defeat in the first leg.
Roma celebrated only their second win in six meetings with the Ukrainian side and got revenge for a 6-2 aggregate defeat by them at the same stage of the competition in 2011, although they endured a nervy finish.
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Having trailed 2-1 from the first leg, Roma looked bereft of ideas for much of the contest before Dzeko broke the deadlock in the 52nd minute following a tepid first half devoid of goalmouth action.
Source :- theguardian
Roma celebrated only their second win in six meetings with the Ukrainian side and got revenge for a 6-2 aggregate defeat by them at the same stage of the competition in 2011, although they endured a nervy finish.
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Having trailed 2-1 from the first leg, Roma looked bereft of ideas for much of the contest before Dzeko broke the deadlock in the 52nd minute following a tepid first half devoid of goalmouth action.
Source :- theguardian
Manchester United: their top five worst Champions League displays
Manchester United’s return to the European Cup was fiercely anticipated – they had been away since 1969. After winning the Cup Winners’ Cup immediately after the return of English clubs to continental competition, in those crazy altruistic and naive days when that was what was done, they were expected to have a suitable go at the Champions League. But in place at the time was a rule limiting the number of foreigners that could be fielded by each club, and though United’s squad was largely British and Irish, the restriction applied to all who were either born outside of England, or were not considered “assimilated”.
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Does MLS really promote flashier clubs over less glamorous ones?
There are few better in world soccer at marketing its own product than Major League Soccer. North America’s top flight has exploited, to a certain extent, a market many always believed to be there. But while MLS does a good job of selling itself, what duty does it have to sell each individual club in the division?
This was a question prompted by findings published on Twitter this week illustrating the number of times MLS’s official Twitter account has mentioned each and every club in 2018. It showed Los Angeles FC to be the most mentioned MLS team over the past two months, with the Portland Timbers somewhat surprisingly the least mentioned. The New York Red Bulls were the most retweeted, with the New England Revolution the least.
Source :- theguardian
This was a question prompted by findings published on Twitter this week illustrating the number of times MLS’s official Twitter account has mentioned each and every club in 2018. It showed Los Angeles FC to be the most mentioned MLS team over the past two months, with the Portland Timbers somewhat surprisingly the least mentioned. The New York Red Bulls were the most retweeted, with the New England Revolution the least.
Source :- theguardian
Chris Rogers lands batting coach role for Australia
Former Test opener Chris Rogers will become Australia’s new high-performance batting coach after impressing in youth mentor roles. The 40-year-old, who scored five centuries during his 25-Test career, will join the Brisbane-based national performance program on a three-year contract that begins in May.
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He replaces 21-Test batsman Matthew Elliot, who was only appointed to the post in February 2017. Rogers most recently was an assistant coach for Australia’s Under-19 World Cup team and has previously held coaching roles for Cricket Australia XI teams and English county club Somerset.
“Chris brings thoughtfulness, persistence and passion to the role and combines this with a strong intellect,” Cricket Australia team performance general manager Pat Howard said.
Source :- theguardian
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He replaces 21-Test batsman Matthew Elliot, who was only appointed to the post in February 2017. Rogers most recently was an assistant coach for Australia’s Under-19 World Cup team and has previously held coaching roles for Cricket Australia XI teams and English county club Somerset.
“Chris brings thoughtfulness, persistence and passion to the role and combines this with a strong intellect,” Cricket Australia team performance general manager Pat Howard said.
Source :- theguardian
Tottenham apologise for survey asking if ‘a woman’s place is in the home’
Tottenham have apologised after a “wholly unacceptable” question asking whether “a woman’s place is in the home” found its way into a survey sent to fans in the United States.
Posts on social media emerged from Spurs supporters in the US revealing they had received a club email on Tuesday with the subject heading: “Calling all US Spurs fans: tell us what you think.”
A screen-grab of the email, complete with a club crest at the top, said: “We have an ongoing commitment to learn more about the specific requirements of our loyal fans and everyone who interacts with the club. Therefore, we’re seeking your help to increase our understanding of what you think about Spurs and football/sport in general.”
Source :- theguardian
Posts on social media emerged from Spurs supporters in the US revealing they had received a club email on Tuesday with the subject heading: “Calling all US Spurs fans: tell us what you think.”
A screen-grab of the email, complete with a club crest at the top, said: “We have an ongoing commitment to learn more about the specific requirements of our loyal fans and everyone who interacts with the club. Therefore, we’re seeking your help to increase our understanding of what you think about Spurs and football/sport in general.”
Source :- theguardian
Football transfer rumours: Jack Wilshere and Phil Jones to Everton?
Everton are hoping to give Jack Wilshere a pair of tracksuit bottoms with huge pockets so that he can trouser a better weekly wage than he is being offered at Arsenal to come and join the second coming of the Toffees’ revamp next season. And the word is that he’ll be joined by Manchester United’s human wrecking ball, Phil Jones, a player so prone to injuring himself and others that he’ll be sure to wipe out Wilshere in their first training session. But any move for Jones would probably be dependent on Sam Allardyce staying at the club, as the man who gave Jones his professional debut at Blackburn is keen to make the centre-back his key summer signing in a rebuilt spine featuring Jamie Vardy in attack.
Source :- theguardian
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West Ham vow to give life bans to fans who invaded pitch or threw missiles
West Ham have vowed to issue life bans to the fans who invaded the pitch during Saturday’s 3-0 defeat by Burnley.
The Premier League match at the London Stadium was marred by four separate pitch invasions as well as protests against the club’s board as hundreds of supporters congregated beneath the directors’ box. The joint-owners David Gold and David Sullivan were advised to leave their seats for their own safety, with the latter having been struck on his glasses by a coin.
A West Ham statement said: “The club is working in close conjunction with the Metropolitan police to identify those individuals who entered the pitch during the second half and … to identify those who threw missiles. Any individual found guilty will be banned from attending any West Ham United fixture, home and away, for life and the club will request the courts serve a banning order to prevent these individuals attending any football matches in the future.”
Source :- theguardian
The Premier League match at the London Stadium was marred by four separate pitch invasions as well as protests against the club’s board as hundreds of supporters congregated beneath the directors’ box. The joint-owners David Gold and David Sullivan were advised to leave their seats for their own safety, with the latter having been struck on his glasses by a coin.
A West Ham statement said: “The club is working in close conjunction with the Metropolitan police to identify those individuals who entered the pitch during the second half and … to identify those who threw missiles. Any individual found guilty will be banned from attending any West Ham United fixture, home and away, for life and the club will request the courts serve a banning order to prevent these individuals attending any football matches in the future.”
Source :- theguardian
Which football clubs are named after political leaders?
When our readers come through, they really come through. Sit back and watch the answers to this one roll in, kicked off by Philip Farrell, who has a number of suggestions.
“French medieval hero and Saint Joan of Arc is memorialised in the name of ASC Jeanne d’Arc, from Senegal,” he writes. “Spartacus was a legendary gladiator and slave turned rebel who was born in what is now Bulgaria and was an important character in the history of the Roman Republic. Yet, a host of clubs outside Italy and Bulgaria share his name, Spartak.
Source :- theguardian
“French medieval hero and Saint Joan of Arc is memorialised in the name of ASC Jeanne d’Arc, from Senegal,” he writes. “Spartacus was a legendary gladiator and slave turned rebel who was born in what is now Bulgaria and was an important character in the history of the Roman Republic. Yet, a host of clubs outside Italy and Bulgaria share his name, Spartak.
Source :- theguardian
Accrington Stanley defying all logic to sit top of League Two? Exactly
If the league was based on budgets, we’d be relegated at the start of every season,” says the Accrington Stanley midfielder Sean McConville. As it is, though, the Lancashire club, with 10 games to play, are on course for an overdue promotion to League One after missing out on goal difference on the final day of the season in 2016. Last year it was a case of too little, too late.
On the first day of pre-season before this campaign John Coleman sat his squad down, plus the kit man, chief executive and other non-playing staff, to set the bar high, with automatic promotion the explicit target. After a December dip Accrington’s form since Christmas, with 11 wins from their past 13 matches, has accelerated them to the summit of League Two
Source :- theguardian
On the first day of pre-season before this campaign John Coleman sat his squad down, plus the kit man, chief executive and other non-playing staff, to set the bar high, with automatic promotion the explicit target. After a December dip Accrington’s form since Christmas, with 11 wins from their past 13 matches, has accelerated them to the summit of League Two
Source :- theguardian
Jamie Carragher suspended by Sky until end of season over spitting incident
Jamie Carragher has been suspended from his job as a Sky Sports football pundit until at least the end of the season after he was filmed spitting into a car.
The broadcaster is considering how it can offer a route back on to the channel for the former Liverpool defender after what he described as a “moment of madness”.
Footage shows him being taunted through the open window of his car while driving away from Old Trafford stadium after Manchester United’s victory against Liverpool. He reacts by spitting towards Andy Hughes, who had been delivering the taunts, but the spit hit Hughes’s 14-year-old daughter.
Source :- theguardian
The broadcaster is considering how it can offer a route back on to the channel for the former Liverpool defender after what he described as a “moment of madness”.
Footage shows him being taunted through the open window of his car while driving away from Old Trafford stadium after Manchester United’s victory against Liverpool. He reacts by spitting towards Andy Hughes, who had been delivering the taunts, but the spit hit Hughes’s 14-year-old daughter.
Source :- theguardian
The outsiders who deserve England call-ups – and the regulars who don't
Injury to Tom Heaton threatened to derail Burnley’s campaign but stand-in keeper Nick Pope has been pivotal to their success this season, helping them achieve the fourth best defensive record in the division. The 25-year-old boasts the second best save success rate in the Premier League (77.5%) behind David de Gea (80.2%), with no other English keeper reaching 70%. Moreover, a clean sheet at West Ham last time out was his 10th of the season; Jordan Pickford, Jack Butland and Joe Hart have managed just 15 between them.
Source :- theguardian
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Britain's Menna Fitzpatrick wins her third medal at Winter Paralympics
On a day with 36 medals up for grabs, Team GB’s Menna Fitzpatrick and Jen Kehoe won silver in the women’s visually impaired giant slalom, finishing behind Slovakia’s Henrieta Farkasova and Natalia Subrtova, who took their fourth gold of the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
After the race Fitzpatrick said: “It felt absolutely amazing, you can really feel the acceleration from your skis and your bodies driving you forward. It just doesn’t sink in. When we get to celebrate we’ll have a chance to realise what we’ve done, our families have done all the celebrating for us so far.”
The silver was their third medal of the Games, adding to their super combined silver and super-G bronze.
Team GB’s Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Gary Smith, narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fifth. A disappointed Gallagher, a gold medal winner at Sochi 2014, said: “I think there is more in us but I definitely set out with the intentions to work really hard, which I did, and overall it went quite well. It’s hard to want something and for it then not to work out for you but I suppose having that resilience is really what these Games are about.”
Source :- theguardian
After the race Fitzpatrick said: “It felt absolutely amazing, you can really feel the acceleration from your skis and your bodies driving you forward. It just doesn’t sink in. When we get to celebrate we’ll have a chance to realise what we’ve done, our families have done all the celebrating for us so far.”
The silver was their third medal of the Games, adding to their super combined silver and super-G bronze.
Team GB’s Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Gary Smith, narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fifth. A disappointed Gallagher, a gold medal winner at Sochi 2014, said: “I think there is more in us but I definitely set out with the intentions to work really hard, which I did, and overall it went quite well. It’s hard to want something and for it then not to work out for you but I suppose having that resilience is really what these Games are about.”
Source :- theguardian
José Mourinho or Donald Trump: who said it?
On God: “He must really think I’m a great guy. He must think that, because otherwise he would not have given me so much. I have a great family. I work in a place where I’ve always dreamt of working”
On humility: “I think I am, actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand”
On media criticism: "Look at the way I’ve been treated lately, especially by the media … you can’t let them get you down. I guess that’s why we won”
On having nothing to say: “I have nothing, nothing to say. Nothing, nothing to say. Nothing to say, I have nothing to say. Nothing to say, I am so sorry, I have nothing to say”
On success: “If he is right and I am afraid of failure it is because I didn’t fail many times”
On being loved: "People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me"
Source :- theguardian
On humility: “I think I am, actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand”
On media criticism: "Look at the way I’ve been treated lately, especially by the media … you can’t let them get you down. I guess that’s why we won”
On having nothing to say: “I have nothing, nothing to say. Nothing, nothing to say. Nothing to say, I have nothing to say. Nothing to say, I am so sorry, I have nothing to say”
On success: “If he is right and I am afraid of failure it is because I didn’t fail many times”
On being loved: "People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me"
Source :- theguardian
FCC cricket podcast: Ish Sodhi on violent leg-spin and giving TED talks
Freelance Cricket Club has been away for a little while – don’t worry, it’s not artistic differences – but we are making our return from New Zealand with a chat with the Black Caps spinner Ish Sodhi.
Sodhi is not your average cricketer. For starters, he’s a leg-spinner, but not many of them can claim to have had their hair cut in the seat next to Anil Kumble (Sodhi’s hero) or have given a TED Talk on their journey into the game.
Sodhi was born in India before growing up in south Auckland and his route to leg-spin was slow and rambling. He began bowling fast, then met Dipak Patel, the former New Zealand spinner, aged 10 and took up “violent leg-spin”.
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He first played for New Zealand back in October 2013 aged 20, having been
Source :- theguardian
Sodhi is not your average cricketer. For starters, he’s a leg-spinner, but not many of them can claim to have had their hair cut in the seat next to Anil Kumble (Sodhi’s hero) or have given a TED Talk on their journey into the game.
Sodhi was born in India before growing up in south Auckland and his route to leg-spin was slow and rambling. He began bowling fast, then met Dipak Patel, the former New Zealand spinner, aged 10 and took up “violent leg-spin”.
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He first played for New Zealand back in October 2013 aged 20, having been
Source :- theguardian
England look to future with Mark Wood new-ball role but struggle in warmup
Mark Wood emerged from a chastening experience in Hamilton against a New Zealand XI reassured that he is being primed for a lead role in England’s future.
Wood conceded more than four an over at Seddon Park, where centuries from the New Zealand Test discard Tom Blundell and the unheralded tailender Kyle Jamieson gave England the runaround on day one of their pink-ball warmup match. Yet England’s fastest bowler knew before the start of play that his standing is high with the captain, Joe Root, who informed him the previous evening that he would take the new ball alongside Jimmy Anderson.
The reason for Wood’s elevation is significant. Anderson and Stuart Broad, with 922 Test wickets between them but also a combined age of 66, cannot go on for ever as the twin strike force that has dominated England’s attack for the past decade.
Source :- theguardian
Wood conceded more than four an over at Seddon Park, where centuries from the New Zealand Test discard Tom Blundell and the unheralded tailender Kyle Jamieson gave England the runaround on day one of their pink-ball warmup match. Yet England’s fastest bowler knew before the start of play that his standing is high with the captain, Joe Root, who informed him the previous evening that he would take the new ball alongside Jimmy Anderson.
The reason for Wood’s elevation is significant. Anderson and Stuart Broad, with 922 Test wickets between them but also a combined age of 66, cannot go on for ever as the twin strike force that has dominated England’s attack for the past decade.
Source :- theguardian
Golden Goal: Marc Overmars for Arsenal v Manchester United (1998)
The Sky Sports advert for the 1997-98 season is a masterpiece of absurd pomposity. The actor Sean Bean, the concept of keeping it real in human form, strides relentlessly towards the camera while giving a breathy speech about the meaning of football. “It’s ecstasy, anguish, joy and despair,” he says. “It’s theatre, art, war and love … It’s our religion: we do not apologise for it, we do not deny it … They’re our team, our family, our life.”
The pay-off is plea of authenticity. “Football. We know how you feel about it. Because we feel the same.”
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With the exception of the original Alive and Kicking advert, it’s probably the most memorable Sky football promo. It did its job superbly – yet it was trumped towards the end of the season by an unscripted, unofficial advert for football. There was no speech, no pulsing music, no Sean Bean – just an Arsenal fan going feral with happiness.
Source :- theguardian
The pay-off is plea of authenticity. “Football. We know how you feel about it. Because we feel the same.”
Golden Goal: Alan Smith for Arsenal v Liverpool (1989) | Nick Miller
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With the exception of the original Alive and Kicking advert, it’s probably the most memorable Sky football promo. It did its job superbly – yet it was trumped towards the end of the season by an unscripted, unofficial advert for football. There was no speech, no pulsing music, no Sean Bean – just an Arsenal fan going feral with happiness.
Source :- theguardian
Ruby Walsh has suspected broken leg after heavy fall at Cheltenham Festival
Ruby Walsh, the most successful jockey in Cheltenham Festival history, will miss the remainder of this year’s meeting and possibly the rest of the 2017-18 jumps season after aggravating a recent leg injury in a fall on the second day of the Festival meeting on Wednesday.
Walsh, who missed four months of this campaign after breaking his leg in a fall at Punchestown in November, was riding Al Boum Photo in the second race, the RSA Novice Chase. His mount hit the second-last fence and fell, and then appeared to roll on to Walsh’s leg.
Walsh was shielded from the grandstands by sightscreens as he received first aid for several minutes, and the concern of his family was clear as his father, mother and two sisters all hurried down the course towards the second-last. Walsh needed considerable support to make his way to a waiting ambulance, and was then taken to Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary to have an X-ray.
Source :- theguardian
Walsh, who missed four months of this campaign after breaking his leg in a fall at Punchestown in November, was riding Al Boum Photo in the second race, the RSA Novice Chase. His mount hit the second-last fence and fell, and then appeared to roll on to Walsh’s leg.
Walsh was shielded from the grandstands by sightscreens as he received first aid for several minutes, and the concern of his family was clear as his father, mother and two sisters all hurried down the course towards the second-last. Walsh needed considerable support to make his way to a waiting ambulance, and was then taken to Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary to have an X-ray.
Source :- theguardian
Tiger Woods revival ignites Masters buildup but glory may have to wait
Bookmakers are apparently revelling in these fevered times for golf. By Monday afternoon, the only absent bulletin was the price for Tiger Woods to walk unassisted on Rae’s Creek when taking to the 12th green during his first round at the Masters. That may be in the post.
Woods’s surpassing of expectations has been timely. With the first major of the year, the Masters, only three weeks away, the 42-year-old finds himself listed among the second favourites to prevail. Woods can be backed at shorter odds than Sergio García, the defending champion, Justin Rose, a modern day Augusta specialist, and Bubba Watson, a double winner in the past six years.
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As recently as September Woods admitted he was unsure whether he could ever play competitive golf again as back issues refused to subside. Now he is fuelling a spike in television ratings which only serves to endorse his value to a sport that occasionally grasps desperately for relevance.
Source :- theguardian
Woods’s surpassing of expectations has been timely. With the first major of the year, the Masters, only three weeks away, the 42-year-old finds himself listed among the second favourites to prevail. Woods can be backed at shorter odds than Sergio García, the defending champion, Justin Rose, a modern day Augusta specialist, and Bubba Watson, a double winner in the past six years.
How US golf fans finally fell in love with Tiger Woods | Ewan Murray
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As recently as September Woods admitted he was unsure whether he could ever play competitive golf again as back issues refused to subside. Now he is fuelling a spike in television ratings which only serves to endorse his value to a sport that occasionally grasps desperately for relevance.
Source :- theguardian
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