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"Back in Derry I was just being me. Nobody cared. All of a sudden things I say are in the papers. I’m still the same person I am — I wouldn’t want to change. If you like it, you like it, and if you don’t, you don’t." "It’s in the papers that I’m pro-IRA and the way it goes, if you see something in the paper you believe it whether it’s true or not. I’ve been very lucky with my managers, they’ve believed my side of the story." "I’ve had death threats and I’ve had a lot of people see me as anti-British." "I want to go on record here and say I’ve never been anti-British. There’s certain things that I don’t agree with, my beliefs, but I take people at face value." "I’ve had a lot of death threats which started when I declared myself for the Republic. I played for Northern Ireland for the youth system — I never hid from the fact that I took advantage of that system to better myself but I never had aspirations to play for Northern Ireland." "I was getting death threats for declaring for my country. "I was coming back from one of the last games of the season, and like I usually do, I always take my home jersey home, because you never know who needs one or will ask for one. I gave it to a kid outside the stadium, and his father took it off him and threw it back at me. And then, on the way home, my car was stopped at traffic lights. So my car's here, and there's another car there [beside him]. The guy rolled down the window, and he spat at me, and drove off." "My missus was in the car with me, and she was pregnant at the time. I was thinking, 'I'm about to bring a baby into the world, I don't need all this hassle'. I went to see Paolo [Di Canio] the next day, and said 'look, I think it's time I moved on', and I explained the situation."

Twat.

Stonewall penalty already in the 6th minute of that derby. Hoops one up.

Fuck me. There are lads receiving two match bans for two footed lunges resulting in leg snaps.

@@Tooj and @Dr Gloom speaks a lot of sense in this thread. The first of three assists for Ronaldinho in his last performance was simply stunning!

Moussa Sissoko, Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba and Sylvain Marveaux all named.

I can guarantee you know more than me on this subject currently. I can say I know the following will result in a lifetime ban with my limited knowledge. Brutal knockout! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-sBDUWWm9k

Taylor has now received his hard stance punishment and will sit out two whole matches.

Toys out in a pram again because of another judge disagreeing with him. Trump:

Mourinho of course is blaming Aguero claiming he was a "smart Argentinian player".

Fellaini.

China unveiled the Type 001A.

"This is my third promotion, so I have some experience." "But the Championship is so hard because you have to play so many games, and it is so physical." "It is very difficult to play three games in a week, and you have to recover." "You have injuries, and it is not easy." "The division is totally different, you have to change half your squad (after relegation)." "You have to perform and win, and keep all the fans behind the team." "It has been a fantastic season, and we have to enjoy it for at least a couple of days." "We will try our best to win the title now." "We will play Cardiff and then see where we are, but we have achieved what we wanted to achieve." "After the first two games, people were asking us, ‘Do you want to be champions or will you be happy just to go up’." "Yes, we are happy." "Credit to Brighton because they are a good team." "But they have had the last four or five years in the play-offs so they have the experience and squad for this division." "We have had to put everything together quickly, but we did it." "So I say credit to our players, our staff and everyone in the club." "Some people don’t realise how difficult it is when you go to play against teams who are in the middle of the table and playing for nothing, but they still fight and compete because they are playing against Newcastle United, who are the top side in the division." “Or when they come here with 52,000 fans, and they run and work so hard." "It has been like that for every single game against us. We watched some teams and thought it might be easy against them, but then they were running double because they were playing us." "It was more difficult than ever, and we have had that situation every single week." "There have been some decisions I haven’t liked too much, so that has meant we have had to keep going, work hard and be strong mentally." "But even when there were signs of anxiety, we reacted well."

On Facebook live, there is a guy who has already killed fourteen strangers. Driving around, randomly getting out of his vehicle, walking up to unsuspecting random people telling them to say "Joy Lane", then shooting them in the face. Video is nauseating.

This time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked. It has been quite a fall from grace for the former Everton, United and Real Sociedad manager who endured chants of “We want Moyes out” from all corners of an unusually hostile Stadium of Light during Sunderland’s 2-2 draw with West Ham United on Saturday. There were also choruses of “David Moyes had a dream, to fuck our football team” and boos when the home manager ventured from his dugout. Despite Sunderland’s position – bottom of the Premier league and nine points adrift of the 17th-placed Hull City – Ellis Short, the club’s owner, is not minded to sack the Scot, but may be forced to rethink should anger build during the remaining two home games, against Bournemouth and Swansea City. Moyes, meanwhile, has made it clear he has no intention of resigning and is determined to rebuild Sunderland in the second tier while challenging for immediate promotion. He maintains that he inherited a poisoned chalice at a club now around £140m in debt and who, in recent years, have consistently occupied the Premier League’s bottom five positions despite a top-10 wage bill. As Sunderland’s seventh manager in five years Moyes feels he is paying for predecessors’ recruitment mistakes, has been unlucky with injuries and wants time to conduct root and branch reform. His critics’ riposte is that his tactics have been unimaginatively one-dimensional and his prolonged marginalisation of Wahbi Khazri, arguably Sunderland’s most gifted individual, self-destructive. Above all, they have been dismayed by the persistently downbeat demeanour of a manager who, as early as last August, declared that a relegation battle beckoned, and underwhelmed by a series of low-key, low-impact signings including Darron Gibson and Donald Love, almost all of whom had played for Moyes at Everton or Manchester United. Reconstructing the squad will involve a major overhaul this summer as, by way of exacerbating the manager’s problems, his Italian forward Fabio Borini has revealed the dressing room has been fractured by internal divisions. Without a home league win since mid-December, Sunderland have long seemed destined for the Championship but, paradoxically, Saturday represented the team’s best performance for some time. Unfortunately for Moyes the crowd were able to use the fact that his side’s first goals in eight games were scored by Wahbi Khazri and Borini, two players he has persistently sidelined, as a stick with which to beat him. “Are you watching David Moyes,” they sang as Khazri, a Tunisian playmaker starting his first game since October, scored direct from a corner to equalise André Ayew’s early opener. James Collins restored West Ham’s lead before Borini, only brought off the bench as Billy Jones had been taken off with concussion, snatched an equaliser before celebrating, somewhat provocatively, with a knee slide in front of the home bench. Afterwards Borini revealed that there had been behind-the-scenes tensions within the squad this term. “We have not been as united as a group as in previous seasons, that’s what probably has been the problem,” the Italian said. “There have been a little bit of problems within the dressing room but that’s for us to deal with. To keep going now we have to be more united than ever before.” Remarkably, attendances at the Stadium of Light have averaged well over 40,000 per game this season and Saturday was the first time a hitherto extraordinarily loyal crowd have turned on the manager. “The chants were to be expected,” said Moyes, who will shortly discover whether he faces sanction from the Football Association in the wake of the unfortunate comments he directed towards the BBC’s Vicki Sparks last month. “The manager and the team are not doing well and they are entitled to take their frustration out on somebody. It’s nearly always the manager and I have no issue with that. I have to accept it. I just remember I’ve got the third or fourth best win record of any Premier League manager.” With Khazri most people’s man of the match, Moyes was asked why he had excluded a key player during Sunderland’s avoidance of relegation under Sam Allardyce last spring for so long. “I can only tell you my choice has been to play other people because of what I have seen,” said the 53-year-old who, earlier this season, turned down a chance to sign Dimitar Berbatov, the currently unattached former Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United striker. “But Wahbi was good today, much more disciplined.” Tellingly, when Khazri scored Moyes sat with his arms folded while the rest of Sunderland’s bench applauded. -Louise Taylor-

Rioting in Berkeley. These costumes that these Trump supporters are running around in are depressingly hilarious.

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