Month: October 2019

After the 3-0 loss to Tottenham on Monday night, the Red Devils boss accepted that he was unsure about his side’s best defence

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho admits he is unsure what his best back four is after a tough start to the Premier League season.

Mourinho is under fire after United suffered a second loss in three league games with their 3-0 defeat to Tottenham at Old Trafford on Monday.

Lucas Moura struck twice for the visitors in the second half, with Harry Kane’s header opening the scoring after what had been an even first 45 minutes.

The result has seen Mourinho’s future come into question, with the Portuguese demanding more respect as he stormed out of his post-match press conference.

The former Real Madrid and Chelsea boss is yet to start with the same defence in any two games this campaign, with only left-back Luke Shaw appearing in all three matches.

Mourinho decided to use midfielder Ander Herrera in a defensive role in the defeat to Spurs, while Victor Lindelof came off the bench to replace Phil Jones and almost gifted Tottenham a goal with a short backpass.

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Asked after the game if he knew what his best defence was, Mourinho accepted he was unsure.

“Why not? Because in the first game [it was Victor] Lindelof and [Eric] Bailly,” he said.

“Today played [Phil] Jones and [Chris] Smalling, but now Jones is injured, and next match it will be Smalling, with another one.

“When Marcos Rojo comes he will be an option, and no, I don’t know my best back four.”

United will look to bounce back from two consecutive defeats when they take on Burnley on Sunday.

The right-back was City’s main threat from defence last season but has had his role tweaked as a result of Mendy’s return from injury

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Kyle Walker has revealed that his role at Manchester City this season has had to be tweaked to accommodate the return of Benjamin Mendy.

The England international made 32 Premier League appearances last season under Pep Guardiola and was the club’s most attacking threat from defence, registering six assists across the 2017-18 campaign.

Walker was integral to City’s success and was named in the PFA Premier League Team of they Year for a second consecutive season.

This year, however, with Mendy returning from a serious knee injury and Walker getting older, the 28-year-old says Guardiola is asking for something slightly different from him at right-back.

“My role is a little bit different, where I am tucking in a little bit more and trying to control people,” Walker told Manchester Evening News.

“I still have the licence to go forward, but now I’m getting older it’s probably more about picking and choosing my runs, rather than up and down the wings as I was at Tottenham!”

Both Walker and Mendy arrived in Manchester during last summer’s transfer window, the former in a deal worth £47 million ($61m) and the latter slightly more expensive at £52m ($67m).

Mendy suffered ligament damage against Crystal Palace in September 2017 which limited the France international to just four starts and three substitute appearances in the English top flight last term.

Having made good progress at the back end of City’s title-winning campaign, though, and helped France to the World Cup trophy in the summer, Mendy is yet to miss a minute of league football this season.

Mendy was the provider for both of City’s goals in their 2-0 opening-day victory over Arsenal at the Emirates before adding another to his tally in the club’s 6-1 thrashing of Huddersfield in Matchday Two.

The 24-year-old kept his place in the team for City’s visit to Wolves, with Walker his opposite number on the right of Guardiola’s back four.

City host Newcastle in their next fixture before Fulham visit the Etihad Stadium on September 15.

A lot of fans have been confused by the Spurs star’s celebration, but our tutorial should help you learn how to it and impress your mates

It’s the celebration everyone is doing – or at least trying to do! Dele Alli has gotten football fans in Britain and all over the world contorting their fingers and hands to try to replicate his new celebration, in a viral craze known as the Dele Alli Challenge.

Spurs and England attacker Alli introduced the world to his new celebration on the opening weekend of the 2018-19 Premier League season, making the gesture with his hand after finding the net against Newcastle.

Since then, footballers and supporters have attempted to reproduce the celebration, with many frustrated fans poking themselves in the eye as they try to figure out the complexities behind what looks like a simple trick.

Want to impress your mates by pulling off a perfect Dele Alli Challenge manoeuvre? Follow our tips and tricks below!

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The best way to learn how to do the Dele Alli Challenge is to look at other people doing it and see how they position their hands. If you search on Twitter or Instagram, you’ll find photos and videos of celebrities attempting to do it – not just footballers, but other personalities such as pop singer Olly Murs, Soccer AM’s Smithy and Sky Sports’ Michelle Owen.

But whatever you do, don’t try to replicate Manchester United midfielder Fred, who clearly has no idea what he’s doing despite most of his Red Devils team-mates easily figuring out the trick.

Start off by making the ‘OK’ symbol with your thumb and index finger creating an ‘O’ and the remainder of your fingers pointing upwards.

Move the ‘O’ part by folding your three fingers, putting your index finger and thumb at the top – so that the ‘O’ has slid to the other side.

Flip over your hand and place against your eye and forehead. If you’ve done it correctly, you’ve completed the Dele Alli Challenge.

So, to summarise:

The only thing to do now is take a photo or video and put it on your social media accounts with the hashtag #DeleChallenge!

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Not content with making us all contort our fingers and hands with the original celebration, Alli has taken things a step further by bringing a new challenge to the masses.

Started by Twitter user Lexi Ceballos, the new finger movement is much more difficult than the original and is done via either wizardry or having really flexible fingers. It involves making two circles to create a pair of glasses with your hand.

Alli recreated the trick on his Snapchat account, but Spurs team-mate Georges-Kevin N’Koudou struggled to get close to making the right shape with his hands.

Tottenham travel to Manchester United on Monday, where Alli could show the world his new trick if he can score at Old Trafford.

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The Japan international completed a switch to the Premier League over the summer, having previously snubbed the opportunity to link up with the Blues

Yoshinori Muto is preparing to line up against Chelsea for Newcastle, with the Japanese striker revealing that he once turned down a move to Stamford Bridge.

The 26-year-old forward arrived in Premier League football over the summer, with a £9.5 million ($12m) deal taking him to St James’ Park.

Rafa Benitez snapped up his services from Mainz, with the 2017-18 campaign having delivered a personal best return of 10 goals across all competitions.

Muto is being eased into English football by the Magpies, but he could have arrived much earlier had he taken up an offer from Chelsea while still on the books of FC Tokyo.

Explaining his decision to snub a team that has stockpiled talent over recent years only to send many youngsters out on loan, Muto told The Telegraph: “I was 22 when I got the offer from Chelsea.

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“At the time, I didn’t feel the manager of the club really wanted or needed me.

“I think they wanted to sign the young potential of players and then loan them out to help them progress. Instead of doing that, I wanted to stay at a club to help me progress.

“I wanted to feel like I could make my own progress step by step, therefore I didn’t take the opportunity.”

Having opted for an initial move to Germany after leaving his homeland, Muto has managed to work his way to the Premier League.

He could now face former suitors Chelsea on Sunday, with Newcastle looking to kick-start their 2018-19 campaign after taking one point from their opening two fixtures.

Muto added: “Of course, it is a strange feeling to play against Chelsea. They are obviously a fantastic club, really strong.

“If we can be united as a team, as one, then they are an opponent we can get a win. We really need the three points. If I contribute by scoring or assisting, it will be a fantastic weekend.”

The Red Devils have made an inconsistent start to the 2018-19 campaign, with their manager demanding an improvement against Tottenham on Monday

Jose Mourinho concedes that Manchester United are making too many costly mistakes, with “nobody happy” with an inconsistent start to the Premier League season.

The Red Devils opened their 2018-19 campaign with a 2-1 victory over Leicester, with the likes of Paul Pogba impressing in a narrow win.

United’s stand-in skipper has, however, faced criticism along with a number of team-mates after suffering a 3-2 defeat at Brighton last time out.

Mourinho admits that his side have let themselves down at times, with it vital that the collective level of performance is improved ahead of a home date with Tottenham on Monday.

He told MUTV: “You know, just looking to Leicester and Brighton. Against Leicester we didn’t make mistakes, we played well, we won. Against Brighton, we made mistakes, we paid for the mistakes and we lost.

“So, I think you look at football in a very pragmatic way, normally you get what you deserve, so if we want to win against a good team against Tottenham, we cannot make mistakes.”

Mourinho believes his United squad are ready to make amends for their Brighton setback against Spurs.

He has been impressed by the effort he has seen in training, with everyone connected with the club looking for a welcome morale-boost at Old Trafford.

The Portuguese added: “I think nobody is happy, obviously.

“But I have enough experience to know that in football you cannot look back for good results, for bad results and you have always to look to the next one. That’s our life.

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“So, I’m really happy with the work we did in the week, with the players’ commitment and I look forward for the game.

“You can look at [having to wait until Monday] from two different perspectives. By one side I would say yes [it is frustrating] but, on another side, I would say we need time to work and some time to try to recover some players from injury, so it was not bad for us.”

Starr searching for evidence with more media subpoenas

02/23/98

ARKANSAS–In early February, the Office of the Independent Counsel served subpoenas on two television stations in connection with its investigation of Monica Lewinsky’s ties to President Clinton.

Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr subpoenaed WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla., ordering the station to turn over any videotape it had showing Lewinsky during Clinton’s visit to golfer Greg Norman’s Palm Beach house in March 1996.

The station replied that it had no such tape.

Station manager Bill Peterson told the Palm Beach Daily Business Review that the station had already performed a thorough search for tape of Lewinsky even before receiving Starr’s subpoena. Peterson added, “If we had any tape we would have run it,” he said.

Starr’s office also served a subpoena on WPXI television in Pittsburgh seeking videotape of an interview with retired Secret Service officer Lewis Fox. In the interview, Fox told a reporter that Lewinsky once spent at least 40 minutes alone with Clinton while Fox was posted outside the door of the Oval Office.

Officials at the station told the Washington Post that WPXI turned the videotape over to Starr.

The most recent round of subpoenas are not Starr’s first attempts to obtain information from the media. Starr served a subpoena on ABC in September 1996 for the videotape of a Diane Sawyer interview with Whitewater defendant Susan McDougal. A federal District Court in Little Rock, Ark., in November 1996 refused to quash the subpoena, and ordered the network to release the tape.

In August 1997 Starr subpoenaed the publisher of Webster Hubbell’s forthcoming book in August 1997, seeking notes, rough drafts and financial records. The publisher asked a federal District Court in New York City to quash the subpoena, but before the court could act, the publisher and Starr struck a compromise under which only the financial records would be released.

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First Circuit affirms civil contempt order against reporter

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston upheld a lower court’s contempt finding and $1,000-per-day fine of a TV reporter who has refused to reveal the identity of a confidential source.

June 22, 2004 — A federal appeals court panel in Boston yesterday upheld a civil contempt finding against Jim Taricani, a reporter for WJAR-TV in Providence, R.I., who has refused to obey a court order to reveal the confidential source who gave him a videotape of an undercover FBI investigation.

Taricani appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston (1st Cir.) after U.S. District Court Judge Ernest C. Torres found Taricani in contempt on March 16 and ordered him to pay a $1,000-per-day fine until he revealed the identity of his source. The circuit court granted a temporary stay of the fine, pending the outcome of the appeal.

The three-judge panel — composed of Chief Judge Michael Boudin, Judge Kermit V. Lipez and Judge Jeffrey R. Howard — found that Taricani’s “First Amendment argument is an uphill one in light of the Supreme Court’s Branzburg decision.”

The 1972 decision Branzburg v. Hayes rejected a constitutionally-based privilege for reporters not to have to testimony before a grand jury investigating criminal charges. The First Circuit rejected Taricani’s argument that Branzburg should not apply outside the grand jury context, finding that “Branzburg governs in this case even though we are dealing with a special prosecutor rather than a grand jury.”

A protective order issued by Senior U.S. Judge Ronald R. Lagueux had barred the attorneys, investigators and defendants involved in the FBI investigation from releasing any of the videotapes. When Taricani received one of the tapes under a confidentiality agreement, and WJAR-TV aired it, a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the leak.

The videotape, aired by WJAR in February 2001, shows a former Providence City Hall official taking a bribe from an undercover FBI informant in a sting dubbed “Operation Plunder Dome.” Former Providence Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr. was later convicted on corruption charges and is currently serving a five-year, three-month sentence in federal prison.

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Turning to First Circuit precedent, the panel found that the leading cases in the circuit require “heightened sensitivity” to First Amendment concerns and invite a “balancing” of considerations.

However, a reporter’s confidential sources may be compelled when directly relevant to a good faith investigation or claim and alternative sources of information are not available, the panel wrote.

“In all events, in this case there is no doubt that the request to Taricani was for information highly relevant to a good faith criminal investigation; and, as already noted, that reasonable efforts were made to obtain the information elsewhere,” the panel held.

Judge Torres, of federal district court, held in an October 2003 decision that the special prosecutor’s need for the name of the source outweighed any harm to the free flow of information that might be caused by compelled disclosure.

According to a story in The Providence Journal today, Clare Eckert, vice president for advertising and promotion for WJAR, said: “We are evaluating our options as to our next step in the process. We maintain our position that if the courts can compel reporters to break their promise of confidentiality, many sources will withhold newsworthy information that is important to share with the public.”

(In re special proceedings; Media Counsel: Jonathan M. Albano, Boston, Mass.) — KM

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TV reporter found in contempt for refusing to disclose source (3/17/2004)

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New York rejects challenge to subpoena

12/14/93

NEW YORK — In late November the Court of Appeals in Albany, New York’s highest court, held 6-1 that journalists in New York generally cannot challenge subpoenas from other states in New York’s courts.

The case began when a New Jersey deputy attorney general, who was investigating an alleged college basketball point-shaving scheme at North Carolina State University, sought notes and tapes from ABC, which is based in New York.

ABC had broadcast three stories about the alleged scheme in early 1990.

Citing a reciprocal statute adopted by all states, the deputy attorney general asked a New York court to issue a subpoena ordering ABC to produce its material in New Jersey. ABC argued that the material was privileged under New Jersey’s press shield law, and asked the New York courts not to issue the requested subpoena.

The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the courts of the demanding state — not New York’s courts — should decide evidentiary questions regarding privileges.

In a footnote, however, the court said it was possible that in a future case with different facts, New York’s own public policy concerning privileges could lead to a different result. The court also said that in some cases, the media could claim that appearing in another state would cause “undue hardship.”

The ruling by the Court of Appeals will not affect the parties to this particular lawsuit, because the New Jersey grand jury that was seeking the information has ended its work.

In a sharp dissent, Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa said the court should not have taken the case because the matter was moot, and warned of the impact when “evidentiary anglers from other states troll in New York’s reservoir of media records and resources.”

(Codey v. Capital Cities, ABC, Inc.; Media Counsel: Gregory L. Diskant, New York)

South Dakota high court recognizes reporters’ privilege

11/06/95

SOUTH DAKOTA–The South Dakota Supreme Court in Pierre in mid-October for the first time recognized a qualified reporters’ privilege protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources in civil lawsuits.

The court held that a television news program did not have to reveal the anonymous sources that it relied on in a report about a judicial candidate’s past displays of public nudity and commitment to a mental hospital.

Before compelling a reporter to reveal a source, the court held, a trial court must consider whether: the reporter is a party to the case; the information goes to the heart of the lawsuit; the plaintiff has exhausted all alternative methods of obtaining the information; matters of public importance are at stake; and the statement made by the source was false.

The court ruled that Richard Hopewell, a former Sioux Falls attorney and one-time judicial candidate who sued KELO-TV for libel, failed to meet the five-factor test.

In late October 1990, the television station reported that at some time in 1978 Hopewell appeared naked at a pharmacy, attempted to rape an acquaintance’s wife, greeted churchgoers at a cathedral in the nude and was committed to a mental hospital. In a footnote, the court found that KELO’s report was “substantially true.”

The court found that a matter of great public importance was at stake because Hopewell was a judicial candidate. It also ruled that Hopewell had failed to exhaust alternative methods of identifying the sources. These considerations outweighed other factors, the court held, even though the media party asserting the privilege was a party to the case and the identity of the source was relevant to Hopewell’s efforts to prove that KELO acted with actual malice — knowledge or reckless disregard of falsity.

The court stated that its decision only applied to civil cases and observed that “in criminal proceedings, the interest of the public in law enforcement and the defendant in discovering exculpatory evidence may outweigh the journalist’s need for confidentiality.”

South Dakota is one of 21 states that does not have a shield law. (Hopewell v. Midcontinent Broadcasting Corporation; Media Counsel: Timothy Gebhart, Sioux Falls)

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NMU ARIZONA Confidentiality/Privilege Feb 28, 2001

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Judge rules reporter does not have to name confidential source

The reporter will not be compelled to identify an admitted arsonist who contacted the newspaper to defend his decision to burn a number of new homes.

A Phoenix reporter will not be compelled to reveal the identity of a self-proclaimed serial arsonist after a judge on Feb. 27 granted the newspaper’s motion to quash a grand jury subpoena.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Galati found that Phoenix New Times reporter James Hibberd was protected by the state shield law, but noted that he did not condone the reporter’s actions or the paper’s decision not to contact authorities after an exclusive interview in mid-January with the purported arsonist.

In a phone interview, New Times attorney Mike Meehan said he was satisfied with the decision. “Obviously we believe the judge correctly applied the shield law,” he said.

Meehan also said the prosecution presented “a novel argument that in the face of a shield law, which is pretty broad, that you could make an exception for anyone who could be a perpetrator of a crime.” Deputy County Attorney Paul McMurdie unsuccessfully argued that the arsonist did not qualify as a confidential source, since a crime was committed.

Hibberd also will not have to release any materials he used during the newsgathering process, including a tape-recorded phone conversation with the alleged arsonist, computer disks, or any items that may lead authorities to a group claiming responsibility for the torching of nine luxury homes in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. The prosecutor had asked that such materials be turned over.

Hibberd and the New Times entered the controversy after the weekly magazine received an anonymous letter, titled “Thou Shall Not Desecrate God’s Creation,” from the arsonist, who did not reveal his identity, on Jan. 12. A week later, the paper printed a note on its cover telling “Thou Shall Not” to call the newspaper. After the paper received numerous calls inquiring about the cryptic message, the professed arsonist finally contacted Hibberd for an interview.

Wearing a disguise to meet the reporter, the man told Hibberd that his group of mountain biker “eco-defenders” set the fires to discourage development in the area.

(In the Matter of the Appearance and Attendance Before the Grand Jury Re: James Hibberd; Media Counsel: Mike Meehan, Phoenix) — ML

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