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Think this is what CSD is on about. http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/exclusive-pardew-admits-striker-hunt-has-stalled-1-6682086

Images of the street art found in Brasil. https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/brazils-painted-streets?gl=br&hl=en-gb

RYAN Taylor was in denial. After all, it couldn’t happen twice, could it? But it can, and it did. This was April last year. Taylor was lying, prone, in agony clutching his right knee. He had just come through seven months of painstaking and meticulous rehabilitation from a ruptured cruciate ligament. Then the same thing happened at Newcastle United’s Benton training ground. There wasn’t even anywhere near him on the practice pitch. There wasn’t even a tackle, just an unfortunate twist of the knee. It just happened. Luckless Taylor initially convinced himself that it wasn’t the same injury that he had suffered in a Europa League qualifier against Atromitos at St James’s Park in August 2012. The 29-year-old had scored a trademark free-kick in the first leg, which kicked off with the temperature approaching 40 degrees in Athens. But there was a chill in the air a week later on Tyneside. And a scan a few days after the game confirmed his and the club’s worst fears. Taylor isn’t ashamed to admit there were tears in the doctor’s room when he was told he would miss another season of football. “I tried to convince myself it wasn’t,” Taylor told the Gazette in an exclusive interview. “I knew I’d done something, but I tried to convince myself it wasn’t the same injury. “I was trying to remain positive until I had the scan. “There was nobody near me in training. There was just one twist. “I had the scan and it didn’t sink in until I came back in. “There were tears in the doc’s room. I didn’t know what to do at the time. “I’d just worked for seven months solid to make sure I was back. I was looking towards the next season, not the last three or four games (of the 2012-13 season). I wasn’t interested, to be honest. “It would have been nice, but it wasn’t the main concern. “The lowest point was being told it’s a re-rupture. It didn’t sink in – I tried to still think it wasn’t. “When I came back in and talked to the doc, that’s when it all hit me. That was definitely the lowest point. “It took a couple of weeks to get over it. “They gave me some time off to just have some family time.” Once he had come to terms with what had happened, Taylor focused on what he had to do. “We just came back and spoke to a couple of people,” said the likeable Liverpudlian, signed from Wigan Athletic in 2009. “We realised the best one to go to was The Steadman Clinic over in Colorado. “I just didn’t know why it happened again until we went and saw the guys over in Colorado. “They figured everything out as to what the problem was and they have corrected it now. “We went out there and I’ve been as positive as I could have been. There was an issue with the first one, and they fixed it. Now it should be fine.” Alan Shearer and Michael Owen are among those to have undergone procedures at the world-renowned Steadman Clinic. And Taylor sought their advice before deciding to make the journey across the Atlantic to Colorado with the club’s long-serving and experienced physio Derek Wright, who has been with him every step of the way. And the surgeons there were to discover why Taylor had suffered a second, agonising rupture. “I spoke to Michael, Jimmy Bullard, Al (Shearer) and Jamie Redknapp,” said Taylor, who is working towards a return to training next month when his team-mates report back to the club. “Because I knew it was such big surgery for me career-wise, I had to make sure it was right. “I spoke to people who had been over there and come back from the same injury. “They gave me the green light – everyone was so positive about the place. I was like ‘come on, let’s get over there’. “But things didn’t work out. I had to have one operation and go back six months later to get the cruciate put in. That was the problem of why the first one went.” Taylor has needed support from the club’s staff and his team-mates. And he has got it, forging an especially strong bond with Wright. “Every day, most players have asked how I’m getting on,” he said. “On the staff side, every single one of the staff have been amazing – from the manager to the kit men. “The physios and doctor are fantastic.” Taylor embarked on the players’ “lap of appreciation” after the final game of the season last month. Hopefully, he’ll be back on the field in a black and white shirt soon.

@@ewerk The fixture list you posted is missing a few dates. September 24th and January 3rd. Mark them down for heavy defeats.

Turkish footballer Emre Belozoglu was handed a two-month 15 days suspended jail sentence on Tuesday for a racist slur he used against Ivory Coast midfielder Didier Zokora during a match in 2012. The court sentenced the Fenerbahce and Turkey national team midfielder on the grounds that the act constituted an insult crime of "religious, racist, ethnic, sexist or sectarian discrimination." The incident, in which Zokora accused Belozoglu of calling him the "N" word, occurred in April 2012 at a playoff match between Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor. Belozoglu was accused of racism three times during his three-year career at Newcastle United, but the English FA's investigations failed to prove the accusations. Belozoglu became the first Turkish footballer ever to have been handed a prison sentence for racism.

London "fashion".

Sonnen retires after a positive doping test. Talked smack to his previous opponent since he also had a positive. Self-awareness.

France.

"I spoke to Newcastle about Bony last summer. Newcastle should have bought Bony a year ago but they didn’t believe in him. "They could have signed him for £10million, but they said they weren't sure if he was good enough, that he was only playing in Holland (with Vitesse). "Now he is worth £20million. "The next step for Bony is a top-six team in England or a top team in Germany, Spain or France, or he will stay with Swansea. "We have a certain strategy. Bony is in a totally different place to Newcastle and wants to move to a club with ambition. "We have had no contact with Newcastle."

Jessica's the only one for me. You'll see. We'll rise above this piddling pecadillo. We're gonna be happy again. You got that? Happy. Capital H-A-P-P-I. .

fcbarcelonadotcom: But despite glowing starts to each campaign, Cesc’s contributions to the cause gradually decreased as each season drew to a close. From being someone who joined in with the attack, supplying and scoring goals, the magic tended to fade later on in each season. He only scored one, six and one goals in the last 24 games of each season. For some reason, he was never as good in the second half of a season as in the first.

Fabregas: “I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.” “I would like to thank everyone at FC Barcelona where I enjoyed 3 wonderful years. It was my childhood club and I will always be proud and honoured that I had a chance to play for such a great team. "I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time for me to return. Yes, everyone knows that Arsenal had the first option to sign me. They decided not to take this option and therefore it wasn’t meant to be. I wish them well in the future.”

If he does depart, I would want another keeper brought in. Rob Elliot: “No, I think it was being at Newcastle which helped me get the recognition and be part of the (international) set-up. Obviously I want to play more games than I have done but sometimes as a goalkeeper you have to accept that you have to bide your time and when you do get your chance you’ve got to try to do well,” he said. “That’s what I have been working towards. I have had some opportunities and I think I have done well and I would like to think that if Tim (Krul) did go and there was an opportunity to claim that number one jersey, that I would be first in line. “Tim has always been linked to big clubs and the fact that he is in the Holland World Cup squad is probably going to enhance his credibility even more. “He is a top-class keeper, he has shown that in the way he has performed but whether or not he will actually go somewhere else, I don’t know.”

In my city alone there is at least over two dozen artisan cheese makers. Would not even know where to find out the statistics for the restaurants that use the lush products.

(Do not know exactly why all of these cabbies are not picking up fares but I am led to believe that they are giving you full support in your fact finding mission.)

These fuckers here in the States are boiling my piss. The FDA has issued an executive decree banning wooden boards being used to age cheese. This is a huge blow to many of the artisans here in town.

No details yet but an acquaintance has had to leave early so that he could get his daughter out of her school. One student confirmed dead.

ITV Reporter: "How far are England away from a good team?" Roy Hodgson: " About 4 hotels."

Jean Louis Tiraud: "He is an excellent player with one defect, he was bought very expensively by Newcastle and his salary is high. The problem with the idea of a loan, is most clubs wait until the 31st August, because they are still trying to sell the player."