La police ne sait pas pourquoi ces enfants sont soudainement partis à l’aventure. Samedi 13 juillet, un garçon de 14 ans, deux filles de 13 ans et une fillette de 10 ans ont fait main basse sur un 4×4 et se sont lancés dans une odyssée délinquante à travers l’Australie. Partis de Rockhampton, dans l’Etat du Queensland, dans l’est du pays, ils ont été arrêtés à 1 000 kilomètres plus au sud, à Grafton, en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, ville dont l’un d’eux est originaire, a indiqué la police, lundi 15 juillet.   “Je ne peux pas m’imaginer qu’une seule personne ait conduit toute cette distance en deux jours”, a déclaré à la presse le commandant Darren Williams, ajoutant qu’il était vraisemblable que les jeunes adolescents se soient partagé la tâche. Les enfants sont sains et saufs, a-t-il ajouté. La voiture d’un des parents et de l’argent liquideLes enfants ont volé la voiture de l’un de leurs parents et embarqué argent liquide et cannes à pêche avant de partir à l’aventure. L’un d’eux avait laissé à ses parents un mot pour expliquer leur projet.Le véhicule a été repéré tôt dimanche dans la localité rurale de Banana, où les enfants auraient dérobé du carburant avant de continuer leur voyage vers le sud, a précisé la police du Queensland. Le 4×4 a été découvert dans la soirée près de Grafton, à environ onze heures de route du point de départ.D’après les enquêteurs de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, les officiers ont dû forcer les portes du véhicule car les enfants refusaient de leur ouvrir. “Ils s’étaient enfermés dans la voiture et la police a dû se servir d’une matraque pour entrer dans le véhicule et les arrêter”, a déclaré le commandant Darren Williams.Les policiers enquêtent sur toute une série de délits qui auraient été commis pendant le trajet. 

Ministers to discuss asylum proposals

Commission seeks to simplify procedures; Romania and Bulgaria also on the agenda.

The interior ministers of the European Union’s member states will meet in Luxembourg next week (9 June) to discuss the Union’s migration and asylum policy, before national leaders address the topic at a summit on 23-24 June. 

They will hold an initial discussion on revised asylum proposals scheduled for adoption by the European Commission today (1 June), but major decisions are expected ahead of the leaders’ summit.

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The Commission’s revisions to the draft directives on asylum procedures and reception conditions are aimed at simplifying the standards they set and reducing the additional cost for member states, the two issues that had prompted opposition in the Council of Ministers. Progress on the two proposals – originally submitted in 2008 and 2009 – is important as a step towards creating a Common European Asylum System by the end of next year, the goal agreed by member states and the Commission.

Other elements of the asylum system are still far from being resolved. They include revisions to the Dublin II regulation, which requires that asylum-seekers be sent back to the country through which they entered the EU. Greece, Italy and Malta want the provision to be suspended in migration emergencies, a move opposed by the other member states. An EU official said that an overall compromise was more likely now that all the revised proposals were on the table.

The ministers will also review outstanding questions on revisions to the regulation of Frontex, the EU’s border management agency. Proposals for a pool of national border guards remain controversial, and member states have yet to agree on whether secondments of national experts to Frontex will be voluntary or mandatory. Talks between the European Parliament and the member states began in April, and both sides are hoping for an agreement before the summer.

Schengen readiness

The interior ministers are expected to approve positive reports on the technical readiness of Bulgaria and Romania to join the Schengen area of passport-free travel. Hungary, the current holder of the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers, hopes that the two countries can join Schengen once political difficulties raised by France and Germany have been overcome. This would probably be next year at the earliest, but a date later this year has not been ruled out.

France and Germany lead a group of member states with concerns that Bulgaria and Romania have yet to achieve full control of their borders, and over the land-bridge that their entry would create between Greece and the rest of the Schengen zone.

Greece is still struggling to secure its land and sea borders and is receiving assistance from Frontex.

A senior member state diplomat said: “Greece is the problem. Until the Greek problem is solved, Bulgaria and Romania will not join Schengen.”

Reding wants to limit use of European arrest warrant

Commission wants to prevent that legal systems get clogged up with minor crimes.

Member states ought to discipline local prosecutors who issue European arrest warrants for petty crimes, according to a report scheduled for adoption by the European Commission next week (11 April). The report found that many member states issue European arrest warrants without checks on proportionality. As a result, the system is clogged with extradition requests for minor crimes, such as possession of small quantities of prohibited substances or minor thefts. 

Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, is spearheading the call for greater discipline. Her report requests member states to adhere to guidelines on proportionality from the EU’s Council of Ministers, which were amended last year to suggest less coercive alternatives, such as using the Schengen Information System to establish a suspect’s place of residence. It also calls for better data collection by member states.

The warrant system, designed to check serious crime and terrorism, speeds up extradition of criminal suspects or sentenced criminals from one member state to another, with limited possibility for appeal. It has cut the average extradition time to 16 days in cases where the suspect consents, and to 48 days in other cases. Since European arrest warrants were first issued in 2004, their use has grown rapidly. More than 1,000 are currently issued every month.

“Grave and avoidable cases of injustice” are arising, according to pressure groups such as UK-based Fair Trials International. Catherine Heard, its director of policy, said: “Europe is now waking up to the need for proportionality in the use of the warrant.” She considers Reding’s pledges to strengthen procedural rights of suspects and accused persons inadequate: legislative change is required to remedy the problems with the arrest warrant, insists Heard.

Because Reding is not yet empowered to launch infringement procedures against recalcitrant member states – the system was established in 2002 by a Council framework decision – she is restricted at present to appealing to national governments. But under the Lisbon treaty, these decisions will come under the Commission’s authority from 2014. An official suggested that the Commission will consider launching infringement procedures if member states have not adjusted their use of the system by then.

Claude Moraes, a UK centre-left MEP, said that the Socialists and Democrats group in the Parliament was “100% behind Reding” on the proportionality test. “We need to solve the problem of real injustices based on trivial events that wreck the credibility of the whole system,” he said. “We are desperate for some kind of analysis and rectification to bring the European arrest warrant back to what it’s supposed to do.” But he also warned against “cosmetic” changes and said that the system had been “patched up time and again with procedural guarantees” that had failed to tackle the underlying problem.

A decision by Ireland’s High Court last month highlighted another of the pecularities to which the system has given rise. The court ordered the surrender of an Irish citizen wanted by the French authorities for the alleged murder of a French national. The violent death happened in Ireland but the Irish authorities had decided against prosecuting the suspect. Until the European arrest warrant was introduced, member states as a rule did not extradite their own nationals to another member state, but the system makes their extradition mandatory under most conditions.

Next week’s report, which runs to around 200 pages, is the third Commission report on the implementation of the system. It analyses relevant legal developments in each of the EU’s 27 member states.

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With football across the globe in lockdown, players and clubs are doing their bit to help the fight against the pandemic

Robert Lewandowski and his wife Anna followed Bayern Munich stars Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich in making a donation towards the fight against coronavirus, pledging €1 million to charity.

Goretzka and Kimmich set up a fund called ‘We Kick Corona’, to which they made a joint donation of €1m and urged others to give what they can to aid the fight against the pandemic.

After making an equal donation, the Lewandowskis told Bild they hoped life would soon return to normal.

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“We are all aware of the difficult situation around us,” they said.

“Today we all play as a team. Let us be strong in this fight. If we can help someone, do it.

“This situation affects all of us, so we ask that you follow the instructions and listen to those who are most aware. Show responsibility!

“We believe that we will soon return to our normal life. We are in this situation together and we are through it together.”

We Kick Corona is inviting charities and social institutions to apply for funds from the €2.5m it has raised, and Kimmich echoed Lewandowski’s call for solidarity.

“Everyone can help, both in small and large ways,” said Germany international Kimmich.

“Only if we stand together now, show reason and responsibility and are there for each other can we make it out of this crisis.”

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A number of players and clubs across Europe have taken steps to try and help others through the coronavirus crisis, which has seen sport shut down all over the world in order to limit its spread.

Chelsea winger Christian Pulisic, along with USMNT team-mates Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams, have donated to the Feeding America charity, which helps feed the huge number of Americans who are struggling in such trying times.

In Germany, Borussia Dortmund’s ‘Sudtribune Dortmund’ fan group said it would be providing help by offering to deliver shopping and other courier services to those affected by Covid-19 in the Dortmund area.

Meanwhile in the Premier League, Chelsea have announced that the Millennium Hotel at Stamford Bridge will be used for accommodation for National Health Service staff in west London.

Former Arsenal defender Justin Hoyte has recalled the moment Cesc Fabregas threw a pizza at Sir Alex Ferguson.

Fabregas had long been considered the culprit in the infamous incident labelled ‘Pizzagate’ after a heated game between Arsenal and Manchester United in October 2004 and the midfielder finally came clean in 2017 that it was him that chucked the food.

United ended Arsenal’s 49-game unbeaten Premier League run with a 2-0 victory, after which players and coaching staff clashed in the tunnel.

Ferguson was hit in the face by a pizza during the fracas and Hoyte – who is now playing football in the United States for Miami Beach Club de Futbol – has told the story from his point of view.

“It kicked off,” Hoyte told Goal. “We always had the rivalry with United, those games were always so intense.

“I saw the pizza, but I didn’t see it hit him [Ferguson]. I just remember looking at everyone’s reactions after it happened because no-one could believe it.

“Everyone was just like, ‘wow someone has just thrown a pizza’.

“Obviously no-one expected that to happen because no-one has thrown pizza before at anyone.

“But all the emotions were just coming out. Everyone was going back and forwards with each other and then security was in there.

“Everyone blamed Ashley Cole at the time, but it wasn’t even him.

“We all knew [it was Fabregas] but no-one said anything really because there wasn’t much to say.

“It was just more that everyone was disappointed about losing rather than the pizza being thrown.

“We were just disappointed we’d lost, but everyone was laughing about it afterwards.”

 

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If I could turn back time
As things are going to be quiet for a while, a question for the mailbox. If you could change one result as a neutral what would you choose? I would have loved Newcastle to have won the league title in 1996/96 so if they had beaten a Schmeichel-inspired United instead of losing 1-0, I think they’d have done it. More specifically though, I’d have to say Arsenal losing to Barcelona in the Champions League in 2006. A wonderful team that deserved more and was more than capable of beating them. How about you guys?
(Anyone else watch that marble race on video?) Alex, London

 

Cole off the line
As we find ourselves in the cold, unfeeling grasp of a global pandemic, I find warmth in the luxurious afterglow of Arsenal of the early noughties. Whilst basking on this warm and fuzzy I was struck by a thought, has there ever been a better proponent of the goal line clearance than Ashley Cole? He had an uncanny ability to cut short the ecstasy of opposing players and fans with vital touches at the most vital moments. Having done no research whatsoever I immediately proclaim the Arsenal edition of Ashley Cole as the Supreme Master of goal line clearances, lesser mortals may apply for subordinate ranks.
JF, Cape Town

 

Wales v Scotland
Bloody hell guys, I think the social isolation has sent you a bit bananas.

You reckon that wales team would beat the flowers of Scotland? Granted that welsh midfield looks very decent but they’ve got a defence of Davies, Gunter, Williams and Collins. That wouldn’t survive a season in the premier league.

With Gary mac and wee Gordie (that’s what they’d call him isn’t it, I’m from Essex, I haven’t got a clue) bossing the midfield i think it’s the Scots game all day long. Steve Clark and Robertson keeping the welsh wing wizards quiet? Sparky and braveheart would be a hell of a battle.

Cheers
Andrew, Woodford green

 

In love with Smudge
Alan, in quarantine in Córdoba asked yesterday about players who weren’t great but us readers still loved anyway, well if we were talking club football I would probably choose Chelsea’s Tiago or Maniche, must have been their long hair because I do not remember them doing anything for Chelsea other than probably scoring a wonder goal, or Fulham’s Facundo Sava, a player more famous for wearing a mask when he scored a goal but he wasn’t the most prolific goalscorer for his club, not till he moved to La Liga, that mask alone though, that is why I will always love that guy, but Alan said International so naturally that would be England for myself, well the one that comes to mind would be Alan Smith.

Many could argue that Alan Smith was a decent player, now for me he never truly lived up to the full potential he had when at Leeds, this I still believe is because when he moved to Manchester United he was transitioned into a midfielder and suffered such a terrible leg break which ruled him out for a long time, but to me I have always loved the one they called Smudge, I truly hope we see him back on either the touchline as a coach or on our TV screens in some form.
Mikey, CFC

 

How to finish the season

“Of course they deserve the title but it really doesn’t matter… It does not matter.” – Anonymous Guy in the comments under Rooney’s article.

Absolutely agreed: it does not matter. Football and all other non-essential activity have been postponed indefinitely, as is right and proper, and at this moment nothing matters more than the steps we take – which are completely within our power – to prevent as many people falling victim to this as we can. Stay at home. Look out for your neighbours from a safe distance. Buy only what you need from the supermarket and encourage others to do the same (but not by being a self-righteous prick on social media – try and encourage in a way that will actually work, rather than a way that will confirm to all your friends and followers how great you are). Then, once you have ticked all these boxes (by which time you’ll be in the house, with either time on your hands or work from home to avoid), think of ways to keep yourself busy, content in the knowledge that in doing so, you are actually doing your bit. If it helps you stay isolated, then think about topics that interest you. One of the topics that interests me is football. Another thing I quite like is opining and whingeing. Therefore, what I’ll do while locked up at home is write a mail to my favourite football website, opining and whingeing about that very topic. It is not important that I do this, but it’s better than inviting all may mates round for a prohibition style booze-up in my living room and having that descend into a wrestle or a game of spin the bottle. Because I swore last time: never again.

“If they are awarded it, it will be meaningless. Best call the whole thing off” – Another Guy, also in the comments under Rooney’s article.

So now my mind wanders again to the most current debate relating to my topic of interest. I read an article on the subject, then scan the comments underneath said article, and am presented with what I consider to be a glaringly obvious false dichotomy. “If they are awarded it, it will be meaningless.” Agreed. No team should be awarded something they have not fully achieved. So far, so good, but… “best call the whole thing off.” Ah. The only other alternative to having the title rendered meaningless, is to render the last seven months meaningless, so that when football returns, it will be as it were not at its most recent point before the outbreak of an unprecedented pandemic caused its rightful suspension – what one would surely consider its natural point of resumption – but as it were at the end of play on June 1st, 2019. Those goals you scored: they didn’t happen. Those matches you paid to go and see, or watched down the pub, and then again on Match of the Day because it made your day: didn’t take place. Those records that were broken: weren’t really. And why?

“Well, because we need to get the new season started, sharpish. We’re already late, pal!”

“But, can’t we just – I mean, there were only ten games to go, and it’s safe to play again now, so wouldn’t it make more sense to just play them out, we’ll be as quick as we can, and if we’re starting the new season late anyway, wouldn’t it be fairer to decide who starts where based on the most recent…”

“No, no, pal! You can’t wind the clock back to how the table last looked. That was five whole months ago. That’s meaningless now! Nar, you’ve got to go back FOURTEEN months. That’s the only fair thing to do.”

So it is written: until a season can be completed by May or June the following year, even if the Corona comes back next year and forces the cancellation of that season, and the season after that, the champions of England at the start of play in 2020, 2021 or 2022 will be Vincent Kompany-led Man City, Norwich are your newly promoted champions of the second-tier, and Mauricio Poccetino will have just been harshly sacked by Spurs after leading them to the Champions League final in their last recorded competitive match.

“My point was safety of fans, players, staff come 1st & if the remaining games just cannot be played the only fair & reasonable thing is to declare season null and void.” – Karen Brady.

Except there would always be a situation in which the remaining games could be played. The very fact that we accept a new season will at some point, however far in the future, be able to commence, means we therefore accept that there will be a time in which the “safety of fans, players, staff” will not be compromised by the recommencement of competitive sport.

“Who knows who would have gone down or come up if the PL/EFL games have not actually been played in full?” – Brady, one sentence later.

And it is for this reason that, as soon as it is safe for a ball to be kicked by a professional footballer in this country, it should be done so with the tables of all divisions as they were at the final whistle of the last competitive game to have been played in this country, on Monday 9th March when Leicester beat Aston Villa 4-0, Leicester looking sh*t hot again in pursuit of what could be a well-deserved Champions League place next season, and Villa looking like a big bag of sh*te destined to go straight back down if they don’t sort their sh*t out soon. When it’s safe for football to come back, we can allow these potential scenarios to play out to their completion – in as little as one month. It wouldn’t make one human being safer if the first match back after this crisis was the first match of the 2020/21 season, than it would if it were the 29th (Premiership) game of the 2019/20 season, because football itself will have been declared safe to play again. Even if there had had to have been an unplanned transfer window during the unplanned season suspension because the issues surrounding player contracts were unable to be settled, the teams taking their place at the start of the 20/21 season, whenever that were able to begin, would at least bear far more resemblance to the team who had earned it by belatedly finishing the previous one, than they would their versions of themselves in May 20 f*cking 19.
Philip J. Roberts, Liverpool

 

Further down the pyramid
As you can probably imagine, most of the the Non-League Paper this week is given over to discussing ways to end the season. As with those higher up the pyramid, those with the most to lose want everything nullified, while those with the most to gain from the current situation want that to be the end of season situation. One feature that caught my eye was a look back on how different things would have been in the past few National League seasons had been curtailed at this point.

Applying this to the Premier League – or at least stopping the season at this point – makes for interesting reading. Last season, Liverpool would have ended a 29-year wait for a league title; the year before, Southampton would have been relegated instead of Swansea City. The most drastic of all, however, is 2014-15, where Leicester City were bottom of the league and seven points adrift of Sunderland in 17th. Stopping the season on 22 March, after 29 games, would have been right before they won seven and drew one of their final nine games to end the season in phenomenal style. Without this upsurge, they would have been relegated and we (especially Foxes fans) would have been denied the most spectacular title win since Nottingham Forest in 1978.

There’s no easy solution to this. One of the appeals of football beneath the elite is that momentum is so important – every year someone makes the playoffs off a well-timed string of wins, and this is why people favour trying to complete a season, even if the final stretch would be more akin to a sprint than an endurance race.
Ed Quoththeraven

 

Nev for PM
I just want to point out to all the hater’s of GNev’s strategy of using his position of fame to go after Boris and his policies…
We across the pond have literally elected (and will most likely re-elect) a man who has a worse reputation for managing teams than the Nevster.
And all he did was criticize the previous President’s policies from afar before using his personal wealth and fame/populist message to propel himself into power.

So all I’s saying is… God Save the Queen Gary Neville 2030?
N.V.M. (It’s only funny when it happens to someone else)

 

…DL, LFC in Geneva. I’d imagine from reading your email that you’ve barely spent any time in Liverpool. Because nobody who has spent time there would have written the utter sh*te you came out with. People in Liverpool know the Tory government has form for disregarding human life. It’s simply not something they value unless you’re rich.

How dare Gary Neville use his platform to criticise the government when they’ve done a perfectly good job is the impression I got from your email. Boris can’t be blamed for his choices because this is all a bit hard to predict. Please keep in mind that we weren’t the first country to experience COVID-19. We weren’t even the first in mainland Europe.

And when we look at Boris’ choices and decisions in government we see the following:

1. Boris directly helped to bring about Brexit. Brexit has resulted in 5000 nurses leaving the NHS in the past 2 years. Those extra staff would’ve been pretty handy right now. The Tory governments actions around NHS have resulted in there being 17,000 fewer beds now than there were in 2010. Nobody else can take responsibility for this since nobody else has been in power. As a response the government is now being forced to use tax money to buy up private beds to try and make up the deficit.

2. Boris at the start of March chose to brush COVID-19 off as not a particularly big deal. He joked about shaking hands and said it was personal choice how you choose to live. Boris was, at least in part, directed by a strategy of “herd immunity” which has never previously been tested without a vaccine in place.

Now Boris hates experts and sadly I am vaguely informed on this topic since I work in the pharmacy industry and I can tell you that this is f**king stupid. The footballing equivalent is that if I stand next to David Beckham and watch him smash free kicks into the top corner for an hour then I will magically be popping them in the top bins too.

3. Whilst we watched this utter chaos unfold in other countries like Italy Boris brought in no screening of people entering the UK and, even now, the UK is testing 60% fewer people than countries like Germany. Guess what the impact of that is? Fewer people are dying of COVID-19 in Germany than in England because they are being discovered, isolated and treated. Here we are playing the magical game that if we don’t test for it then perhaps it will go away.

4. And you think Gary praises Sunak but think Boris was involved so deserves credit too. I’d argue here that Gary himself is wrong; Sunak initially shat the bed with a significantly worse stimulus package than every other country on earth and then had to come back with something better because the markets threw up on the FTSE and the Pound and he upset his rich mates. That “something better” still leaves all the self employed on their asses and living off £94 a week. That’s 5 million people living off £94 a week – some of those people might have wives and kids who are also depending on them.

I get that you want a bit of escapism – I do too and you can bet your life that the nurses and doctors working for the NHS would love a break from the norm. But please don’t sit in a fancy warm home in low tax Switzerland asking Gary not to speak up for the people who will inevitably suffer from the choices this government has made over the past 2 weeks. It reflects a total lack of awareness of the issue or perhaps you just wanted Gary to stick to football because you lack the empathy required to understand where he might be coming from. I do appreciate though that you desperately must be entertained regardless of what else is going on so I’d recommend Netflix or a book.

Jesus I miss football. Did you all know how good Liverpool were? We were amazing. Nobody really spent any time talking about it and now maybe it’s too late.
Minty, LFC

 

You’re choking
Spurs were largely labelled chokers by an assortment of fans (mostly in the comment section anyway) for losing a CL final last season. Add to that they qualified for the CL yet again ahead of bigger clubs. Surely it was something that they could never expect at the start of the season and in any world other than football trollism, it’s an overachiement. But no, they were chokers because no matter what their initial expectation was, more was made of what they didn’t make of the position they found themselves in. Which makes me wonder about something.
I hear Liverpool fans that they’ll be happy with the league title (should it be awarded) as that’s something they would’ve bitten your hands off at the start of the season, which means it was basically what they could expect or even more than that. That’s after pushing City so close to the title last season. But they’re already out of the CL and the domestic cups.
So in the post corona world, would fans everywhere term Liverpool as chokers as well because they “only” achieved one of their prime objectives?
Liverpool fans, obviously you’re not allowed to answer, so could you let others answer? Thanks. What everyone else thinks shouldn’t matter to you anyway.
Another Bored Fan

 

Return of an old favourite
Social distancing has given me much time to ponder. One thought that came to mind was how much I enjoyed old school F365 lookalikes.

So this is one from my beautiful wife (Gina, Lfc) which I can’t believe I missed:

Mo Salah = Aidan Turner, Poldark.
Aidan, Lfc (he’s even got my name and I still missed it)

 

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is set to stay at the club for another season amid uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to transfer expert Duncan Castles.

Pogba tried to force through a move to La Liga giants Real Madrid last summer, and his former club Juventus are also thought to be interested.

But Castles claims the coronavirus outbreak could cost the Frenchman his dream transfer.

With it unclear when the 2019/20 season will come to an end, Castles believes mega-money transfers are unlikely to happen between campaigns.

“Well, the sense I’m getting in general from talking to agents about the transfer market is a feeling that the big deals will not be happening, that you will not get huge increases in transfers fees, you won’t get €100million transfer fees,” Castles said on the Transfer Window podcast.

“This is not the time, that end of the market is not going to be the productive end of the market.

“It’s going to be the stronger clubs picking off the talents from the clubs that are entering financial difficulties.

“So I think it points towards another year at Manchester United for Paul Pogba.

“Since we probably won’t be playing much football in that next year at Manchester United for Paul Pogba, something pretty similar to the last year at Manchester United for Paul Pogba.”

United have been linked with former Liverpool star Philippe Coutinho as a replacement should Pogba leave Old Trafford, but European football expert Julien Laurens says a deal for the Brazilian is a non-starter.

“I guess a lot of it would depend on Paul Pogba and what is going to happen with him because if you keep Pogba and you have Bruno Fernandes, there’s no room anywhere for Coutinho,” Laurens told ESPN FC.

 

 

“Not even in a front three above Pogba and Bruno Fernandes in the midfield three because I just don’t think that would work.

“If Pogba goes and you think that maybe Coutinho can drop a bit deeper and play in the midfield three, then that may work.

“But even as a front-three player, wide on the left or wide on the right, I still don’t think that’s his best position.

“For me a team has to be built around him and has to play for Coutinho all the time.

“That’s where I thought he was so good at Liverpool, because he was involved in everything

“I’m not sure with Bruno Fernandes being in the form he is in now, and you can expect him to get better and better for next season with United, that Coutinho has a role in that team if Bruno is there at that kind of level.”

 

A croire que la France adore Robin Wright Penn… et qu’elle le lui rend bien. En mai dernier, elle était membre du jury du festival de Cannes, sous la direction d’Isabelle Huppert. Un été (et une nouvelle procédure de divorce) plus tard, la revoici en Normandie: le 35e festival du cinéma américain honore la blonde comédienne qui débuta il y a 25 ans dans Santa Barbara.

Dans un festival peut-être plus qu’ailleurs, la rumeur se propage à une vitesse folle. Celle-ci affirmait que Robin Wright Penn arriverait juste à temps pour assister à la projection du film Les Vies Privées de Pippa Lee, dont elle est l’héroïne, présenté jeudi soir dans le cadre de l’hommage qui lui est rendu à Deauville. Ouf! La future-ex-épouse de Sean Penn, qui découvre la station normande, est arrivée mercredi soir et s’est installée à l’hôtel Normandy, le palace des jurys qui accueille plutôt, généralement, des personnalités françaises.

Il faut dire que la belle Américaine est à l’honneur sur les illustres planches, ce jeudi. Et en y réfléchissant, on a envie de lui demander: comment en êtes-vous arrivée là? Comment avez-vous réussi à faire oublier la Kelly Capwell de Santa Barbara qui, trois années durant, s’occupa, comme elle le reconnut plus tard, à «rendre des inepties crédibles»?

Cette ligne est définitivement effacée de son CV, désormais, comme en témoigne la biographie publiée dans le dossier de presse du festival de Deauville et qui fait débuter sa filmo en 1986–1987 avec notamment le «film devenu culte» de Rob Reiner, Princess Bride: c’est bien le rôle de Bouton d’or qui lançât sa carrière. Puis il y aura Les Anges de la Nuit, où elle «retrouve» Sean Penn, rencontré quelques années plus tôt dans un bar. A la fin du tournage, les deux tourtereaux filent le parfait amour dont naît en 1991 leur fille Dylan, et deux ans plus tard Hopper, leur fils. Enceinte de ce dernier, Robin Wright (qui ne s’appelle pas encore Penn), refuse notamment La Firme.

La suite de son parcours oscille entre des films d’auteur, notamment She’s So Lovely (1996) où elle partage l’affiche avec celui qui est désormais son mari, et des productions plus importantes, Forrest Gump («Cours, Forrest!» c’est elle) Incassable, Panique à Hollywood et bientôt The Christmas Carol.

A Deauville, elle présente Les Vies Privées de Pippa Lee, le troisième film de la réalisatrice Rebecca Miller, la fille de l’écrivain Arthur Miller et l’épouse de Daniel Day-Lewis. Robin Wright Penn incarne une femme mariée à un éditeur de trente ans son aîné, qui plonge dans une crise existentielle lorsqu’ils quittent New York pour une banlieue «de vieux». Elle replonge alors dans son passé, trouble, gamine étouffée par une mère accro aux médicaments. Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) est étonnante dans le rôle de Pippa adolescente et jeune femme, et le tandem qu’elle forme avec Robin Wright Penn fonctionne à merveille. Autour d’elles, un casting époustouflant qui convoque Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore, Maria Bello, Wynona Ryder et Monica Bellucci, chacun dans des rôles beaucoup moins nuancés que ceux des deux héroïnes. Ce qui met d’autant plus en lumière le double parcours (les flashbacks sur sa vie et son trajet intérieur) de cette Pippa Lee terriblement attachante. Le film, déjà présenté à Berlin en février, sortira le 11 novembre en France.

D’ici là, le public français aura fait plus ample connaissance avec la douce Robin Wright Penn, de passage pour deux toutes petites journées à Deauville, où elle enchaîne conférence de presse, interviews et hommage avant de dîner avec le maire de Deauville Philippe Augier: chanceux!

A Deauville, Juliette Serfati

Jeudi 10 septembre 2009

A suivre sur Gala.fr: Robin Wright Penn en vidéo, des extraits des Vies Privées de Pippa Lee

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