Month: April 2020

Wayne Bridge thinks he was “harshly treated” during his time under Jose Mourinho at Chelsea and has explained why it can be “difficult” to play for the Portuguese coach.

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The former England international started off as a regular under Mourinho at Chelsea but a serious ankle injury picked up in February 2005 saw him struggle to win his place back over the following 12 months.

A short loan spell at Fulham helped him regain his form and force his way back into Mourinho’s plans for the start of the 2006-07 campaign before he gradually lost his place at Chelsea to new signing Ashley Cole.

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When asked by Jamie Carragher what Mourinho expects of a full-back, Bridge replied on Sky Sports: “Just do the opposite of what I do, I think. It was difficult because when he first came on the scene he went to 4-3-3, so for instance when I had the ball he would go through two or three options for me.

“Then he said to me that ‘if those aren’t on then just play, just do what you see’. He would have the team set-up, so he would want the full-backs to do certain things, make certain runs.

“But he played Gallas in front of me for a long time and obviously Gallas is brilliant defensively but I still thought I had more to offer going forward than him. It was up and down for me.

“I thought I was giving him what he needed sometimes, and it wasn’t, but I didn’t know what that was. I didn’t know what it was that I wasn’t doing to not be playing for the period of time that I didn’t play.

“Sometimes I thought I was harshly treated in terms of if I was dropped from the team and Gally was playing. It was like when Ash [Ashley Cole] first came I was playing so well and he was obviously going to play because they spent a lot of money on him.

“But it was against Charlton and I was playing well and if anything I would say I was one of the better players on the pitch that day. They ended up scoring and I was the first person to get dragged. So sometimes I think it’s about how he feels about you, if he thinks your not quite good enough it’s difficult. I found it really difficult.”

 

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Michael Owen thinks Man Utd are on their way back to the summit of English football because of their recent impressive form.

Manchester United are currently 11 matches unbeaten in all competitions as they wait for football to restart, with new signing Bruno Fernandes playing a big part in the majority of that streak.

And Owen thinks Man Utd are finally getting it together after seven years without a Premier League title.

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Speaking to ESPN FC, Owen said: “I think with this current stop, Manchester United might be the one team that wanted to continue playing, they were starting to get into a real good run of form.

“[Bruno] Fernandes had signed, he is a fantastic signing, [Paul] Pogba will be back soon.

“This break has been good for [Marcus] Rashford as well, he’ll be back fit.

“All of a sudden, you’re looking at Manchester United – and I haven’t been able to say this for years – but you’re looking at that squad thinking ‘wow, they’re on their way back’.

“They spent lots of money on their defence, they’ve still got one of the best goalkeepers in the world, it’s starting to look very promising for Manchester United. I haven’t been able to say that for a long time.”

Owen was one of those pundits who questioned Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s ability to get the best out his current squad but recent form has changed the former Liverpool striker’s view.

Owen added: “I must admit, right at the start [of the season] you’d have to question [Solskjaer’s appointment], because they were looking like there was no improvement.

“But just in the last month or two before the season stopped, I was starting to think he was doing the right thing and building a certain type of team that they didn’t have in the last few years.”

 

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Gary Neville has stressed football would not return for months were it not for the huge economic impact of coronavirus.

The UK is on lockdown until at least May 7 but the Premier League is working on its ‘Project Restart’ to get the 2019-20 season finished, while the English Football League board and its clubs are also holding meetings on a regular basis.

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Neville told Sky Sports News: “We’re hearing different things every day, but I think if this was a non-economic decision, there would be no football for months. What we’re seeing now is that people are assessing risk. What is the risk we’re willing to take to bring football back?

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“If people are really serious about putting health first, we wouldn’t be discussing football returning at this moment in time, but players themselves will want to go and play.

“Players at the lower levels will want to go and play because they’ll recognise that the alternative is bad – 1,400 players are out of contract in three months so they’ll need football to resume so their livelihoods can continue.”

Neville’s former Manchester United team-mate Rio Ferdinand has also said the football world must respect any Government decision regarding the restart of the professional game amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Former England defender Ferdinand, who works as a pundit from BT Sport, told Good Morning Britain: “We have to go by what the Government says. Whatever way they see it, and if they make a decision, we have to respect that.

“Like the isolation and lockdown period, we’ve been very respectful of that, listened to the guidelines and stayed with that and I think the football world has to be the same.

“(We need to be) governed by the powers that be, that make a decision based on the health of the nation and the players as well.”

The picture in continental Europe is mixed to say the least. The German Bundesliga is preparing to return to action next month, subject to the approval of the authorities, while individual training has been approved to resume in Spain from May 4 and group training has been given the green light in Italy from May 18.

The French and Dutch leagues have been forced to end though following directives at national government level in those countries.

Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) told parliament earlier this week that he is in discussions to get the Premier League “up and running as soon as possible in order to support the whole football community”.

He did add that any resumption was subject to public health guidance.

DCMS will lead meetings between medical officials from sports governing bodies and representatives of Public Health England on a weekly basis, starting this week.

The PA news agency understands the Premier League’s medical adviser Mark Gillett and the Football Association’s head of medicine Charlotte Cowie are involved in the discussions, which represent a “quickening of the pace” in talks over how top-level sport can restart.

Dale Vince, the chairman of League Two side Forest Green, told the PA news agency that June 6 was the earliest resumption date under consideration.

 

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Newcastle United have made former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino their top target and are willing to pay him £19m a year for his services, according to reports.

The Magpies are in the process of being bought out by PCP Capital Partners, who have paid a non-refundable £17m deposit to Mike Ashley ahead of their proposed takeover.

While the deal is yet to be ratified by the Premier League – who are facing pressure from Amnesty International – Newcastle are already making plans to progress when the deal goes through.

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Reports have previously claimed in recent weeks that Max Allegri is one of the ‘leading contenders’, alongside former St James’ Park favourite Rafa Benitez, currently with Dalian Yifang in the Chinese Super League.

They will be considered alongside Lucien Favre of Borussia Dortmund, as well as the unattached former Spurs boss Pochettino.

However, Sky Sports now reports that Pochettino is seen as the ‘number one choice to be the next manager at St James’ Park’ and the potential new Newcastle owners are prepared to ‘pay him £19m a year’.

They have been ‘impressed by the rebuilding project carried out’ by Pochettino at Tottenham as he led the north London club to the final of the Champions League last campaign before being replaced this part-way through this season.

Newcastle’s prospective owners ‘believe he is the perfect candidate to help transform Newcastle into one of Europe’s top clubs over the next five years’.

 

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PASADENA, CA — Some S0Cal Grinches got a healthy dose of comeuppance this Christmas, thanks to a former NASA engineer who designed the ultimate revenge for porch pirates.

Naturally, it took a rocket scientist to come up with just the right formula: glitter bomb + fart bombs = sweet, sweet revenge.

But for Mark Rober, who worked on the Mars rover for the San Gabriel Valley’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it wasn’t enough just to beat the package thieves at their own game. He had to track them with GPS and capture the explosions on camera. The results are glorious.

The repeated victim of package theft, Rober decided to do something about it after police told him not to hold out hope for an arrest even with surveillance footage of the thieves caught red-handed.

“Something needs to be done to take a stance against dishonest punks like this,” Rober said in a video posted to YouTube.

“I spent nine years devising hardware that’s currently roving around on another freaking planet,” he tells viewers. “If anyone was going to make a revenge bait package and over-engineer the crap out of it, it was going to be me.”

So Rober addressed his package to his hero (Macaulay Culkin’s character in “Home Alone”) and rigs his stinky glitter bombs with cell phones that will both track the package and record the the reactions of startled thieves.

It works so well, he lent the device out to friends, and the result is an endless reel of would-be thieves glitter- and fart-bombed inside their cars and homes. Within two days, the YouTube video garnered nearly 30 million views.

As it turns out, justice is the sound of porch pirates shouting, “What is that smell?”

Photo: YouTube Screengrab

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Santa is about to launch his sleigh, the shopping frenzy is wrapping up, and the last few days of the 2018 Christmas movie season are here. Networks and streaming services are airing your favorite movies for the holidays, including Hallmark, which has two channels chock-full of cheer in its Countdown to Christmas format, plus Freeform, UPtv, Netflix and Hulu. (See lists from each, plus Amazon movies below.)

The holiday classics run from “Elf,” “Christmas Vacation,” and “Meet Me In St. Louis,” to “Love Actually” and the heartwarming oldie “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Let’s not forget “Die Hard,” which IS a Christmas movie since New York City cop John McClane single-handedly defeats terrorists in an L.A. high-rise at Christmas. You can catch it on IFC in four back-to-back showings on Christmas Day starting at 2 p.m.

And the classic animated tale by Dr. Seuss, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” will air one last time on network TV this season at 8 p.m. on Dec. 25.

Listings are subject to change; check each network’s website for updates. If you want to imbibe in some Christmas cheer at the expense of Hallmark’s formula of women dropping their clearly inappropriate boyfriends when they find true love at the holiday, there’s a drinking game for that; watch for small towns pulling together, kids who need a parent, women named Eve and Holly, and adorable dogs. This year’s Hallmark holiday lineup includes Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Danica McKellar, with network debuts by country artists LeAnn Rimes and Kellie Pickler.

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Hulu Christmas movies include:

Hallmark Channel’s 2018 “Countdown to Christmas”:

All premieres are at 8 p.m. ET

UPtv’s final premiere Christmas movie:

Freeform 25 Days Of Christmas
Freeform network began its annual “25 Days of Christmas” event on Dec. 1. Here’s a sampling of what Freeform has planned for the rest of the season:

Sunday, December 23
• 7am/6c The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
• 7:30am/6:30c Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure
• 9:40am/8:40c Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish
• 11:45am/10:45c Disney•Pixar’s Toy Story That Time Forgot
• 12:15pm/11:15c Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
• 1:20pm/12:20c The Nightmare Before Christmas
• 3pm/2c Christmas with the Kranks
• 5:05pm/4:05c The Santa Clause
• 7:10pm/6:10c The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
• 9:15pm/8:15c Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• 11:55pm/10:55c Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve

Monday, December 24
• 7:30am/6:30c Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish
• 11am/10c Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
• 12:30pm/11:30c The Nightmare Before Christmas
• 2:05pm/1:05c Jingle All the Way 2
• 4:10pm/3:10c Disney’s A Christmas Carol
• 6:15pm/5:15c Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• 8:55pm/7:55c The Santa Clause
• 12am/11c The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Tuesday, December 25
• 7am/6c Disney’s Prep & Landing
• 7:30am/6:30c Disney’s Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
• 8am/7c Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
• 11am/10c The Nightmare Before Christmas
• 12:40pm/11:40c Disney’s A Christmas Carol
• 2:40pm/1:40c Disney’s Meet the Robinsons
• 4:45pm/3:45c The Santa Clause
• 6:50pm/5:50c The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
• 8:55pm/7:55c Disney’s The Lion King (1994)
• 12am/11c Disney’s Meet the Robinsons

Netflix Holiday Movies 2018

There are oodles of Christmas movies and specials on Netflix, but here are a few that the streaming service has highlighted for 2018.

“Elf” airs year-round on multiple networks and streaming services. Upcoming showings on AMC include: Monday, Dec. 24, 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Dec. 24, 5:30 p.m. It will also air at 10 p.m. and midnight on Jan. 1 on Bravo. All times Eastern.

Here’s a sampling of holiday movies the networks and cable channels have set for the run-up to Christmas:

Sunday, December 23

Monday, December 24
Christmas Eve
Tuesday, December 25
Merry Christmas!

Amazon Holiday Movies To Stream

Amazon has holiday films galore to stream, so Country Living has picked the 16 best that come included with your Amazon Prime membership. They range from “A Christmas Carol” and “Scrooged” to “Home Alone.”

This list is compiled from the holiday TV website christmastvschedule.com and Pop Sugar, along with the Hallmark Channel, Freeform and UP TV.

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Hundreds of people turned out Thursday to honor a slain Florida police K-9. Cigo was killed Christmas Eve and the people of this South Florida community wanted him to know that he left his paw prints on their hearts forever.

Deputies of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office credit Cigo’s bravery with saving two deputies and helping to take down two suspects at the Wellington Green Mall parking lot on Dec. 24. One of the suspects was wounded by deputies while Cigo passed away at an animal hospital.

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“I think it’s also important for us to remember that we had two deputies in armed combat,” said Sheriff Ric Bradshaw at the outset of the service. “If it hadn’t been for Cigo doing his job, we might have had two deputies killed. That’s why we’re here today.”

Watch the heartfelt memorial below at the Coral Sky Amphitheater.

“Cigo went out a hero. He did his job to save lives,” declared Lt. Mike Kletzky, commander of the K-9 unit with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. “Although he is gone, he will never be forgotten.”

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Pour sa 12ème édition, du 5 juillet au 18 août, la Caravane d’été de la Croix-Rouge française fait escale dans 15villes de France pour aller à la rencontre des petits et des grands. Au-delà de l’initiation aux gestes qui sauvent, l’équipe de la Croix-Rouge française propose une initiation à la réduction des risques et une animation sur la prévention des accidents de la vie courante.

Profitez de l'été pour vous initier aux gestes de premiers secours.

Les habitants de chaque ville étape, mais aussi ceux des communes voisines, vacanciers, touristes sont invités à venir à la rencontre des bénévoles pour se former et découvrir les activités des délégations départementales de la Croix-Rouge française. En suivant les initiations et les animations proposées, il est possible de devenir l’acteur de sa sécurité, de celle de sa famille et de ses proches. 

Rendez-vous à Joinville-le-Pont, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Amboise, Angers, Agen, Revel, Montpellier, le Puy-en-Velay, Lyon, Thonon-les-Bains, Belfort, Troyes, Saint-Quentin puis Paris pour découvrir toutes ces animations.L’initiation aux gestes qui sauvent Des gestes simples mais vitaux, qui s’apprennent aisément dès 10 ans, peuvent sauver la vie d’un proche en attendant l’arrivée des secours. Position latérale de sécurité, massage cardiaque associé à la défibrillation automatisée… les formateurs bénévoles de la Croix-Rouge française vous proposent de vous initier à ces gestes simples, mais essentiels.L’initiation à la réduction des risques L’Initiation à la réduction des risques (IRR) permet au public de se rendre compte de la nécessité de se préparer aux risques de catastrophe pour mieux en gérer les conséquences. Des premières mesures à prendre à la découverte du concept de “Catakit“ (sac de survie exclusif créé par la CRF), cette Initiation passe en revue les trois temps de la catastrophe, de la préparation au retour à la normale, en passant par la réponse immédiate en attendant les secours.La prévention des accidents de la vie courante Parce que les accidents peuvent aussi survenir à la maison, il est important de prendre conscience de sa vulnérabilité au sein même du domicile. Une animation de 45 minutes sera proposée pour évaluer les dangers potentiels de son environnement et mettre en place des actions pour réduire les risques et les conséquences de ces accidents.Le stand Hansaplast pour les tout petits Partenaire de la Croix-Rouge, Hansaplast propose aux touts petits et à leurs parents un atelier de sensibilisation. Grâce à un jeu d’éveil accompagné d’un livret ludique dans lequel le petit Théo fait découvrir les différentes pièces de la maison à sa petite soeur, les dangers de la maison n’auront plus de secret pour eux.David BêmeSource : Communiqué de la Croix-Rouge – juin 2013Photo : PASSEMARD/CL2P/SIPAClick Here: Cardiff Blues Store

Identifier, par un simple test urinaire, les patients susceptibles de rejeter leur greffon de rein plusieurs semaines voire plusieurs mois avant qu’ils ne présentent les premiers symptômes est désormais possible, affirment les auteurs d’une étude publiée dans le New England Journal of Medicine.

Greffe de rein : un test urinaire pour détecter le risque de rejet.

Le test permettrait également aux médecins de déterminer ceux dont l’organisme est en train de rejeter le greffon et d’affiner le dosage des médicaments immunosuppresseurs administrés aux patients greffés.Mieux évaluer le risque de rejet du rein grefféLa transplantation d’un rein est réalisée chez les personnes en insuffisance rénale terminale, ne pouvant survivre sans des séances de dialyse, longues et pénibles. Pour les patients qui obtiennent un greffon (3 044 greffes de rein ont été réalisées en 2012 selon les données des derniers Etats Généraux du Rein), le rejet est le risque le plus redouté.L’équipe du Dr Manikkam Suthanthiran est la première à avoir créé, dès 2001, un test urinaire déterminant le profil d’expression des gènes. Ce test repose sur le dosage des taux d’ARN messagers (ARNm), des molécules produites par les gènes lors de leur traduction en protéines. Les chercheurs ont en effet découvert que le niveau d’expression de trois ARNm (CD3ε mRNA, IP-10 mRNA, and 18S rRNA) peut déterminer si un organe risque ou est en train d’être rejeté. Ces trois ARNm indiquent que des lymphocytes T sont recrutés pour détruire ce que l’organisme reconnaît comme un tissu étranger.Le test consiste à additionner le niveau d’expression urinaire des trois ARNm ; il doit être répété dans le temps et, si le score obtenu s’élève, cela traduit une activation du système immunitaire contre le

rein greffé, explique le Dr Suthanthiran. A l’inverse, un score qui reste constant suggère que le patient ne présente pas de risque de rejet.Un test urinaire plus efficace que le test sanguinPour évaluer l’efficacité de leur test, les chercheurs ont mené un essai clinique en 2006 auprès de 485 transplantés rénaux suivis dans cinq centres médicaux. Ils ont collecté 4 300 échantillons d’urine au cours de la première année suivant la transplantation, commençant au 3^ème jour. L’analyse urinaire a confirmé que les trois biomarqueurs permettaient de distinguer les transplantés rénaux chez lesquels une biopsie avait confirmé le rejet du greffon, de ceux chez lesquels la biopsie n’indiquait aucun signe de rejet ou de ceux ne manifestant aucun signe de rejet et pour lesquels une biopsie était inutile, rapportent-les chercheurs dans le NEJM.Il existe déjà un test sanguin capable d’identifier le rejet : il consiste à doser le taux de créatinine dans le sang, reflet de la fonction rénale. Mais d’après le Dr Darshana Dadhania, professeur de médecine et de chirurgie au Weill Cornell Medical College, qui a participé à l’étude, le test sanguin est nettement moins spécifique que le test urinaire. “Le taux de créatinine peut s’élever pour de multiples raisons, comme une simple déshydratation du patient, et lorsque cela arrive, nous devons alors procéder à une biopsie ultra-invasive pour examiner le rein et déterminer la cause“, explique-t-elle.D’après les résultats de l’essai, le test urinaire a conduit à des taux de faux-positifs et de faux-négatifs faibles, pour une efficacité finale de 85 %, nettement supérieure à celle du test sanguin.Amélie PelletierSource : “Urinary-Cell mRNA Profile and Acute Cellular Rejection in Kidney Allografts“ – N Engl J Med 2013; 369:20-31, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1215555 (

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Pour inciter ses habitants à surveiller leur poids et donc à prendre soin de leur santé, la ville de Dubaï lance un concours hors du commun. Quelques kilos perdus peuvent permettre de gagner… des pièces d’or.

Les habitants de Dubaï qui perdent des kilos peuvent gagner des pièces d'or.

Dubaï vient de lancer une initiative originale pour lutter contre l’

obésité. La municipalité a décidé d’offrir leur “pesant d’or“ à des habitants qui perdraient plus de deux kilos en un mois, a rapporté la presse locale. “Plus vous perdrez du poids, plus vous gagnerez“, a assuré Hussein Lootah, directeur général de la municipalité de Dubaï.La campagne coïncide avec le mois de jeûne musulman du ramadan. Si les fidèles s’abstiennent de manger et de boire pendant la journée, ils se rattrapent souvent en soirée. Ce déséquilibre est déconseillé par les nutritionnistes car il peut perturber le métabolisme et entraîner une prise de poids.Les personnes ayant

perdu du poids pourront participer à la fin de la compagne à un tirage au sort. Les trois premiers gagneront chacun une pièce d’or d’une valeur 20 000 dirhams (5 400 dollars environ). Les autres se partageront des récompenses d’une valeur globale de 200 000 dirhams (54 000 dollars).Les personnes souhaitant participer devront se faire peser dans des parcs publics de Dubaï, une première fois ce vendredi 19 juillet, puis à nouveau le 16 août. Ils recevront des conseils de nutritionnistes et de médecins pour les aider à perdre du poids, mais devront s’engager à ne pas avoir recours à des “méthodes malsaines“, selon la presse. Le but étant bien évidemment de promouvoir une

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