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TODAY'S WEATHER
Showers and some snow in Northern
Ireland and Scotland early on. England and
Wales will stay dry and clear, with sunny
periods. In the late afternoon, showers will
creep across Northern England, Wales and
the South-West. By late evening, there will
be widespread heavy rain across the
remainder of the UK.
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Edinburgh
It’s tuft at Crufts
AN Afghan hound gets a
last-minute brush-up at
Crufts yesterday... and looks
pretty pawfect.
Meanwhile, two cosy
black-eyed cuties are
wheeled into the NEC in
Birmingham on day three of
the four-day extravaganza.
One wore pink and the
other blue as the cold snap
brought out a myriad of
colourful coats.
Pooches from across the
world are competing for the
coveted Best in Show prize -
before life goes bark to
normal tomorrow.
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Cardiff Q 12c £3 7c & 7c Q 9c
Edinburgh Q 8c £3 6c 6c О 5c
Liverpool 11c £3 6c £3 6c Q 8c
London Q 13c £3 7c 8c О 9c
Manchester 13c 6c 6c Q 8c
Newcastle Q 11c & 6c & 6c Q 6c
Norwich £3 14c £3 7c 7c £3 9c
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Amsterdam f 6 43 Madrid s 17 63
Athens s 18 64 Majorca s 21 70
Barcelona s 24 75 Malaga s 24 75
Benidorm s 25 77 Malta s 18 64
Corfu s 17 63 Marmaris th 17 63
Crete s 22 72 Miami f 27 81
Ibiza s 22 72 Paris c 6 43
Larnaca s 22 72 Sydney s 32 90
Las Palmas s 22 72 Tenerife s 27 81
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r: rain, dr: drizzle, sn: snow, f: fair, fq: fog,
sh: showers, th: thunder, hl: hail, si: sleet
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Our friends
in Whitehall
not electric
EXCLUSIVE
BY NICOLASMALL________________
TORIES have been accused of
talking hot air over cars - after we
found the Government still buys
more diesels than electric models.
That is despite a 2021 pledge for a
zero-emission fleet by 2027.
Since then, one department has
bought nearly three times as many
diesel vehicles as electric ones.
The Home Office added 168 diesel
guzzlers to its fleet of 1,617 vehicles,
and 62 electric motors.
Just 3.5% of its fleet is electric, lo
data obtained under Freedom “
of Information laws revealed, f
Motoring writer Quentin f
Willson, who founded the 1 Ж
FairCharge campaign to make g
electric cars affordable, said: 4
“These figures show the
massive hole between what the WH
Government say and what they \
do. If the UK is going to reap the
benefits of electric cars, f^k
with high-paid jobs,
cleaner air and
less reliance on
Officials still buy
lot more diesels
turing and bring good jobs back to
industrial heartlands."
She said Labour would invest in
eight new battery plants that would
support £30billion growth
and power more than 1.8
million cars.
\ Our figures come
\ as five Tory-run
' councils challenge
i the London Mayor s
plans to expand the
P Ultra Low Emission
Zone to cover the
whole of the capital.
Drivers of the most
polluting cars currently pay £12.50 a
GREEN DRIVE
Quentin Willson
foreign oil, the Government
needs to be leading the charge."
Our research also found that
since 2021, the Department for
Transport has added 67 diesels
compared with 54 electric vehi-
cles, which make up 9.5% of its
fleet Shadow Transport Secretary
— Louise Haigh said:
“Hapless Tories are _______________________o____________
stuck in first gear. Labours day to travel within the North and
1 plans will turbocharge South Circular roads.
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said: “The Government
is committed to our
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Jy 100% zero-emission
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These figures show the
massive hole between
what the Government
say and what they do...
they should lead charge
THREATS Andrew Bridgen
Holocaust
row MP got
£8,000 from
anti-vax Fox
BYMIKEYSMITH
Whitehall Correspondent
MP Andrew Bridgen got
£8,000 from an “anti-woke"
pressure group run by
controversial fellow anti-
vaxer Laurence Fox.
Reclaim the Media, an
offshoot of actor Fox’s
Reclaim political party,
also helped write speeches.
And it backed his threats
to sue Matt Hancock for
libel for accusing him on
Twitter of “anti-Semitic,
anti-vax, anti-scientific
conspiracy theories”.
The Leicestershire MP,
who had the Tory whip
withdrawn for a tweet
comparing Covid jabs with
the Holocaust, wants
£100,000 damages from
the ex-Health Secretary.
Newly released papers
reveal Mr Bridgen, now
sitting as an independent
MP but understood to still
be a Tory Party member,
declared four donations
worth £7,902, this year.
He is said to have met
anti-vax celebs including
Richard Fairbrass in Parlia-
ment during that time.
Mr Bridgen was
contacted for comment
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NEWS & FEATURES 3
Pictures: NATASHA CAMPOS/RANDY SHROPSHIRE/GETTY
L KAREN ROCKETT
with retirement tip ads for fans
janine.yaqoob@reachplc.com
Ironically, Elton declared in his
hit, Your Song: “I don’t have much
money, but boy if I did...”
He certainly has plenty now. His
tour tickets cost up to £1,500,
netting him a reported £830million.
Elton now plans to cut back on
work to spend more time with his
sons Zachary, 12, and Elijah, 10.
His UK leg of the tour will finish
in style at Glastonbury in June.
together for decades and I want to
do what I can to make sure that
what lies ahead for my fans is as
fulfilling as possible.
“It has always been important
for me to take a stand for human
dignity at every stage of life.
Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
Elton - who is attending tonights
Oscars in LA with his husband
David Furnish - encourages fans
to plan for their retirement years.
He tells them: “You and I have
travelled this Yellow Brick Road
ACTRESS Florence Pugh sports a cool green mini dress
as she joins pal Paul Mescal at a pre-Oscars party in LA.
Irishman Paul, 27, is up for Best Actor for coming-
of-age drama Aftersun. English star Florence, also 27,
will present an award at tonight's ceremony.
Oscar-winner Amy Adams, 48, and action man Vin
Diesel, 55, both wore black to the CAA do at the Sunset
Tower Hotel. But Rita Ora, 32, nearly made a mesh of her
skimpy outfit as she posed with hubby Taika Wait it i, 47.
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to Pocket Man as the
face of pension
advice adverts.
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has shot US
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sponsors of his
ADVICE Elton
with David at
Oscars bash
Oscar stars go
with the Flo...
BLACK NIGHT
Oscar-winner
Amy and Fast &
Furious star Vin
RITA AURA Brit
singerand her
husband Taika
NEWS & FEATURES
SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12.2023
| Bosses beg Lineker to return but star
KICKING OFF
DESPERATE Ahmad Harris, 17
Gary’s a hero
to us, says
Afghan teen
EXCLUSIVE
BY PATRICK HILL in Loon-Plage, France
BY JOHN SIDDLE,
LAURA ARMSTRONG
ancl JANINE YAQ00B
BOSSES are begging
Gary Lineker to
return to Match of
the Day - but he
says he will never
apologise for giving
the Tories a kicking.
BBC sport shows are
in chaos as presenters,
pundits and commentators
down tools in support
They are furious the Beeb
suspended Lineker, 62, for
comparing the language
around Home Secretary
Suella Braverman’s
“cruel” migrant policy
with that of 1930s
Germany on Twitter.
Last night Gary’s son
George, 31, said of his
dad: “He loves Match of
the Day. But he won’t ever
back down on his word.
I’m proud of him, he will
always speak up for people
who don’t have a voice.
“He is passionate
about helping refugee
charities - he took in /
two refugees who he is
still in touch with and
trying to help."
TEAM GARY
IAN WRIGHT
MARK CHAPMAN
JERMAINE JENAS
MICAH RICHARDS
MIGRANTS waiting to cross the Channel
from France to Britain thanked Gary
Lineker yesterday for opposing Rishi
Sunak's Illegal Migration Bill.
And Ahmad Harris, 17, camped in
squalid conditions near Dunkirk,
compared the BBC's move to silence him
with the tactics of the Taliban.
Ahmad, who fled Kabul six months
ago and has a brother and sister in the
UK, told us: "Gary Lineker is a good
man and a hero to us.
“The BBC are not good
trying to shut him up
sounds like life in
Afghanistan, where
there is no freedom
of speech."
Ali Malekzay, 17,
from Nangarhar,
Afghanistan,
added: "When I
get to England,
I'd like to hug
him."
PM Rishi
Sunak pledged
to "detain and
swiftly remove" all
Channel migrants "within
weeks" earlier this week.
But Ahmad said: "We’ll
carry on to England. We
have to. What else are
we supposed to do?
"He welcomes
refugees from Ukraine
but my family suffered war
too and we are also people,
like them."
under-fire
N general
Tim Davie
ДА grovelled
to footie fans,
1 heaped praise on
Lineker and said he
wanted him back.
Mr Davie said:
“Gary Lineker is
dr • "
COLIN MURRAY
JASON MOHAMMAD
JERMAIN DEFOE
the world’s longest running football
show and watched by 11 million
- could get the boot itself.
Mark Borkowski reckons the
BBC may not be able to
compete with streaming
giants like Amazon when its
£211million deal to screen
Premier League highlights
ends in two years.
He said: “The world around
them is changing faster than they
can adapt. Most football fans will
find coverage elsewhere.”
He said the BBC should have
stood by Lineker - like ITV
backed Holly Willoughby and
Phillip Schofield over the
Queens funeral queue row -
then “moved him on gently,
bringing in new talent".
And Mr Borkowski said the
MOTD fiasco could spark an
exodus of talent - as it was
eported ВТ Sport had already
offered Lineker a new job.
Ian Wright has already
vowed to quit MOTD if the
BBC gets rid of Lineker.
Yesterday, fans cheered
Lineker as he watched his
» hometown club Leicester
\\ City lose 3-1 to Chelsea,
к1 A MOTD insider said:
Ж “Bosses have no idea how
В to fix the situation. Pundits
ж have all vowed to stay off as
' long as Lineker is off - and he
is adamant he won’t apologise
or agree to not do it again.
“There have been walkouts
amongst crew. Things could
get worse if the BBC gets banned
from club press conferences.”
Labour leader Keir Starmer said:
“The BBC is not acting impar-
tially by caving in to Tory
MPs. They’ve got this one
badly wrong and now
they’re very, very
exposed.”
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VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE:
PAGE 14
CRUEL Braverman
LORDS WILL SEE RED OVER BILL
COMMENT
AWAY KIT
Lineker
leaves his
London
home
yesterday
a superb broadcaster, he’s the best in
the business.”
He admitted it had been a “difficult
day” but said he would not quit,
adding: “Success for me is - Gary gets
back on air and together we are giving
audiences that world-class sports
coverage which I’m sorry we haven’t
been able to deliver today.”
Last night’s Match of the Day was
set to be cut from 90 minutes to 20,
without commentary or analysis.
TV’s Football Focus and Final
Score, and Radio 5 phone-in 606
IMAGINE you are an Afghan
who worked with the British
but did not get on the limited
resettlement programmes - and
you’re now risking your life on a
small boat to escape the Taliban.
On arrival you are declared
illegal, detained, deported and
banned from entering again -
with no chance to make a case for
asylum. This is the intention of the
so-called Illegal Immigration Bill. On
were axed as presenters including
Ian Wright, Alan Shearer and Alex
Scott refused to go on air.
And interviews were scrapped
after players and managers
refused to be involved.
Tonight’s M0TD2 was also
in jeopardy as host Mark
Chapman pulled out of his
Radio 5 slot yesterday and
ex-England striker Jermain ’ —
Defoe announced he would not
appear. A TV expert
warned that MOTD -
the basis of Home Office data, it is
estimated most arrivals would qualify
for refugee status. Yet the Bill treats
all, even children, as “illegal migrants”.
The Children's Commissioner has
expressed deep concern about what
the Bill means for children's rights
and experiences. The UNHCR says
the Bill is "a clear breach of the
Refugee Convention” as it amounts
to "an asylum ban". And the Home
Secretary can't confirm it is
compatible with human rights law.
This will be a red flag to peers who
inflicted defeats on the Government
over the Nationality and Borders Bill.
And despite the Home Secretary's
claim the Bill is compassionate and
humanitarian, I predict many of us
will reject it as cruel and inhumane.
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NEWS & FEATURES 5
says he will never apologise for tweet
AT THE BEEB
/SUPPORT John Barnes
(comment
SELFIE Posing
for picture with
fan yesterday
SUPPORTERS
Fans’ banners
at Leicester
human rights issues in his own country.
The BBC is frightened of the
Government. If Gary had tweeted, "I
really agree with Suella on this - what a
brilliant policy," do you think he'd have
been sent packing?
He’d have got abuse on social media
but I guarantee that the BBC would have
turned a blind eye. It says it all when the
chairman of the BBC is still in his job,
despite helping arrange an £800,000
loan for Boris Johnson.
The BBC is playing into the hands of
the Government, which is happy for this
distraction. We are all now talking about
Gary Lineker, not the cost of living crisis
or strikes by nurses and teachers.
MoTD is an institution and people love
it, so I'm sure Gary and everybody will be
back in time. I think he has done well.
He could have just apologised and
everything would have been forgotten
about. But he's stuck to his guns and
you've got to admire him for that. Most
are backing Gary not because they think
he's a hero but because he's right.
6 NEWS & FEATURES
CHILD’S PLAY
LOSSES George Michael
EXCLUSIVE
BY JOHN STEVENS Political Editor
STRUGGLING parents want
more free childcare to help
them get back to work, a poll
has revealed.
Almost two-thirds of those
surveyed would like to see more
PRESSURE Jeremy Hunt
Parents want more free nursery places
flexible daycare times announced
in Wednesdays Budget and free
support starting for children as
young as nine months.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is
expected to announce a rise in
the level of support for low-income
families and change the rules
surrounding Universal Credit so families
get childcare benefits in advance instead
of being reimbursed.
But the Chancellor is not expected to
announce any changes to the existing 30
hours of free childcare that is currently
available for three and four-year-olds.
The poll of 1,500 adults for our news-
paper by researchers Redfield and
Wilton also found 85% are worried
about how they will pay their bills.
They also think Keir Starmer would
be a better Prime Minister than Rishi
Sunak, with 41% opting for the Labour
leader over our current PM.
john.stevens@reachplc.com
Vick a Sheri’s
line of beauty
NE of Duty's Vicky McClure is all smiles after
atching gal pal Sheridan Smith's smash hit
oduction of Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine.
Gavin & Stacey’s Sheridan, 41, broke the box
fice opening record at the West End’s Duke Of
)rk when the play took £4million in ticket sales.
Clearly, for Vicky, 39, and her family, watching
ie comedy was a pleasure not a duty.
Wham! idol’s
charity blow
GEORGE Michaels charity
lost nearly £700,000 after
investments worth
millions dived over a year.
The Mill Charitable
Trust invested £7million
last year, but the market
value tumbled to £6.3m.
It comes after the
charity handed out just
£550,000 of £8.2m from a
2022 auction of the star’s
art. Around £3m of the
£11.2m sale went on costs.
The Trust said: “In
accordance with the
charity’s investment policy,
the principal sum raised
from the auction has been
invested."
Rescue hope
for SVB bank
NEW clearing bank The
Bank of London may step
in to salvage the UK arm of
failed Silicon Valley Bank
The US lender collapsed
on Friday and the Bank of
England moved to put the
UK arm into insolvency.
The Bank of London was
only founded two years
ago but recently raised
$1 billion to fund growth.
Hundreds of UK-based
tech start-ups that banked
with SVB risk insolvency
themselves due to being
locked out of accounts.
NEW ROLE Danny Dyer
Ender world
is nigh, Dan..
DANNY Dyer is to star in a
quirky BBC comedy about
a hen party thrown into
chaos by the apocalypse.
The former EastEnder
offers sage advice, insight
and even weapons training
to the bridal party.
Danny, 45, said: “When
I saw the pilot, I p***ed
myself laughing. I was
honoured to be asked to
be part of such an amazing
job. It’s hilarious.”
Henpocalypse! is being
filmed in The Wirral and
Snowdonia.
Writer Caroline Moran
said: “The apocalypse has
never been so much fun.”
SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12, 2023
NEWS & FEATURES
SILVER SCREEN HEART OF GOLD
r
Meghan
to Gwyn
& bare it
New look The Tig to take on Goop
LIFESTYLE GURUS Meghan & Gwyneth1
CAMERA Filming scenes |
at Canary Wharf, London ,
LIGHTS Stars
Elizabeth and
Rufus on set
BY SASKIA ROWLANDS
ACTRESS Elizabeth Debicki
is the spitting image of
Diana doing charity work
alongside her son.
The late Princess of
Wales was a big
supporter of homeless
mag The Big Issue.
And these scenes
EXCLUSIVE
BY PETER SHERIDAN
MEGHAN Markle's lifestyle bloq
The Tig is set for a comeback -
and is ready to take on Gwyneth
Paltrow's £200million Goop.
The Duchess, 41, has got official
preliminary approval to revive the
website she shut down after getting
engaged to Prince Harry in 2017.
Like Goop, the revamped blog
would offer tips on food, travel,
fashion, the arts, design, conscious
living and wellness.
The mum of two
could also become
a kind of agony
aunt, according to
details filed with
the US Trademark
and Patent Office.
from the upcoming series six
of Netflix smash The Crown
recreate her 1990s work for
the charity alongside a
teenage Prince William,
played by Rufus Kampa.
William, 40, still supports
the cause his mum loved - he
went undercover as a Big
Issue seller last summer.
Despite notable tensions between
Meghan, her dad, sister and the
Royal Family, her site would dole out
“commentary in the field of personal
relationships”, papers state.
The website, set to go live as soon
as next week, could become the
latest money-making venture for
the Duke and Duchess after they
were cut off from royal funds.
Insiders say Meghan hopes to
rival Gwynnie’s mega-successful
site, which does a lucrative trade in
New Age wellness luxuries such as
vagina-scented candles.
Meghan founded The
Tig, named after her
favourite red wine, in
2014 while starring
in legal drama Suits.
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12.2023
THOUSANDS DEMAND TORIES FIX
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EXCLUSIVE BY BEN TURNER
PEOPLE harmed by the Covid
vaccine have been paid out more
than £5million in damages.
Almost 4,000 claims relating
to the jab were made under the
Vaccine Damage Payment
Scheme which provides a
one-off £120,000 payment.
The NHS said 44 claims
had been successful so
far but 2,947 are still
awaiting a verdict.
Alexandra Kelly got
£120,000 after her mum
Thousands wait
for bad jab cash
Anthea, 71, died with pneumonitis,
an inflammation of the lung
5. following her AstraZeneca
jab in January 2021.
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f ’ *. • scheme a "shambles",
with hundreds of other
ПП claims rejected or in limbo.
Claire Hibbs was refused a payout
18 months after claiming.
She was hospitalised for nearly
a month with blood clotting
following an AstraZeneca jab.
The mum of two said she had to
quit her operations job at EasyJet.
Claire, 49, said she was not paid
out because she was not deemed
to have reached a criteria of being
60% disabled due to the vaccine.
NHS Business Services
Authority, which runs the scheme,
said it was increasing its resources
to process claims quicker.
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BYMIKEYSMITH W h 11 e h a 11 Correspondent
THE Prime Minister must mount
a "COBRA-style" response to the
spiralling NHS crisis that has
left staff overwhelmed and
patients "frightened” the Shadow
Health Secretary has warned.
Wes Streeting urged Rishi Sunak to
react as figures showed one in three
NHS trusts have declared “critical inci-
dents” since Christmas - even more
than when the omicron Covid variant
ran rampant across the UK last year.
Critical incident status is the highest
level of emergency in the NHS, but Mr
Sunak still refuses to describe the
health service situation as a “crisis.”
Mr Streeting described first hand the
“nightmare scenario" he witnessed at
a hospital that was so overwhelmed
some patients had to wait more than
two days to be seen.
And he urged Chancellor Jeremy
Hunt to adopt Labours plan to boost
NHS staff in Wednesday s budget
But he said the PM should also get a
grip on the crisis with the same focus
deployed by the Tories on strike days.
In an exclusive interview, he said:
“On strike days we had a national
CO BRA-style oversight on the situa-
tion in emergency departments right
across the country. Why isn’t there that
focus every other day?”
Data obtained by Labour reveals 38
trusts have declared critical incidents
since December 21 - compared to 24
during thejanuary 2022 omicron wave.
Hospitals must declare this status
when patients are being cared for in
overcrowded conditions, they cannot
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Streeting said he saw patients on
trolleys in corridors who had waited
for more than 50 hours.
He said a “fit to sit” regime was
brought in to ease pressure on A&E
beds. But that meant patients able to
sit upright had been lined up on
chairs “like on an aeroplane".
He added: “We saw patients in
rows in bays that would normally
host one patient in one bed - as many
as six chairs with patients waiting. Its
a nightmare scenario when every part
of the NHS is overwhelmed.
“It means the patient experience
isn’t just miserable, its frightening.”
Mr Streeting said the staff were
“committed" but “struggling because
there simply isn’t enough of them.” He
said a Labour Government would
double the number of medical school
places to help fill thousands of NHS
vacancies and introduce a fair pay
agreement to boost
social care recruitment.
He also wants reforms
on pension rules that
“force” doctors to retire
and pharmacies to be
allowed to take on more
work from doctors.
But he added: “I’d
rather the Government
swallowed its pride and
started to adopt Labour
policies now - because I don’t think
the NHS has time to lose.”
As chair of the Health Select
Committee, Mr Hunt last year said he
It’s a nightmare
scenario., the
NHS patient
experience isn’t
just miserable,
it’s frightening
hoped the Government would adopt
Labour’s recruitment plan.
Mr Streeting said: “I wish Jeremy
Hunt would listen a bit more to
Jeremy Hunt Everything about Rishi
— Sunak is short term.
“Its all about ‘How
can I put sticking plas-
ters on ahead of the
election?’ The country
deserves better.”
The Department of
Health and Social Care
said its £14.1bn health
and social care plan
will “deliver one of the
fastest and longest
sustained improvements in emer-
gency waiting times in NHS history".
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Woman& tot
die in smash
A WOMAN and toddler
died when a lorry smashed
into their car.
Police said the pair, aged
34 and three, were killed
when a white articulated
truck hit their Ford Focus
on a dual carriageway.
The car was stopped on
the inside lane and a driver
had already phoned 999
after swerving to avoid it
The westbound A180
was closed overnight after
the crash at 9pm on Friday.
Humberside Police said
the pair died at the scene.
Mass killer's
gun club link
GUNMAN Philipp Fusz,
who killed six people and
an unborn baby, practised
at a £75-a-month gun club,
it emerged yesterday.
Fusz, 35, spent hours at
a rifle range near the scene
of his Hamburg rampage.
A German police source
said: “Its a shooting gallery
where lawyers and bankers
‘have fun after work"
Fusz fired 135 shots at a
Jehovah’s Witness hall he
used to go to, before killing
himself. The mum carrying
the unborn baby survived.
BYPHILCARDY
THOUSANDS have been left
mopping up after Storm Larisa
unleashed blizzards, heavy
rain and gales.
The Environment Agency posted
over 50 flood alerts yesterday, with
roads closed in Cambridgeshire
and Northamptonshire.
Temperatures fell to -15C in
northern Scotland on Friday night,
but forecasters say the heaviest
snow is now over.
Travellers still face disruption
from ice, frost and heavy rain, with
more snow expected in the north.
The Met Office said: “Much of
the UK is likely to be under the
influence of colder conditions into
Tuesday.” Villagers in Hemsby,
Norfolk, were yesterday evacuated
after storms threatened to sweep
their houses into the North Sea.
Work also started to demolish
three wooden homes near a cliff
edge after high tides washed away
nearly 20ft of land.
One resident, Mary Withey, said
“I don’t want to move. It’s very sad.”
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That’s a big deal.
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Quotes
or the
week
This is just an
immeasurably
cruel policy
directed at the
most vulnerable
people in language
that is not
dissimilar to that
used by Germany
in the 30s.
Gary Lineker on the
Government’s plan to
stop small boats crossing
the Channel.
Peltz & braces
LAVISH BASH
But planning
Brooklyn and
Nicola's do
was 'chaotic'
Beckham in-laws hire ‘Mad Dog’
lawyer in bitter wedding battle |
That
is the
biggest
load of
bull*** I
have ever heard.
Sir Michael Caine on
allegations his 1964 film
Zulu incites the far-right
You don't realise
you look a little off,
so you keep doing
more. You don't
realise what it
looks like to the
outside person and
then having to
have them
removed, which
thank God they
are, I think I
messed up a lot.
Friends star Courteney
Cox regrets getting fillers.
The North is yet
again being asked
to pay the price
for staggering
Conservative
failure.
Shadow Transport
Secretary Louise Haigh
on the announced delays
to HS2 from Birmingham
to Crewe and Manchester.
I'm frazzled. I find
being a mum hard.
I feel tired and like
I have to split
myself into three,
but just love them
so much, so would
never change it.
Newly single
ex-Corrie
star Helen
Flanagan
ir might want
to go back to
Weatherfield for a rest!
We live a private
life away from the
cameras - It’s not
for everyone. He's
a private man, I
have to respect
that.
In shock news, Gemma
Collins reveals she
doesn’t tell us everything
about her relationship
with Rami Hawash.
EXCLUSIVE
BY LAURAARMSTRONG
Assistant Editor. Showbiz_______
NICOLA Peltz’s family has set a
"ferocious pit bull" of a lawyer on
the wedding planners they accuse
of botching her £3million cere-
mony with Brooklyn Beckham.
Brief Marty Singer, nicknamed
rMad Dog”, is representing the
* л mega-rich clan as they sue a firm
И that was sacked just weeks before
1 the bash in Florida last April.
I He charges £800 an hour and is
11 famed for helping big names -
11 including Sylvester Stallone,
I 4 Charlie Sheen, Bill Cosby and
1 Prince Andrew - salvage their
A reputations.
] One source said: “Singer is
/ famous for his pit bull tactics
/ and that is what Nicola is looking
Г for. This ongoing legal case has the
potential to really damage her repu-
tation and she is not taking it lightly,
so has called in the big guns.
“He is ferocious in legal battles and
his reputation precedes him. Hiring
him will cost millions but she and her
family feel it’s worth the money*
'Bully'
The legal fight is said to be stressing
out Transformers actress Nicola, 28,
and giving 24-year-old Brooklyn’s
mum Victoria sleepless nights.
Nicolas billionaire dad Nelson Peltz,
80, is suing Nicola Braghin and
Arianna Grijalba, who helped plan the
three-day wedding at his vast estate
in Palm Beach, Florida, last April.
Mr Peltz, who founded the Wendy’s
burger chain, hired them six weeks
before the do when the previous
planner left by “mutual agreement”.
But he sacked them just nine days
later, accusing them of being unable
to cope with the size of the occasion,
and wants his £132,000 deposit back
Arianna and Nicola have filed a
counter claim for breach of contract
- branding him a “billionaire bully”.
They are also seeking damages of at
least £41,000, plus costs from bride
Nicola, her mother Claudia and
wedding designer Rishi Patel.
They claim things were so disorgan-
ised - with
BIG DAY Couple at wedding last April
The case has the
potential to damage
Nicola’s reputation,
he’ll cost millions
but the family think
its worth the money
CLIENT Singer with actor Sly Stallone
too busy to speak on the phone - that
things went downhill quickly. The
chaos is revealed in court papers
which include hundreds of messages.
Nicola allegedly splurged £85,000 on
her hair and make-up - and her mum
is said to have asked planners not to
tell Nelson.
The source added: “The feeling is
this could spiral out of control and end
up affecting Nicola and the rest of
к the family very badly.
V' “The hope is that Singer can
ijLi stop that happening."
Nicola and Victoria also
allegedly feuded over the
bride’s choice of dress.
к The Peltzes were
contacted for comment.
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billionaire dad Nelson
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12.2023
EXCLUSIVE
BY MIKEYSMITH
Whitehall Correspondent__
AN Armageddon alert system
which will sound on mobile phones
in an emergency is to be trialled
nationwide within weeks.
END OF WORLD?
Millions across the UK will hear a
10-second loud alarm on their
phones, along with a government test
text warning of a “danger to life”.
It's understood first trials will warn
of flooding and extreme weather.
Ministers have vowed to introduce
WE’LL TEXT YOU
the system since 2013 - with —threats, not least from Putins
Labour now pressing them to Russia, our country has been
get a move on. Shadow lagging ^ar behind on
Paymaster General /keeping the public safe."
Fleur Anderson said J A government promise to
“While Britain faces a launch the system in October
increasing global v' came to nothing, as did a vow in
December when it published its
National Resilience Framework. So far
only local testing has been completed.
Officials trialled the system in
Reading in 2021 when comments on
BerkshireLive’s Facebook page ranged
from “I nearly wet myself” to “it
scared the life out of me” A Govern-
ment spokesperson said: “Emergency
Alerts will be a vital tool in helping
us better respond to emergencies,
both nationally and locally.
“We have worked closely with the
emergency services to develop this
and carried out extensive trials
ahead of its national rollout. We
expect to update shortly?
Ms Anderson added: “Labour has a
plan to ensure government is alert to
the threats our country faces."_____
mikey.smith@reachplc.com
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team Los Angeles Lakers beat the
Toronto Raptors 122-112 in LA on Friday.
Meanwhile, his movie, Luther: The
Fallen Sun, made its debut on Netflix.
Driver & Vehicle
Licensing
Agency
your driving
licence?
IDRIS Elba goes courtside as his TV
sleuth Luther nets another case.
The star, 50, was all smiles when he
and wife Sabrina watched basketball
4
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j LANA’S MUM IN WARNING TO RON
OliviaS Max
in their own
Casa Amor
BABY TALK Lana and
Tom Clare are left holding
the babies in challenge
LOVED UP Max & Olivia
SWEETHEARTS Olivia
Hawkins and Maxwell
Samuda have been
living together since
leaving Love Island.
And actress Olivia-
who is staying with
finance student Max, 23,
at his dad's London
home - has high hopes
fortheir future.
She said: "Things are
going great with Max.
I’m excited for the
future. Being just the
two of us and not having
prying eyes is nice.
Doing normal things like
going for a coffee has
been really lovely."
Olivia, 27, is backing
best pal Lana Jenkins
and Ron Hall to win
tomorrow’s final, saying:
"He’s a lovely guy.
They’re great together.
"People may criticise
that they're boring but
they're both sweet.”
Surprisingly, Olivia is
also backing Kai Fagan,
24, who ditched her in
the villa. She said:
"What happened has
been left in the villa."
And she said of talk
that she was with
EastEnders star Max
Bowden, who plays Ben
Mitchell, before the
show: "He's a good
friend. Nothing
happened."
FORMER Islander
Megan Barton-Hanson
hit it off with Queen
Consort Camilla when
they met at a reception
at Buckingham Palace.
Megan, 29, was a
speaker at this week's
Women of the World
Festival and had
been invited to help
celebrate International
Women’s Day.
A fellow guest said:
“They chatted for quite
a while. Camilla is
patron of the WOW
Festival and Megan is
really passionate about
it as a cause."
SEALED WITH KISS
Loved-up Ron and
Lana locking lips J
Rachel, from Northwich,
Cheshire, has seen Lana
struggling in the villa and
even reduced to tears
numerous times.
She said: “I just want to
give her a hug, I have been
wanting to do it for eight
weeks. We have had quite
a few crying sessions at
home. She always comes out
EXCLUSIVE
BY JANINE YAQOOB
TV and Showbiz Editor____
LOVE Island favourite Ron
Hall may go from chilled
to grilled tonight when his
girlfriend's mum arrives.
Laid-back Ron, 25, will be
quizzed about his roller-
coaster relationship with
make-up artist Lana Jenkins.
It comes in a first for the
reality show as contestants’
family members, including
Lanas mum Rachel,
head to the South .
African villa. I
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script supervisor on \
Channel 4 soap V
Hollyoaks, will use \ ,
the chance to put the \
frighteners on Ron.
She said: “I’m going to \
tell him to look after my
daughter. Every mum
wants their daughter to be
treated like a princess. If
| Ron adores her like her
L family does, then that’s
good for me."
Financial adviser Ron,
from Essex, and Lana, 25,
have gone from strength
to strength and have a
solid relationship, despite
a rocky start
Ron, who is blind in one
eye due to a childhood foot-
ball injury, was criticised for
his treatment of Lana when
she decided to recouple with
Casey O’Gorman, 26. She was
fed-up with Rons head being
turned by new arrivals.
of it a little bit stronger. To
progress in life we have to
have those moments when
we need to cry?
But there have also been
plenty of laughs in the villa,
such as when Lana and Tom
Clare shared tips during the
baby challenge.
Rachel holds no hard
feelings towards Ron and
looks forward to welcoming
him into the family, saying:
“He’s really redeemed himself.
He’s been sweet and lovely.
"I’m hoping we
fl can celebrate a
/ new love. When I
J first saw him I
7 thought,‘He’s a good
/ looking lad, he’s got
/ loads of chat, but uh-uh’,
X if you know what I mean?
r But he’s proved himselC
One of the five remaining
couples will leave tonight but
Ron and Lana are the
bookies’ third favourites to
win the £50k prize tomorrow.
And Rachel has defended
them against claims that
they are dull, saying: “If
people think being chilled,
peaceful and kind is boring,
that’s up to them.
“It’s so lovely to see them
together. They’re so sweet.
“They’re taking their time
with their relationship.
They’re not forcing anything.
“It’s natural and organic.
It’s beautiful.”
janine.yaqoob@reachplc.com
Love Island is on tonight at
9pm on ITV2.
DON’
hopeful Lana
I’ve wanted
to give her a
hug for eight
weeks. We’ve
cried a lot
WITH
MY GIRL
14 NEWS & FEATURES
VOICE OF THE
Beebhas
raced into
a disaster
The power of social media is incredible,
really. With just a 35-word tweet, Gary
Lineker has set the news agenda for days.
Leading politicians have spoken out
- albeit not saying much - and the BBC,
already preoccupied with threats to its licence
fee, has been plunged into chaos.
Last night Match of the Day was broadcast
at only a fraction of its normal length with no
commentators and no punditry.
Whatever your view of Mr Linekers inter-
vention, it is impressive to see such a display
of support from his colleagues.
And it raises questions about how the BBC
has acted.
Normally, an incident like this would run
out of steam on the news agenda.
But for some reason, BBC bosses decided
Mr Linekers social media was an issue that
needed to be addressed.
Error
The amount of talent that has backed him
and the widespread support - some from
unexpected quarters - shows the BBC has
made a mess of things.
There are millions of licence-fee payers
who will feel the same.
Mr Lineker, though employed by the BBC,
has a right to speak his mind.
At all times, but particularly when the
chairman Richard Sharp remains in post.
Mr Sharp is facing criticism for his role in
helping secure an £800,000 personal loan for
Boris Johnson.
He made, MPs said, a “significant error
of judgement”. Another example of a BBC boss
acting hastily and wrongly.
We hope things will return to normal next
week and we can all get back to enjoying the
BBC’s football coverage.
What this embarrassing episode may have
demonstrated is that we are moving past
knee-jerk reactions.
Mr Lineker did not attack the Government’s
Illegal Migration Bill on air. He did not indulge
in hate speech. He remains, in his work, a
talented and professional presenter.
As far as we can tell, the only bias he exhibits
when he presents the Premier League high-
lights is a penchant for Leicester City.
Even that can be forgiven.
No quick cure
Last January, as Omicron swept the country,
we thought the latest variant of Covid-19
would be the worst crisis to hit the NHS.
All manner of promises were made. Our
health service heroes would be rewarded and
the NHS would get the funding it deserves.
But a year on and the situation is now
worse than ever.
There is no quick fix. It’s not a question of
just slinging cash at the problem any more.
The NHS needs to be put back in the hands
of people who care for it, who cherish it like
the rest of the country.
That, quite simply, is not this government
ikeir.mudie@reachplc.com IF @mudiek
Keir Mudie
Your man in Westminster
HS2 HAS
ALREADY
RETIRED
A long time ago, this
newspaper predicted that
HSZinthe North was
going to be a disaster.
But we didn't realise the
extent of guite how inept
the planning and execution
of the rail project would be.
This week, further delays
were announced for the
Birmingham to Crewe
section of the line.
No mention, of course, of
when it was going to reach
Manchester. It feels like
this is not just a delay but
the beginning of the end.
And a kick in the teeth
for all those who were
relying on it. A betrayal of
the levelling-up agenda.
Robert Downes, pictured,
from the business
community in Manchester,
said: "I was a young man
when this was announced. I
could well be retired by the
time it’s completed.”
We all will be, Robert, we
all will...
Tory boats for votes
Vile Migration Bill shows Govt
election campaign is under way
dunno how far you work in
advance. I’ve got some picks for
Cheltenham next week, and I’ve
already sussed out how to get
out of the country for the Corona-
tion... but that’s about my limit
There are people running round
Westminster already planning for
an election. About 18 months is
the smart money. You can tell
campaigning has already started
by this week’s antics.
The Illegal Migration Bill,
doomed to fail from birth. A better
name, in fact, would have been
the Illegal Illegal Migration Bill
as even on the front of it they
admit it might not
pass the lawyers.
Terrible, inhumane,
awful bit of legislation
- for all sorts of
reasons. But above all,
a really cheap electoral
trick, which is a great
indicator were up and
running campaign-
wise. What this
Government is setting up to do is
to try to revitalise the coalition of
voters that backed Brexit. There is
polling out there that says 15- 20%
of people are undecided.
Quite the number, and this is
the first real high-stakes attempt
to go for them.
This bill, they reckon, will play
well. It shouldn’t, but it might. The
sting though, is that opposing it
- on grounds of ethics, morality,
legality - will allow the Tories to
frame Labour as part of the
“activist blob” that stops anything
happening. Then we head into an
election based fully on a culture
u
They think
this bill will
play well...
it shouldn’t,
but it might
war, and no one knows quite
where it will end.
It’s a struggle for the Left to
articulate any sort of pro-immi-
gration argument. Always has
been. It’s complicated and tricky
to respond to simple slogans
“Send Them Back”, “Lock Them
Up” and “Stop the Boats" with
some sensible, human arguments.
At least Gary Lineker is
speaking out. To be clear, he is
comparing the language used
about migrants and refugees to
the 1930s - not suggesting that
the Government is comparable to
the Third Reich. Just the language.
He’s spot on. And the
treatment he’s had at
the hands of a paranoid
BBC is shameful. At
least his colleagues are
showing their support.
Even the phrase
“small boats” is reduc-
tive, but by far not the
worst of the language
being bandied about.
“Invasion” is the most unpalatable
so far. Anyways, these are the
first shots in what is going to be a
bitter and unpleasant campaign.
Expect some sweeteners in the
Budget next week
For what it’s worth, I found Mr
Sunak’s speech so depressing I
spent most of it trying to make the
longest word I could out of the
repellant Stop the Boats slogan on
the front of the lectern. Have a go.
I got “osteopath” for nine, and
“potatoes” for eight. “Tosspot” was
my favourite though. Only seven,
but somehow I prefer it
bloke in the antler hat
- the QAnon Shaman -
rampaging around.
Odd definition of
sightseeing. I suppose used
in the sense that the
Vandals only came to Rome
for a look around...
• AUS news anchor
^1^ this week
• Pt described the mob
that smashed up
the Capitol in January last
year as "sightseers".
Remember them? Violent
crowds with that weird
meat on a Friday, provided they did a bit of penance.
So I’ve written, special delivery, to the Bishop of Bilbao
to see if we can get a similar exemption on a couple of
Guinness with the football this afternoon. I'll let you know.
It's week three of Lent so no drinking, and it is -
to put it mildly - a struggle.
Then news came from Spain where a dining
club in the Basque region got permission to eat
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12. 2023
ICE
VIV-A
VOOM
Glammed-up
drag star
QUEEN’S
Я
L
ne Vivienne
HOT COMPETITION Show
host Holly and judge Oti
EXCLUSIVE
BY BY JANINE YAQOOB TV and Showbiz Editor
DANCING on Ice star The Vivienne will have
her eye on two prizes in tonight's final -
as well as being crowned winner, she wants
to beat Holly Willoughby and Oti__________
Mabuse in the glamour department.
The drag queen, 30, revealed the
competition has been hotting up
between herself, host Holly and judge
Oti as they all try to outdo each other
with their glitzy gowns.
And The Vivienne, 30, admitted
she’s planning to take all her skating
outfits with her as a parting gift
She said: “When we skated to Evita,
Holly said ‘Oh my God, I love that dress!’
Me and Holly have found our mutual
love of shiny things.
“Oti has out-dragged me a couple of
times this season. She’s fabulous.”
But the Welsh star admitted: “One
of Holly’s dresses would probably fit on
my thigh so I’ll take two. I’m taking all
the outfits with me.”
The star - real name James Lee
Williams - heaped praise on ITV for
к putting a drag queen on the prime-
& time show and said she is proud to
S» represent the LGBTQ+ community and
gflk inspire young people to be themselves.
ИВ' x She explained: “I’m so blessed ITV have
fr* put me on. They’ve been doing it for years
r with Lily Savage. It’s nothing new. But I’m
honoured to fly the flag.
“We have inspired youngsters, who are
watching us and copying us.”
The Vivienne glided into the final despite
suffering a fall during her solo skate in last Д
week’s semi and has vowed to “go big
or go home” when she takes on
reality star Joey Essex, 32, and
Olympic gymnast Nile Wilson, 27.
She refused to give too much
away about her last performances
with pro-skater Colin Grafton, but
teased: “All 1 can say about my final
routine is that it’s The Hunger
Games of Dancing on Ice.”
The show has also inspired her to take W
on more challenges. She said: “It’s given me
a new lease of life. I’m going to start driving
» and learn to play the piano.”
Dancing On Ice is on ITV at 6.30pm.
janine.yaqoob@reachplc.com
Joey: Rink antics
are a smart move
-------— REALITY TV’s Joey
Essex hopes Dancing on
Ice will spin people's
opinions about him.
The former TOW IE
favourite has previously
been teased for being
unable to tell the time,
thinking tiny horses
power cars and that a
square has six sides.
He said: "This was my
time to show people I
am dedicated and I'm
not as unintelligent as
people think I am.
Everyone has presumed
that I'm silly and stupid.
"People thought I’d be
all over the place, falling
over, not able to do this.
It's changed me, it's given
me more discipline."
There have been
rumours of romance with his ice
partner Vanessa Bauer, 26. He said
their relationship is "wholesome" and
"special" and if they win they would
celebrate with Vanessa's family.
& *
NILE Wilson plans
to fill the Dancing on Ice
trophy with champagne and down
it with pro partner Olivia Smart
if the pair win tonight's final.
The retired Olympic gymnast said:
"It's been overwhelming and amazing
- we plan to neck a full bottle of
champagne out of the trophy.
j "I'm excited to put my feet up and be
J back with my family and girlfriend."
w Promising a "risky" routine, Nile
has set his sights on a career change.
He added: "I've learnt about myself, skills
I can take forward. I was comfortable
fitting into the performing aspect
with my background and I'd like
to explore that more.'
Me and Holly found
our mutual love of
shiny things.. Oti
has out-dragged me
a couple of times.
She is fabulous
W The Vivienne’s out to beat DOI host
' “ 1ЛПН___LL.. ' ±L_ z__l:______
j Willoughby... in the fashion skates
HOLLYWOOD
— — _ _
FINAL LINE-UP Joey
The Vivienne and Niles
SEMI FINAL SLIP-UP Star |
after fall on last week's show
GLAMOUR
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FIGURES
‘9yrs of sewage hell’
WILSON Yellowe has endured
"nine years of complete hell"
after sewage leaked onto his
ground-floor balcony.
The L&Q tenant, 59, said he
got a bacterial infection after a
pipe from a flat above burst in
2014 and faeces and urine
flowed out. L&O has carried
out repairsand paid
compensation totalling
CASE STUDY 1
£33,250 since 2017 for
two claims - but on one
occasion did not admit fault.
The firm is arranging
more work but former lorry
driver Wilson, of West London,
said: "I’m furious. The pipe is
still hanging off the wall. It's
an absolute disgrace."
LEAK Wilson Yellowe
and his balcony
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BY SIMON MURPHY, MATTHEW
DRESCH and BEN TURNER____________
DISTRESSED housing association
tenants living with blights includ-
ing mould and damp made more
than 15,000 complaints about
disrepair in less than three years.
The shocking scale of the problem
was revealed as people say they are
enduring rat infestations and suffered
health issues from raw sewage.
And some parents in housing asso-
ciation homes fear for their kids’ health
after the tragic case of Awaab Ishak.
A coroner last year concluded the
two-year-old died from a respiratory
condition caused by mould in his
family’s housing association flat in
Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson
pledged in 2020 to “give social housing
tenants a voice".
It came after his predecessor,
Theresa May, said in 2018 that “many
people in society - including too many
politicians - continue to look down on
social housing and, by extension, the
people who call it
their home”.
But figures this
paper obtained
using Freedom of
Information laws
suggest little has
changed, showing
protests to a
watchdog about
damp and mould
in housing asso-
ciation properties
rose four-fold in
under three years.
The Housing
Ombudsman got
15,179 complaints
about housing
association
repairs between
January 2020 and
November 2022. Of those, 4,749 were
about damp and mould, rising 399%
from 475 in 2020 to 2,371 by last
November. All complaints about
housing association repairs rose by
119%, from 2,987 in 2020 to 6,539 in the
first 11 months of 2022.
Most of them - 1,641 - were made
about London & Quadrant Housing
Trust, where Tory businessman Sean
Anstee, former leader of Trafford
council, is a board member.
Lord Barwell, a Tory minister and
chief of staff under Theresa May, is a
non-executive director of
Clarion Housing Group
Limited, which got the
second-highest amount at
1,043. He was paid £22,488 in
2022 and £18,000 in 2021.
L&Q Group houses more
than 250,000 people in
107,00 homes and social
rented housing makes up
the largest proportion of its
properties. Boss Fiona
Fletcher-Smith has a salary of £328,500. dead tenant lay undiscovered in her
Ms Fletcher-Smith reportedly visited flat in Peckham, South East London,
residents who had reported damp and for more than two years. Some 115
mould problems in their homes complaints entered the watchdog’s
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‘Stench as
rats rot in
my walls’
CASE STUDY 2
A MOTHER of four has been stuck
in a rat-infested house for more
than three years.
Joanne Medcraft branded L&O
a "slum landlord" for failing to sort
the vermin problem.
The disabled 43-year-old heard
rats in the walls as soon as she
moved into the home in Romford,
East London, in 2019.
She said in 2021,
she put down
traps and ±
caught 11 rats
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measuring up N
to 16 inches.
Joanne added:
"L&Q sent pest
control several times. At the end
of the year there was this horrific
smell. It was dead rats decaying
inside the walls."
Joanne, who also has trouble
with pigeons roosting and dying
under her broken solar panels,
added: "It’s disgusting and L&O
just couldn’t give a monkey's."
She applied to change homes
but claims she was kicked off the
list after turning down a place that
lacked suitable disabled parking.
In an email last September, L&O
told hen "Repairs should have
been managed more effectively
and completed more swiftly."
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was 16in long |
Complaints
systems are
so woefully
unequal to
the task
recently, and urged them to “report it
to us immediately, so that we can help".
But some L&Q tenants complain
they have been waiting up to nine years
for problems to be fixed.
The ombudsman found
full or partial maladminis-
tration in 88 complaints
against L&Q it determined
during the period out of 232
that entered its remit, and
106 out of 261 for Clarion.
In total, 713 repair
complaints were made
about The Peabody Trust -
which hit headlines after a
NEWS & FEATURES 17
TENANTS’ DISREPAIR COMPLAINTS
CASE STUDY 3
FEARS Eakram Serroukh
& tot in hallway of their flat
TRAGEDY Awaab
Ishak died from
exposure to mould
T worry my
4-year-old
will get ill’
EAKRAM Serroukh fears black mould in her
flat could harm her four-year-old daughter,
who was born with a congenital heart defect
and has a weakened immune system.
The part-time nanny said: "When I heard
about the boy [Awaab Ishak] dying, I was
scared. I worry she's going to get sick.”
Eakram, who is from London and has three
other daughters, noticed a wet patch on the
ceiling in October 2021. It got so bad
mushrooms grew out of the walls.
She said L&Q sent workers out but they
have never found the source of the leak. And
they left a gaping hole in the wall, which she
was forced to cover with paper and duct tape.
Eakram, 39, says she was due to move to a
new home before the pandemic as her girl’s
health issues made them a "medical priority"
but L&Q closed its transfer list, saying
tenants should approach their local council.
She emailed L&Q boss Fiona Fletcher-
Smith in desperation in June last year and an
assistant replied, asking her to not contact
Ms Fletcher-Smith on her personal address
but saying her message had been passed to
the complaints team.
Eakram, who hopes to force L&Q to fix the
leak and get compensation, said: "As grateful
as I am to have a roof over my head, I don't
feel as if I'm living, rather just surviving."
SOCIAL HOUSING
MOULD SCANDAL
formal remit over the period. Malad-
ministration, or partial maladminis-
tration, was found in 30 cases that
were determined.
Shadow Levelling Up and
Housing Secretary Lisa Nandy
said: “It is scandalous that
anybody in modern Britain is
forced to live in a mouldy or
damp home. The scale of the
problem that
these figures ш » •
have revealed
is shocking. j
There is a political consensus on the
need for action.”
Housing Ombudsman Richard
Blakeway said: “Complaint volumes
SHOCKED Lisa Nandy
wants action for tenants
continue to increase
following the unprece-
dented surge last year
and continued concerns
over the quality of social
housing will continue
to drive complaints. In
the scale of their
operations, it is important for
landlords not to lose sight of the
individual impact of cases.
And the Social Housing Action
Campaign said: “The point is not that
things go wrong but that complaints
systems are so woefully unequal to
the task of addressing the problems."
Ms Nandy has called for the Social
Housing Bill to be strengthened to
improve social housing and finally
give tenants a voice. The Government
M
It is scandalous anybody in modern
Britain is forced to live in a mouldy or
damp home. The scale of the problem
these figures have revealed is shocking
has said it will deliver Awaab’s I^aw,
forcing social landlords to fix damp
and mould within strict time limits.
L&Q said it was spending nearly
£3billion over 15 years to improve its
homes and added that Ms Fletcher-
Smith’s salary was “best value".
Ms Fletcher-Smith said the trust
sought to learn from its mistakes and
provide the best service it could.
Of the three L&Q tenants sharing
their stories on these pages, she said:
“These upsetting cases highlight times
where we’ve been too slow to resolve
issues satisfactorily. We are sorry we
did not provide a good service on
these occasions and are working with
the residents to put things right.”
Clarion said: “The complaints
upheld by the Housing Ombudsman
during the almost three-year period
represent less than one in 1,000
Clarion properties. We sincerely apol-
ogise for any case in which residents
have been let down by us.”
A spokesman for Peabody said:
“Everyone has the right to live in a
safe, comfortable home. We support
Government action to make it easier
for social housing residents to access
the Housing Ombudsman."
The Department for Levelling Up,
Housing and Communities said: “It’s
good to see more tenants using the
Housing Ombudsman. Our Social
Housing Bill will drive up standards
and bolster the regulators powers so
landlords who fail to provide decent
homes have nowhere to hide.”
scoops@reachplc.com
18 NEWS & FEATURES
Fare cop for
mobile twits
POLICE are keeping watch
from a double-decker bus
to catch drivers on mobiles.
Operation Decker
snared 12 offenders in four
hours in Plymouth, Devon.
Officers also seized three
cars for having no insur-
ance and arrested one
person for drug-driving.
IT'SHARLLYWOOD
METAL letters 6ft high will
greet Harwich visitors as
Tendring council gives the
Essex seaside town a copy
of Hollywood’s iconic sign.
OOH LA ARR
EXCLUSIVE B Y BEN TURNER
ZUT alors! The traditional
Cornish pasty has fallen into
the hands of the French.
The meat and veg pastry
has been a fiercely
guarded West Country j
icon since the 14th
century. But now a ShL
French firm has bought Ws
French firm gobbles up Cornish delicacy
/ HEARTY Cornish pasty
out Proper Cornish, one of the
UK’s largest pasty makers.
Groupe Boncolac - which
specialises in frozen
desserts - insists there will
be no change to the treats,
aked in Bodmin. But fans
fear they will change. One moaned
online: “They won’t be the same.”
Another said: “Now rebranded as
‘Proper French’. Nice tender frog’s
leg, swede, onion and potato."
Proper Cornish said the acquisi-
tion by Groupe Boncolac would
open up export markets in Europe.
The Cornish Pasty Association
added: “Their pasties will still be
made at the same place, by the same
team and with the same recipe.”
Cornish pasties must be made in
Cornwall under geographic origin
laws - and 120 million are produced
each year, making up £300million of
trade for the county’s economy.
ben.turner@reachplc.com
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12. 2023
NEWS & FEATURES 19
Man held for
cop shooting
A MAN has been arrested
over the shooting of senior
detective John Caldwell at
a sports centre in Omagh.
The suspect, 25, was
seized during a search of a
property in Londonderry.
Det Chief Insp Caldwell,
attacked on February 22, is
still in a critical condition.
The New IRA claimed
responsibility soon after.
Police said the suspect
would also be quizzed over
a hoax alert at a soccer
game attended by the Irish
President and Northern
Ireland Secretary.
Beach 'perv'
sex charges
A MAN has been charged
with a string of sexual
assaults on lone women
walking along a beach.
Four women in their late
teens or 20s said they were
attacked on Brighton
beach at night last month.
Mohamed Abdelsalam,
24, of Brighton, has been
charged with four counts
of sexual assault in relation
to four separate reports.
Brighton magistrates
have remanded him in
custody until the next
hearing on March 27 at a
court yet to be decided.
11b baby well
on her weigh
A BABY bom at 22 weeks
and given less than a 10%
chance of life is now a
healthy six months old.
Rachel Stonehouse gave
birth to 11b loz Imogen
at Swansea’s Singleton
Hospital on September 6.
The tot was immediately
placed in a bag in an incu-
bator to mimic the womb.
She finally went home in
Bridgend, South Wales,
after 132 days in hospital.
Rachel, 28, said: “Imogen
has gone through more
than we will in our lifetime
and she smashed it."
Canal host's
phone stolen
CANAL Boat Diaries star
Robbie Cummings phone
containing footage and
songs he had recorded
for his hit BBC4 documen-
tary has been stolen.
It was nicked on a night
in Nottingham after boat
Naughty Lass broke down.
He tracked it to an estate
with Find My iPhone but
no one there could help.
Producer Stuart
Woodman said Robbie
had already uploaded
the footage but added: “It’s
a big blow to lose his
phone - it’s his work tool.”
PEN IS MIGHTIER...
Masha with picture
and defiant message
я против войны'!
EXCLUSIVE
BY KATERINA ROMANIK
and JOHN SIDDLE
A RUSSIAN schoolgirl who
drew an anti-war picture
in an art lesson was
taken from her dad and ,
put in an orphanage.
Masha Moskaleva, 13,
sketched a woman
defiantly shielding her
child from President
Vladimir Putins missiles.
The picture featured thet
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in crayons
Russia punishes girl, 13, over anti-war pic
and he reported it to police in
Yefremov, south of Moscow. The school
was then visited by officers from the
THREAT
Federal Security Service, inde-
pendent rights watchdog
OVD-Info reported.
Masha’s father Alexei
Moskalev - who shared
a photo of her holding
the picture, adding the
words “I am against
war" - said: “The officers
were waiting for Masha at
the entrance, asking all of
the students their names.
and said, ‘Dad, the police almost
caught me -1 drew a picture’’
“She was scared and I promised I
would come to her school and wait for
her until classes were oven
The next day, single father
Alexei was “violently inter-
rogated” by security officers
- who sent Masha to an
orphanage. The 53-year-old
added: “They told me I was
raising a child incorrectly."
Since speaking about their
plight he has been put under
house arrest and faces a jail
term for “discrediting" the army.
Alyona Agafonova, a volunteer
helping the family, said: “He is
forbidden to communicate with
И
The dad lives
alone under
house arrest
and can’t talk
to anyone
anyone. He lives alone, so he cant even
go to the store to buy food. No one
knows what happened to the girl. She
was last seen on March 1.
“I tried to get into the
orphanage but they did
not let us in. On March 6,1
passed a phone to her to
have her call me. But I have
not heard from her.”
The Kremlin banned
statements that “discredit
the military” after it
invaded Ukraine a year
ago. OVD-Info claims 544
children have been held for anti-war
protests and at least 19 anti-war
teachers have been fired.
scoops@reachplc.com
Ukrainian flag with “Glory to
Ukraine” written on it and the Russian
flag with the words “No to war”.
Her art teacher told the principal
“My daughter immedi-
ately realised what was going on. She
managed to slip through. She gave a
fake name. She came running home
Hell in Ukraine’s new killing zone
20 NEWS & FEATURES
SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12.2023
w
fashion
Olivia
Wilde was on
sparkling form in a
sequined bra topas
she celebrated her 39th
birthday at the CAA pre Oscars party.
The Don’t Worry Darling actress and
director - who is said to be dating again after
splitting from Harry Styles - was joined by
Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal and Simone Ashley as she
partied at the posh do at LA’s Sunset Tower Hotel.
Olivia also marked the occasion by blowing out the
candles on a rose-coloured birthday cake, decorated
with flowers. Maybe she wished for an Oscar
nomination next year...
BR DGERTON
BEAUTY Actress
Simone Ashley
DIRECTOR'S CUT
Pedro Pasca and
Ova W de
BEST ACTOR
Austin Butler - Elvis 11/10
Brendan Fraser - The
Whale 8/11
Colin Farrell - The
Banshees of Inisherin 8/1
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
50/1
Bill Nighy-Living 80/1
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTOR
Ke Huy Quan - Everything
Everywhere All At
Once 1/66
Brendan Gleeson - The
Banshees of Inisherin 14/1
Brian Tyree Henry -
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Judd Hirsch-The
Fabelmans 40/1
BEST ACTRESS
Michelle Yeoh - Everything
Everywhere All at
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Cate Blanchett - Тэг EVS
Andrea Riseborough -
To Leslie 16
Michelle Williams-
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Ana de Armas-
Blonde 40/1
BEST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS
Angela Bassett -
Black Panther:
Wakanda Forever 11/8
Jamie Lee Curtis-
Everything Everywhere
All at Once 6/4
Kerry Condon -
The Banshees of
Inisherin 2/1
Runners
& riders
Barry Keoghan - The
Banshees of Inisherin 14/1
Stephanie Hsu -
Everything Everywhere
All at Once 33/1
Hong Chau - The Whale
40/1
BEST PICTURE
Everything Everywhere
All at Once 1/20
All Quiet on the
Western Front 10/1
The Banshees of
Inisherin 14/1
Top Gun: Maverick 20/1
The Fabelmans 25/1
Tar 33/1
Elvis 33/1
Women Talking
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Sadness 100/1 ip
Avatar - The V
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BEST DIRECTOR
Daniel Kwan and
Daniel Scheinert
- Everything
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Steven Spielberg -
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Martin McDonagh -
The Banshees of
Inisherin 12/1
Todd Field - Tar 14/1
Ruben Ostlund -
Triangle of Sadness
50/1
Eve Hewson was
honoured as a
rising star at the
Oscar Wilde Awards.
The actress -
daughter of U2
rocker Bono and wife
Ali Hewson - joked she had fooled
the world into thinking she
was "a classic перо baby”
before she got her role In
Apple* hit, Bad Sisters.
Eve, 31, added: "I’m so
proud to be a baby
alcoholic with
emotional issues and
murderous tendencies."
We assume she means
the character...
FAMILY AFFAIR
Eve. Inset, dad V
Bono and mum
Ali at the awards
No Filter
with Laura Armstrong & Janine Yaqoob
Guests at the Governors Ball
Oscars after-party will enjoy
Don Julio tequila cocktails
made by acclaimed
mixologist Charles Joly
i and champagne from
Fleur de Miraval. And
chef Wolfgang Puck's
menu will include .
beef Wellington, agnolotti, cod bouillabaisse
and his signature smoked salmon - shaped
like an Oscar, natch.
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BIRTHDAY GIRL
Olivia blows out /
candles on cake
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NEWS & FEATURES 21
-----,1. —
AT THE
OSCARS
Sorry saga over
Maverick Gaga
Top Gun nominee annoys bosses by swerving show I
Lady Gaga has sparked
the ire of Oscars bosses by
turning down an invite to
perform after keeping them
hanging for months.
The star is the third favourite to take
the gong for power ballad Hold
My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick,
behind favourite Naatu Naatu and
Rihanna’s Lift Me Up, from Black
Panther: Wakanda Forever.
But while the other competitors all
confirmed their performances in
February, Gaga kept frustrated
bosses guessing by “going back
and forth" on her decision.
She is said to have been i
undecided on whether she H
could squeeze in enough i
rehearsal time.
But sources at LAs Dolby X-**'
Theatre said show chiefs X
were left “annoyed and У
disappointed” when
the US superstar
finally backed out Ск
this month. |
Oscars bosses had X
invited all five nomi- ~
nees in the category to
perform - and were
EXCLUSIVE
expecting Gaga to accept.
But as the confirmations
came in thick and fast,
she remained on the
fence before finally
declining, citing filming
commitments for Joker:
Folie a Deux. Gaga is «
starring as wildcard
Harley Quinn in the movie, Г
opposite Joaquin Phoenix.
Oscars executive
4 producer Glenn Weiss confirmed
the singer s decision to pull out of
the ceremony this week, and
J insisted the Academy has “a great
, / relationship” with the star.
But we hear it has been
< /1 * a different story behind
' the scenes. One source
\ told us: “There are a lot
of annoyed and
disappointed
people.” A second
. insider said:
b'A' “There were lots
of discussions
between our camp
И . and hers, but it was
pretty late in the
BOWLED OVER
Ri at Super Bowl
saying
who
game that she decided it was a ‘nd,
she wouldn’t be able to do it
justice. She is very famously a
perfectionist when it comes
to her performances, but it
still did not go down well
' with the bosses.”
Umbrella singer
. Rihanna,
performed at the Super
Bowl half-time show last
l month,was quick to
confirm her attendance ।
after her first awards nod.
Gaga’s first appearance on the
Oscars stage came when she
duetted with Julie Andrews on
Sound of Music medley in 2015.
The following year, now-US Pres-
ident Joe Biden introduced her
performance of Til It Happens to к Л
You from The Hunting Ground. & Ц.
And in 2019, she and her A
Star is Born co-star Bradley \
Cooper set tongues wagging with an i
intimate duet of the hit, Shallow.
Gaga went on to win an Oscar for
the emotional ballad. But tonight, it
will fall to others to bring the Oscars ।
house down with belting perfor-
mances. Over to you, Rihanna... 1
Rise of a
filmstar
EXCLUSIVE
Andrea Riseborough’s Best Actress
lation was the surprise of the
.Oscars.
But even at the age of 11,
the To Leslie star radiated
talent, according to her
former teacher Chris
Goulding.
. He showed us a picture,
below, of Andrea treading
the boards at a small
theatre in Newcastle.
The Geordie was the only
child in the cast and drew a
standing ovation.
Chris told Patrick Hill:
"It was Andrea's first ever
performance and she was
really fantastic, despite
being very young at the time.
"To see that young girl
reach such tremendous
success and now nominated
for an Oscar has been very
pleasing. It's nice to think we
set her on her way."
Andrea is up for a gong for
her role as an alcoholic mum
who wins the lottery in
low-budget To Leslie.
Anna Dobson, who directed
Andrea at the People's
Theatre in Newcastle, added:
7‘She had that special
something."
ЖЛ rfcwwJoi Kerry Condon is tipped to pick up
laUl Д V 3 Best Supporting Actress for The
Banshees of Inisherin - and has a
waiion "blueprint" speech prepared
. _____ "because there are people I do not
к П6Г W3 V want to for9et"
fe. , • & We chatted to the Irish star at the
to wm Oscar Wilde Awards last week, and we
wondered if her list includes co-star
Colin Farrell, who she is said to have
enjoyed a fling with in the past.
Kerry also confessed to Vogue
that she could "fill a page in the
New York Times with all the people
who have ghosted me".
They must be kicking
themselves now.
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ON A ROLE Andrea]
at premiere. Right, v
in her first play
Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett is a
big supporter of the Green Fashion
Awards - founded by Livia Firth to
encourage fashion to embrace a
greener future. So It was surprising to
see the star dodging all interviews at
the event at NeueHouse
Hollywood this week.
Could it have anything
to do with the controversy
over rival Michelle Yeoh
"liking" a Vogue article
that suggested she should
be named Best Actress
GOING GREEN
Livia with Cate
because Cate "already has two
Oscars"? We wonder...
Luckily, Livia, the ex-wife of Colin
Firth, stepped in to speak about
undoing "the brainwashing around
disposable fashion". She also
' ; confirmed that she is
Jy not leaving London,
after being pictured
putting boxes into a
removal van.
Livia told us: "I'm not
leaving London. I’m very
much in London!"
Hours of work go into the
looks actresses trot out on
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applicants for the tempo-
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Sonya, 32, a Sainsbury’s
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West Mids, said: “My kids
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BY NICOLASMALL
EVERTON has become the first
Premier League football club to
help its community beat the
blues - by opening a multi-million-
pound mental health centre.
The People’s Place is next door to
the Toffees’ Goodison Park ground and
will allow the club’s charity, Everton in
the Community, to help thousands of
struggling people on Merseyside.
The site will provide a base for the
charity’s 15 mental health projects
as well as offering a one-stop service
for people in crisis.
Users can access GPs
and talking therapy, finan-
cial and debt management
help, educational and
employment support, a
gym and a host of activities
ranging from exercise
classes to arts and culture.
The centre was opened
this week by Evertonian
and Metro Mayor of Greater
Manchester Andy Burnham.
Everton midfield star Tom Davies,
who has supported the charity since
he joined the first team in 2015, told
us: “It’s been incredible to see this
building go up. I’m so proud of every-
thing this club does for this city*
The 24-year-oId regularly attends
the charity’s mental health projects
and added: "To lend an ear to
someone, let them get things off their
chest, can make a difference. Every
time I go down, I feel better for it”
Michael Salla, deputy CEO of the
charity, said: “One of the benefits of
It’s incredible..
I’m so proud
of everything
this club does
for the city
the People’s Place being attached to
a Premier club is that players come
to sessions and meet participants.
“These are the players they idolise
and all of a sudden they are meeting
their hero. It makes a huge difference.”
Among those who have already
been helped by Everton in the
Community is lifelong Blues fan
Mike Bateson, from Wigan.
The dad of two, 41, spiralled into
addiction after being bullied in a
“toxic” job. Trauma from the horrors
the Army veteran witnessed during a
tour of Kosovo when he was just 17
also resurfaced.
And after he was fur-
loughed in the pandemic,
he began drinking a litre of
whisky a day - as well as
taking cocaine, cannabis
and LSD. He said: “I went
into a dark place and tried
to kill myself*
Mike was on the streets
after his wife kicked him
out when he reached out
to Everton for help a year ago.
He recalled how the Veterans’ Hub
“gave me hope there was a future”.
Mike is now back living with his
wife and two young children, and has
a job as a plumbing lecturer.
He is also giving back by volun-
teering at the Veterans’ Hub - now
based in the People’s Place.
Mike added: “With other services,
you get discharged and that’s it
“But Everton in the Community is
a constant, it’s for ever. It’s wonderful.
“If it wasn’t for Everton I honestly
believe I wouldn’t be here today."
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•Old
HOLOCAUST
SURVIVOR Harry
Olmer, 95, who
was evacuated to
the Lake District
has been made an
MBEfor services
to holocaust
education.
Singer MAE
MULLER has
been revealed as
the UK's entrant
for Eurovision.
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Brengle, who helps
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in same prison
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EIGHTEEN female guards at
a single jail have been fired
for hooking up with inmates.
The forbidden relationships
all happened at HMP Berwyn,
Britain’s biggest prison.
The record figures, uncov-
ered in Freedom of Information
requests, come after three of
the women ended up in court
over the illicit flings.
The relationships took place
over the past six years at the
privately run jail in Wrexham,
North Wales.
Jennifer Gavan was among
the lovestruck guards.
She accepted £150 to
smuggle a phone into robber
Alex Coxoris cell and the pair
were later caught swapping
raunchy snaps via WhatsApp.
Gavan pleaded guilty to
misconduct and was sentenced
to eight months behind bars.
Colleagues Emily Watson
and Ayshea Gunn were also
locked up after having flings
with prisoners.
Watson had a sexual relation-
ship with drug dealer John
McGee, who was serving eight
years for causing death by
students with their
mental health,
has been given an
honorary
"DOGTORATE"
at Teesside
University.
FLING Armed robber Khuram Razaq and probationer Ayshea Gunn |
Record number sacked
over illicit relationships
Dozens of
motorists are
TRAPPED
overnight on the
M62 in a snow
blizzard.
Dancing on Ice
finalist THE
VIVIENNE suffers
another nasty fall
ahead of the live
final tonight,
leaving her in
third place with
the bookies.
The price of
Cadbury MINI
EGGS has
rocketed by 25%
to £1.25 for a 80g
bag, up from £1
last year.
MESSAGES Robber Alex Coxon
AFFAIR Drug dealer John McGee and prison guard Emily Watson
More pensioners
in prison than ever
Reality show puts
stars behind bars
CONTROVERSY HMP Berwyn
dangerous driving. And proba-
tion officer Gunn hooked up
with armed robber Khuram
Razaq and exchanged “highly
sexualised" photos and videos.
Mark Fairhurst, chair of the
Prison Officers’ Association,
blamed the flings on “the wrong
kind of women” being hired.
He said: “Staff being recruited
don’t have face-to-face inter-
views... it’s all done on Zoom.
“A lot of people getting these
jobs don’t have enough life
experience and are susceptible
to conditioning from prisoners.
“Your figures just prove what
we’ve been warning the
employer about for years.”
Since 2019, some 31 female
officers in England and Wales
have been dismissed for
inappropriate relationships,
Ministry of Justice stats show.
They include one officer who
had an inmates baby.
HMP Berwyn has
previously been dubbed
the UK’s “cushiest" jail
after snaps emerged of
hotel-standard digs.
Cells have no bars on
ad
EXCLUSIVE BY MATTHEW DAVIS
RECORD numbers of OAPs are
currently behind bars.
The trend is being fuelled by
historic sex cases - with the
law catching up with elderly
offenders decades later.
Figures from the Ministry of
Justice show 1,754 inmates in
England and Wales are over 70
- more than double the number
10 years ago.
Some are so frail they need
help getting in and out of their
beds and require assistance
washing and eating.
Around one in every 50
prisoners is an OAP, with the
oldest person serving time
aged 97. A total of 24 inmates
are aged 90 or above.
Separate figures from the
Crown Prosecution Service
show that last year, 535 of the
3,108 cases against over-70s
were related to sexual crimes.
EXCLUSIVE B> LAURA ARMSTRONG
Assistant Editor, Showbiz
A TOUGH new reality show will
film six celebrities locked up
alongside ex-offenders.
Sources told how the stars
will be asked to leave their
luxury lifestyles at the door to
tackle the physical and mental
challenges of prison life for the
Channel 4 show.
One insider said: "Channel 4
want to shine a light on the
problems within the prison
system, so they will not be
going easy on anyone.
"The cameras will be on
them 24/7 as they deal with
issues like overcrowding.
"The idea is to spark a
conversation about how things
could and should be changed."
Filming will take place this
summer at HMP Shrewsbury in
Shropshire, which was
decommissioned in 2013.
the windows and come
with en suite bathrooms.
Inmates also have TVs,
laptops and phones.
A Prison Service
spokesman said: “The
majority of staff are hard-
working and honest but
we are doing more to
catch the small number
who break the rules.”
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LIFE AFTER TRANSPLANT DRAMA
EXCLUSIVE
BY LUCY LAING
AS his mum and dad watch their football-
mad son Dylan Walton striding out to play
for his team they are, like typical parents,
filled with pride - but also a sense of disbelief.
Just a year ago he lay gravely ill in a hospital bed
facing death as they sat in despair at his bedside.
Dylans liver was on the brink of total failure and
doctors had warned his stunned parents he
would die within 24 hours without a transplant.
But the battling four-year-old Man United fan
was hanging on to score the goal of his life - to
get back home and play with the 20-month-old
sister he adored. Mum Sian said: “It was heart-
breaking. He kept asking if the doctors could give
him a new liver so that he could go home to Elin.
“We knew he literally had hours to live without
a transplant, and all he wanted to do was get
back to his sister. We prayed it would arrive in
time to save him."
Their prayers seemed to be
answered when doctors said a
donor liver had been found - but
still their ordeal wasn’t over.
“They warned us if anything
held it up - if the retrieval team
got stuck in any traffic or if it
arrived and wasn’t in a suitable
condition, then it would be too
late for him."
But Dylan got the right result.
The liver he yearned for arrived
and the six-hour transplant
operation took place in the
nick of time - making him one
of just 77 children under 16
to have received a new liver in
the UK last year.
Sian, a 30-year-old hospital
administrator, and husband
Ross, 32, a construction site
manager, had no inkling of
the drama in store when
Dylan went down with what
seemed like a sickness bug at the family home
in Bridgend, South Wales.
“He had been sick in the mornings for four days
and was under the weather," said Sian.
“We thought it was a bug. Hed been absolutely
fine, we’d just been on holiday to Jersey.
“Then one morning he woke up and his
skin looked yellow. Just a few hours later his
eyes had gone yellow too and we took him
to hospital straight away. We knew something
was seriously wrong.”
Dylans diagnosis at the Princess of Wales
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Footie-mad
Dylan
Dylan and Elin. She's running
London Marathon for the
hospital that saved their son
К
Playing with
Elin is the
best thing
ever. And I
love football
Hospital stunned his parents. Sian said: “His
liver function tests were sky high and the
scans showed that he was suffering from acute
liver failure."
Dylan was immediately rushed to the
Birmingham Children’s Hospital and taken
straight to the intensive care unit. _________
Sian and Ross were told by doctors
that it had been caused by adenovirus
- a flu-like virus that can commonly
cause mild infections but sometimes
severe ones too.
“We couldn’t believe it as just a few
days before he had been perfectly
healthy." said Sian. “It was such a terri-
fying time for us. They told us that he
needed a transplant urgently to 1-------------
survive. And he needed it within 24 hours. We
were terrified we were going to lose him."
But Dylan had just one thing on his mind. “He
just wanted to know if he could go home to see
Elin. It was heartbreaking to hear.
“All he wanted to do was get back
to his sister,” said Sian.
“It was awful waiting for him to
come back up from theatre, but the
surgeon told us it had been
successful, which was such a relief*
A week later, Dylan developed a
perforated bowel, followed by fluid
on his lungs and an infection which
needed to be treated with steroids,
but he pulled through.
Sian said: “It wasn’t an easy
recovery for him and he was in
hospital for five weeks in total.
“But, eventually, we were able to
take him home to Elin.
“They were utterly thrilled to see
each other and be reunited. They
already had a very close bond and
now they are inseparable.
“He is very protective of her and
she follows him around everywhere.
She doesn’t let him out of her sight,”
Like his parents, Elin loves seeing
her brother playing football - something that just
a few months ago no one could have imagined
him doing again. He has now joined the Spanish
Soccer School in nearby Bryncethin and loves it
And mum Sian is now in training too - she’s
running the London Marathon next month,
raising money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital
to give back after they saved her son.
“It’s wonderful to see how well he is doing,” she
said. “He loves playing football. He’s so full of
energy again and runs around everywhere, which
is great to see after all he’s been through." Dylan
И
They already
had a close
bond - now
they are
inseparable
has to have scans and a biopsy of his liver every
year to check it is still working properly. But he
feels fighting fit and is on track to start school
in September.
Sian said: “We feel very lucky that we can
get on with our lives. Dylan has been such
a fighter and he’s making the
most of every day now, with his
sister by his side.’”
Husband Ross added:
“Watching Dylan go through
this was heartbreaking. We
didn’t know if he was going to
pull through. When the doctors
said they had found him a liver
we knew that he had a chance.
To watch him now playing with
Elin is amazing. She was the one
thing that kept him going
through it"
And Dylan said: “Playing
with Elin again is the best
thing ever. And I love
playing football now too.”
A spokesman for the
Children’s Liver Disease
Foundation said: “In
very young children the
most usual reason for
needing a transplant
would be that they
have been born with
liver disease, rather
than having a virus.
“There is a shortage of
organs available for donation
and parents go through
severe anxiety when .
they are told that their I
child’s only option is a i
liver transplant
“It’s brilliant news /______________
that Dylan received
his new liver
so quickly”
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to Sian's
fundraising run
visit justgiving.
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Doner pie is a
hot favourite
EXCLUSIVE
BY NADAFARHOUD
Environment Editor______
PIGS lie in cramped squalor
and are left for hours to die
in footaqe revealing the
“grim reality” of farming.
Animal welfare campaigners
say the scenes caught by a
hidden camera at a Red
Tractor-assured farm are some
of the worst they have seen.
Animal Justice Project
filmed for three months at
Bickmarsh Hall mega-farm in
Warwickshire, where 8,000
pigs are housed in 46 sheds.
The site rears them for pork
producer Cranswick
Country Foods,
which supplies Asda
and Tesco.
Footage shows
one pig being canni-
balised, while a shiv-
ering and groaning
piglet is trampled on
and bitten by others.
Staff took up to 13
hours to remove them.
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in use and bins were
piled high with corpses.
Pigs were kept in pens
with no bedding, just hard
slats, and investigators said
many were covered in excre-
ment. They were also docu-
mented biting and fighting,
with only five feed troughs for
more than 25 animals.
A DONER kebab pie is
going up against more
traditional flavours in the
British Pie Awards.
Creator William Hall, a
butcher from Stranraer,
Scotland, said: “It’s proved
very popular.
“It’s a pie you can eat on
the go, either hot or cold.”
It faces rivals with fillings
including cheeseburger,
meatballs and lasagne at
the contest in pie capital
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“underpin high standards of
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And cameras captured some
staff kicking and slapping pigs
when moving them around.
Red Tractor, which says its
logos on supermarket food
It added: “Protecting health
and welfare is a top priority^
But Animal Justice Project
said some of the scenes it
filmed, such as pigs unable to
bear weight on all four legs,
potentially break welfare regu-
lations and industry guide-
lines. Founder Claire Palmer
added: “Our footage captures
the grim reality for pigs on
farms in Britain.
“Consumers must be asking
standards makes it clear this
scheme is not fit for purpose. It
exists to protect profit and act
as a mouthpiece.”
Former pig industry vet Dr
Alice Brough said the footage
shows “the epitome of squalor
and unfortunately represents
of Bickmarsh Hall after seeing
the footage. It added: “The unit
was found to be operating to
the required standard."
Tesco and Asda said they
took the allegations seriously
and were investigating.
Tesco added: “All of our pigs
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themselves, is a bacon sand-
wich or pork pie worth that?
“Red Tractors claim that our
footage shows a farm
compliant with its welfare
the norm for a large proportion
of Britain’s pig farms”.
Cranswick said it takes
animal welfare seriously and
made an unannounced audit
are reared to recognised farm
assurance standards such as
Red Tractor, RSPCA Assured,
as well as our own.”
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Warm, wise, witty
Anti-fat jab to
slim like Kim
Celebs who can't be faffed
with diets have fuelled a US
boom in anti-obesity drugs.
Now one of their favourite
weight-loss jabs has been
approved for use by the NHS.
Semaglutide is an appetite-
suppressant normally used
to treat
diabetes. But,
thanks to
social media,
it's better
known as the
"miracle
skinny shot"
which
allegedly
helped Kim
Kardashian
shed 161b to
get into
Marilyn
Monroe's
frock. Doctors here say it will
only be prescribed alongside
a reduced-calorie diet and
exercise plan.
But with half the world's
population predicted to be
obese by 2035 it's no
surprise other big drug firms
are throwing their weight
behind slimming pills.
What is surprising is that
Kit Kat maker Nestle are too,
producing tablets that swell
in the turn to help fill you up.
Up to 70% of users lost
weight in a trial.
So now they can fit a full
four fingers inside their
loosening waistbands.
Chef's truffle
ruffles my
feathers
Waitrose has come up
with a very strange-
looking Easter chocolate.
It’s the final offering
from celebrity chef
Heston Blumenthal who’s
parting company with
the firm after 12 years
designing whacky dishes.
The £6 truffle is
called a Dabbit, as
it could be a
duck or it
could be
a rabbit.
But if, like me, you never
took to Heston's absurd,
over-priced food mash-ups,
then it is probably more
of a Due kit.
• I’ve just spent 20
minutes forcing my
way into a child-proof
" box of Persil capsules.
Last month I slit my hand on
the plastic surrounding a I-------------
printer ink cartridge and I’ve lost count of
the times I’ve splattered myself in fish
when trying to open tuna cans. But I'm not
I alone in suffering from ‘‘wrap
rage" as a survey of over-55s
reveals tricky packaging leaves
many of us feeling decrepit and
incompetent.
----------1 And it’s not just older people
who get stressed by "tear-here" sachets
that won’t tear or ring pulls that require the
strength of Rocky. Four in 10 say they've
been injured trying to open stuff and
60,000 people a year need hospital
treatment for cut fingers and sprained
wrists. So, well done to the Design Age
Institute which is petitioning the
government for better product packaging.
It needs 10,000 signatures for a
Government response, so please check out:
petition.parliamentuk/petitions/625867.
Think of flashers as
potential predators
Two young women sat opposite
me on the train recently, silently
scrolling their phones.
Then one of them gasped and
showed her friend a “dick pic” just sent
by a cyberflasher.
She had absentmindedly accepted
some creep’s AirDrop, so I said she ought
to take a screenshot and report it to
British Transport Police.
Her friend just rolled her eyes. “It
happens to everyone,” she shrugged. “All
you can do is switch off AirDrop in
7 1
VICTIM
Sarah
Killer Couzens
in a
out I’m not sure I even
told my mum. I mean,
they didn’t actually touch
me. They were only
flashers.
And yet I still sensed
I’d better not laugh at
them - just pretend I
hadn’t seen anything.
Now I wonder how
many unseen perverts
have gone on to
become sex attackers.
Like predatory cop
Wayne Couzens who
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host Maggie and
her Barbie
I've never liked the idea of turning
women into Barbie dolls but
astronomer Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
has changed my mind.
Maggie, presenter of BBC’s The Sky
at Night, was thrilled when Mattel
asked to immortalise her as a Barbie
Role Model to celebrate the way she’s
made space science appealing to girls.
settings.” Her mate did,
then went back to
scrolling.
But I noticed her
anxiously scanning the
carriage, wondering who
the culprit might be.
Cyberflashing is about
to become a criminal
offence, with perpetra-
tors facing two years in
shows crimes
been sent unsolicited can escalate
nude images by men.
But few report it and in 2019 British flashed three women in Kent, two a
Transport Police recorded just 66 month before he abducted, raped and
cyberflashings. I was shocked the train murdered Sarah Everard, 33.
girl decided to do nothing, i----
Until I remembered the
times 1 shrugged off
actual flashers as
a kid. I was eight
the first time. A
man in a car
stopped to “ask
me directions”
Not my idea of
an ice day out
What is it about a covering of
snow that makes people want
to strip off?
I've been shivering under a
blanket and
three layers of
thermals since
the weather
took an icy turn.
But if I do
venture outside
all I see are
blokes jogging
topless in tiny
shorts, women
wild swimming
in icy rivers, and
scantily-dressed
teens making snow angel snaps
for Instagram. And TV host
Myleene Klass was out having a
snowball fight in a bright pink
swimming cossie - with matching
legs by the end of it, I imagine.
Get some clothes on! It’s brass
monkeys out there.
You certainly won't catch me
rolling around in the snow.
Especially as the weather
forecasts have been warning that
it’s YELLOW snow. Yellow?!
I know there’s a shocking
shortage of public toilets, but
there’s really no need for that.
-----------1 He exposed himself
twice at a fast-food restau-
rant in February 2021 and
once in woodland in 2020.
Couzens, 50, got 19
months for the crimes on
top of his whole life term.
But a victim told the
court she was not taken
___________| seriously by cops and the
judge agreed they did
nothing to stop him.
Research shows 5-10% of men who
indecently expose themselves go on to
commit contact offences. One in 1,000
will escalate to sexual violence.
But indecent exposure still goes
under-reported as it is trivialised and
shrugged off. Wayne Couzens is proof .
that we need to start taking “non-
contact" sexual offences more seriously.
Because rapes and murders CAN be
prevented. If we start identifying
potential predators and don’t see them
as “only" flashers.
I learned to
avoid the
park where
the dirty mac
brigade were
A bloke sat
beside me in
the cinema
and started
masturbating
when the
lights went
down, and I
soon learned
to avoid the
park where
“the dirty mac
brigade” hung
When she was growing up, her own
Barbie was an unrelatable blue-eyed
blonde with an unnatural figure. Now
the dolls show real women in all their
diversity and complexity, giving girls
what Maggie calls “a desire to aspire”.
Unveiling her Barbie, complete with
telescope, for International Women’s
Day, Maggie said the honour is as
great as any of her academic awards.
She explained: ”1 went to 13 different
schools growing up and was placed in
remedial classes because of my
dyslexia. But I always dreamed big.
”By championing real women,
Barbie is showing young girls that
virtually anything is possible." And
they really can reach for the stars.
Snow way do I
look like Blakey
My neighbour’s
little lad was well
wrapped up
when he went
out into our
communal
garden to make
this snow-
person.
"Great job,"
I said when he showed it to me.
"Has it got a name?"
"Yes," he said.
“She’s called
Rachael."
Hmm. I’ve
clearly started
to resemble
Blakey from
On The Buses.
28 NEWS & FEATURES
SUNDAY PEOPL
REVEALED: EX-KING’S BOMBSHELL
the Duke and set up his meeting with
Hitler. Bedaux and his wife Fem had gener-
ously paid for much of the lavish wedding,
ensuring their hosting skills were fit
for royalty. Less than seven years later,
Bedaux would commit suicide in FBI
WITH HIS HERO Edward
greeted by Hitler in 1937
BANISHED Duke
with Wallis after
being exiled to '
EXCLUSIVE
BY LAURA CONNOR___________________
A BOMBSHELL secret letter from the
abdicated King Edward VIII to Adolf
Hitler in the run-up to the Second
World War has been unearthed in
royal archives.
Its sickening contents, hidden for 86
years, would have outraged a British
public then living in fear of another bloody
and catastrophic war with Germany.
The letter reveals fawning Edward’s
adoration of the Nazi leader and his
extremist far-right politics - and the way
he was running the country.
He talks of the “beautiful hours" he and
bride Wallis Simpson spent in the
monster’s company at his Berghof lair in
the Bavarian mountains where he would
later plot the course of the war.
Historian Alexander Larman
found a draft of the letter after years
researching archives for a new book
on the Duke of Windsor, exposing
the depths of his love of fascism.
Larman says: “If he hadn’t been
the King, I am sure he would have
gone to prison. He was a Nazi
sympathiser to the extent that it
complicated his loyalties. His actions, at
worst, were purely treasonous."
The letter was written during his
infamous 1937 tour of Germany which
was enough to rankle the Royal Family, the
Government and the public back home,
who thought it in poor taste during the
first year of his brother Georges reign.
Witness
Written in German on October 23, the
day after the couple first met Hitler, it
read: “The Duchess of Windsor and I
would like to thank you sincerely for the
great hospitality you have shown us, and
for the many options you gave us to
witness all that has been done for the
working people of Germany.
“Our trip through Germany has made a
great impression on us, and we won’t
forget the attentiveness you surrounded
us with and the warm welcome we
received everywhere.”
Edward concludes with heartfelt
thanks for the “beautiful hours" that he
and Wallis had enjoyed at Hitler’s
Bavarian retreat.
Larman believes only the “saving
grace" of Edward’s royal birth would have
kept him and Wallis from the prospect of
internment back in Britain, possibly in
Holloway Prison used to house the
Nazi-loving British Union of Fascists
leader Oswald Mosley and his wife
Diana Mitford.
Edward had been lured into Nazi
fandom on the very day of his
marriage to American divorcee Wallis
in a romance that led to his abdication
in December 1936.
It took place on June 3, 1937 at the
Chateau de Cand£ in the Loire
Valley - a Renaissance castle which
was the home of Franco-American
industrialist Charles Bedaux. The
Nazi sympathiser had befriended
home country since the abdication." The
exiled Duke’s continued Nazi-loving
behaviour abroad after the war began was
enough for wartime leader Winston
Churchill to draft a letter to the Common-
wealth prime ministers in early July 1940.
It stated: “The activities of the Duke of
Windsor on the continent in recent
months have been causing HM [George V]
and myself grave uneasiness as his inclina-
tions are well known to be pro-Nazi, and
he may become a centre of intrigue...
“We regard it as a real danger that he
should move freely on the continent”
Edward’s official biographer Philip
Ziegler explains that during this time the
Nazis “buttered the Duke up”, saying: “He
was an authoritarian by nature, but if he
had known about Belsen, he would have
been horrified. I’d be surprised if we could
ever find proof of what the Duke
and Duchess got up to - if any
letters had ever existed, they would
have been destroyed."
Even after Churchill shipped the
pair far away from Europe,
appointing Edward as governor of
the Bahamas, his fascist senti-
ments were still a cause for
concern. And Larman believes the
Duke could have put the British establish-
ment at huge risk and altered the outcome
of the war if he’d had the opportunity.
Larman says: “He was always meeting
the wrong people, in the wrong place at
the wrong time. That’s why he was sent to
the Bahamas, because he was such a risk.
“He was an enormous threat because he
was being used as a puppet and being
persuaded to move away from the Royal
Family, to denounce what they’ve done,
and be publicly treasonous.
“If he had found the right money and
had the right people around him, I’m sure
he’d have gone much further. He wasn’t a
clever man, but he could be quite cunning
That shouldn’t be underestimated.”
Executed
Last year another damning letter
emerged that further tainted the royal’s
dubious reputation. It revealed Joachim
von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler’s minister of
foreign affairs, asked him to give evidence
in his favour at the Nuremberg war trials.
In the document von Ribbentrop
recalled a meeting between the pair in
1936 after Edward became King.
The five-page letter, written on von
Ribbentrop’s behalf by his legal team,
reads: “When presenting his credentials
in 1936, von Ribbentrop expressed to the
then King Edward VIII the desire of the
Reich Chancellor (Hitler) for the closest
co-operation between Germany and
England. In the course of this audi-
ence. King Edward VIII declared that
I he, too, deemed such a co-operation
necessary”. The letter had been kept
. by Dr Hans Werner, responsible for the
" printing of the Record of the Trial of
Major War Criminals in 42 volumes.
Edward failed to appear in court -
and von Ribbentrop was the first Nazi
defendant to be executed by hanging.
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custody, accused of treason and trading
with the enemy.
Larman explains: “Bedaux knew Edward
was sympathetic towards the Germans.
“So he planned the high-profile visit by
the Duke and Duchess to Germany in the
autumn of 1937.
“This would promote Edward’s interest
in how the Nazis had improved the lot of
the ordinary working man, and give Hitler
a propaganda triumph. Edward was all too
willing to go along with it
Larman says: “He believed he would be
treated with more respect and dignity
within Germany than he had been in his
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at foodbanks
PET foodbanks are being
set up as the cost-of-living
crisis continues to bite.
Donation points for the
charity Blue Cross will be
available at all 450 Pets at
Home stores by June
following a trial.
Chow for dogs, puppies,
cats, kittens, rabbits,
guinea pigs and hamsters
will be given to foodbanks
across the country.
Pets at Home boss Lyssa
McGowan said: “No one
should have to face the
difficulty of struggling to
feed their beloved pets."
Blue Cross chief Chris
Burghes added: “Pets are
part of the family"
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A RAIL firms poll of dream
jobs hit the buffers when
train driver failed make the
youngsters’ top 30.
Todays under-25s hope
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Step 1 Replenish
The best diet is one in which we do not count calories,
macronutrients or points, but simply prioritise, healthy foods that
promote feelings of fullness and satisfaction.
When we do this, we zap cravings and uncontrollable hunger,
we shed our diet obsession, we lose weight effortlessly (if that's
our goal), and we get healthy.
My approach flies in the face of
conventional diet advice which tells you to
slash calories, cut carbs, and toss out
certain food groups. Instead, I prescribe
eating nutrient-dense foods that make
you feel satisfied.
Most other diets overlook this key
factor and don’t help you get in touch with
your body's own hunger cues. The essence of
this strategy is to replenish: you fill your diet with
more of what you can eat (nutrient-dense foods) and eat fewer
processed foods and other less healthy choices.
This way of eating is based on consuming many delicious whole
foods that can help you reduce your appetite and cravings and
improve that feeling that you’re replenished. Put another way, you
have the freedom to choose healthy foods that promote feelings of
fullness and satisfaction. Glucosinolates are good-for-you
constituents of plant foods, primarily cruciferous vegetables.
These are veggies like broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts,
and kale - all very popular vegetables both for their health
benefits as well as their versatility in recipes.
Because these vegetables are so fibre and nutrient-loaded,
they tend to be more satisfying than high-carb foods. Also, they
can reduce overeating in the short and long term to support
weight loss. They also offer amazing perks when it comes to
guarding against serious illnesses, including cancer.
Step 2 Rewire
Whether it’s a cheeseburger with
fries or sugar-laced cakes, any highly
palatable processed food can rewire
the brain's reward mechanism so we
crave more and more of it in much
the same way people crave drugs or
alcohol.
But wait -1 have a secret to share
with you. Well, it’s not a secret in the
world of neuroscience, but it is a
secret to anyone trying to deal with
hunger and cravings.
We’ve been in the dark because no
one has taught us much about the
connection between food and the
brain. The secret: It is
entirely possible to rewire
your brain so it wants (and
craves) nutritious,
wholesome foods.
The reason your brain
can be rewired is largely
related to its
neuroplasticity, your
brain’s ability to change
and adapt based on your
experiences.
Neuroplasticity is at the heart of
habit formation. By nature, your
brain forms neuronal pathways
based on what you do habitually. If
U
It's possible
to rewire
your brain
to crave
nutritious
food
you eat junk food a lot, for
example, your neural
pathways lead you to
munching on crisps while
watching TV or eating
dessert every night after
dinner or grabbing a
chocolate bar in
mid-afternoon while
working. Pretty soon, the
bad habit becomes the
unconscious default pathway, and
your brain, wanting to be efficient,
just takes the easiest, most familiar
route. Along with all this repetitive
behaviour, your brain gets so used to
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processed foods that you start to
crave them. A lot of this habitual
behaviour has to do with dopamine, a
type of neurotransmitter and
hormone which causes feelings of
pleasure and satisfaction.
But habits are not created equally -
and the ones that churn out the most
dopamine are, in turn, the most habit-
forming. This is one big way
addictions are born.
For example, smoking triggers a big
hit of dopamine. It doesn't take many
cigarettes to pick up the practice
before you're hooked. Eating sugar
also signals a dopamine burst.
Compare these habits to, say, flossing
your teeth, which doesn't provide any
such dopamine surge.
Still, you can change your eating
habits - and even balance dopamine
releases - to curb your intake of sugar
and junk food, and instead start
habitually eating healthier foods like
fruits and veggies.
As you do this more often, you will
eventually override those previous
pesky neural pathways with new
ones, liberating you from entrenched
poor eating habits.
Choosing healthy foods becomes a
second-nature habit, and you do it
automatically. Just try it.
Step 4 Refresh
Sleep is a wonderful, natural appetite
suppressant. Log in your zzzz's and sleep well
and you'll effortlessly get your hunger and
cravings in check. Honestly.
I love to exercise in the morning, but I also
understand the importance of sleep - so I dug
into my own lousy sleep schedule. I discovered
Step 3 Reset
For managing hunger and cravings,
resetting your natural circadian
rhythm is paramount - and it's
what Step 3 is all about.
Normally, we feel tired at
night and get hungry around
specific times of the day. That's
because our bodies have a
built-in process that governs
sleep, hunger, and energy levels.
It’s called circadian rhythm, from
the Latin words circa, meaning "aro
and diem, meaning "day”.
The circadian rhythm repeats roughly every 24 hours to
maximise our body's own resources.
This internal clock regulates the sleep-wake cycle, manages
hunger, influences brainwave activity patterns, affects cell repair,
controls body temperature, impacts hormone release, and is
involved in our eating habits and digestion.
One of the best ways to help reset your circadian cycle is to
expose yourself to the morning sunlight within an hour of waking.
This helps stimulate regular cortisol production to provide you
with energy for the day.
Because digestion and metabolism can play a role in your level
of sleepiness and wakefulness, you may need to adjust when you
eat and what you eat.
My version of fasting is called circadian fasting. Following this
method, you avoid food between the hours of 8pm to 8am, or
7pm to 7am - a 12-hour fasting period.
Once you're comfortable with, say, a 12-hour fast, you can work
up to fasting 16 hours two to three times a week, from 8pm to
noon the next day.
if you're in a
situation in which
you have to
choose between
getting a little
sleep or getting a
workout in, it’s
better to opt for
some sleep.
But it's also not
worth stressing if
you can't get a full
seven hours every
night Ideally, aim
Step 5 Retrain
Studies hint that if you select the right
type of exercise - and stick with it - you
can actually normalise your hunger
levels and your cravings.
Exercise is much more than a calorie
burner. It also influences hormones,
neurotransmitters, and other bodily
chemicals. In doing so, it impacts
hunger and appetite.
Different types of exercise affect our
hunger cues differently, so include
cardio activity in your weekly routine.
It reins in hunger hormones and
increases serotonin to help you fight
cravings. Thirty minutes of cardio, two
or three times a week, is a good start.
Consider strength training, perhaps
twice a week, and work your entire body
each time.
Yoga at least
for at least two good nights of sleep when life
is busy - seven to eight hours each week, in
other words. Sleeping well for two nights like
this gives your body time to complete one full
sleep cycle. Not only that, but you won’t be so
groggy when you wake up. In fact, you'll even
feel refreshed the next day.
This strategy was a real game changer for
me. I was relieved that I didn’t need to aim for
a perfect sleep schedule of seven or more
hours every single night
twice a week
is excellent
too,
especially
if you're
prone to
stress or
emotional
eating or
you are
low in
serotonin.
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PUZZLES
CODEBREAKER BIG X SUDOKU
We’ve taken a completed crossword puzzle and replaced each letter in the The rules for Big X Sudoku vary only slightly from the standard sudoku rules. The 9x9 sudoku at the centre of the X
grid with the same number throughout. Two letters have been given to shares four of its 3x3 boxes with those of the outer sudoku. None of the 9x9 sudokus can be solved individually, you
NINER
SUMMIT UP
PUB QUIZ
Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter. Solve the clues and
insert the letters in the appropriate squares to discover a word which uses all
nine letters.
549 gives a fish
7126 gives a second fish
883 gives a third fish
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
If the number in each
triangle is the sum of
the two below, what
is the top number?
BRAIN TEASERS
SPLIT DECISION
Can you pick out the correct
Pub Quiz?
1 From which club did
Manchester United sign
Wayne Rooney in 2004?
A Birmingham City
В Everton
C Leicester City
2 The anaconda is native to
which continent?
A Asia
В Africa
C South America
3 Born in 1608, which
Englishman wrote the poems
Paradise Lost and Paradise
Regained?
A Richard Lovelace
В John Dryden
C John Milton
4 Who was president of the
United States from 1933-45?
A Harry S Truman
В Herbert Hoover
C Franklin D Roosevelt
5 The disease rickets is
caused by a deficiency of
which vitamin?
A C
В D
C A
answers in our multiple choice
6 The heavy woollen cloth
duffel is named after a town in
which European country?
A France
В Germany
C Belgium
7 In education, what does the
S in GCSE mean?
A School
В Secondary
C Science
8 In which track and field
event did Goldie Sayers
represent GB at the 2008
Olympics?
A High jump
В Shot put
C Javelin
9 What colour is emerald?
A Red
В Green
C Blue
10 Phil Oakey is best known
as the lead singer of which
British band?
A Ultravox
В The Human League
C Depeche Mode
LOGIC IKEIJO
Can you work out when each building was built?
Albertine has had a prolific
career in architecture,
designing some of the
city’s most impressive
buildings. As her
retirement is approaching,
she has been invited to
give a presentation of
her most remarkable
designs. After presenting
her portfolio, Albertine
took questions from the
audience.
"Which building are you
most proud of?" asked an
audience member.
"Although not the tallest
building, my favourite
design is Rose Heights,
located on Kings Square,"
answered Albertine.
“Is it correct that the
building on Castle Street
is the first building you
designed?” asked Claudia,
another eminent architect.
“No, that’s not right. The
50 metre building found on
Castle Street was built
four years after the Central
Library,” replied Albertine.
“Which building did you
design most recently?”
asked another audience
member.
"My latest design can be
found on Park Road and is
exactly ten metres taller
than City Hall. Publishing
House was built in 2003,
and is taller than Phoenix
Tower," added Albertine.
Before the audience
dispersed, Albertine gave
them one final piece of
information.
“The 32 metre building
was designed after the
building located on Oxford
Road," she said.
Can you deduce from
Albertine's answers where
each building can be found
and when it was built?
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Phoenix Tower
Rose Heights
Central Library
City Hall
Publishing House
1995
1999
2003
2009
2018
Park Road
Kings Square
York Place
Oxford Road
Castle Street
Place the tiles into the grid so that four different
numbers and four different shapes appear in each
row and column of the grid.
TRIANGLE
NUMBERFIT
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All of the listed numbers fit into the grid and there’s only one way to
do it. One number has been provided to get you started.
3 digits 5 digits 6 digits 8 digits
215 21507 232643 57342123
344 45234 286548 72345609
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34 LIFESTYLE
QM Y flight was cancelled in 2021.1
was given a refund for the ticket
but despite being assured I would
also be compensated, nothing has
materialised. When I call to chase it
up, I am told that my claim is "in a
queue". How much longer should I
realistically wait? Robert Grant
A WHEN you make a claim to an airline,
you only have to wait eight weeks
before taking the next step, which will
The People’s consumer I
Chamoion
4i
askdean@people.co.uk
with Dean Dunhamj
be to refer your claim to AviationADR or
CEDR. If the airline is not a
member of either dispute
resolution scheme, go via
the Civil Aviation Authorities
ADR scheme called PACT.
QI HAVE received a
county court
judgment for a debt that
is not mine. It is the first
I have heard of it. Can
I appeal? Sian Taylor
A YOU need to make an
application to the court to
set aside the judgment on
the basis the claim was not
served on you, so you had
no chance to defend it. You
can get a form to do this by
searching for 'set aside County
Court judgment' online.
QIN 2018,1 had a small
extension built. In December, I
noticed mould on one wall so
arranged for a damp specialist to
Your legal questions
answered.
Send your questions to
askdean@people.co.uk
inspect it. He said the
extension has been built
to a garage standard,
meaning it has no damp
coursing. I contacted the
builder but he said that
as I am now outside of
their guarantee period,
I should make an
insurance claim. Is this
correct? Eric Goddard
A UNDER the Consumer
Rights Act, you have the
right to demand the builder
comes back and rectifies the
issues free of charge. If he
refuses, the law gives you the
right to get a third party to do
у/ the work then claim a refund
from the original builder.
However, be aware you can only take
the builder to court to enforce these rights
within six years of the work being
completed.
Don’t just settee
for poor service
EVERY January there is a
surge in the number of
new sofa sales, followed by
a string of complaints in
March when they are not
delivered on time.
One of the most common com-
plaints I hear is that a sofa hasn't
materialised when it was supposed
to and customers are told they will
have to wait a further six weeks.
Given the spike in sales in
January and the fact sofas tend to
be made to order, this is not
particularly surprising.
In most instances, the retailer
has provided an '‘estimated”
delivery date, meaning the
date does not form part of
the contract.
The effect of this is that if
the retailer fails to deliver on
the specified date, it does
not amount to a breach of
contract. In other words, they
cannot be held responsible.
If, on the other hand,
you have been promised a
Scam
of the
week
particular date, it will form part of
the contract meaning if the sofa
does not arrive on time, you will
be entitled to cancel the contract,
get a refund and potentially claim
compensation for any losses.
Whenever you order a new sofa.
I recommend asking for a
confirmed delivery date.
Get it in writing too, although
you may find the retailer will not
be keen to commit to this.
Another common complaint is
that a new sofa looks nothing like
what was in the showroom.
The Consumer Rights Act 2015
says goods must be as described
A WAVE of emails has been sent this
week advertising a new 'cost of living'
credit card. It has 0% interest and no
need to repay for up to 18 months.
Recipients of the emails are told this is
the answer to the current cost-of-living
crisis as it will help to put off payments
until next year when the economy will
have recovered, but these emails are
scams and should be ignored.
and must match any sample or
model shown pre-sale.
So, if your sofa is truly nothing
like the model you were shown
pre-purchase, you will have the
right to reject it and obtain a
refund or replacement.
However, I often find the
consumer is not right about this
complaint as the difference is
down to wear and tear - for
example, the showroom model
looks or feels different because it
is worn and has been used.
This week. I'll be interviewing
the Furniture & Home
Improvement Ombudsman as part
of LBC radio's ASK series.
Many furniture retailers
subscribe to this scheme, which
means you can take your com-
plaint to the ombudsman if
something goes wrong and the
retailer refuses to help.
If you find yourself in this
position, w’atch the interview as
it has lots of useful information,
advice and tips. You'll find it at
lbc.co.uk/ask.
Follow Dean on @deandunham and listen to him every Friday at 9pm on LBC Radio
LIFESTYLE 35
STAR RATINGS
★★★★★ Excellent
★★★★ Good
★★★ Worth a look
★★ Poor
★ Don't bother
Movies^ в
SCREAM VI
Cert 18 ★★★★
In cinemas now
After introducing a fresh batch of
potential victims in the previous
film, returning directors Matt
Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
begin to step out of Wes Cravens shadow
with Scream VI.
In Cravens four films, the slayings were
cogs in puzzles, pointing to the mechanics
of a masked slashers grander schemes.
In this gruesome instalment, they’re
random and shockingly brutal. Were never
sure who’s going to be killed next or if well
be able to keep our popcorn down.
Following the events of2022, Tara (Jenna
Ortega) plus twins Mindy (Jasmin Savoy
it
Nobody is
safe and
there are
genuinely
creepy
sequences
Brown) and Chad (Mason
Gooding) have left Woodsboro,
California, to attend college in
Manhattan.
Tara’s overprotective
half-sister Sam (Melissa
Barrera) has tagged along to
work two jobs and keep an eye
out for any freaks wearing that
iconic mask By the time we
catch them up, we’ve already seen two
copycats butchered by a third.
When Sam and Tara narrowly escape a
bloodbath, online conspiracy theories are
reaching boiling point.
But it’s a familiar face from the
mainstream media who greets them
outside the police station.
TV reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney
Cox), the only returning character
from the 1996 original, is
determined to continue covering
the story.
Another speech about horror
movie tropes identifies Gale as a
likely victim, too.
As Mindy explains, the
Ghostface movie franchise has
now reached a dangerously high
number. And if Luke Sky walker could be
killed off in the eighth Star Wars movie,
then nobody in Scream VI is safe.
At times, the knowing script is too clever
for its own good. But there are some
genuinely creepy sequences.
Londoners may find a subway journey
packed with Halloween revellers even
scarier than the last tube home.
WINNIE THE
POOH: BLOOD
AND HONEY
Cert18 ★
In cinemas now, on digital
from March 20, on DVD
and Blu-ray from April 17
Loveable talking critters
become savage killers in
this cheap and utterly
charmless low-budget
slasher.
LUNANA:
A YAK IN THE
CLASSROOM
Cert PG ★★★★
In cinemas and on digital now
The Buddhist nation of Bhutan
is known as the happiest
country on Earth and this
could be the year's most
joyous Oscar winner.
A Himalayan Doc Martin
After being abandoned by Christopher Robin (Nikol
ai Leon), Pooh and Piglet (burly chaps in joke shop
masks) go feral, chasing down terrible actors and
offing them in increasingly boring ways.
Fair play to writer-director Rhys Frake-Waterfield
for spotting A.A. Milne’s books were due to enter the
public domain last year.
Sadly, he doesn't have the wit, the talent or even
the Tigger mask to make the most of the opportunity.
takes us to a remote village there where a grumpy teacher has relocated from the
capital. After life in Thimphu, wannabe musician Ugyen (Sherab Dorji) needs to
acclimatise to the tranquil mountain village of Lunana where local yak farmers live
in harmony.But, once his iPod battery runs out, Ugyen opens his ears and his
heart, feeling the pressures of his worldly ambitions fall away.
While the simple plot is predictable, the scenery is gorgeous, the setting is
authentic, and the non-professional actors (director Pawo Choyning Dorji shot the
film on location, using villagers in supporting roles) are unaffected and utterly
charming. It's a treat - you’ll be yakking on about this for weeks.
LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN
Cert 15 ★★★
On Netflix now
Renegade cop John Luther's transition from TV to film
is, like the man himself, flawed but likeable.
Fallen Sun is the first in a planned series of feature-
length cases for the brooding Detective Chief Inspector
played by Idris Elba.
As is often the case with TV drama spin-offs, this
extended episode is bigger, louder and a whole lot
dafter than anything we saw on normal telly.
In 2019, we saw the BBC Luther finally led to jail by
his wonky moral compass.
Here, his downfall is the work of murderous computer
hacker David Robey (Andy Serkis) who is attempting to
build some sort of evil online network.
To stop his dastardly (and largely incomprehensible)
scheme, Luther busts out of prison to forge an uneasy
alliance with his replacement, Detective Superintendent
Odette Raine (Cynthia Erivo).
Once he's reunited with his trademark wool overcoat
we see the vigilante perched on top of a London tower
block, surveying the crime-ridden city like a cockney
Batman.
If that sounds a bit ridiculous, wait until you get a
proper look at Andy Serkis's barnet. Saddled with the
type of luxurious bouffant previously only seen in faded
barber-shop photos, Serkis struggles to convey the
requisite level of menace.
He can only manage ridiculous or mildly creepy,
neither of which work for a serial killer with an icy
Norwegian lair.
CHAMPIONS
Cert 12A ★★★
In cinemas now
You don't need to have seen the 2018 Spanish hit comedy
Campeones to find this Hollywood remake familiar.
After Woody Harrelson's selfish, short-fused basketball
coach Marcus is arrested for drink driving, a judge sentences
him to 90 days' community service coaching a basketball
team of teens with learning disabilities.
When he sees (and, in the case of one water-phobic lad,
smells) his players, Marcus wonders if he should have insisted
on a stint in prison.
But, slowly, the warmth and courage of the kids gets under
his thick skin.
Can Marcus turn them into Special Olympics champs? And
will they turn a gruff alpha male into a decent human being?
The Spanish film was based on a true story but, here,
director Bobby Farrelly rarely strays from the template of the
underdog sports flick.
Yet formulas exists for a reason. Great performances from
the youngsters and a rousing and witty script make this a
slam dunk for fans of big-hearted comedies.
‘A beautiful book. Funny, poignant
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inqdom
Mickey Mouse ears on. Check
Walking up to Cinderella
Castle. Check Waving to Ariel
at a Walt Disney World
parade. Check.
Inner child gleefully running free.
CHECK!
Having spent my childhood glued to
Disney films, it really is a magical feeling
to get immersed in the world of hit films
such as The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan
and Beauty and the Beast.
But it’s not all nostalgia; there are
plenty of 21st century thrills too.
In the space of a week I escaped the
First Order in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge,
boarded ajungle Cruise, helped the
Guardians of the Galaxy save the
universe, ate a meal in Space, went on a
safari and flew on a banshee high above
Avatars Pandora.
Even waking up was exciting, thanks
to our base at Disneys Animal Kingdom
Lodge. No need to hit the snooze button
when you can enjoy a morning coffee
on your balcony overlooking giraffes
and antelopes.
For those who aren’t big fans of rides
and thrills, you won’t be stuck waiting
around with people’s bags.
There are plenty of fun shows, 4D
experiences, character interactions,
parades and those world-famous
Disney snacks to enjoy. The parks are
beautiful too; they’ve been designed as
a holiday destination and that means
FAIRY TAIL
Julie with
mermaid
Ariel
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CRUISE NEWS
BY JANE MEMMLER
Enjoy a taste of French wine country
on a culinary break with Scenic Luxury
Cruises and Tours. You'll be joined by
top chef Raymond Blanc as you cruise
along the Dordogne river.
He'll share some of his secrets in a
Q&A session and interactive cookery
demonstration. There will also be a
slap-up dinner designed by Raymond.
Along the way, you'll sample the best
offerings of the region including
oysters from Arcachon Bay, fine
cognacs at the Remy Martin estate and
the finest cheeses of the region.
Ride it all off on a cycle ride through
the pretty Vineyards of Sauternes and
visit the beautiful Medoc wine route
where you'll enjoy more samples.
Eight-day Flavours of Bordeaux with
Raymond Blanc departs Bordeaux on
October 10 and starts from £2,665.
scenic.co.uk
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go all-inclusive for a week at
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AIR UPDATE
BY NIGEL THOMPSON
Passengers at Luton will start to get a
speedier and easier passage through
security by the end of the year.
US technology giant Leidos is
handling upgrades across multiple
checkpoints at the Bedfordshire airport
which served more than 13 million
travellers in 2022 Improvements will
include the installation of 12 ClearScan
cabin baggage scanners which will
eliminate the need to remove
electronics and approved liquids from
carry-on luggage.
New, larger automated ProPassage
hand-baggage trays will speed up the
process for passengers. Luton security
chief Chris Jones said: "We look
forward to realising the benefits of
these new technologies.”
The first lanes are expected to open
between October and December.
Iondon-luton.co.uk
38 LIFESTYLE
Raising of Titanic emotions
The most moving exhibit is
The Ship of Dreams
circular room. Atmospheric
music accompanies the
floor to ceiling projections,
featuring images of the
dreams of the passengers.
A revolving black scale
model of Titanic, with its
lights flickering on and off,
slowly turns above a glass floor
revealing footage of the ship on
the ocean bed. There’s an array
of artifacts including a violin, a
coat worn by Titanic stewardess
Mabel Bennett, a pocket watch
and a wooden deckchair.
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Titanic Belfast has just
reopened its doors after a
£4.5million upgrade with
some seriously emotive
exhibits. One of the liner's
only surviving lifejackets
sits in front of a wall
featuring the names of
passengers who perished.
There's a series of
tumbling dominoes with visuals
detailing events which caused
the ship to sink. And you can see
footage of the Titanic's discovery
by oceanography professor Dr
Robert Ballard with him
explaining what inspired him to
search the Atlantic for the wreck.
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great restaurants, picturesque views and
fun games - seeking out “hidden
Mickeys” is an easy way to keep
everyone entertained as you wander.
We explored the resort’s four theme
parks during our trip and I wont lie -
the amount there to see and do can be a
little overwhelming.
Each of the parks offers something
unique, so having a gameplan is key,
especially if it’s your first visit
Magic Kingdom
Where you’ll want to go for full-on
nostalgia - and I think it’s the best
theme park of the four if you’ve got little
Disney fans with you.
For a start, it’s where you will fmd the
Cinderella Castle. There’s no feeling
quite like walking up Main Street USA
as it comes into view, with Disney music
playing in the background and the buzz
of communal giddiness. By day you’ll
feel like you’re in a fairy tale; by night
you’ll be transported to a whole new
world of Disney magic courtesy of the
fireworks and night-time spectacular -
bring tissues, it can get a bit emotional.
Magic Kingdom is also where you’ll
find classic, gentle rides such as Peter
Pan’s Flight, It’s a Small World and
Under the Sea:Journey of the Little
Mermaid. They’re perfect for younger
children as they don’t go fast and you
are immersed in the stories. As an Ariel
fan, sitting in a clam shell and heading
under the sea to be part of her world
was quite the experience.
For bigger kids, roller coasters
such as Space Mountain and
the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
are great for an adrenaline
rush, while Pirates of the
Caribbean is a good dose
of excitement without
being too overwhelming. ®
For a great ride offering
a chance to sit down, relax
and get some shade, don’t
miss out on Jungle Cruise.
Disney's Hollywood
Studios
For thrills and adventure, this
place doesn’t disappoint. It’s home
to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge where
you can take on the First Order in Rise
of the Resistance - one of the best
attractions I’ve ever been on.
Another strong contender is
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run,
where you operate the biggest hunk of
junk in the galaxy.
The land itself is awe-inspir-
ing, with droids and panels
you can hack using the Play
Disney app. As it’s immersive
you often see Stormtroopers,
Rey and Chewbacca
wandering through the market
and near the ships.
Toy Story Land is another
must-visit with fun attractions
such as Slinky Dog Dash and
И
You can hear
the screams
from Tower
of Terror
all around
the park
the Alien Swirling Saucers. The
theming is fantastic - you truly feel like Epcot
you have become a toy. It was one of the
lands where there were heaps of
character interactions, from a toy
soldier marching band to a chance to
meet Woody and Jessie (the queue took
about 20 minutes).
With an Old Hollywood theme, the
park also has some fun rides that aren’t
necessarily Disney film-related. The
Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is not for
the faint-hearted but is great fun. The
theme is excellent and you can hear the
screams from around the park!
Meanwhile, Rock n’ Roller
Coaster Starring Aerosmith is
the only ride where you find
yourself upside down,
although some of the
Aerosmith puns seemed lost
on the younger generation.
Another epic ride not to be
missed is Guardians of the
Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
over at...
Hits from the 70s and 80s such as Disco
Inferno, Everybody Wants To Rule The
World, I Ran and September - my
favourite - make up the soundtrack for
this high-octane coaster that shoots you
off in reverse, spins you and has
moments that are truly jaw-dropping.
The rest of Epcot offers a slower pace,
but I found that it made for a laidback
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Around The World and
Remy’s Ratatouille
Adventure.
Epcot is divided into
pavilions, each themed
around a specific country,
and it’s truly joyful to
wander around. Make
sure you don’t have a huge
breakfast - there are so
many themed snacks and drinks to
try. (Even locals come here to eat and
drink their way around the park.)
Disney's Animal
Kingdom
Another park with a relaxed
atmosphere, you’ll find fun attractions
such as a safari ride, 4D shows and
exhibits about conservation efforts
around the world.
However, one of the biggest
highlights has to be Pandora - The
World of Avatar. Impressively, there
are already features from the second
instalment of the film franchise, even
though it only hit screens last year.
Pandora has floating islands,
mystical plants and spectacular
backdrops to explore, but it’s also
home to two brilliant rides.
Avatar Flight of Passage is unlike
any other ride I’ve been on, using
special effects to make you feel like
you’re riding a banshee and flying
high above the world. Meanwhile
Navi River Journey is a serene boat
ride - definitely one to bookmark
when you need a break from all the
running around.
No matter which of the four parks
you’re in. make sure to give yourself
plenty of breathing space. People are
often determined to rush from one
ride to the next, but we found that
some of our favourite moments came
from simply wandering around.
After all, you never loiow which of
Mickey Mouses friends might be
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greet you - we ended up
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getting photos without
needing to queue, while
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having a coffee break
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>The fun doesn’t end
when the sun starts to
set, thanks to the
night-time shows.
At Disney’s Hollywood Studios,
Fantasmic! is mind-boggling.
There are special effects using
lights and water, as Mickey ends I
up in a battle against iconic
Disney villains. It’s not scary
though - there are plenty of fun I
and light-hearted moments, and I
appearances from the Disney
princesses too. Get there early,
as the stadium fills up quickly.
In Epcot, Harmonious is a
beautiful show, set to the sound I
of iconic Disney songs. Come
April, however, it’s going to be и
replaced with Epcot Forever.
But for me there was nothing i
quite like the fireworks at Magic
Kingdom. The enchanting
music, the projections of
characters and famous scenes, I
and the general atmosphere -
it really is the perfect way to
end a day with an extra
sprinkling of pixie dust
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rood, select a pick-up time, then head to
your chosen restaurant.
HAVE A PLAN: List the rides you
don't want to miss, plus show times, so
you're not running across the parks.
IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT THE RIDES:
Leave time to enjoy the parks. There are
games and elements that can be missed
if you're focused on getting to a queue.
CHARACTER BREAKFASTS: This is
a way to meet your favourites, have a big
meal and take the stress out of trying to
find them for the rest of your trip.
CELEBRATION BADGES: If visiting
for the first time or celebrating a special
occasion, ask Guest Services for a badge
- Cast Members always go the extra mile
to make your trip even more special!
Calling all
good sports
Hoikham Hall in North Norfolk has
just opened bookings for this
year's Festival of Sport UK. Over
20 sporting stars will be on hand
to impart their skills to the
hundreds of children aged 5-17.
From August 11-14 the festival
will include an array of sports,
from hockey to netball, cricket and
boxing. New for this year is the
increasingly popular American
football.
Big names for this year include
cricketer Ryan Sidebottom,
footballer Dean Ashton and
paralympic rowers Vicki and Tom
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Find fresh days
out for spring
As a nod to English Tourism Week
(March 17-26) we've found a raft
of attractions opening this spring.
At London's 02, test your
daredevil skills at iFLY. Feel what
it’s like to freefall without a
parachute in a giant wind tunnel.
Just opened, iflyworld.co.uk
Get on your bikes and head to
the new 13-mile route from
Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon
and travel along quiet roads and
part of the North Somerset
coastal towns route. Opens early
April, n-somerset.gov.uk
And Wheely Wonderful Cycling
has a new five-day tour visiting
castles, villages and historical
sites in Shropshire, where you’ll
cover around 135 miles. From May.
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At RHS Garden Rosemoor,
Devon, eight Tashi Lhunpo monks
will be building a sand mandala
work of art, and there’ll be music
and talks about their Tibetan
dress. From May 26-28. rhs.org.uk
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Last week, Staffordshire's World of
Wedgwood welcomed a new
attraction, Sixtowns by Bro's
Distillery. They've set up their
own working distillery within the
grounds next to the store.
Not only can you tour the
factory and see first hand how the
spirits are made, you can learn
from the experts in a fun mixology
class, making everything from
Martinis to Manhattans.
Make a day of it, touring the
Wedgwood factory learning about
their popular designs, even
throwing your own pot. There’s
also a tearoom and a store.
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Dead cert winner
Pick a name you like, don’t look
at the form”, was the expert
advice given to me by my
driver on the way to Suffolk's
Newmarket Racecourse as I perused
the racing guide.
As we all know, taxi drivers are a
font of all knowledge, but this was no
ordinary taxi.
We were driven by Malcolm, 80, a
former amateur jockey who had been
in the game for over 60 years.
“Horse racing is in my blood, it has
been my life,” Malcolm beamed. “If
you love your horse racing this is the
best town in the country?
As we got out, Malcolms parting
advice was, “Just remember
one thing lads, the favourite
isn’t always the best horse,
don’t be fooled into that”.
We had decided to push
the boat out and hire this
special black taxi, recently
launched by Discover
Newmarket, to take us from
our hotel to the track in style,
for our day out
It was a great start to our
Champions Lawn Race Day
Experience where you’re met just
outside the July racecourse.
We began with a behind-the-scenes
tour, including the weighing room
and the pre-parade ring where you
learn how to read a race card. There
are also lessons on how to place a
bet and what all the lingo means. .
After getting our bearings we
were led to the Champions
Lawn and our VIP enclo-
sure to join the rest of our
group (its usually a
group of eight),
overlooking the track
Its a great way for
it
I didn't take
Malcolm's
advice and
loser after
loser came
rolling in
Andy Richardson enjoys an inside look at the
July racecourse, National Stud and National
Horse Racing Museum on a trip to Newmarket f
friends who want a slightly quieter
experience but with all the drama
- and their own seat.
There’s a bar and you can buy food
in the food court.
Unfortunately, I didn’t
take Malcolms advice and
loser after loser rolled in
until I found a winner with
Frankie Dettori s only
runner of the day, Lezoo.
That said, it was still a
wonderful day.
Our hotel was close
enough for us to walk back
to, less than a mile away. The Bedford
Lodge Hotel & Spa sits within three
acres of manicured gardens.
It also happens to have the two AA
Rosette-starred Squires restaurant
which was just the place to relax -
and indulge - after a day at the races.
Beautiful starters from £8 included
scallops with cauliflower tahini for £8,
and mackerel with Granny Smith and
dill, £9. For mains, I enjoyed a
delicious sirloin steak £35, while my
partner enjoyed salmon with roast
cauliflower, £21.
Our visit the next morning to The
National Stud (£15) horse farm was a
must, where we were met by Discover
Newmarket guide Frankie.
We soaked up fascinating historical
snippets as she showed us around.
Did you know Charles II is the only
reigning monarch to win a horse race,
triumphing in the Newmarket Town
Plate in 1671?
After his victory he declared the
race should run “forever This year
it’s in the diary for August 26.
Once one of the most prestigious
races in the land, the Newmarket
Town Plate is now a pinnacle of
glorious eccentricity, raced
q by amateurs to win a bag
of Newmarket sausages.
Also at The National
Stud is the grave of
legendary race horse
Mill Reef.
Living legends are
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here too, such as former Gold Cup
champion Lord Windermere and
champion sprinter The Tin Man.
I was at the Cheltenham Festival in
2014 the day Lord Windermere won
the Gold Cup, so it was special to
greet a champion up close, give him a
neck rub and feed him polo mints.
We also visited the National Horse
Racing Museum.
It has three parts - the museum has
a racehorse simulator and artefacts
such as silks worn by Lester Piggott
and Frankie Dettori.
The Packard Galleries have sporting
artworks, and the Retraining of
Racehorses is home to six former
racehorses being rehabilitated.
It finished a great trip that even the
most casual of race fans would enjoy.
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dementia. She is distressed during
the night and I have been sleeping on the
couch downstairs. She paces and whines
and wants to be let out in the garden,
then just stares. Her anxiety and
confusion can't be good for her and I
need some advice on when I should be
saying "enough is enough".
A As our pets have increasingly longer
life spans, cognitive decline - which
is comparable to dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease in people - has
become very common in dogs and cats.
Signs can appear in dogs from
12 years of age, and sometimes earlier
than this. By 16 years most dogs will
have at least one symptom, therefore
you most certainly are not alone and
there will be many owners like you who
face making sad decisions. Your dog is
showing typical advanced signs, and
unfortunately, as the disease is progres-
sive, things will inevitably get worse.
When it comes to saying enough is
enough, my experience over the years is
that many owners know when the time
has come to say goodbye.
It’s important that they look after
their own health too, which often suffers
from the strain of coping with a
disorientated dog.
Although this situation is unique to
you, your vet will see dogs such as your
border collie often, so the best approach
to decision-making is a joint one with
you and the vet.
This is important because many
people in your situation feel guilty.
However, in my view there is no need
to feel guilty when they are being caring
and responsible owners, as you are.
QMy dog was diagnosed with anal
furunculosis and has been prescribed
veterinary treatment. She is halfway
through a 16-week course and so far, so
good. Do you know of any lifestyle or diet
tips to prevent recurrence?
Al have only seen anal furunculosis
(also known as perianal fistulae and
characterised by inflammation in the
area surrounding the anus) in German
shepherds, and they account for 80 per
cent of cases.
For many years it was thought that
there might be a genetic cause or an
anatomical one, due to the low carriage
of German shepherd dogs.
However, current thinking is the
disease is an autoimmune problem with
the body destroying its own tissue in
that area.
This is backed up by the fact the use
of potent immunosuppressive drugs,
such as the one prescribed by your vet,
has revolutionised treatment
Previously, surgical treatment was the
only option. Surgery to remove diseased
tissue is still a possibility in cases that
don’t respond to drugs.
However a high proportion of dogs
respond very well to the initial course of
treatment The problem, as you are
suggesting, is that once the drug is
withdrawn the problem recurs.
Dogs in this position may stay in
remission with continuous low dose
therapy. However, a 2010 article
suggested 18.8 per cent of dogs with the
condition had a food allergy.
If your dog relapses, trialling a diet for
food allergy is something you could talk
over with your vet But if motions are
normal, no dietary changes are needed.
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Awakening a child to the wonders of the
natural world in the age of computer
wizardry can be quite a feat.
Video games and cinema special effects
mesmerise young imaginations and can
leave everyday encounters with wildlife in
the shade.
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The great
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Scott was
letting us
use his
telescope!
Having taken my grandson Benjamin to
see the Bafta-winning Avatar: The Way of
Water, with its eye-popping array of fantastic
aquatic beasts, I felt a little trepidation about
our trip to a local wetland reserve.
To young minds, everyday ducks and
geese must seem humdrum compared to
James Cameron's incredible skimwings,
toruks and ikrans.
Luckily, my own piece of hi-tech gadgetry
came to the rescue in
the shape of a digital
camera with a powerful
125-times zoom lens.
In Benjamin's hands,
it was soon capturing
everything that flew
across our path
as we walked towards a
hide overlooking a
flooded pit that has
become a haven for wintering wildfowl
and waders.
Oystercatchers, teal and tufted ducks
were all framed at long distance before a
nondescript duck swam into view.
Trying to turn a dowdy gadwall into an
exciting find would have been a challenge
without regaling Benjamin with the story of
how I saw my first one.
Our school birdwatching club was on a
trip to Tring Reservoirs back in the early
1970s when we walked past a group of
middle-aged and rather posh-sounding
birdwatchers, who were using a telescope to
focus on a distant duck. There was mention
of a gadwall, a scarce bird back in the day
and one we had never seen.
It was only after we had patiently lined up
to view the duck, that one of the party told
us the great Sir Peter Scott was allowing us
to use his telescope.
Sir Peter was my childhood hero. A quick
recap of his life story as the son of Scott of
the Antarctic and the patron saint of
conservation was enough to impress
Benjamin, and he was soon clicking away at
the gadwall to his heart's content.
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Soon, the nation will
march in unison to the
garden centre or DIY
outlet searching for the
equipment to keep their
outdoor spaces shipshape.
If we plan ahead well avoid
the scrum and by making a list
you’ll keep from being
tempted by impulse
buys. Most
importantly...
plan to purchase
quality tools and
resolve to look after
them. So while March
weather keeps us
shivering, here’s
what’s essential:
A good-quality
lawnmower (serviced and
sharpened, if you can,
before Easter.)
A trowel will become your
gardening friend. It’s the
perfect tool for digging
I like using
knee pads
when I dig
holes for
smaller
plants
planting holes. Trowel blades
are always short but can vary
in width. The best trowel
should have a comfortable
handle with a well-fitted blade
that won’t come loose in time,
so examine the quality of
where the wood joins with
metal when
considering a
purchase.
A spongy mat or
kneeler can be a
great benefit if you’re
on your knees for
hours on end
planting or weeding.
I like using knee
pads when I’m
bending forward in
the garden, especially digging
holes for planting small plants
with a spade or tilling the bed
with a garden fork
An excellent set of long
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JOBS for the week
Unless soil is frozen, sow
beetroot, broad beans and
lettuce outdoors. Sow
aubergines, tomatoes and
peppers indoors.
Plant out sweet
pea seedlings.
They will need
supports to climb
up so make your
own from birch
twigs or with
willow cuttings.
Keep winter
bedding such as
primulas, cyclamens
and pansies looking
good by regular dead
heading. Garden
centres are full of
cheerful plants such
as polyanthus, Bellis
perennis, erysimum
and dianthus, so you can pot up
colourful combinations in
baskets or tubs.
Protect emerging apricot and
peach blossom from frosts by
covering with horticultural
fleece. It's also a good time to
plant fruit trees - if
you don't have
lots of space,
remember there
are plenty of
dwarf varieties
and fruit bushes
available.
Give your lawn a
good scratching with a
rake to remove winter
debris and thatch.
Container-grown
plants - whether indoors
or outdoors-like to be
top dressed in spring.
Remove the top layer of
old compost gently
without damaging roots
and replace
with fresh general or garden
compost.
PLANT of the week
Berberis darwinii
Darwin's barberry is a popular hedging bush - it’s an evergreen with
small holly-like leaves and in spring is covered in a wonderful display
of clusters of orange flowers.
It's thorny and dense so it makes an excellent barrier plant. The
and forks. These should be strong but
not too heavy and comfortable to use.
They should last a lifetime so invest in
the best you can afford.
Make sure that you find the handle
and shaft length is comfortable.
Sharp and strong secateurs that are
comfortably handled - an invaluable tool
for any pruning jobs. I recommend the
Classic Felco no4. They are affordable
and will last a lifetime.
If you have good secateurs it’s
really worth looking after them.
With Felco secateurs, you can
even send them away to be
serviced by World of Felco.
They also have spare parts if the
secateurs break and lots of
information about sharpening and
oiling secateurs.
Garden shears are good for
trimming hedges and cutting back
larger areas of plant growth.
They’re typically used for
cutting back or shaping shrubs
and ornamental grasses, and
for cutting back flowering plants after
blooming season.
A large durable bucket, to collect
weeds, mix compost and fertiliser in and
drop damaging snails and slugs into!
A lightweight but strong wheelbarrow
that can easily be manoeuvered and
transported when full.
My choice would be an 85-litre
galvanised steel tray barrow with a
choice of pneumatic wheel. And a roll of
garden twine is essential. Choices
include tar-soaked, waxed or twine made
of trendy sea grass.
A watering can, which is easy to hold
when filled with water and which feels
well-balanced, is essential.
A well-designed one won’t put a strain
on your body when watering. Choose a
six to 10-litre vessel for gardens and
larger pots to minimise refills.
My choice would be a strong,
galvanised can of the type that
you might find lurking in an
older person’s garden.
Look after your tools as they
will often last for decades if you
do. Keep a stiff brush and clean
rags in your garage or potting
shed. And brush soil or garden
debris off the tools after use.
A quick wipe with the cloth
prolongs their life and
performance and saves you a big
tool-cleaning job over winter. It
soon becomes second nature.
flowers are followed by small purple-black berries in late summer
which, although edible, are very acidic in taste. Native to Chile and
Argentina, it is fully hardy here and is best planted in moist but well-
drained soil in full sun. A good choice for coastal gardens as well.
You ask—
Snipe' an elegant white and
yellow daft (pictured). There’s
Hi Diarmuid
I love daffodils - can
you recommend
some good
varieties that will
flower well?
Jenny
Hi Jenny
Yes I agree with
you - they are so
cheerful at this
time of year. Daffodils are
generally pretty easy bulbs. If
you’d like them to naturalise in
lawns, I'd recommend ‘Jack
also a good one with
the same name as
you - 'Jenny' - which
has a dainty lemon
yellow and white
flower. But if you
prefer strong yolky
yellows and bright
orange trumpets,
choose 'Tete a Tete’,
and ‘Jetfire' is a zingy
variety. You might
find some flowering
in pots in garden centres now or
order over the summer for
autumnal planting.
Diarmuid
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SHORTS
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LEAGUE
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Will Pryce came on
to put the squeeze
on Castleford
Simmonds hasn’t
lost the Ex factor
Exeter 24 Newcastle 5
RUGBY UNION BY ADAM HATHAWAY
» ENGLAND cast-off Sam
Simmonds nailed the bonus
point as Exeter jumped into the
top four in the Gallagher Premiership
with a win over Newcastle.
The Montpellier-bound No.8
(above) scored with nine minutes left
as Chiefs bounced back from their
40-5 humiliation by Harlequins.
A fourth league defeat on the
bounce leaves Falcons level on points
with Bath at the bottom of the table.
At Brentford today, George Ford
starts his second Premiership game
for Sale when they take on London
Irish. Ollie Hassell-Collins is on the
wing for Exiles.
Leicester have centre Guy Porter
in for the first time in six weeks for
their trip to Gloucester, who have
flanker Jordy Reid back.
Harlequins have Will Edwards at
No.10 for their visit to Bristol. Bears
have flanker Steve Luatua returning.
Will’s Giant job steals the show
TODAY
Gloucester
v Leicester
1pm, ВТ Sport
P W D L В F A Pts
Saracens 16 13 0 3 10 483 369 62
Sale 16II0 5 12 443 345 56
Northampton 17 9 0 8 12 494 540 48
Exeter 16 9 0 7 7 376 377 43
Leicester 16 8 1 7 9 409 422 43
London Irish 16 7 0 9 13 432 386 41
Harlequins 15 7 0 8 11 393 382 39
Gloucester 15 7 0 8 II 351 367 39
Bristol 15 6 I 8 10 363 385 36
Newcastle 16 5 О II 7 345 436 27
Bath 16 4 0 12 11 353 433 27
London Irish
vSale
Kick-off 1pm
Bristol v
Harlequins
Kick-off 3pm
Tyson’s preparing
to hit Usykforsix
BOXING BY TOM HOPKINSON
» TYSON FURY yesterday claimed
to be in the first day of training
for his heavyweight showdown with
Oleksandr Usyk at Wembley.
Usyk has agreed а 7О/ЗО split of
the April 29 pay-day in Fury’s favour
as long as the Brit donates Elmillion
to the people of Ukraine.
In a video on Instagram, Fury said:
"Today is the first day of my training.
I don’t need six months, four months
and all that. I've got six weeks and a
week's rest. Done. Happy days.”
SKIING
» AMERICAN alpine skier Mikaela
Shiffrin has made history after
setting a new World Cup record for
the most career victories.
On Friday Shiffrin drew level with
legendary Swede Ingemar Stenmark
on the all-time winners list for men
and women with a victory in the
giant slalom. And she topped the
charts with her 87th triumph, in the
slalom in Are, Sweden, yesterday.
“It’s pretty hard to comprehend,’’
admitted 27-year-old Shiffrin.
by David Craven
TALENTED Huddersfield
Giants playmaker Will Pryce
shrugged off his exploits
as man-of-the-match and
insisted: "I’m still just trying
to earn my stripes.”
The 20-year-old England Knights
star was hugely influential as the
West Yorkshire club comfortably
eased past Castleford Tigers 36-6 on
Friday night.
And after being dropped to the
bench, he certainly proved a point
to head coach Ian Watson.
Pryce came on after an early injury'
to scrum-half Theo Fages and
instantly took the game by the scruff
of the neck.
He used his trademark sidestep to
score one try, dinked in a perfect
grubber for Jake Bibby to touch down
another and caused Castleford all
manner of problems with his pace.
Pryce, of course, is heading to
Australia’s NRL with Newcastle
Knights in 2024.
But he certainly has not fallen in
love with himself and knows he must
keep improving given all the creative
talent at Watson’s disposal.
Great Britain maverick Jake
Connor is closing in on his return
after injury, Tonga star Tui Lolohea
runs the show from full-back and
Oily Russell's form meant Pryce was
shunted to the replacements.
Watson praised him for the way
he reacted to that decision and Pryce
said: “I love these boys to bits.
“We have a really good group here
at Huddersfield and I am still trying
to cam my stripes, earn respect.
“Wherever Watto needs me in the
game. I'll do my best for the team.
Running
“For anyone coming off the bench,
there's an emphasis on making a
mark and trying to hype the game
up a bit.
“I tried to do that. The best part
of my game is
running, so 1 used
that to my advantage
and Tui and the boys
keep telling me to
keep going forward,
keep running.
“It was nice to go
over for one.”
Giants will aim for
a third straight win
when they host
Wigan Warriors on
Friday. Pryce linked
Warrington
Catalans
Wigan
Huddersfield
Salford
HullKR
Leigh
Leeds
Hull
St Helens
Castleford
Wakefield
up with Russell to good effect against
Castleford. And they will likely
continue together as France
scrum-half Fages awaits news on his
injured calf.
Having lost their season opener
at Warrington and replied with an
8-0 win at Wakefield - Fages and
Pryce pairing as halves in both - it
was critical they built further.
With Wigan up next, and then
champions St Helens, the challenges
are only going to get bigger.
Pryce admitted: “It was massive
from the boys on Friday. We really
dug deep. Watto emphasised
beforehand that we can't be a side
that goes one win, one loss, one win.
"So it was good to back up last
week's victory against
Wakefield and get some
attack right, which had
been a bit clunky for the
last few weeks.
“It was really
enjoyable. And now
we’ll see what we can do
against Wigan.”
» HUDDERSFIELD
second-row Sam Hewitt
has joined Wakefield on
a two-week loan.
Making a Marc
Hull FC 14 Salford 60
p w D L F A Pts
4 4 0 0 122 56
4 4 0 0 108 46
4 2 0 2 124 45
3 2 0 1 60 32
4 2 0 2 ПО 84
4 2 0 2 86 76
4 2 0 2 66 71
4 2 0 2 79 88
4 2 0 2 74 146
3 1 0 2 60 51
4 0 0 4 42 128
4 0 0 4 24 132
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0
SALFORD boss Paul Rowley hailed
milestone man Marc Sneyd after a
virtuoso performance against his
former club.
The 32-year-old’s 10 goals took
him beyond 1,000 for his career -
655 of which he kicked in the black
and white of Hull. Sneyd (above)
also scored a try in the rout.
Rowley said: "His first experience
back here last year wasn't a
pleasant one, so to get a good one
this time was good for him and a
fantastic way to land 1,000 career
goals. He was great."
Hull coach Tony Smith said: "I'm
disappointed, embarrassed - a
number of feelings."
HEAT’S
CRICKET
by Richard Edwards
BEN STOKES has insisted that he will
fulfil his commitments with the
Indian Premier League - despite
ongoing issues with his troublesome
left knee.
And everyone in English cricket
will be crossing their fingers ahead
of this summer's Ashes as he jets off
to play for the Chennai Super Kings.
After going for £1,6million in the
auction for this year's competition,
ON STOKES, WARNS DIMI»
expectation levels will be sky-high play, but when you're one of the at the prospect of having Ben
on India's east coast. IPL's major players that brings a Stokes promoting their team. W/(
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Hampshire old boy Dimi
Mascarenhas - the first England
player to be snapped up by an
IPL franchise back in 2008 -
believes that Stokes will
be one of the major
attractions when it kicks
off this later month.
But the 45-year-old also
warned that the heat will be on
the England captain.
"Everyone will want to see him
huge amount of pressure," said
Mascarenhas (left), who played
for the Rajasthan Royals
under the captaincy of
Shane Warne between
2008 and 2010.
"It's not just pressure on
the pitch, there are also
expectation levels off the
pitch, too.
"The marketing operation in
Chennai will be rubbing their hands
"The workload when you're
someone like him is huge. /J „
" He's obviously experienced " ’ *
that before, and he has played —
so much cricket around the
world that he'll know how to
deal with it.
"But the IPL is a unique event,
and it can take its toll." /7^7
Stokes (right) will be joined at <
the IPL by Joe Root who is
playing for the Royals.
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SIX NATIONS "
FAL SAFE: Taulupe Faletau
All-action
Webb has
a field day
Italy 17 Wales 29
by Nick Pattison
BOSS Warren Gatland hailed the
excellence of scrum-half Rhys Webb
as Wales won their first match in
this year's Six Nations.
Webb's first Test start since
October 2020 saw him create two
tries and deservedly take player-of-
the-match honours.
"I thought he was excellent in the
way his decision-making controlled
the game,” said Gatland.
"He has not played at this level
for a while, so we were always
thinking when did we need to make
a change in terms of his legs and
stuff.
"I thought his contribution was
excellent."
Gatland's team arrived in Rome
with the wooden spoon a realistic
prospect following defeats against
Ireland, Scotland and England.
But Italy, who wasted a host of
chances, look destined to finish
bottom of the table for an 18th time.
Tries by wing Rio Dyer and full-
back Liam Williams rewarded a
dominant early display, then a
penalty try underpinned an
impressive first half that saw Wales
build a 19-point advantage.
Number eight Taulupe Faletau's
50th-minute touchdown secured a
bonus point, while fly-half Owen
Williams kicked a penalty and two
conversions.
Faz means
bus-iness!
Scotland v Ireland Today, 3pm
ANDY FARRELL has put his
success as Ireland coach down to
tough times at Wigan Warriors.
Victory today would leave the
Irish one home win against
England from a Grand Slam.
Farrell (below) has overcome
last-minute injury withdrawals
and other issues - not least
Ireland’s late arrival in Cardiff for
their Six Nations opener, due to
problems with the team bus.
He said: "At Wigan we were
held up on the motorway, ran out
10 minutes before kick-
off and won against
Leeds. It's mentality. If
you're not coping, then
you've got to make
your squad stronger."
] ENGLAND 10 FRANCE 53 fW
NO MERCI
FRENCH
FRIED.,
Despair for
England as
(below) «gd
Thibaud
Flament and W
Damian Penaud^
both score twice
in seven-try rout
by Neil Squires
HOMMES against Les
Garcons. England were
humiliated as France
exorcised their Six
Nations Twickenham
demons in devastating
style.
France’s first win at the
stadium for 18 years in the
championship was completed
with panache and brutality as
England crashed to the heaviest
home defeat in their history.
England captain Ellis Genge
said: “I am not going to sugar
coat it. That is one of our worst
performances and we were
punished numerous times. I am
not hiding away from it, we were
well beaten.
"France are brilliant - they
have shown time and time again
why they are the No.2 team in
the world. We are way off where
we want to be.”
After all the talk of building
under Steve Borthwick (right)
during this Six Nations, the roof
fell in on England.
The England head coach
acknowledged his side could not
handle France’s power after the
к Six Nations champions ran in
В seven tries.
“We’re incredibly disap-
F pointed,” said Borthwick.
“France showed just how much
better than we currently are.
They were exceptional, we were
poor.
“We wanted to put on a really
good performance today and we
weren’t able to do so.
“That hurts us and I’m sure it
hurts the supporters as well.”
England were exposed by
France - and their masterful
conductor Antoine Dupont - as
the modest mid-rankers they
are.
Wretched
Too strong, too skilful and too
cohesive for a ragged England
caught in the headlights, France
were one step ahead in every-
thing they did.
Marcus Smith, on his recall,
had an unhappy afternoon with
one wretched free-kick sliced
into the waiting arms of
man-of-the-match
Thomas Ramos - .
who scored 23 /
points - summing
up the stand-off's ЯН
day.
He was far from
alone in his misery.
The England
pack were hum-
bled by a French
collective with 1
the skills to 1
match their'
power, and the
backline - save j
Q
for their lone try scorer Freddie
Steward - was anonymous.
The rout began with France's
first try from Ramos - gilded by
exceptional offloads from
forwards Charles Ollivon and
Thibaud Flament - after just 106
seconds.
An outstanding piece of think-
ing from Dupont brought the
second as the French
captain switched to his left foot
to drill a 50/22 into the corner
and from the resulting lineout,
Flament surged over.
Then a massive scrum from
France gave the visitors a free
play and after Gregory Alldritt
had driven them forward,
Ollivon took his inside pass to
drive over the line.
France led 27-3 at the break
with England having only one
long-range penalty from Smith
to show for their efforts.
Borthwick made a double
к change in the 46th minute,
bringing on Alex Mitchell and
SIX NATIONS
P W D L В F A Pts
Ireland 3 3 0 0 3 100 49 15
France 4 3 0 1 3 133 87 15
Scotland 3 2 0 1 2 85 62 10
I England 4 2 0 2 2 84106 10
Wales 4 1 0 3 1 56 106 5
Italy 4 0 0 4 1 75 123 1
RATINGS by Alex Spink
ENGLAND
FREDDIE STEWARD 4
Eclipsed by Ramos - consolation of
going through him for his try
MAX MAUNS 6
Almost scored, never stopped
trying but France stood firm
HENRY SLADE 4
Little impact again - replaced by
Owen Farrell early in second half
OLLIE LAWRENCE 5
Had his work cut out up against
Danty. Good lesson for youngster
ANTHONY WATSON 4
Dropped a high ball and spent rest
of game fighting fire in defence
MARCUS SMITH 4
The harder he tried the more
things went wrong. Chastening
JACK VAN POORTVLIET 3
Badly exposed before Mitchell
came on to inject pace and tempo
ELLIS GENGE (CAPT) 6
Horror start to career as captain -
but English set-piece held up well
JAMIE GEORGE 5
Never hides, but even Jamie will
struggle to find words for this
KYLE SINCKLER 5
Was looking forward to contest
after Wales and will be deflated
MAROITOJE 5
12 tackles but didn't turn tide with
force of personality as he used to
OLLIE CHESSUM 6
First tough day for an outstanding
young prospect. Must keep chin up
LEWIS LUDLAM 5
No answer to work of Cros, Ollivon
and Aldritt at breakdown
JACK WILLIS 5
Wanted to impress his Toulouse
team-mates but France bossed it
ALEX DOMBRANDT 4
Too many costly errors in first half
when England needed control
REPLACEMENTS:
J Walker (Lawrence 62) 5.
M Vunipola (Genge 65) 5, К Sinckler
(Cole 65) 5iD Ribbands (Dombrandt
76) 5. В Curry (Willis 54) 5. A Mitchell
(Van Poortvliet 46)6,0 Farrell
(Slade46)6.HArundell(Malins58)5
MAN OF
THE MATCH
THOMAS RAMOS
Owen Farrell in midfield, and
two minutes later Steward was
over the France line.
It was a temporary respite as
Dupont’s vision brought the
bonus-point try for France as
the scrum-half’s chip was
tapped back by Romain
Ntamack into Flament's hands
for the 57th-minute score.
Two minutes later, Ollivon
dotted down for his second.
Exposed
Borthwick, having used up
his back replacements, was
forced to move No 8 Alex
Dombrandt into the three-
quarters after losing centre
Ollie Lawrence. And
Dombrandt. exposed out wide,
was soon outpaced by Damian
Penoud for France's sixth try in
the 72nd minute. Penaud added
another three minutes later.
France coach Fabien Galthie
rated the result - which eclipsed
England’s 42-6 loss to South
Africa at Twickenham in
2008 - as one of the finest
in his nation’s rugby
history.
"If you know Twickenham
you can’t possibly imagine
doing this. There is a special
meaning to this place but we
were brave,” said Galthie.
“It’s really moving. It’s a
perfect day at Twickenham
and that’s a rare thing.”
Huge 23-point display
from France fullback
FRANCE
Thomas Ramos_________________.9
Damian Penaud............... 8
Gael Fickou..„................8
Jonathan Danty.______________.9
Ethan Dumortier.».............7
Romain Ntamack________________8
Antoine Dupont (capt)________„9
Сугй ВаШе.................... 8
Julien Marchand...............7
Dorian Aldegheri._____________7
Thibaud Hament_______________.9
Pad Willemse..................7
Francois Cros............_._..8
Charles Ollivon...............9
Greg Alldritt................_9
REPLACEMENTS: Falatea (Aldegheri
51)6, Taofifenua (Willemse 51) 6,
Mauvaka (Marchand 60) 7, Ward i (Baile
60)7, Macalou (Ollivon 65)7, Moefana
(Danty 65) 6 Lucu (Dupont 68) 6,
Jaminet (Ntamack 73) 7
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12, 2023
Aaron opens
up on battle
with anxiety
by John Richardson
FREED from the mental demons which
once saw Aaron Lennon detained for his
own safety, the former England winger is
now helping other players with their
disturbing issues.
The 35-year-old, who has called time on
his career which encompassed spells with
home-town club Leeds United, Tottenham,
Everton and Burnley, now provides a
listening ear or advice for players living on
the edge.
He learned the hard way almost six
years ago while at Everton - the result of
not confiding to others about the build-up
of his mental anxiety.
"The club did as much as they could but
I kept a lot of it in for a long period of time
until it was too late," he recalled. "I was in
a bad place.
"In the past couple of years you have
seen more players speaking out openly
about issues they have had.
"Some players, though, probably still
don't want to do that while they are still
playing.
'j can fully understand that. There's
been progress in the game about offering
help but I don't think it's been enough.
"Everyone will go through bad spells in
their lives. Whether that's due to their job,
their family or just them as people. It can
come out of nowhere."
For Lennon it reached a point where
there was a genuine concern over his well
being, leading to the impish forward being
detained under the Mental Health Act.
"Once Everton found out they
SUPPORTED: Lennon at Burnley
supported me the whole way,” Lennon
added.
"I got the help and came out the other
side. I don't look back on that period as a
bad time.
"It needed to happen. I was in a bad
place and needed to work on myself."
He regained his Everton first-team spot
before moving to Burnley to work under
current Goodison Park boss Sean Dyche.
Lennon stated: "His man-management
skills are first class.
"From the moment I got there his door
was always open. He would call me into
the office and we would have a chat. Not
just about football.
"He would ask me how I was. Not
many managers do that. He was great for
me and I cannot speak highly enough
about him."
While at Turf Moor Lennon launched,
with the backing of the Premier League
and PFA, a mental well-being project
aimed at schools.
"It's about giving kids an opportunity
to have someone in the schools that they
can talk to and feel comfortable with, and
that can only help them," he added.
"There is so much I want to give back
with all my experiences on and off the
pitch."
WEST]
v ASTON VILLA
MOY
INGS
BETTE
by Tom Hopkinson
DAVID MOYES hopes
Danny Ings can really
kickstart his West Ham
career - and the Irons’
bid for Premier League
survival - against his
old club Aston Villa.
Ings has scored two goals
since arriving from Villa Park
in a £12million move in
January, but both came in the
4-0 demolition of Nottingham
Forest last month.
Illusions
And there have been five
other games in w hich he has
not found the net.
But Moyes knows Ings
could feel there is something
to prove to his old employers
this afternoon and that will
play into the Hammers’
favour. Moyes must now
decide whether to unleash the
30-year-old at the London
Stadium, stick with Michail
Antonio, whose two goals
sank ЛЕК Larnaca in Cyprus
on Thursday, or play the two
of them together.
Moyes (below) said: “It’s
always a difficult one *
when you return to "JS
your old club or
play against your
old club. A
“Sometimes it
can go big in your
favour, sometimes
it can't, you never
know- how it works.
"If anybody will know much
about Aston Villa, it will be
Danny, but they will know
plenty about Danny as well.
“We want to get Danny in
the goals, he could be crucial.
We’re needing a goalscorer.
VILLA BOSS: Emery
PREMIER LEAGUE
TODAY, 2pm
we're needing someone w ho
can link us up and keep the
ball better at different times.
"But there will be plenty of
games where I need Mich’s
robustness up top and work
down the sides of people and
around the box.
“WeTl have to pick and
-4 choose when and
where we think it’s
right to play them
\both or to play
^IM^t hem
r. JWSV individuals."
JF ’ Despite their
* success in the
Europa Conference
League. Moyes and
everyone else involved with
West Ham are under no
illusions about the battle they
face to stay in the top flight.
They also know' that Villa
at home represents a chance
to start climbing up the table.
It is the first of four home
games in a row and Moyes
added: “It's big game for us.
It feels like every home game
has been a really big game in
recent weeks.
“Everton, Nottingham
Forest and Chelsea in
between that.
Presence
“Let’s be fair, results at
home have been pretty good
and we have to maintain that
because our form away from
home is not stacking up at the
moment.
“We’ve had 10 In 14 away
from home - how does that
work? - but obviously we’ve
been drawn away, I guess.
“It feels like we’ve been
away for a long time.
Hopefully, we can use it and
try to do better.
“If we perform to the levels
we had against Nottingham
Forest, we will give ourselves
a good chance."
Moyes also believes that
the return of France defender
Kurt Zouma has been
timely.
He said: “He has that
presence that everybody is
looking for.
“We know sometimes that
he’s not quite as fit as we want
him to be. but he is still able
to fill the position and know
the job.
“He’s also someone who is
respected as a centre-half
because of his power, his
strength and the way he goes
about it.
“We've missed him. we've
missed him getting back to his
real best.
"Hopefully, this period will
now give him the chance to do
that."
IRONS CHIEF SALUTED BY UNAI
by Neil Moxley
UNAI EMERY has thrown his weight behind
under-fire opposite number David Moyes.
Ahead of today's top-flight clash in
London, Villa chief Emery - the widely-
travelled former Arsenal boss - has waded
in to point out that the Scot has delivered
at least one great prize, European football.
Moyes eased the pressure on his
shoulders with a 2-0 Europa League victory
in Cyprus over Larnica on Thursday night,
but Premier League form - and survival -
remain a big worry. Emery insisted that
Moyes has been "successful" at West Ham
and argued: "A lot of Premier League
teams want to play in Europe, but it's not
possible as it's so difficult to qualify - and
West Ham did that under his management.
"He's altered his tactics, working with
different clubs, and his teams have always
been very competitive.
"Now they are near the bottom of the
league - but I know from my experience
that trying to get the same performance in
the Premier League and the cups and
Europe is difficult. I respect him, I know it's
going to be hard for us."
Emery has amassed 22 points from Villa's
past 12 PL games - a similar return over
the remainder of the season would put
Villa in the Europe mix themselves.
Emery added: "I've played in Europe for
15 years and, of course, my objective is to
get back into Europe, but our first mission
was to escape from the bottom.
"It's difficult to get to the top now. I
want to build, create a style. I want to
progress - but Europe is not my priority."
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TODAY, KO 2pm
sky sports
main event
OPTIMISTIC: Hudson
Hudson’s
on the up
with USA
Amen, Mikel
by Neil McLeman in Lisbon
by John Richardson
USA interim head coach
Anthony Hudson believes
the future is bright for
football across the pond.
Chicago-based Hudson -
the son of Chelsea legend
Alan - has stepped up from
his No.2 role with Gregg
Berhalter in the midst of a
US Soccer investigation.
After draws against
England and Wales in the
World Cup, where they only
went out in the round of 16
against Holland, he reckons
there are grounds for
optimism.
"I've been with the team
and the staff for a long
time," said Hudson.
"It's not like coming into
a new role in the sense that
I know everyone. I know
how everyone works.
"We're very committed
to growing the game here
in the USA and building the
national team."
Players born in the USA
are making an impression
in the Premier League with
Leeds having a trio in
Brenden Aaronson, Tyler
Adams and Weston
McKennie.
"I think Leeds need a
few more American
players," Hudson laughed.
"I've recently been to
England and Germany to
meet a bunch of players,
and watched games
because we also have
players in the
Championship as well as
the Premier League.
Quality
"The type of player
coming through now is
very technical, comfortable
on the ball, good in one-
on-one situations if you
think of guys like Christian
Pulisic, Weston McKennie,
Yunus Musah.
"The quality is there and
it's being displayed in all
the age groups."
As for his future, Hudson
said: "I haven't thought
about the job on a
permanent basis.
"I've got it until August,
which will involve the
Nations League and the
Gold Cup. I'm taking it a
camp at a time."
Hudson has also set up
the Forgotten Dogs
Foundation.
He said: "It's now a big
part of my life. It's tough
seeing the levels of cruelty
done to some dogs."
MIKEL ARTETA has told the goal
celebration police to "go to
church” if they don’t want to feel
football’s "passion and emotion ”.
And the Arsenal boss insisted he will
not tell his Premier League leaders to
tone down any post-goal reactions before
today's visit to Fulham.
The Gunners were investigated by the
FA after their staff and subs spilled on
to the Emirates pitch following their
97th-minute winner over Bournemouth.
But Arteta stated he had no worries
J his players were overdoing it - and urged
| them to carry on showing the fans their
I love of the game.
He said: "If you win in football, you
celebrate. You want passion and emotion.
There is nothing betterthan scoring goals
and winning football matches. So if
not, you go to church.
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players not to celebrate on Sunday.” j
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Arsenal needed a late winner
from defender Gabriel to beat
Fulham In August after his error
allowed Aleksandar Mitrovic to score first.
But Marco Silva's side have continued
to impress and are eyeing a crack at
European football.
German keeper Bernd Leno has been
key for the Cottagers since leaving the
Emirates last summer for £8million in
search of first-team football.
“I am really happy for Bernd,” said
Arteta. “He is a really good goalkeeper
and we knew that.
"I am really glad he went somewhere
where he is happy and performing."
FA investigate Gunners, but boss says: If
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MAKING
HIS POINT
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В pressure of being table toppers as
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I roar on April 26 when the Gunners
I travel to Manchester City.
•% Xhaka (above) said: "We have
i jf- Pressure every day. We know that
on the top of the table the
pressure is a little bit more but
we have to enjoy it as well.
"We are all enjoying the
season, not just myself but all
the club, the fans, the players,
the team, the staff are
enjoying the moment
because we are there where
we deserve to be.
"Now we are looking
forward to Fulham.
"They are a very
dangerous, good team, it’s a
derby as well, but we are
looking forward to this game."
Arsenal have scored last-gasp winners
against Aston Villa then Bournemouth.
But midfielder Xhaka would rather
they did things a little more easily.
He added: "For the fans, for the
people in front of the TV, if we score
every time in the last seconds the
feelings are different.
"But we don't want to make it so
complicated always. We must try to win
our games hopefully earlier."
SILVA’S DREAMING OF EUROPE
Tom Hopkinson
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MARCO SILVA saw Arsenal compete
in the Europa League in midweek-
and believes that could be Fulham's
destiny next season.
The Cottagers are bang in the
hunt for a top-seven finish.
And victory against Premier
League leaders Arsenal today will
only ramp up hopes of a return to
continental competition for the west
Londoners for the first time since the
2011-12 campaign.
But Silva insisted: "We don't feel
any pressure. We have to feel a really
privileged group of players if we
have been doing so well, if we are in
a position to be proud of.
"I don't see any pressure on that -
it's a word that doesn't go inside our
dressing room at all and the players
don't need to feel any pressure.
"They have to be proud and really
enjoy the challenge. What is the
pressure they can have right now?"
And the Portuguese has nothing
but praise for the work of Gunners
manager Mikel Arteta.
He said: "Arsenal have been really
consistent. It's one of the things that
has probably changed more from
one season to the other.
"They signed some key players
and some of them with that
leadership that you need to win
every single game. They got some
players who were used to doing that.
"Without quality you cannot be as
consistent as they have been.
"They are a very good side and
they deserve to be where they are.
"Many, many credits for Mikel
Arteta as well for the way they
reacted. He kept the belief last
season in some tough periods, he
had the support of everyone and that
belief as well."
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IRON
Toon striker Callum will beat his
Drain
What is the
*WE NEEDED DAWSE LAYING DOWN LAWS’
by Neil Moxley
and try not to concede any goals.
We're defending better as a team
and creating a lot more chances."
Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui said:
"Competition for places is good and
all of them need to be ready and at
100 percent. Craig is an experienced
player who helps team-mates."
“In your playing career, you
are going to have good spells
and bad spells, but you need
that inner belief always that you
are the best and I think Callum
West Ham, is teaching him and his
backline team-mates a thing or two.
Kilman, 25, said: "Dawse has
been really good. You can see his
quality. He's a leader - a very
experienced player who has turned
out many times in the Premier
League. Myself, Nathan Collins and
has got that. Гт always in
regular communication with my
players in the pursuit of
excellence.
MAX KILMAN reckons Wolves are
finally defending better after being
schooled by new colleague - and old
hand - Craig Dawson.
Centre-half Kilman (right) says the
32-year-old, a January recruit from
European football next term
would be a huge drain on the
regular first XI of this campaign
so options are needed.
Howe will now have to justify
that spending by integrating
Isak fully into his tactics.
The same goes for hit-and-
miss Gordon, who is now due
a run after joining in January.
The leap forward this season
has been huge, but another one
or two mighty surges are
required to finish the job.
mindset, he has that already.
He is pushing himself all the
time.
Toti are learning a lot from him. To
have more experience and top-level
players is good for eveiyone.
"It means everyone is pushing
hard to do better."
Kilman added: "The manager’s
really big on keeping clean sheets.
That's our game. To stay in the game
l.Mmillion mow
that was hampered
by an early injury.
Howe (above) said:
“Callum has an incredible
go. They have six or seven
current stars who arc the
foundation of the next stage -
Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier,
Sven Botman, Bruno
culture of your group
like? What is the culture
around the training ground
like?
“It is a good test of that. So
far, the players have come up
with the right answers.
“General performance has
been strong and it is not like we
are scratching around thinking
Culture
Howe added:
“Lots of things are
tested behind the
scenes on these
we are in a dark place here.
There is a belief that we can win
again and we need to quickly.
“I have never sat here and
talked us up in terms of target
or top four.
“I have talked us up in terms
of what I believe we can achieve
and the quality in our group.
“In every season there are
difficult periods and patches
where you don’t win games that
you should.
“That is the time you have to
be really strong mentally and
know it will change.”
Co-owner Amanda Staveley
is fronting the Saudi Arabian
rebuild based on positivity and
ambitious declarations - as well
as. she claims, a £200m injection
of cash.
Her declaration that “we will
win the Champions League,
Premier league, FA Cup and
Carabao Cup” was a brave one.
Sometimes boastful vision
does not sit well against the
reality of how far Toon have to
Guimaraes, Joelinton, Anthony
Gordon and Isak.
More quality at left-back, a
right centre-midfielder and a
right-winger would give Howe
options to compete with Joe
Willock. Miguel Almiron, Allan
Saint-Maximin and Dan Bum.
“It’s not just about lifting
someone up if they feel as
though they need a lift, it’s
about the pursuit of greatness
- and Callum has that.”
The club has plenty of hope,
despite the mini-slump in
results.
The problem is that fellow
striker Alexander Isak has
yet to fully take his
chance and find a
rhyth
starting XI, a slow
start to his
appearances to get into the
England World Cup squad for
Qatar has been replaced with
a goal drought and an air-shot
against Manchester City last
weekend.
In fact Wilson has scored just
once in 12 games for his club
since October.
By Simon Bird
EDDIE HOWE has insisted
Newcastle are not “in a
dark place” as he backs
Callum Wilson to fire
them back into European
contention form.
The Toon boss is facing the
most difficult spell of his
Tyneside career.
Three 2-0 defeats in a row to
the North West elite have seen
Newcastle fail to score for more
than five hours of play.
Only one win in the league
since January has seen
Liverpool catch up in the race
for fourth place, which also
involves Tottenham.
That target - even a top-six
finish -seemed fanciful at the
start of the season when players
started to mention their hopes,
after escaping the drop in 2022.
The current form of Wilson
is a big worry. His massive effort
of scoring six in nine
by Richard Edwards
STEADY: Warren Barton
MIGHTY
MAGPIE
Wilson shows
passion after
scoring against
NEWCASTLE have the
finances to reach for the stars
when the summer transfer
window opens.
But former Toon favourite
Warren Barton is urging Eddie
Howe and Co to keep their
feet on the ground - because
he believes evolution not
revolution will be the key to
Newcastle's continued rise.
The summer is likely to be a
busy one for a club that has
outperformed expectations
so far in this campaign.
Not only have Howe's side
reached their first final since
1999, they also still find
themselves in contention for
a Champions League place,
despite a recent stutter.
And Barton believes their
transformation could be
enough to persuade top
names to head to the North
East for big money.
"People are talking about
Newcastle in a totally
different way now," said
former defender Barton, who
played 219 times for the club.
"All of sudden, players are
thinking, 'Wow, that looks
exciting'. The fans are great,
the stadium is fantastic, Eddie
is a good young manager -
there's a totally different
perception of the club now.
"Players and agents will
see that. There's something
special happening - it's
similar to what Kevin Keegan
did in the early 1990s. Players
want to be a part of that.
"If you had talked about
someone like Declan Rice or
James Maddison joining two
years ago then people would
have laughed. Not now.
"At the moment they need
someone to turn chances into
goals - add that and imagine
what position they'd be in.
"They need to add depth.
Players who don't necessarily
jump straight into the
starting XI, but bring
something a bit different.
"All the big teams have
them. Look at Manchester
City, if they need a change
then Riyad Mahrez comes on,
or Jack Grealish."
Let’s be
steady,
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Twitter: @neil_moxley email: neil.moxley@people.co.uk
Stirring the political pot
could cost Lineker dear
GARY LINEKER has chosen to
make a stand on the hill of
social media - and it’s difficult
to fathom why.
The former England striker and
Match of the Day host is now at the
centre of all conversation.
The row Lineker has provoked
about freedom of speech and
impartiality is swirling around
households, pubs and clubs.
It’s not simple to separate out the
various arguments.
If the main presenter has been
asked to stand down, then the BBC
needs to take a look at its whole policy
with regards to employees, contractors
and their social media. He can’t be
hung out to dry.
He’s not the only one with an
opinion on politics who appears on
primetime Bccb slots.
Alan Sugar is one, for instance, who
has made his feelings pretty clear in
the past.
Consequences
But I’ve got to say that Lineker is
playing a dangerous game
here - and, so too, are
his colleagues, who
have chosen to
stand in ‘solidarity’
with him.
I have enormous
sympathy with
Lineker’s position.
Should he be
allowed to say what he
likes, when he likes on social
media? Hell, yes.
But to suggest in this day and age
that there aren’t consequences for any
public stance when you cross the line
from your chosen field of expertise
and head into the political
arena is simply naive.
Lineker’s right to
say what he
thinks has to be
defended, but
given his
BUZZING BEES
tn
The continued
over-performance of
Londoners Brentford is
LIVERPOOL
I’m meant to write
30 words of
justification on
this. This week,
seven would
Qk have done.
THE LAST WORD... Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool’s tie against Real Madrid was over. I’m not so sure. Los Blancos should not to rest on their laurels at
the Bemabeu. If the visitors are two up after an hour in the Spanish capital, it will be very much game on. Horribly long shot, but stranger things have happened.
position, is it wise? Not in my opinion, j chooses to make remarks, then
i I don't understand why he feels the
; need to stir the pot.
i Mark Chapman, for instance,
; doesn’t opine on every subject.
I don’t see Manish Bhasin offering
: up his views on NHS waiting times.
He’s a smart fellow, Manish. I’m
: sure he has some - but they’ve not
i seen the light of day.
So why does Lineker
: feel the need to
i comment? That’s
= a question for
\ him - but he
\ can’t have it
j both ways.
: If he
BLUE MOON
After writing that the
not-so-shy-and-retiring
Jose Mourinho was
waiting in the wings,
I’m pleased to say
that Chelsea manager
Graham Potter - and
his team - have pushed
the Portuguese back
into the shadows.
i discussion will inevitably follow.
If the fall-out from that boshes him
: in the face, then he’s got to take it -
i and it will inevitably weaken his
: position from a job he obviously loves.
Competent
Because it’s not “Gary Lineker's
i Match of the Day’ any more than it
belonged to Jimmy Hill or Des
Lynam.
And as for his son
George’s tweet:
RIP - Match of
the Day’... are
you sure?
I bet that
THE GOATS RE TAKEN PENS
Lionel Messi (below), I Although it helped
blasted for his I Chelsea in the
non-appearance for В Champions League,
PSG, and Cristiano I refs either have to
Ronaldo for enforce this -
booting bottles , no excuses -
of water over in < Ж or not. Either
Saudi Arabia. ИД ВИ I everyone is
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crowns are slipping.^|pWf or no one.
Gabby Logan, Bhasin and all the rest
of the perfectly competent stand-ins
are licking their lips at this so-called
‘storm’.
And Lineker is playing with fire
because there are precedents here.
Sky turned its back on Richard Keys
and Andy Gray after inappropriate
comments about assistant referee Sian
Massey.
Those two were supposedly
rock-solid, the best in the business -
the voices of the sport.
Fast forward 12 years and it's the
‘Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher
show'.
The BBC has provided Lineker,
Alan Shearer, Ian Wright and all the
rest of them with a superb platform
from which they regained their
relevance after their football careers
ended.
Good for them.
But the show will eventually go on
with or without them - and both the
presenters and pundits would do well
to remember that.
SILENT
SERVICE
Lineker may be
better to keep
his political
views to himself
UEFARCE
if a report said it was
"remarkable no one
losttheir life", then
the authorities
should compensate
everyone who went.
They make enough
out of the Champions
League to foot the
bill for that chaos.
It’s White Hart
pain on way...
ANTONIO CONTE looks bored. He
knows that it’s the end of the road
for him and this crop at Spurs.
Harry Kane will be gone, he’ll
force his way to the exit door. And
not one person will blame him.
Then a load more players should
follow suit - but they won’t
because they're protected by
whopping contracts.
It doesn’t matter if chief-of-
chaos Daniel Levy brings in
Mauricio Pochettino or Merlin, the
fix isn't going to be quick. And it's
not going to be painless.
Reaching the top four, set
against what has happened in the
past few weeks rather than just
yesterday, is nothing but a dream.
Hammered at lowly Leicester,
losing at Wolves and then an exit
from the Champions League with
little more than a pathetic
whimper. The signs aren't good.
Conte (below) will end up л
back at Inter because
Simone Inzaghi is
struggling. Kane,
probably Manchester
United. And
Spurs?
Heaven
knows - but
it doesn't
look like
the only
way is up.
» BRUNO FERNANDES
pushed the assistant ref at
Anfield last week. He
should have been sent off.
By not calling Manchester
United’s skipper to account,
match official Andy Madley has
failed grassroots sport.
The FA can only take
retrospective action if it was a
clear dismissal and was missed by
the officials.
Madley saw it, but took no
action.
Football does not need the
captain of the country's biggest
club to push any official. Ever.
Tying in the
face of reason
JURGEN KLOPP has moaned
about it in the past - and David
Moyes could be forgiven for
following suit.
The Irons are due to kick-off
against Aston Villa at 2pm today
- 62 hours after disembarking a
flight from Cyprus.
In the past I was
guilty of dismissing
the effect of travel,
but there is no
question it drains
professional athletes.
Klopp (right) has
whined that Saturday midday
kick-offs should be moved if a
club has played an away fixture
in Europe on Wednesday.
If everything has gone
according to plan for Moyes, it's
still a five-hour trip back.
If the journey time of a flight
exceeds three hours, the team in
question should be allowed to
move a Premier League fixture
back by one day.
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PREMIER LEAGUE Ж
Z MANCHESTER
FEELING WANTED: Ayoze Perez
Perez: I’m
Real happy
to be home
by Steve Bates
AYOZE PEREZ is feeling the love
again after falling out of favour at
Leicester City.
The 29-year-old former
Newcastle star headed back to his
homeland in January for a surprise
loan move with Real Betis.
And after scoring in the 4-1
Europa League defeat at
Manchester United, the £30miIIion
Spanish striker opened up on his
exit from Leicester and his desire
to become an "important" player
again.
Despite Leicester's struggles this
season, Perez found himself frozen
out by Foxes boss Brendan
Rodgers.
And with unhappiness and
frustration hitting hard, he
engineered a move to Betis.
"Mentally I think it was the right
time to come back because
sometimes it is about your mental
side," said Perez, who is out of
contract at the end of the season.
"It is about being happy where
you are and feeling great, feeling
everyone around loves you, and
wants you.
"And that is what I wanted with
this move. I wanted to feel
important, to be playing regularly
and to feel like a footballer again.
"Now I'm feeling great. I am
feeling I am an important player
again, I think that is very
important for a player."
Perez was a Geordie favourite
during his five years on Tyneside
before his big-money move to the
King Power Stadium in 2019.
He never managed to reach the
same heights at Leicester, but he’s
happy being back on home soil -
even if it's only temporary.
"We will discuss that at the end
of the season when I will be a free
agent," he said."We will sit down
and see where we are.
"I wanted to be playing week-in,
week-out and being important for
a team. That was my idea and it is
going well.
"I wasn't playing that much at
Leicester. The manager picks the
team and you've got to respect it.
"But I was frustrated. I also
wanted to be closer to the family
who are in Spain. It was the right
moment and right club and I'm
happy to be here."
KEEP CALM
& CARRY ON
ELSEWHERE
May: Mr Reliable Maguire has never let
United down and can leave with dignity
EXCLUSIVE
by Steve Bates
HARRY MAGUIRE can leave
Manchester United with his
head held high this summer -
because he’s never let the club
down.
Former Old Trafford star David
May believes Maguire is at the
crossroads of his career with a big
decision to make in the coming weeks.
But May. a Treble winner with
United in 1999. reckons Maguire
should have no regrets if he ends up
exiting after giving everything since
his 2019 move to Old Trafford.
Maguire, now 30, was the world’s
most expensive defender when he
signed from Leicester in an £80million
deal three-and-a-half years ago.
But he has quickly fallen down the
pecking order since Erik ten Hag took
charge. World Cup winners Lisandro
Martinez and Raphael Varanc are the
Dutchman’s first-choice pairing, and
even Luke Shaw has been preferred
at centre-back.
Dilemma
That’s the dilemma - leave one of
the world’s biggest clubs or stick
around as a bit-part player and
jeopardise your England career.
May (above) said: “Harry is at the
biggest club in the world, in my
opinion, and leaving somewhere like
Old Trafford isn’t an easy thing to do
especially when you are captain.
“He’s lost his place to Raphael
Varanc and Lisandro Martinez, who
have both been outstanding, and more
than anyone he will be thinking where
his future lies. If he comes to the
conclusion that he has to protect his
CENTRE STAGE: Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane are ahead of Maguire in the United pecking order
career - and England place - and take
the decision to move on I think he can
leave with real dignity.
“He can walk out of Old Trafford
with his head held high. He's never
let United or himself down and has
always given full commitment even
when times have been tough.
"Going forward I can’t see how he’s
going to win back his place if those two
keep performing.
“But he can’t do anything more
than train hard, show the right attitude
you expect from a captain, bide his
time and basically suck it up.
“It’s not a nice situation to be in, I
was in that position myself at United
during my time at the club.
“It’s a horrible thing to say but you
are wanting players ahead of you to
have bad times. That’s just the nature
of the beast. It’s a selfish mindset for
every player. Of course Harry will
want the team to play well, get in the
Champions League and win the FA
Cup.
“But he'll also maybe hope players
in his position play badly so he gets a
chance, that's just the reality of being
a footballer. If he leaves I’m sure he’ll
be in demand because he’s still a top
player who’d get in 95 percent of
Premier League sides.”
Slow
It’s been suggested Maguire’s game
is too slow for United under Ten Hag
with the Dutchman wanting to move
the ball quicker from the back.
Martinez, in particular, is a decisive
forward passer and has become a firm
fan favourite even if he doesn't possess
the same physicality as his skipper. So
far, England boss Gareth Southgate
L о Fl
I
has stuck by Maguire and took him
to the World Cup in Qatar.
But of United’s 22 games since the
World Cup late last year, Maguire has
only played in 12, with many of those
coming from the bench.
May questions whether Maguire can
expect to stay in Southgate’s plans if
he remains In a back-up role at United.
“You can see Maguire values his
England career highly and Southgate
recognises he’s never let his country
down, so he’s kept picking him when
maybe some managers wouldn’t.
“There are internationals at the end
of the month and Harry will be hoping
he stays in the squad.
“We'll have to see if he does, but
with Euro 2024 in Germany next year,
it’s unrealistic to think he can remain
an England player when not playing
many matches at United.”
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SUMMER
SALES
Erik Ten Hag
has big plans
to rebuild the
United team in
the summer
UTD v SOUTHAMPTON -
STICK OR
TWIST?
Harry Maguire
has a big decision
to make in
the summer
four transfer windows to rebuild the
team. This summer's window was
always seen by the Dutchman as the
key one in re shaping United and he
remains focused on that with events
at Liverpool not forcing Ten Hag to rip
up his plans.
But the United boss has warned his
players of what he expects in the
remaining games of the season - and
will not tolerate any Anfield-style
lapses with some fringe stars fighting
for their futures.
"The end of the season is going to
be even more difficult for every team
because the pressure will be greater
to finish high or win silverware," said
Ten Hag. "So you need character,
determination, resilience and a team
with personalities."
"I think we've already shown
several times this season that this
team can deal with setbacks.
"Betis is part one and Southampton
has to be another one but I think with
this team we can rely on them
bouncing back."
And Ten Hag is not worried the
Liverpool defeat will trigger a
collapse in league form as they chase
a Champions League place.
"The players are not looking over
our shoulders.
"We have to focus on our process
and what others are doing is not for
us. We have to improve our game and
every player has to improve it."
by Steve Bates
M ERIKTEN HAG insists
I Manchester United's
Anfield horror-show will
not change their summer
transfer policy.
A Despite seeing his side
| collapse to concede six
second-half goals in the
H 7-0 humiliation by
1 Liverpool, United's Dutch
B| boss says the seismic
defeat does not alter
r anything and will not
F deflect the club from their
original targets.
United have been linked with
moves for Borussia Dortmund and
England midfield star Jude
Bellingham, Barcelona midfielder
Frenkie de Jong and Napoli's Nigerian
striker Victor Osimhen in a busy
summer of transfer activity.
And, says the Dutchman, that will
not change because of a result that
sent shock waves through football.
"No, it can't change after one
game. There is a continuing process
and it's already going on in the
background," he said.
"At the moment the main focus is
game to game. The next game is
always the most important and that's
Southampton on Sunday."
When Ten Hag joined from Ajax
almost nine months ago, he told
United bosses he would need up to
^Transfer targets
^to stay the same
by Steve Bates
DAVID MAY has warned Harry
Maguire: "Leaving Manchester
United can tear you apart".
The end of May's United days
were plagued by a serious
Achilles injury as well as
competition for places with
Ronny Johnsen, Wes Brown, John
O'Shea, Mikael Silvestre and the
2002 arrival of Rio Ferdinand.
After nine years at the club
and 85 games under Sir Alex
Ferguson, he found leaving a
shattering experience and it
affected his mental health.
May said: "If Harry Maguire
decides to leave it will be
different to me because he's got
plenty of football left in him.
"When I left United I
remember driving away from
Leaving Reds
started me on
12-day bender
Carrington and I got emotional. I
thought, 'That's it, what do I do
now.' I just thought that's me
done. I filled up. We'd just won
the title and after the final game
against Everton all the lads went
out in Manchester.
"I needed to go to bed so I got
a bottle of £200 Krug champagne
and walked to my apartment
which was nearby.
"A tramp was on a bench in the
gardens near my flat so I walked
over and started chatting. It must
PREMIER LEAGUE
TODAY, 2pm
4 IMPRESSED: Selles
SELLES:
TEN HAG
SPOT ON
I SOUTHAMPTON boss Ruben
Selles says every manager
I can learn from Erik ten Hag's
1 decision to back his
J Manchester United players
| after they were humiliated at
I Liverpool.
United's 7-0 Anfield
I annihilation equalled their
I heaviest-ever defeat.
Yet four days later, Ten Hag
4 named the same side for
I their Europa League last-16
J first-leg tie with Real Betis
and was rewarded with a 4-1
I victory.
"They will try to build
I momentum after that
I difficult moment in Anfield,"
I Selles said.
"I think it's difficult to
I manage those kind of
4 moments and Erik did a
I really good job there.
"I expect them to make
J some rotation in the line-up,
I because it's not easy to play
I every three days.
"But as we can see, he
I made a correct decision to
| stay with his players and I
I think every manager should
I learn that lesson from him."
Selles, appointed last
I month after Nathan Jones’
I dismissal, has overseen two
I wins and one defeat in the
I league to lift Southampton
I off the foot of the table.
"If we can keep games
I tight we can be there, we can
J perform and give ourselves
the chance to win," Selles
added.
have been 1am and we started
chatting and drinking the
champagne. I left him with the
rest of the bottle and went home.
"That was the start of a 12-day
bender on my own in the flat
until the 13th day when I realised
it couldn't go on."
Maguire can still have a big
future away from United with
Erik ten Hag believed to have
turned down more than one
request to take the defender on
loan in January.
May believes Maguire will
already have had conversations
with his agent to plot a path
forward.
He added: "Leaving won't be
easy. When the time comes to
make that decision, it'll be really
tough. I've been there. Walking
away from United can be brutal." I
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PREMIER LEAGUE
C PALACE 0 MANCHESTER CITY 1 (.
CLASS ACT: The Barnsley Beckenbauer’ that is John Stones, filling a void for City
Stones experiment
a fish out of Walker
JOHN STONES has been tagged as 'a ball-
playing centre-half' from the moment he
penned his first professional contract.
Pep Guardiola chose yesterday to put
those skills to the test - to see if the hype
about the 'Barnsley Beckenbauer' was
justified.
Manchester City's boss was left with a
monster headache after the revelations
MOXLEY X
BIG MATCH VERDICT
involving Kyle Walker last week.
The right-back found himself on the
substitutes’ bench - and into the breach
stepped Stones, assuming a hybrid role that
has become increasingly popular.
It was almost as if Stones was Guardiola's
latest experiment - using him on the right
flank in the same way as he used to do with
Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Stones occupied the void left by Walker,
stepping in from the right to partner Rodri
whenever Guardiola's side had possession.
He tracked back whenever Jordan Ayew
moved out wide.
Sadly for Manchester
City, he looked about as
comfortable as a fish
stuck up a tree.
The fluency with which
Guardiola's men have
become fabled was sadly
lacking as they huffed
and puffed their way
around a Seihurst Park
pitch against opponents
who had a point to prove after a long
winless run.
There were no energetic sprints down the
right. No overlaps.
Palace left-back Tyrick Mitchell must have
been thanking his lucky stars that Walker
decided to neck a few ales in Wilmslow last
week. Instead of fearing a Walker speed
trap, he was rarely left exposed.
In the end, it took a slack moment from
Michael Olise to prise open the defence,
treading on llkay Gundogan's foot in a late
challenge that allowed Erling Haaland to set
the visitors on their way from the penalty
spot just as the clock was running down.
Until then Guardiola's side had stretched
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Palace without sustaining a period of
pressure that suggested Arsenal would be
looking over their shoulders.
Whether Walker unhinged City only
Guardiola, his first-team squad and certain
high-ranking club officials will ever know.
Before the game, his club pointed out
that their player had done nothing wrong. A
solid public stance. However, this seemed at
odds with his position here - on the bench.
The official line for the 32-year-old being
omitted was 'rotation', Kevin de Bruyne was
also left out of the action. It was therefore
hugely coincidental that
the axe happened to fall
on a player about whom
there has been plenty of
interest-and not, say,
Bernardo Silva. Or Rodri.
Or Manuel Akanji.
It was almost as if the
video footage, furore and
potential police probe
surrounding Walker was
being glossed over.
Perish the thought.
But, yes, there is a Champions League
fixture against RB Leipzig this midweek.
It was hardly surprising that Stones found
life tricky in his unfamiliar role. This was
Rodri's territory, after all, and he has done a
good job of making it his personal fiefdom.
In the second half, Stones reverted more
to type, and the system looked less clunky.
These three points were hard-earned and
the pressure has once more been applied on
Mikel Arteta's side.
But don't expect this move with Stones to
reappear anytime soon.
Not until City’s eagle-eyed boss - and his
team - have worked on it, anyway.
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LEICESTER 1 CHELSEA 3
FOXES? TAKE
A <IL PILL!
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BEMUSED: Jurgen Klopp
Klopp: It’s
about free
speech...
From Back Page
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Old boy Ben puts pain behind him to lift Blues
AS Ben Chilwell took a knee-
slide towards the stand in which
Gary Lineker was sitting, he
cupped both ears.
Presumably, it was not a gesture of
support for the sanctioned Match of the
Day host, who has often been self-
deprecating when it comes to his
shell-likes.
Instead, it was a response to the
pantomime jeers from home fans who
remembered the five years of decent
service he gave to their club.
And it was probably borne out of some
of the frustration felt by Chilwell after
the physical setbacks that have blighted
his Chelsea career.
His sweet first-time volley from a
Kalidou Koulibaly cross that came down
from the clouds was a symbol of Chilwell’s
talent.
That
cruciate
ligament and
hamstring
injuries have
severely
limited his
playing time
over the past
three seasons
has been
detrimental to
the fortunes of
his club and, possibly, his country.
Chilwell (below) should certainly
feature in Gareth Southgate’s squad
when it is named on Thursday.
Aside from his goal, Chilwell played
with a confidence that is slowly spreading
throughout most departments of
Graham Potter’s team.
Swagger
At times during this win - their third
on the spin - they played with a hint of
Chilwell played
with a confidence
that is slowtyfc|
spreading
throughout most
departments of
Graham Potter’s
Chelsea team
with Lineker's tweets criticising
the government's language
around its refugee policy.
"I am not native, but I cannot
see any reason why you would
ask somebody to step back for
saying that," said Klopp. "But
that is the world we are living
in. Everybody is so concerned
with doing things in the right
manner and saying the right
stuff to everybody.
" If you don't do that, you
create a s***storm we didn’t
have when we were young.
" It is a really difficult world to
live in but if I understand it
properly this is an opinion about
human rights and that should be
possible to say.
“I don't really understand the
social media part of it, I am too
old forthat."
Asked if he would have
agreed to be interviewed by the
BBC had they put in their normal
requests, Klopp added: "I heard
about the rules of the BBC -
that you are not allowed to have
those kind of opinions."
At the King Power, supporters
chanted his name as Leicester
lad Lineker, accompanied by his
son Tobias, watched the game.
HOW THE BBC
CHAOS UNFOLDED
ANDVJUNN
BIG MATCH VERDICT
the swagger you would expect from any
side with elite pretensions.
They should probably have been out of
sight by the time Patson Daka's humdinger
cancelled out Chilwell’s strike but
restored their lead when two of their more
prodigious talents hooked up just ahead
of half-time.
To some extent, Enzo Fernandez rose
without trace, a four-week sensation at
Qatar 2022. The nine-figure price tag
was quite ridiculous but he is a fine
player and an identikit, mainly defensive,
Premier League midfielder.
But he can create and will create, the
pass he lifted for Kai Ilavertz was a because it is getting harder and harder
moment of ingenuity perfectly to see him being a Leicester player next
complemented by the German attacker’s season. One, the club needs the cash,
cushioned finish (above). Two, Maddison needs better team-mates
There is also a touch of devilment around him for his brilliance to
Leicester defence and ended with Mateo
Kovacic scissor-volleying the third. This
was the first time Chelsea scored three
goals in a game since October 8 and only
the second time they have scored three
in the Premier League all season.
The caveat is that it was against
Leicester, who concede for fun, but it
could have been more and a delighted
Potter knew it.
Fixtures
Perhaps he is beginning to stamp his
in Enzo and he was lucky to fully flourish.
escape for a stamp on James This feels like a
Maddison’s instep that might 3^3»jk к Leicester City treading
yet jeopardise the Leicester water, at best. Any
City midfielder’s I decent move put
participation in England’s ИВЖ1 I together by Chelsea
Euro 2024 qualifying felt like a serious threat
matches against Italy and to Danny Ward's goal.
Ukraine in a couple of weeks. Byr Brendan Rodgers'
assuming he is selected, of ; team might actually have
course salvaged something from the
And he should be selected - even contest had Kiernan Dewsbury-
in a losing cause, Maddison was Hall not scuffed a sitter midway through
excellent. He can surely look forward to the second half. And a move started by
the Chilwell treatment at a later date a beautiful Enzo pass cut open the
mark on the team and the club and he
now has three inviting home Premier
League fixtures in succession to nurture
a relationship with the supporters.
It was those Chelsea supporters
making themselves heard as the game
meandered towards its conclusion, the
home fans only breaking into voice to
offer Lineker their support.
Whether or not he stayed and joined
in with the boos, I’m not sure, but he
probably did (stayed, not booed, that is).
After all, thanks to the ludicrous and
cowardly BBC, he had nothing else to do
last night.
The BBC said on Friday it
considered Gary Lineker's
tweets about the Government's
new immigration law a breach
of its guidelines and that he
will remain off air until it gets
"an agreed and clear position
on his use of social media".
Football presenters have
been pulling out in support
of Lineker.
Football Focus was replaced
by Bargain Hunt on BBC One,
shortly after presenter Alex
Scott said it "doesn't feel right"
to go ahead with the show.
Final Score also
disappeared after presenter
Jason Mohammad said he
would not appear.
Presenter Colin Murray said
Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk was
not airing "for obvious reasons'.
Ian Wright has threatened
to quit if the BBC "gets rid"
of Lineker.
A BBC statement said
yesterday: "The BBC will only
be able to bring limited sport
programming this weekend. We
are sorry for these changes and
are working hard to resolve the
situation."
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12, 2023
KANE HAS
SO MANY
OPTIONS
| PREMIER LEAGUE Ten Hag picked
I CAN see Harry Kane having three,
possibly four, options in the summer -
Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern
Munich... and Manchester City.
I'm just speculating with City
because I'm starting to wonder if Real
Madrid might come in with a
£1SOmillion-plus offer for Erling
Haaland that might tempt them to sell
this summer or next.
And I also wonder if any part of
Haaland thinks he's not getting the
opportunities to showcase all his
footballing talents at the Etihad.
I know he's scoring a shedload of
goals but it's conceivable that he wants
to leave a legacy on the game of a
swashbuckling player who had it all
rather than just someone who could
poke them in from close range.
But after Tottenham's Champions
League exit confirmed another trophy-
less season for Kane, it's a no-brainer
for him to move on and Old Trafford
would be the perfect destination.
If he does go somewhere, it will
come down to his chances of winning
silverware and the supply line at his
new club. But United, just like
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Liverpool,
Bayern, Juventus and AC Milan are an
А-grade club while Chelsea, despite all
their recent trophies, are B+.
If United or Liverpool come knocking
you have to go because it might only
happen once.
FULHAM 1
ARSENAL 2
Chance for United to follow up from
Real Betis and put the slightly
resurgent Saints to the sword.
| WEST HAM Q ASTON VILLA 0 j
Villa not so great on away days, a
bore draw.
|| NEWCASTLE 1 WOLVES?
Newcastle's Carabao Cup hangover
will continue.
STICK AT IT
ARSENAL!
I'M running out of reasons why Arsenal
won't win the Premier League and, do
you know what, if they do, I couldn't be
happier for them.
They still have to navigate the run-in
and that won't be easy, but if they get
there then it will be brilliant experience
for their youngsters and that's great
news for England ahead of the Euros a
year later.
I’ll repeat what I've been saying for
a while, that the last eight to 10 games
play all sorts of tricks with players'
minds, so it won't be easy.
But they're ever so close now and,
while, yes, they have spent money and
they pay big wages, winning the top
flight with such a young side would
still be a remarkable achievement.
Stan was talking to TOM HOPKINSON
COLLY
WOBBLER
understood why
Ten Hag handed Fernandes the armband
in the first place.
Leadership
I mean, the notion that you'd give it to
one of the most flaky players astonishes
me and the Portuguese is hot or cold, he
hasn't been massively consistent over
his career or a leadership figure.
He's one of those you tell to, 'Just go
and play, go and enjoy yourself, go and
make things happen. You're here to
create chances and weigh in with the
odd goal, and you're really
good at that, so let others
worry about the
| captain's
responsibilities
instead'.
David de Gea
would have been
• a better bet and
MgB s* . Marcus Rashford,
sitting alongside Ten
Hag at the pre-Betis
f press conference,
J spoke so well that he
ц т displayed his own
। captaincy credentials.
But the seriously
outstanding candidate is
Casemiro, who is down to
earth and demure but
./."л. . .. ' in the dressing
^.•'vroom he sets an
Andy Robertson (left) could have been seriously injured by the fan who clattered him
within 31 days, is downgraded to £2,500. How many people do you know could afford
no problems, we just fine all those who are collared and when they tell the rest how
THE fact Bruno Fernandes is
still Manchester United captain
is a bigger mistake from Erik
ten Hag than last Sunday’s 7-0
defeat by Liverpool.
Thankfully, I was never on the
receiving end of a seven-goal mauling at
any of the levels I played at.
But I can only imagine United’s
players felt abject embarrassment and it
was a credit to them that they bounced
back the way they did against Real Betis
in the Europa League.
That Anfield loss was an aberration
but days like those can happen.
And I'd only have been really worried
about it had it come on the back of five
or six other disappointing results
because that would have alluded to a
deeper issue.
The fact it came after they won a cup
and with them still chasing three other
trophies means it's not panic stations,
though.
So those claiming Ten Hag should
have been sacked on the back of it were
wide of the mark and I see no reason
why he should be under any pressure as
a result.
Where I can't stick up for him,
though, is in his decision to
keep Fernandes on as
captain after his
petulant antics
Hk against my old club
last weekend.
I know he
scored against
Betis on
Thursday
but, on
< another
X > 1 night, he
H could have
H been sent-
i off for the
’ second-half
f challenge on
* Claudio Bravo.
| Frankly, I've
SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12, 2023
SPORT 55
wrong player to inspire United on the field... just look at Anfield!
Bruno is a total no-no
Taylor will
not be let
go by City
as skipper - he’s flaky
and not a leader. The
armband should go to
Casemiro - a demure,
EXCLUSIVE by Harry Pratt
MANCHESTER City will reject all
offers for rising defensive star
Taylor Harwood-Bellis this summer.
Instead, the City defender, who
has starred on loan for
Championships leaders Burnley this
season, can expect a new five-year
contract on the Etihad table, worth
a bumper £30,000 a week.
That mega deal is a clear sign
that, despite spending the last two
years on loan at various clubs,
Harwood-Bellis, 21, is regarded as a
future first-team City player.
Whether the England Under-21 s
skipper gets his opportunity next
season remains to be seen.
But if not he could easily end up
in the top-flight still - loaned back
to Vincent Kompany's Clarets.
The Burnley boss would love to
make Harwood-Bellis a permanent
acquisition as his outfit gears up for
an immediate return to the Premier
League.
But former City skipper Kompany
has been informed that the English
champions will not be cashing in on
their home-grown centre-back.
natural born winner
I В OXFORD
I have named Liam
Иг Manning as their new
j head coach. Manning, 37,
* arrives after a spell with MK Dons,
which saw him guide the club to third
place last season, missing out on
automatic promotion to the
Championship by one point before
losing out in the play-offs to Wycombe
He said: "I want to make sure the team
pull away from any immediate
danger and then be a part of a
very exciting period in the
club's history.
STAN ICOLLYMORE
FootbalTs ultimate maverick sounds off
Ten Hag fits
Kane's aims'
From Back Page
example, he's a born winner and is
someone who can give little bits of
advice across the pitch.
There are reasons why players such as
Patrick Vieira, Roy Keane, Stuart Pearce
and Vincent Kompany were captains, and
we need to be quite careful now of
going back to that thing that they did in
foreign football a lot where the
captaincy didn't mean anything, so they
just gave it to the most experienced
player.
Technical
Rashford gave a really good technical
insight when he reflected on the
Liverpool game and spoke along the
lines of, 'Actually, it wasn't because of a
lack of effort, it was that we went
massively off the game plan'.
What I'd liked to have seen at 3-0 was
for the captain to go, 'Right, no more
goals. Let's forget trying to get back into
the game; you stand next to me for 10 or
15 minutes; you stand here and back us
up, and let's make sure we protect the
back four - it won't be 4-0'.
But Manchester United didn't do that,
Fernandes just started waving his arms
around and getting all huffy, which is
what you get with a floaty, flighty
character.
I DON’T care if Wout Weghorst has a
Liverpool bed set and pyjamas, or if his
alarm clock wakes him to 'You'll Never
Walk Alone' every morning, that's his
private business.
But as an opposition player, and
especially as a Manchester United
player, you simply don't touch the
‘This Is Anfield' sign.
The excuse he gave about trying to
prevent Virgil van Dijk touching it just
sounded like rubbish.
He just behaved like a goggle-eyed
kid.
TOUGH ГГ OUT
TIL SUMMER
on Wednesday, and the incident told me it is now time to hit anyone encroaching the field with a £5,000 fine that, if they pay
that sort of penalty? Not manv. And while I know people will say, ’What happens when half the stadium goes on to celebrate?’,
hard it was to find that kind of cash, people will soon think better of it.
non-existent. The Dutchman
knows that Kane's arrival will
turn the club into genuine title
contenders to build on the good
work he has already undertaken.
But they will have to dig deep
to land the hit-man as Spurs will
drive a hard bargain with the bar
expected to be set at more than
the £100million Manchester City
paid Aston Villa for Jack Grealish.
Manchester United will have
that money to spend in the summer
but further big summer signings
look unlikely as they concentrate
full focus on England's captain
Ten Hag wants the deal as he
remains unhappy with the
resources in the Red Devils' attack.
Loanee Wout Weghorst arrived
from Burnley - and has only ever
been regarded as a stop-gap.
Anthony Martial's injury
issues are swaying Ten Hag away
from the Frenchman as a
permanent solution.
Kane can make an immediate
impact and the evidence provided
by Casemiro's arrival has only
added to the argument the striker
can hit the ground running.
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fantastic
pullouts
Hands up for
#Team6arv
by Graham Thomas and Janine Self
LIVERPOOL boss Jurgen Klopp has defended Gary
Lineker and described the BBC's handling of the crisis
they created as a "s***storm".
Lineker was at the King Power Stadium to see
Leicester lose 3-1 to Chelsea after being told to step
down from presenting last night's Match of the Day
until an agreement is reached on his social media use.
Pundits and commentators came out in support of
Lineker and their absence led to the cancellation of
BBC's Football Focus and Final Score programmes.
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pictured yesterday
at the King Power
Stadium, was backed
by Jurgen Klopp
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HARRY KANE is Manchester United’s No.1
summer transfer target - and they are
В prepared to make him the most expensive
* British player ever.
Erik ten Hag (right) is searching for the final
piece of the jigsaw at Old Trafford and he
has decided England's skipper is that man.
The Spurs' No. 10 (left) will be on the
market after yet another disappointing
campaign with the north Londoners.
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CONSTITUTION HILL is the
headline act in the Unibet
Champion Hurdle (3.30) as
the Cheltenham Festival
roars into action on Tuesday.
The six-year-old, trained by
Nicky Henderson (right),
announced himself as greatness
in embryo with a 22-length
demolition of his rivals in the
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle on the
same card 12 months ago.
And nothing he has done since
then has challenged the view
that Constitution Hill could be
the greatest hurdler of all time.
In two starts this season, Nico
remains the same horse
he was a race ago, or
whether El Fabiolo is
superior over fences. If
Dysart Dynamo can be
kept under wraps early,
there could be a shock.
Anything other than
a convincing win for
Constitution Hill in the
Champion Hurdle will
delight the bookies,
ttk though if
, v Honeysuckle
i Z were to pull off a
shock at 14/1 it
would empty
plenty of satchels.
This year's Duel at
the Park comes in the
Champion Chase on
Wednesday when
Energumene and
Edwardstone face off,
while although the
betting for Friday’s Gold
Cup suggests Galopin
Des Champs is the
winner, it will be a
Bravemansgame to
write off the second
favourite of that name.
four days of the meeting and EL
FABIOLO (right) is preferred to his
Henderson-saddled market rival
Jonbon in the Arkle Challenge
Trophy Novices’ Chase (2.10).
A 10-length supremacy in
Leopardstown’s Irish
Arkle Novice Chase last
month was achieved
without breaking sweat
- and there is plenty
more to come.
The Ultima Handicap
Chase (2.50) looks as trappy as
ever, butCORACH RAMBLER came
from the clouds to capture this
race in 2022 and a 61b higher
mark may not be enough to stop
him from following up.
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AFTER Covid, the
change from Channel 4
to ITV and so many
legends retiring on and
off the track, this year's
Cheltenham TV
coverage seems
strangely familiar.
Legends Sir AP
McCoy (below), Ruby
Walsh and Mick
Fitzgerald are a joy with
their insights, while Ed
Chamberlin is the
essential anchor man.
This year's Supreme
Novices' on Tuesday is a
classic waiting to —
happen with as JB
many as 10 of
the entries real у J*
contenders. V"
Facile Vega is ^55
7/4 favourite despite
his Dublin Racing
Festival flop, with
former Flat class act
High Definition value at
12/1, plus other serious
threats in Gaelic
Warrior and Marine
Nationale.
The dust will barely
have settled before
they are off and running
in the Arkle Chase with
a question mark over
whether Jonbon
FRIDAY Grc
1.30 Triumph ITV 1
2.10 County Handicap ITV Cl
2.50 Novices' Handicap ITV 1
3.30 Gold Cup ITV 1
4.Ю Hunters'Chase ПУ C2
4.50 Mares'Chase 2
5.30 Cond Jockeys' H'cp C2
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2m 4i/2f Chase 2022 Triumph Hurdle
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130 Supreme Novices'ITV 1
2.10 Arkle Trophy ITV 1
2.50 Handicap Chase IIV Cl
3.30 Champion Hurdle ITV 1
4.Ю Mares'Hurdle ITV 1
4.50 Juvenile Handicap Cl
5.30 National Hunt Chase 2
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130 Novices'Hurdle ITV 1
2.10 Novices'Chase ITV 1
2.50 Coral Cup ITV 0
3.30 Qu. Mother Champ ITV 1
4.10 Cross Country ITV C2
4.50 Grand Annual H'cap Cl
5.30 Champion Bumper 1
THURSDAY Grd
1.30 Novices'Chase ITV 1
2.10 Pertemps Final ITV 0
2.50 Ryanair ПУ 1
3.30 Stayers' ITV 1
4.10 Plate Handicap IIV 0
4.50 Mares'Novices' 2
5.30 Challenge Cup C2
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THE CARDS FOR THE WEEK
will re-fit the eight-year-old
(above) with cheekpieces
after his staying-on third to
Ahoy Senor and Sounds
Russian in the Grade 2
Cotswold Chase at
Cheltenham in January.
Willie Mullins has a
stranglehold on the JCB
Triumph Hurdle (1.30), and
LOSSIEMOUTH is fancied for
revenge on stablemate Gala
Marceau after an unlucky
defeat at Leopardstown.
Dan Skelton has an
excellent record in the McCoy
Contractors County Handicap
Hurdle (2.10), which points to
the chances of PEMBROKE.
EDWARDSTONE is expected
to add to last year’s Festival
triumph by landing the
Betway Queen Mother
Champion Chase (3.30).
Twelve months ago, Alan
King's son of Kayf Tara (right)
was imperious in landing the
Arkle by four and a quarter
lengths.
And Edwardstone was
hardly less impressive when
running to a nine-length
margin in the Grade 1
Tingle Creek Chase at
Sandown at the start of
December.
My selection went under
by a head to Editeur Du Gite
progressed again to land the
Grade 1 Jack de Bromhead
Christmas Hurdle at
Leopardstown in December,
and any rain during the
week will help his cause.
His return to form in the
Ascot Chase makes
SHISHKIN emphatically the
one to beat in the Ryanair
Chase (2.50).
The Magners Plate
Handicap Chase (4.10) is a
real head-sc rate her, but
DATSALRIGHTGINO ran
well when second on
Cheltenham's Trials card in
January and should give
another good account.
HOME BY THE LEE can
prove himself an improved
performer this season with
a win in the Paddy Power
Stayers' Hurdle (3.30).
Joseph O'Brien's grinder
(above) was beaten fair and
square in sixth behind
Flooring Porter in this
contest 12 months ago.
But the son of Fame And
Glory is a different horse
now, putting up a personal
best with a two-length
beating of Bob Olinger in
the Grade 2 Lismullen
Hurdle at Navan in
November.
Home By The Lee
- Champion Chase title-
holder Energumene a flat
third - in he rescheduled
Clarence House Chase at
Cheltenham in January, but
can come out on top this
time.
Gerri Colombe will head
the market for the Brown
Advisory Novices' Chase
(2.10), but preference is for
THE REAL WHACKER, who
bids to add to two course
successes this winter.
The Johnny Henderson
Grand Annual Handicap
Chase (4.50) is wide open,
but ROUGE VIF has fallen to
a tempting mark.
NOBLE YEATS hears history
calling in the Boodles
Cheltenham Gold Cup (3.30).
Two horses in history,
Golden Minstrel and
L'Escargot, have won the
Gold Cup and the Grand
National - but both scored at
Cheltenham before going on
to Aintree glory.
Noble Yeats seeks to do
the double the other way
round, having been
triumphant on Merseyside
last April.
His form has followed an
upward curve with successes
at Wexford and Aintree this
season and Emmet Mullins
DREAM
Cheltenham
Rewin ф
IAIN CAMPBELL looks back at one of the
Festival’s most
>reaking moments
Ruby lost his
super Power
DOWNFALL
Walsh and Annie
Power tumble
IT COULD - and should - have been
the highlight of Ruby Walsh's
Cheltenham career.
Tuesday March 10, 2015 was the day
when the Irish champion jockey
seemed destined to win an
unprecedented big-race four-timer at
the Festival, only to end the day with
punters questioning whether Walsh
was indeed National Hunt's GOAT
after all.
It was all going so well. Bookies had
quoted no bigger than 14/1 for all four
of the Willie Mullins' quartet of
Douvan, Un De Sceaux, Faugheen and
Annie Power triumphing on the
opening day.
The odds fell to 2/1 ON by the time
Ruby steered Douvan home in the
Supreme, Un De Sceaux in the Arkle
and Faugheen in the Champion Hurdle.
Annie Power was considered the
strongest hope of all and that looked
spot on as the mare approached the
last flight with a commanding lead.
What happened next remains a topic
of conversation to this day. Annie
Power fell, leaving a 60,000
Cheltenham crowd stunned, and
delighted bookmakers breathing again
with an estimated £200million payout
having been avoided.
It was, in racing terms, a JFK
moment with a few wild conspiracy
theories being floated in the aftermath.
So what did go wrong on that
glorious spring afternoon at that last
hurdle near a grassy knoll?
The Sporting Life suggests the mare
took off a step too soon and clipped
the top of the hurdle.
Walsh, who had to deal with
spurious rumours that the fall had
been engineered to save the bookies
millions, could offer no explanation.
What he did say was: "I don’t know, we
thought she was a certainty. She was
flying.
"Her jumping style was always a
little flat but if she was in any doubt,
she would gallop on. She crashed
through the last at Doncaster - that
was her jumping style, If she was long
rather than short, she would kick it.
And that's what I fully expected her to
do and look what she did."
Walsh, now retired, has since
insisted: “I've watched it a hundred
times, I would ride her to the last
hurdle the very same way every time.
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12,2023
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SEAN BOWEN
NEIL MOXLEY
TALKS TO THE JOCKEY WITH THE HARDEST ACT TO EOLLOW
SEAN BOWEN has been handed
the chance to make history -
and says Noble Yeats can
deliver.
The Welshman has taken over the
saddle on last year’s Grand National
winner from Sam Waley-Cohen who
secured his own place in the sport’s
annals by winning the Blue Riband
event on his last-ever mount.
And Bowen, 25, is hoping Noble
Yeats will see off L’Escargot and
Golden Miller in winning that
prestigious double.
That accolade isn’t forming part
of his pre-race planning.
But he does believe that the eight-
year-old has ‘two massive ticks in
the box’ if mentioned among the
contenders.
He said: “Personally, I’m really
looking forward to it
“You don’t get to ride
on horses too often J
with such a good
chance in the Gold ---------_____
Cup, having won the
National, so it’s exciting.
“Aintree was a surprise. He was
still a novice when he won it - that
showed how solid a jumper he is
and how he stays.
“He’s not an eye-catcher. He’s not
a horse that immediately impresses
you.
“He just goes about his job and
that will play to his strengths in
those bigger races.
“I know he will jump well and stay
well. For me, they are two massive
ticks in the box.
“Whether there will be something
that out-speeds me from
the back at the last, I don’t
know. But what I do know
is that he will be staying
on.
If he is to follow in the
footsteps of the above two,
the Emmet Mullins-
trained horse will have to
fight off Galopin Des LJB
Champs, the ante-post F
favourite. King George k
winner Bravemansgame
and last year’s winner
A Plus Tard.
Bowen added: “I know
there is never an easy Gold
Cup, but I think in any
normal year, he would go
Amtree was a
surprise, showed
he is a solid
umper and stays
off as favourite. But this year looks
a particularly strong field. It’s hard.
But I know he has the qualities as I
mentioned before. And that gives us
a chance.”
While Noble Yeats offers Bowen
his best chance of landing a first win
at the Festival, he’s not dismissive
of Back On The Lash in the
Glenfarclas Cross Country chase on
Wednesday.
Former Spurs chief Harry
Redknapp is among the investors in
Martin Keighley’s nine-year-old.
who was listed at 16-1 in the week
before the event
Bowen said: “He always seems to
be a popular horse at Cheltenham
- well-backed as the race
approaches - I’m sure it’s got
nothing to do with his name and the
connection with Harry!
“Last- time out at
Cheltenham, his run
P was very good. I felt this
^jumping around the
Cross Country course
was the best he’d jumped.
“When he first started, he was
very high. That caused him to
lose a few lengths but he was very
good.
“He’s got a lot to find on weights
with the better horses. Delta Work
was third and he carried a lot more
weight than us. But there’s no
reason why he can’t go with an
each-way chance.
“He probably deserves to be that
price but at the same time he has a
chance at that price as well.”
Bowen is in action in the Festival
TO FILL Sean
Bowen is ready
for the Festival
ve Picture:
si VOGLER
opener on Tuesday as well.
He takes Strong Leader
into the Supreme
Novices’ boasting
a 100 per cent
record over
obstacles.
He said:
“I’ve got no doubt he has the ability
to run but at the same time he could
be slightly green for these bigger
races.
“He’s not stepped up in grade, he’s
just run normal novices with
penalties. He’s one that goes with a
chance on ability but he needs to go
about it in the right way.
“This is a massive step up in
grade.”
Bowen’s last mount is in the
Pertemps Handicap Hurdle on
Thursday when he will be hoping
Itchy Feet’s promising last two runs
can translate into a Festival
triumph.
He said: “He’s been more hit than
miss this season. His runs have
been good. However, although he
won a Grade One novice over
fences, his jumping hasn’t been
that good. I suggested -
and tpiiner Oily Murphy
thought it was a good
I idea - to give him a run
I over hurdles at
Г Huntingdon.
“He did very well and
seemed to enjoy jumping
hurdles much more than he
did the fences.
“He ran at Haydock the
other day and it was a very
good run.
“We got racing early down
the back and then ran into a
headwind and a strong stayer
just got me in, the run-in.
Hopefully, he goes into the
Pertemps with a decent
each-way squeak as well.”
Galopin Des Champs.
Bravemansgame______
A Plus Tard________
Noble Yeats________
Stattier-----------
Conflated__________
____.15/8
____13/2
____15/2
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____10/1
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ODOS (AS OF TODAY): WILLIAM Hill
COLEMAN: MY JONBON IS THE STAND-OUT IN
EXCLUSIVE BY NEIL MOXLEY
AIDAN COLEMAN says Jonbon is his
'stand-out' ride at this year's festival.
The Irish jockey goes head-to-head
with favourite El Fabiolo but warns the
competition in this year's Arkle is not
just about the two leading the market.
Coleman is chasing his second
triumph in the race, three years after
winning with Put The Kettle On, but
says if he does so on the seven-
year-old, it will be hard won. He said:
"All told, I think I've won six or seven
races on him - a couple of Grade Ones
and three Grade Twos.
"He’s a very good horse. For me, a
stand-out. I do think the price, 6/4, is a
fair reflection of where he is.
"El Fabiolo looked very good over in
Ireland at the Dublin Racing Festival.
"You've also got Dysart Dynamo -
you can't discount many in that field. It
looks like a very good Arkle this year."
Jonbon caught a cold 12 months ago
in the Supreme Novices' when he was
second to Constitution Hill.
But Coleman is not setting too much
store by that, saying that there has
been plenty of recent j
evidence to suggest that
Jonbon's star is on the rise, j
He said: "Twelve |
months ago, we went off
too fast. You learn - but, in fairness,
everything took a kicking off
Constitution Hill." Just prior to the
I do think that
[ the 6/4 price is a '
fair reflection |
of where he is
Arkle, Coleman will be putting Chasing
Fire's unbeaten record to the test in
Tuesday's opening race.
It's five wins from five and Coleman is
Г predicting a bright future.
He said: "Chasing Fire
has done nothing wrong.
-***»*^^a chance to compete at this
level. We wanted to step him up a grade
at Ascot the week before Christmas but
the race was called off. That would have
been a good marker for him and this is
going to be by far the best company
he's run in, but he can only do what’s
been asked of him and, so far, he’s come
up with the right answers.
"Regardless of what happens in the
Supreme Novices’, he's an exciting
prospect. He's not run yet in any real
contest of note. But I can see this being
the first of many big races for him."
Of Coleman's two other confirmed
mounts, Epatante is way down the
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» Sean Bowen is second in the Jump Jockeys'
Championship. To see the full standings,
visit greatbritishracing.com/championships
He's a bookie... and a big winner
Galopin gourmet
of a week, so stay
Happygolucky...
PADDY'S
Cup and Final Orders in the
Grand Annual are my two
value bets on Wednesday.
I love Appreciate It and I
think he might make up for a
disappointing performance
last time by winning the
Turners on Thursday.
Nicky Henderson's Shishkin
will be the star draw and
judging by his win at Ascot
last time out, he has rekindled
the flame and will
be very hard to
beat in the
Ryanair.
The Paddy
Power Stayers’
Hurdle is the
feature race of
the day and it
looks a tricky one
to get to the
bottom of.
I'd just about
Home By
Lee as my
у for it.
The Thursday
sneaky for a bit
of value is
Princess Zoe
in the Mares'
Novice.
Fast forward to
Friday and the
action doesn’t
slow in the
slightest... and
:’s St Patrick’s
The Willie
Mullins-trained
Lossiemouth will
kick us off with a
winner in the
Triumph, but the
star of the show
on day four is
without a doubt
Mullins's Galopin
Des Champs in
the Gold Cup.
He’ll be a shortish price but
I really think he’s more than a
bit special so is fancied to do
the business.
In terms of a bit of value on
the last day to send us all
home happy, I’ll have a swing
at Harry Fry's Gin Coco in the
County Hurdle and
Hiddenvalley Lake in the race
after, the Albert Bartlett, for
Henry De Bromhead.
Then there's the small
matter of Ireland v England in
the Six Nations rugby...
some week!
bl' After Aintree shock, new man
, ' jgyith the reins says: No surprise
Noble Yeats wins Gold Cup..
but I have a lot to live up to!
A TOUGH ARKLE
GALLOP
Coleman
and Jonbon
bookies’ radar - with Constitution Hill
the outstanding choice in the
Champion Hurdle.
Rachel Blackmore and Honeysuckle
edged out the nine-year-old mare
12 months ago but after victory at
Doncaster in January, the 34-year-old
is not writing her off.
He said: "She's got every chance.
Obviously, Constitution Hill is extremely
talented and Honeysuckle is going to be
very difficult to beat - she’s a superstar.
“And I know Epatante hasn't achieved
quite what Honeysuckle has, but as far
as mares go, she's still special.
And so to Paisley Park who gave
Coleman one of the highlights of his
career four years ago when he won the
Stayers' where he is again entered.
Coleman added: "He still looks very
good and won a Grade One a couple of
races ago. I wouldn't be writing him off.”
» The Festival will air live on ITV Racing from
March 14-17. For details, greatbritishracing.com
HERE we go again, another
sensational week of sport
ahead of us, with the
Cheltenham Festival leading
the charge.
I’m really looking forward to
the greatest show on turf this
year!
It always starts at a million
miles per hour and this one
will be no different.
Facile Vega won at the
Festival last year
and looked banker
material for the
Supreme until
blotting his
copybook at the
Dublin Racing
Festival.
He'll be a
popular favourite,
but I think Barry
Connell’s Marine
Nationale has been
underrated and will
be too tough a
nut to crack.
The Arkle is
another cracker
and looks a match
between El Fabiolo
for Ireland and
Jonbon for Britain.
My verdict for
this corker of a
classic is that
Jonbon comes
out on top.
Constitution
Hill is the star of
day one and will
win the Champion
Hurdle by as far as
he likes.
My sneaky one
for a bit of value
on the first day is
Happygolucky for
Kim Bailey in the
Ultima.
It's an open
race but this fella will give you
a good run for your money.
Impaire Et Passe should get
the better of Hermes Allen in
the first race on Wednesday,
the Ballymore.
He'll be followed in by The
Real Whacker at a decent
price in the Brown Advisory,
and the highlight of day
two will be
Edwardstone winning
the Queen Mother
Champion Chase - he's one of
my strongest fancies of the
week... the poor horse!
HMS Seahorse in the Coral
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SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12. 2023
IS
DIAMONDS AS
BRIGHT FROM
EMERALD ISLE
THE challenge from Ireland gets
stronger every year... and the 2023
Festival will be no different. Racing
expert JOHN O'NEILL gives us his
top tips from across the Irish Sea.
DAY
1.30 Diverge Willie Mullins
Facile Vega is the shortest price of
Willie Mullins' challengers, but his
French recruit Diverge was an
impressive winner last time and
shouldn't be underestimated at
double-figure odds.
2.10 El Fabiolo Willie Mullins
Dubbed as a shootout between star
home novice Jonbon and big Irish hope
El Fabiolo. Preference is for the latter
following an eye-catching victory at
Leopardstown last month.
NESDAY
1.30 Good Land
Barry Connell
Open affair in which a
chance is taken on the
exciting Good Land
(left). His Grade 1 win at
the Dublin Festival last
time marked him out as
Wl a top-class hope.
3.30 Energumene Willie Mullins
A tantalising showdown between last
year’s winner Energumene and Arkle
hero Edwardstone. Expect a seasonal-
best performance from the former -
especially if conditions turn soft.
» THURSDAY
1.30 Banbridge Joseph O'Brien (below)
All eyes will be on
unbeaten chaser Mighty
Potter but don't
underestimate fellow
Irish raider Banbridge,
who will relish returning
to this distance.
2.50 French Dynamite Mouse Morris
Shishkin is the most talented, but
whether he'll produce his best just 26
days after a monster performance at
Ascot is questionable. French Dynamite
looks the value each-way play.
3.30 Flooring Porter Gavin Cromwell
Reigning champion has been trained
solely all season with this day in mind.
He can leave behind his last two defeats
to seal a famous Cheltenham hat-trick.
» FRIDAY
1.30 Lossiemouth
Willie Mullins
Mullins’ high-class
filly makes most
appeal after
finishing a luckless
second last time at
the Dublin Racing
Festival.
3.30 Galopin Des Champs Willie Mullins
A dominant Irish Gold Cup win last
month puts him in pole position to win
the Blue Riband event. Provided he
stays the distance, he’ll be hard to beat
THE DOYENNE OF BRITISH RACING: VENETI A WILLIAMS
My yard is MY family...
moments are watching
as we did for L'Ho
MY CAR pulls to a halt at
the beautifully-appointed
stables on the banks of
the river Wye in
Herefordshire.
On parking up, a
stablehand appears. I ask
after the lady of the manor.
She gestures towards a
paddock 100 yards away
where a figure is running
towards galloping horses.
“You’ll do well to catch
her," is the swift assessment
of this journalist’s ability to
make up ground on Venetia
Williams, “she’s like a
gazelle."
Deciding that a cup of tea
is the more desirable option,
this hack waits as his
welcomer guides him to a
warm office.
“You’re here to see Venetia
for an interview, are you?”
continues the stablehand,
“good luck with that”
Expecting to find a cross
between Jenny Pitman,
Karren Brady and Boudica,
I wait. A few minutes later, a
sprightly figure appears. Not
even slightly out of breath.
I’m embarrassed by the fact
she is, ahem, one decade
older than me.
At this point I’m standing
before a table which bears
the brass plaque:
’Commanding Officer’ on it
- which does not undermine
the earlier assumption.
I need not have worried.
For background, Ms
Williams started her career
as a trainer back in 1995.
She buys the horses,
trains them, runs a staff of
25 and is pretty bloody good
at it too. Lying eighth in the
trainers’ table. Considering
the depth of her
pockets, that’s no
mean feat.
There is a friendly
buzz about this
place. Fronj the
stablehand to’the
qffice staff, you can
. just feel the affection.
Ahead ofyeF another
NEIL
MOXI
TALKS TO ONE OF THE SPORT'S TOP TRAINERS
When we are
I successful, we
I celebrate together I
... an amazing feeling
Festival, the question is:
‘What’s changed in the near
three decades at the sharp
end of this brutal profession?*
Williams said: “The whole
world is more competitive.
And that goes for the sport,
too. But horses are horses
and that will never change.
“The evolution of the
racehorse isn’t going to
change during our lifetimes.
“So you are still dealing
with the same raw materials
and how you deal with it,
that is up to each different
trainer.
“There are
ways to be
successful]
without always 1
following the same formula.
“I’m neither rich enough
or brave enough to spend
zillions. But I know what I
like in a horse, and the
majority of them I buy on
spec. I’ve been lucky enough
to have some wonderfully-
loyal people by my side for a
considerable time and some
lovely owners, too.”
We have already spoken
about her mounts this week
But there’s something she is
keen to show. Out comes
the mobile phone, the
interviewee is trying to find
a video. She is talking as she
finds what she wants,
saying: “I’m single, I live on
my own and always have
but at the same time I’m
here with 25 members of
staff and they are my family.
“We’re all here, working
together. Rain or shine.
Trying to achieve the same
goals. When we are
successful, we celebrate
together. It’s an amazing
feeling. Incredible.
“Some of the most
cherished videos on my
phone are of the staff, all
watching L'Homme Presse
м going to the last
in the Brown
^Advisory last
* year.
was a dream. We had,
winners, three sec
and one third. It
amazing for a relatively
small team of hoWbs
compared to the big
battalions.
“To try and emulatej
that, or to do better wi
be very tough. But w
have nice horses and iff
you go there in good
form, everyone’s got a
chance.”
And with that, she’s
off. An owner to meek
you see. Nothing stands
still, which in Venetia
Williams’ line of work
is probably for the
best
as I say that
because I love watching it
Just them watching it,
jumping the last... going to
the line... look at them.
“I’ve got one or two others
with Jerry and Izzy watching
Cloudy Glen in the Coral
Cup at Newbury. There was
Izzy, 10 months' pregnant
bouncing up and down in
the grandstand.
“You can't beat that.”
I swear I saw it. A little
moistening around the
eyes at the sight of her
staff as they whoop,
holler and drag
L’Homme Presse
to the
finishing
line. The
mask
slipped
just a
little bit. Buf.'
back to Bbsiness.
The Festival?*“It’s -?
big pressure, thatk;-v?
the tiling about the
Festival. Last year, it
SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12,2023
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and my cherished
us all win together
Presse last year
STOP THE
PRESSE
Charlie Deutsch
and L’Homme
Presse win
last year
ON HER
FESTIVAL
FLYERS...
GREEN BOOK
FIRST-CLASS TEAM
Williams (above) with her
Cheltenham hopes
Funambule Sivola (left)
and Royale Pagaille
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES:
EMMA TRIMBLE
Pertemps Handicap Hurdle, Thurs, 2.10pm
Green Book (above) didn't run well in
the Grade 2 at Haydock a few weeks
ago - but won well at Sandown the
time before.
He’s a little ex-Flat horse, so
although he goes on the soft he is
one of ours that will handle the likely
good ground. It looks as though
around 20 per cent of the entries
have not gualified, a slightly reduced
field, and fewer real contenders.
CLOUDY GLEN
Ultima Handicap Chase, Tues, 2.50pm
He has had foot issues that precluded
his debut, but ran very well after that
and was second in the Kim Muir a few
years ago. He ran really well on his
first and only run so far this season
when third at Haydock in the 100k
National Trial three weeks ago.
He should be more than just
\ j OK on decent ground and he
“Wk definitely has it in him.
FUNAMBULE SIVOLA
Queen Mother Chase, Wed, 3.30pm
His performances at Newbury
have indicated he can do it on
good ground. I know people said it
was heavy last year. It was not, it
was wet. He was a solid second to
Energumene last year.
I've seen the [ante-post] price
and I think that he is good value
each-way. Hopefully, he will put up a
good performance to mirror what he
did last year.
ROYALE PAGAILLE
Gold Cup, Fri, 3.30pm
We have not run him since the King
George when he was second to
Bravemansgame.
He picked up a small wound on the
outside of his front fetlock. It took a
long time for him to recover from
that. Royale Pagaille collects wounds
in races so we have been playing
catch-up for a month. I am happy
where he is at the moment.
What would put him into the mix
would be a change in the weather. A
downpour will improve his chances.
1: wi l-gfet lots
>' lot ikes with
f i Ming
hat-trict
Floor it,
Porter...
BY JOHN O'NEILL
IT IS not all that long ago that
Gavin Cromwell would have
described himself as a farrier by
trade who trained a small string
of racehorses on the side.
How times have changed
dramatically for one of Ireland's
most upwardly-mobile handlers.
Having originally harboured
ambitions to become a jockey
before growing too big, the
48-year-old pursued a career as
a farrier and shod horses for
some of Ireland's top trainers,
including Gordon Elliott, for more
than 20 years.
However, success with a small
number of racehorses in his
own care soon began to
flourish and today he
manages upwards of 80 Л >
horses for some of the
biggest names in the sport
such as JP McManus - the
legendary owner who provided
Cromwell (right) with his first
Cheltenham Festival winner
Espoir D'Allen in the 2019
Champion Hurdle.
It's another indication of
Cromwell's rapid ascent
through the training ranks that
he heads to the Cheltenham
Festival with some serious
contenders, and among his best
chances is rags-to-riches bargain
buy Flooring Porter - a horse
sourced by his syndicate of
owners through a Facebook
advertisement for just €5,000.
The eight-year-old has now
earned more than £500,000 in
prize-money and will bid for a
remarkable third consecutive win
in the Paddy Power Stayers’
Hurdle on Thursday.
"I probably didn't fully
appreciate what it meant to have
your first winner at the Festival in
a race as big as the Champion
Hurdle," says Cromwell.
“He was an outsider at 16-1 so
it probably was a little
unexpected, but I really did
appreciate Flooring Porter's win
last year - it crowned everything.
“When he had won the same
race a year earlier there was
virtually nobody there
mX with the meeting taking
v x place behind closed
ft jw doors due to Covid, but
last year we had the
crowds back and all the
owners were there to soak
everything up. As far as thrills go
in this game, that one was top
class."
The cool-headed trainer is
eager to add to his Cheltenham
Festival haul of four winners in as
many years, and believes his
2023 squad will represent him
well.
"We'll have six or seven
runners heading there, and
hopefully they all have some sort
of chance," says the Royal
Ascot-winning trainer.
FINAL ORDERS Arkle, Tues, 16/1 or Grand Annual Hep Chase, Wed, 8/1: Such a good
jumper and hopefully that brings him into the equation. He needs to keep improving.
FLOORING PORTER Stayers’, Thurs, 6/1: We've missed some time with him due to a
setback but I'm happy as I can be with him at this stage. He knows how to win around there.
STUMPTOWN Kim Muir Hep Chase, Thurs, 7/2: Won well last time at Sandown. Great
to have top Irish amateur jockey Barry O'Neill on him. The horse seems in good nick.
IJEREMYS FLAME Mares' Chase, Fri, 5/1:1 wouldn’t put anyone off her. She won very
nicely last time and is a hardy mare with buckets of experience.
SUNDAY PEOPLE MARCH 12, 2023
TACKLING THE BIG BOYS
BY JON LEES
BARRY CONNELL is
making training look
easy.
In only his third season
since setting up his own
jumps yard he has three
graded victories to his
name, two at Grade 1 level
courtesy of Good Land
and Marine Nationale.
He is taking on and!
beating the training^
juggernauts of Willie >
Mullins and Gordon Elliott
and he hopes to do it again
at Cheltenham.
Success has not come
overnight as Connell, 63,
has learned the ropes
through a long
apprenticeship as an
amateur rider and owner
and put the knowledge
gained into his own farm
where he has 25 horses, 15
minutes from the Curragh.
Until he changed
profession Connell’s day
job was in finance as a
Dublin hedge fund
manager. Even then he had
a sizeable string, enjoying
big-race successes notably
at Cheltenham with
Pedrobob in the 2007
County Hurdle and
M a r t e 11 о
Tower in the 1
2017 Albert J
Bartlett
Novices’
Hurdle. Now his
focus has shifted.
“I had horses in training
with a number of the
leading trainers in Ireland
,ONN THE,
WARPATH I
Connell's dayjob j
was in finance as
a Dublin hedge |
fund manager
and England before,” he
says. “I rode as an amateur
jockey for 10 years when I
had the opportunity to go
into a lot of those yards
and was
keeping an
1 eye out and
^picking up
ideas. It was
always in the
back of my head to have a
go at training. So what you
are seeing in the last year
or two is the benefits of
that starting to flow
through in terms of the
winners. We have managed
to come across a couple of
high-quality horses in the
process."
Connell’s approach as a
trainer is not to rush his
horses. Good Land, who
won the Grade 1 2m
novices’ hurdle at the
Dublin Racing Festival, is a
seven-year-old, and
Marine Nationale, winner
of the Royal Bond, is six.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
AYR: Good
1.35: ARTIC ROW (Sean Oiidan 9-401 FA-
THERS ADVICE (54) 2; MY MACHO MAN
(124) 18 ran. ИII. (N Alexander). Tote; £325; D.30;
£2J0. £2.70. Me Eiacta: £16.00. Tricast ED9.18. Tri-
fecta: £87.00. CSF: £14.40. NRs: Coiiston Douds, Gamgn,
Gift Of Raaj, Heradaneum. High Roller, Ninetofiue.
2.10: ANIMORE (D Johnston 7-2) t ROCK-
ONSOPH (61) 2 NORA THE XPLORER (92) 1
7 ran. 2-1 Headscarf lil. Bl. 34 (I Janine). Tote: £4.9ft
£2.30, £100. Tote Exada: £27.20. Tricast: £96J5 Trifeda:
£8140. CSF: £2517. NRs: Bela Bluesky. El Poppochapo,
On We Go.
2.45: CAPTAIN QUINT (Craig Nichol 5-6f) t
ARDERA CROSS (wens) 22 ran. 74 (R Dobbin).
Tote: £1J4; №: Dalyotn, Nassiii Man. Drerccurt, Pal's
Pick,Thalsy
3.20: TRAPRAIN LAW (P W ladge 5^41) t
GINGER M AIL(13-8) 2; KILBRAINY (7-1)1 7hl
4 281 ft Russel). Tote: £225; £120, £1.30. Me Eiacta;
£3.60. Tricast £8.12. Tnfecta: £4.40. CSF: £3.86. NRs:
Mamie's Magk, Serious Ego.
3.55: JUST DON'T KNOW (Crag Nicbol 54)
1;2 ran. 8-131 Readysteadybeau.. (Paid Robson). Tote; £225
NRs: CashToktiCrims's Escape. Donna's Double, Fortified
Bay, Glittering lore, Nkeandeasy, Strong Economy.
4.30: GIOVINCO (S Mulgueen 815f) 1: OUR
ZEBO (100-30)2, TOOMBRIDGE(11-2)3.3 ranЛ
261. (I BiEsell). Me: £1.54; Tote Exada: £230. Trifeda:
£330. CSF: £2.41. NRs: Choosetheoews, Elmley Loiett. Glen
Cannel.
5.05: CONISTON GEORGE (D McMemnm
49f)1; RIVER AYR (9-1) 2; ADVERAM 08-1)15
ran. 1,91. (N befads). Tote: £1.45; £1.6. £2.51 Tote
Exacta: £4.00. Trifecta: £17.10. CSF: £4.75. Ms: Akantango,
Raffles Wonder, Rob Roy Macgregor.
Placepot: £81.70. Quadpot: £8.80.
CHELMSFORD CITY: Standard
5.25: MEDRARA (Mikkel Modmen 17-2) t
ISLAND OF SKYE(IH)2; STORMINGIN (12-1)
19ran.14 2l.(CFello»es).Tote: £9.50; £220; £1M
£220. Me Exada: £4161 Tricast £28168. Trifeda:
£521.30. CSF. £32.94.
6.00: DUKE OF OXFORD (D E Hogan 4-1)1;
OUT RULE (B0-1) 2; FLASH BARDOT (9-0 3.9
ran. 6-4f Super Mo. nk. 4 (M Bel). Tote: E5.8; £1.71
£1420, £1.80. Me Exada: £47721 Trifeda: £472361 CSF:
£235.07.
6.30: MUMS TIPPLE (Alexander Ifoikhansky
8-1)1: LORD OF THE LODGE (4-1) 2 SIR OLI-
COOL AS ICEO Trainer Paul Nicholls warmed up for next
week with a dazzling double at Sandown Park yesterday
that included Iceo (above, pink) winning the Imperial Cup
VER (16-1) 1 W и. И Tiger Crusade. Ч & (I
Hannon). Tote: £100: £2.00, £1.70. £420. Tote Exacta:
£4110. Tncast £505.45. Tnfecta: £507.70. CSF: £5125.
7.00: BARGING THRU (I Morris IHf) 1;
TOUSSAROK (100-30)2; MAGICAL MAX (17-2)
16 гж shd. i*. (A Watson). Tote: £3.75; £1.00, £2.00.
Tote Exacta: £10.90.Iricast £6621 Trifecta: £58.00. CSF;
£12.38. NRs Dywmc Talent Secret Strength.
7.30: JUMIRA BRIDGE (C Hardee 4-1) t
REAL ESTATE (281) 2. STAR J К (14-1) 1II ran.
>301 Sam's Cal 14 И. (D Shan). Tote: £520; £2.00,
£7J0. £4.Ю. Tote Eiacta: £16010: Tncast: £1483.04. Tri-
fecta: £827.90. CSF: £П2 3L
8.00: SIR RODNEYREDBLOOO IDProbert
9-2)1; MUSTAFFIZ (H)2; MUNIFICENT (51)3.
8 ran. Ч 2H. UI Jenkins). Tote: £5.50; £1.60, £120, £1.90.
Tote Exacta; £1350. Tncast £33.93. Trifecta: £47.10. CSF:
£12.02.
GOWAN PARK: Soft to heavy
125: ABBEYDALE (J Gainford П-2) 1; RAG-
LAN ROAD (8-13)2; JET SETTING JOHNNY
(К-03. В hl IA161. (6 Bott). Tote: £8.40; £2.10, EU02.
(5.30. Tote Eiacta £2040: Trifecta; £11930. CSF: €HB.
2.00: KARUMA GREY (0 Melon?,' 281) 1;
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Marine Nationale and
Michael O'Sullivan
“We have had Good
Land four years and
Marine Nationale three
years," he explains.
“Because we are not a
commercial
operation we ]
are under no
pressure to
run them
until we
believe they are ready.
That’s to maximise their
longevity.
"It’s kind of a throwback
I think they have all j
[ the ingredients
to run really |
good races
to the old days when Tom
Dreaper and Captain
Forster were training.
Horses then didn’t run till
they were five or six."
Good Land
and Marine
fe Nationale will
k remain the
mounts of
conditional
jockey 22-year-old Michael
O’Sullivan, even though he
cannot use his claim. “He
is going to ride the two at
Cheltenham. They will be
my first runners as a
trainer. Both of them are
good enough to win,”
added Connell.
“We have two Grade 1
winners, one for the
Supreme and one for the
Ballymore. They are very
good jumpers and have
very good temperaments.
“I think they have all the
ingredients to run really
good races and with a bit
of luck hopefully one or
MARKET RASEN £ WARWICK
e
O'
LIBBY (138) t SHOW UR APPRECIATION (54)
3.8 ran. 21 Ih. (Miss Elnrie Hoiden) Tote: £3170;
£5.00, £1.8, £180. Tote Exacta: £78.50. Trifeda: £181.00.
CSF: £8050. HftMeiri. hnended Ifesidt.
2.35: LANTRY LADY (Rachael Blackmore 7-2)
I; SILENT APPROACH (511) 2: SOMETHING
ABOUTHER (9-2) 3.8 rax 3-1f Miiw. 141,14 (H De
Broriiead). Tote: £4 5ft (1.7ft 0450, £2.00. Tote Exacta:
£225.90. Trifecta: £326.70. CSF: £8175 Nfc: Chios Gil,
MoMys йогу, Miring Mischief
110: ARDERA RU (S O'Callaghan) 14-11;
EARLY ARRIVAL (20-1) 2; POSITIVE THINKER
(3-1) 3; ROLLY BOWLEY BOY (9-1) 4.20 ran. nk,
84 4 (E Doyle). Tote: (ITJft £380, £4.7ft £120. £2.60.
Tote Exacta: £285.21 Tricast £892.61. Trifecta: £1645.50.
CSF: £27926. NRs: Elie Dorado Rxk. Housemartit Toor
Moment.
145: GRANGE WALK (I Quinlan 20-1) 1;
MINX TIARA (13-2) 2: SHAKEYTRY (84) 110
ran. 9-41 Cayd Boy. 24 54 (J P Ryan). NR: Ihiskeywealhi,
4.20: AIN'T THAT A SHAME (Rachael
Blackmore 8-1301; MACS CHARM (3-1) 2; GARS
DE SCEAUX(81»)3.9ran. 61,N.(H De Bromhead).
Tote: £162; £110. (Lift £1.31 Me Exacta: £3.61 Trifecta:
£8.00. CSF: £121
4.55: FERHS LOCK (Mr В O'Neil Hf) 1;
LOUGH DERG SPIRIT(211)2 ALONEAMONG-
MILUONS (П 2) 3 6ran. 34 84 (D И Christie). Me:
D.25 £1.02. €5.80. Me Exacta: £8.40. Week (2170.
CSF: £9.65. NRs: Dancing After Dark, On The Sod, Visions.
5.30: TUUYHLL (Mr P VMifts4-6f) 1; WILL
DO (9-4) 2: LAZER WOLF (404) 3. II Hl 34 Ml.
(V P MidIns). Me: £1.67; £1.Ю. €1.10, £9.00. Tote Exacta:
£220. Trifecta: £2700. CSF: £2.33.
Placepot: £80.80.
SANDOWN: Chase: soft-heavy in
places; hurdle: heavy-soft in places
115: SPIRIT D'AUNOU (Janie Moore 5-61) 1;
HAVA1LA (9-2) t START IN FRONT (B-2) 3.6
r* 411 (6 I Moore). Tate: DM £1Д £2.40. Ibte
Eiacla: £5.30. Trifecta: £1750. CSF: £523. Hit Jiagne.
150: CRAMBO (C Brace) HI; INNESTON
(Ж HUGOS NEW HORSE (1H)3; ETALON (9-1)
4.16 ran. 4-lf Cuthbert Me. n И. M (F OTUnew). tte
£850; £2.40. ПЛ. E2.M. £2.00. lute Exacta: £70.00. hast:
£556.51. Trifecta: £936.60. CSF: £5550. NR: War Sokher
2.25: ICEO (H Cobden) 5-11; KNICKER-
BOCKERGLORY (254) 7 PLAYFUL SAINT
(0-2) 3; FINE CASTING (12’04.16 ran. 9-21 Givega.
3414 Ml (P NkhoHs). Tote: £6.40; £2.10, £550 £2.»
£320. Tote Exacta: £197.00. Tricast: £84230. Trifecta:
£815.30. CSF: £134.80. «s: Sahada. Soaring Вод.
ЗЛО: LARCHMONT LASS (H Cobden 9-2) t
CASA NO MENTO (IH) 2, DONTYAWANTME
(54) 10 ran. 9-41 Goodtimecrew. rt, 24 (F NidiolsL
Idle: £5.50; £150. £1.60, £1.80. Tote Facta: £21.60. Tri-
fecta: £82.20. CSF: £17.57. NR: March Wind.
3.35: HUDSON DE GRUGY (Janie Moore
11-4) t QUEL DESTIN (6-1) 2. NO RISK DES
FLOS (КН) 3.5 ran. Hf Easy As That ok. Th. ® L
Moore). Tote £175; £170, £2.40. Tote Eiacta: DIM
Trifecta- £67.00. CSF: £17.06. NR: Baron De Midleton.
4.10: MUCHO MAS (Luca Morgan 4-1) t
FEIVEL (165)2; MORNING SPIRIT(18-1)3.9hl
14 64 (B Paring). Tote: £5.00; £2.00, £1.40, £3.70. Tote
Exacta: Е19.Ю. Tricast £206.37 Trifecta: £220.60. CSF:
£110. HRs: Star Hallmark, Young Bud.
4.45: ZHIGULI (Janie Moore 9-1)1; EDEN DU
HOUX (1H) 2; BELARGUS (9-2) 3.9 ran. 414 (G
I Moore). Tote: £10.00; £3.00. £350 £1.00. Tote Exacta:
£119.20. Tncast £50400. Trifecta: £729.90. CSF: £97.59.
Placepot: £88.20. Quadpot: £36.20.
WOLVERHAMPTON: Standard
12.55: JUST A SPARK (0 Murphy 4-1) t
WRECK IT RYLEY(9-4) 2; DOCTOR MOZART
(И 110 ran. Th. Ml (B Milman). Tote: £5.00; £1.40,
£3.00. 0.601 Tote Exacta: £15.40. Tricast £128.92. Tri-
fecta: £126.90. CSF: 0328.
1.30: DUBAI STATION (Hossa Ryan 172) t
BALDOMERO (112) 2: DREAM COMPOSER
(221) 1Ю ran. 3-11 Ingra Tor. 414 (S C * fans). Tote:
£9.70; £2.90, £2.20, £430. Tote Exacta: £59.50 Tncast
£812.89. Trifecta: £841.8. CSF: £50.29.
2.05: ALREHB (D Muscutt 5-1) 1: UNFOR-
GOTTEN (114) 2; NOTRE BELLE ВЕТЕ (ЮО-30)
1В ran. 4 A (I F De foy). Tote: £6.00; D JO. D5ft
£150 Tote Eacta: £21.40. Tricast £54.90. Tnfecta: £79. Ю.
CSF: £1736.
2.40: BERKSHIRE SHADOW(0 Krptry 52f)
1; ANGEL BLEU (3-1) 2; HARRY'S BAR (H I) 1
Bran. TH, hd. (A Baldng). Tote: £3.50; 0.40, £1.50, E2JJ0.
Idle Eiacta: 0020. Trifecta: £60.40. CSF: £9.67.
3.15: HE'S A MONSTER (H Crouch 6 01
COCO JAMBOO (Ю0-30) 2; ROMAN SPRING
(17-2) 15 ran. evens! Bericshre PlMdom. 24 hd. (A
Watson). Tote: £050: £250; £1.90. Tote Exacta: £22.90
Tnfecta: £95.90. CSF: £30.79. NRs: Golden Passport, lord
Saw’s Castle. 0dm Owns You Al.
3.50: TOTKS (0 Murphy 5-1) I; JAHIDIN
(ТЭ-2) t MINE THAT SHIP (66-1) 3. Tl ran. IHOf
Flane Spirit 1454 (A Balling). Tote: £6.70:0.90. £2.8;
£6.40. Tote Exact! £37.00. Trlecta: £115560. CSF: £36.49.
HR: Dann Mission.
4.25: EARLOFTHECOTSWOLDS (T F
Ouealfy 64) I; FLEURMAN (8-1) 2; ROBERTO
ESC06ARR (5-6) 15 ran. hd, nL (N Twestorrtdres)
Tote: £7.00; £2.8. £2.90. Tote Exacta: £34.00. Trifecta:
£75.71 CSF: £46.61.
5.00: H KEY LAILS (5 Janes B-2) t AN-
NALEE LASS(11-2)2; YOU SAW BRIGADOON
(7-2) 3.12 hl ft shd. (Craig Lidster). Tote; £7.50; £251
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NET GIVING UP Keeper Neto
after Mo Salah missed his penalty
BAD DAY AT
THE OFFICE
Boss Jurgen Klopp
(from left) trudges
off at the end with
Jordan Henderson,
Fabio Carvalho,
James Milner
and Cody Gakpo
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SHOW AND TELL: Burnley celebrate Telia goal
Tella’s hot double
puts Clarets on
fast track to Prem
NATHAN TELLA bagged a
deadly double as Burnley
took another step closer to
Premier League promotion.
The Southampton loan
midfielder, 23, struck in
both halves to take his
impressive goal tally to 14 in
the league as the Clarets
eased to victory over
struggling 10-man Wigan.
Telia needed just 14
minutes to fire the hosts
ahead and then defender
Omar Rekik was sent-off for
two yellow cards as the
Latics were left with a
mountain to climb.
Man-of-the-match Telia
headed home two minutes
into the second half and
substitute Lyle Foster
bagged his debut goal for
the club with a fine finish.
Clarets boss Vincent
Kompany singled out Telia
after his side extended their
impressive unbeaten league
run to 16 games.
"He’s slowly
getting to a
level where
he's fulfilling
some of his
potential," he
said.
Kompany's
ambitious
side are now
13 points
clear at the
top with just
10 league fixtures
remaining.
He said: "I’m delighted
with the win because we
were playing a game
against a side who are
really fighting to avoid
relegation."
Icelandic international
midfielder Johann
Gudmundsson forced Latics
keeper Ben Amos to save
after just two minutes and
only the post denied Anass
Zaroury the opener.
But Telia headed in from
Zaroury’s cross to score his
first goal for a month.
Booked early in the
action for a cynical foul on
Telia, Rekik was then
sent-off for another clumsy
BURNLEY______________3
WISH, 47. Foster 76
WIGAN.________.......... 0
By NEIL GOULDING
Burnley Wigan
7 Shots on target 2
12 Shots off target О
8 Blocked shots О
10 Corners 0
11 Fouls 15
2 Offsides 1
1 Yellow cards 3
0 Red cards 1
91 Passing success % 64
9 Tackles 15
78 Tackles won % 53
79 Possession % 21
PEP RALLIES
rescues City to
ERLING HAALAND'S late
penalty ensured Manchester
City keep breathing down
Arsenal's necks as Pep
Guardiola's men, temporarily
at least, closed the gap at the
top to two points.
It was by no means pretty
k from the visitors.
But at this stage of the
season - and with the
title on the line -
they simply
won’t care
how they
rack
By Tom Hopkinson
AT SEIHURST PARK
challenge and the home
side smelled blood.
Gudmundsson curled
agonisingly wide from the
resulting free-kick before
left-back Ian Maatsen -
back in the side after a
shoulder injury - saw his
right-foot rocket superbly
saved by ex-Manchester
United shot-stopper Amos.
A fine save from Burnley
keeper Arijanet Muric
denied substitute Steven
Caulker an equaliser six
minutes before the break,
but the home side raised
their level after the
resumption and Telia
headed Zaroury’s corner
home from dose-range.
Amos denied Ashley
Barnes with a
smart save
and Telia
fired wide,
but Foster
pounced with
14 minutes
left to put the
contest well
and truly out
of reach.
Wigan
have now
failed to win in their last six
and are rooted to the foot
of the table.
Frustrated Latics boss
Shaun Maloney admitted: "I
was super proud of what
the lads did on the pitch.
"But once we went down
to 10 men it was very
difficult."
BURNLEY: Muric 7; Roberts 7, Beyer
7. Ekdal 7. Maatsen 7; Gudmundsson
6 (Cork (63) 5). Cullen 7 (Bastien (84)
6): Telia 9, Da Silva 7 (Obafemi (74) 6).
Zaroury 8 (Dervisoglu (85) 6); Barnes 6
(Foster (63) 7)
WIGAN: Amos 5; Hughes 5. Rekik 3,
Nyambe 5; Darikwa 5, Naylor 5. Power
5 (Tiehi (67) 4). Pearce 5 (McClean (52)
5); Lang 5 (Keane (67) 5); Fletcher 5
(Aasgaard (68) 5). Magennis 5 (Caulker
(30) 5)
STAR MAN: Nathan Telia-Midfielder
bagged a fine brace.
REF: John Busby 8
HAAL OF FAME:
Erling Haaland bags
his fifth penalty of
the season to break
the deadlock
%
up the
points as long as ‘4
they do.
Haaland had seen little of the
ball in the 77 minutes which
preceded his goal.
And, when he had got on it, he
hadn’t been hugely effective.
But big players step up when it
really matters and he slotted the
ball home past Palace keeper
Vicente Guaita, who really didn’t
deserve to be on the losing side.
Palace came into the game
having not won at home since
October and having not won a
game this calendar year.
The law of averages says
they have to win one
sooner rather than
later, although it
was hard to
imagine
a game against
title-chasing City
would be the one
from which their supporters left
Seihurst Park properly happy for
the first time in 2023.
Not that City would have been
taking anything for granted of
course, given Liverpool, Brighton,
Newcastle and Manchester
United have all been held to
draws here in south London
since mid-January.
It wasn’t surprising, though,
that City had the majority of
possession in the first half.
Yet despite their dominance,
they weren’t their usual thrusting
selves and lacked the kind of
fluidity we’ve come to expect over
the years from them.
Despite seeing so much more
of the ball, they were limited in
the number of serious chances
they created.
Even so, they should still have
gone in at the break at least
one goal to the good after
Nathan Ake put on a
plate for Haaland
the kind of
opportunity
you would
expect a man as talented as he is
to gobble up.
Haaland, however, was leaning
back and he failed even to test
Guaita in the Palace goal, blazing
well over.
In fact, the only time Guaita
had been tested in the entire first
period was just two minutes into
the game when Rodri caught a
volley sweetly from the edge of
the area.
The Spaniard matched a lovely
effort with an equally good save.
Credit to the home side for
keeping compact defensively and
putting the brakes on City almost
every time they advanced.
Marc Guehi, in particular,
gave Haaland little room to
manoeuvre.
They did a proper job in cutting
the supply line to Jack Grealish on
the left and, while Phil Foden saw
more of the ball out on the right
too often the final pass wasn’t
clinical enough and Palace
stopped it.
Silva busied himself but for all
the hustle and bustle there was
little doing really.
Not that Palace’s front men saw
much of the ball, either, and
Rodri - a man-mountain in
midfield for the visitors - was the
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games (DI), and are on the
longest current unbeaten run
in the competition (six games).
Man City have won five of
their last six Premier League
No player has scored more
Premier League penalties this
Crystal Palace remain winless
in their 10 Premier League
games in 2023, while no side
has failed to score in more
different games this season.
season than Man City's Erling
Haaland (five, level with Ivan
Toney).
primary reason for that. He
really is an immense defensive
midfielder.
Rodri was involved as City won
a free-kick in the Palace D and so,
too, was Guaita.
The City players on the end of
the Palace wall split for Foden to
drill a fierce effort on target but
Guaita was again equal to the
strike.
It would be Foden’s last
contribution, with striker Julian
Alvarez sent on to replace him
just before the hour-mark.
Home keeper Guaita was
having such a good game that
perhaps the only way City were
going to find a way past him was
if it was from the penalty spot.
And so it proved after Michael
Olise suffered a rush of blood to
the head.
Grealish played a short corner
to Ilkay Gundogan and Olise
sprinted to close him down.
A little loss of balance - just at
the wrong moment - proved
costly, though,
and there
was no
doubt
for
referee
Robert
Jones
о r
anyone
else in the stadium that it was a
spot-kick.
Haaland picked the ball up and
finally beat Guaita, sending him
the wrong way with a cool finish
that delighted his manager and
team-mates.
In the final few minutes, Palace
attempted to drag themselves
back into the contest, but City
held on to claim a potentially vital
three points in the race for the
Premier League title.
They are two points behind
leaders Arsenal, who visit Fulham
today. Palace, meanwhile, are 12th
but just four points clear of the
relegation zone in a congested
bottom half.
* MATCH
RATINGS
C Palace
Guaita.................8
Clyne__________________7
Andersen...............7
Guehi__________________7
Mitchell...............7
Sambi Lokonga...........7
Milivojevic............7
Olise-------------------5
J Ayew..............................5
Schlupp________________7
Zaha____________________5
SUBSTITUTES
Ahamada
(for Milivojevic, 61)__6
Ward
(for Clyne, 71)________6
Edouard
(for J Ayew, 80)_______6
Eze
(for Schlupp, 80)______6
NEXT GAME
v Brighton (A)___Weds
Man City
Ederson_____________6
Stones..............7
Akanji______________7
Dias________________7
Ake_________________7
Rodri...............8
Gundogan............7
Foden_______________6
Silva_________________6
Grealish______________7
Haaland_______________7
SUBSTITUTES
Alvarez
(for Foden, 58)_______6
De Bruyne
(for Silva, 79)_______6
Walker
(for Stones, 89)______6
NEXT GAME
v RB Leipzig (H) ......Tues
REF: Robert Jones 7
к * —
STAR MAN
Rodri - Controlled the
midfield and controlled
the game, just pipping
Guaita as the best
player on the pitch.
Toon taught
clean habits
BACK home-proud
Newcastle to get another
clean sheet today.
After tipping a 0-0 at
Anfield last Sunday -
which even with the best
will in the world turned
out no better than half
right - here we go again,
as the stats scream for a
goal-lite game at St
James’ Park.
Eddie Howe (above)
and his Toon have
recorded eight 'no
goalscorer' results in
their 32 games all told so
far this season - a 3/1 raw
rating - and 11 of their 16
home games have been
NO 'both teams to score’.
No team in the top
flight has scored fewer
goals than visitors
Wolves (4.30pm).
The 9/1 (Fred) 'no
scorer’ looks like fair
value for worldie hunters,
And the coin-flip angle
that stands out is 21/20
(Fred) ‘Newcastle clean
sheet' - they can boast 10
in 16 homes this season.
West Ham, just back
from Cyprus, host Aston
Villa (2pm) and have
conceded fewer goals at
home in the Prem than
Arsenal and Tottenham.
But their post-Europa
Sundays record is fairly
alarming. In-form Villa
ace Ollie Watkins is a
solid 'anytime scorer'
shout at 3/1 (Bet365).
Last week: Winners at 5/1 and 2/1
wire
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STAR/J
Toulouse's Thljs Dallinga is In
form and value at 7/4 (Skybet) to
score ’anytime' at ban-damaged
Angers (2pm, Ligue 1, France)
BED'S TOO BIG AT
25/1 FOR PAYBACK
»WHEN Manchester United beat visitors
Southampton (2pm) 9-0 in February
2021, Jan Bednarek was sent off late on,
with the score still just a cheeky six-zip.
The Saints' big Pole (right) is a set-piece
nuisance who earned a 15/2 'anytime
scorer’ rating last season - 25/1
(Paddy) is worth a fun nugget. At J 1
the other end of the price range, "j
Marcus Rashford 'anytime' is a
generous offer at 11/10 (Hills). |
It’s a gift of a Gab at 9/4
ARSENAL look like being hard work
for the general 4/7 at Fulham (2pm)
- Mikel Arteta's minimal-rotation
policy does appear to be wearing the
Gunners thinner and thinner.
They should still outwit a Cottagers
defence that expected-goals boffins
rated the most exposed in the Prem
ahead of this round. Gabriel Martinelli
(left) is the right threat to exploit that
at 9/4 (Boylesport) 'anytime scorer1.
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ARCHER'S BULLSEYE: Cameron gives Boro the lead
Akpom spot-on
as Carrick men
close gap at top
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DAKA 39 > CHILWELL 11, HAVERTZ 45, KOVACIC 78
Change of
CHUBA AKPOM continued
his scoring streak to set up
a thrilling promotion race in
the Championship.
Akpom netted his 22nd
goal of the season from the
penalty spot as Boro closed
the gap on the top two to
just four points.
Boro helped themselves
to a seventh win in eight
games but had to come
from behind at Swansea,
com stadium after Joel
Piroe nudged in his 14th
goal of the season early in
the first half.
Swansea thought they
had doubled
their lead
soon after
the break but
Jay Fulton's
goal was
chalked off
for offside.
And that
would hurt
the home
side even
more when
Boro scored twice within
three minutes.
Aaron Ramsey coolly
finished left-footed from a
counter-attack before
Cameron Archer nodded
home.
Akpom then completed
the comeback from the
penalty spot after man of
the match Riley McGree
was hauled down.
Boro boss Michael
Carrick was trying to keep
a lid on expectations, even
if the travelling fans were
starting to believe a push
for automatic promotion
was on.
He said: "I can't hide
from the league table but it
doesn't affect how we
approach each game. Of
SWANSEA____________1
Piroe 15
MIDDLESBROUGH .1.3
Ramsey 54. Archer 57, Akpom 77 (pen)
By MATT LLOYD
Swansea M brough
5 Shots on target 7
5 Shots off target 6
4 Blocked shots 2
4 Corners 6
9 Fouls 10
2 Offsides 2
3 Yellow cards 1
О Red cards О
86 Passing success % 85
15 Tackles 16
53 Tackles won % 63
51 Possession % 49
course as you go along the
games grow in importance
but it’s important we don't
start chasing games.
"It's all about the
performance.
"The boys showed their
togetherness today, their
belief and spirit to turn the
game around.
"We’re got so many
attacking threats
that we just
didn't get
frustrated.
"We just
needed to
find that final
touch and
we did just
that in the
second half."
Pressure is
growing on
Swansea boss
Russell Martin, who now
has just three wins in his
last 20 games.
He said: "It’s really
frustrating but I'm pleased
with so much of what I saw.
"I’m still not convinced
our second was offside
but we didn't manage the
game well enough after
that, which sums up where
we’re at."
SWANSEA: Fisher 7; Wood 7, Cabango
6, Latibeaudiere 5; Sorinola 5, Fulton 8,
Grimes 7. Manning 7; Cooper 8 (Ntcham
(45) 4), Cundle 5 (Paterson (70) 5);
Piroe 6
MIDDLESBROUGH: Steffan 6; Smith 6.
McNair 7. Lenihan 6, Giles 7: Howson 5,
Hackney 8; McGree 9 (Mowatt (90) 3).
Akpom 7 (Finch (90) 3), Ramsey 8 (Bola
(90)3); Archer 7 (Forss (75) 5)
STAR MAN: Riley McGree - Pulled
all the strings for Boro and won the
penalty to seal the win.
REF: Peter Bankes 6
PEN POWER: Akpom wraps up victory from the spot
GRAHAM'S GREAT WEEK COULD
GRAHAM POTTER hailed his
players for showing spirit and
togetherness as the visitors
signalled that their crisis may
be over.
Three wins in a week and
suddenly the sun is shining over
Stamford Bridge.
Goals from Ben Chilwell, Kai
Havertz and Mateo Kovacic
produced a first away victory in
11 games in all competitions.
Boss Potter said: “It’s been a
team performance over the week
It takes a bit of time to develop
* that but the spirit and
> togetherness is growing.
“Everyone is supporting each
X other, wanting to play and ready
By Janine Self
AT THE KING POWER STADIUM
to play. Its been a tough period.
Its been a really good week - a
determined performance against
Leeds, backed up against
Dortmund and then today. Its
not easy in the Premier League.”
This was a match billed as a
duel between two under-pressure
managers. Foxes boss Brendan
Rodgers was staying bullish as
the fans made their feelings
known following a fifth successive
defeat.
He insisted: “It’s been the
backdrop all season and not a
distraction for me or the squad.
We are very much together.
“You want the crowd to be
behind them and the team
supported but that’s how it has
been since the summer. We have
to get through that
“The supporters are clearly
disappointed we didn’t get the
result but it doesn’t affect me. My
focus is on the team and I will
stand here and give my very best”
Rodgers could point to a goal
from Ricardo Pereira and some
glaring chances as a positive .
and a late red card for Wout
Faes as a negative.
He added: “I think it was
harsh on the team when it
gets to 3-1 and you’re down to 10
men. In the last few minutes, a
team with that quality can keep
the ball from you.
“For large parts we were right
in the game. We conceded a poor
goal from the corner, fought our
way back, scored a really good
one and were finishing the first
half really well. You can lose to
top teams like Chelsea but we
have more than matched them
today, just not taken our chances."
With the pressure on
both managers, it was
no surprise to see a
cat-and-mouse start
which lasted all of 10
minutes. Chilwell’s
MATCH STATS
Chelsea
7_________
4_________
6........
2_________
Shots on target.
Shots off target.
..Blocked shots..
____Comers.......
TP1ST
Only Southampton can match
Leicester's total of 16 Premier
League defeats this season - the
most Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers
has ever suffered in one campaign.
This result ends Chelsea's run of
eight away Premier League games
without a win. Their last was a 2-0
victory at Aston Villa in October, when
Mason Mount scored both goals.
Pott luck
MATCH
RATINGS
Leicester
TURN
SEASON AROUND
finish from Kalidou Koulibaly s
lob proved too much for
keeper Danny Ward and
Chelsea were flying.
The Foxes could
have equalised as I
Daniel Amartey
missed a free header
and Kiernan
Dewsbury-Hall hit the
woodwork
Then
VAR
ruled ^4
out a ** чж
Joao «**—4
Felix
effort and *
Leicester were buoyed. A clever
NEXT GAME
v Everton (H)___Mar 18
REF: Andre Marriner 7
STAR MAN
Kai Havertz - The
livewire was involved
in everything good to
cap a great week.
backheel by Ricardo and Patson
Daka was wheeling away in
celebration.
Kepa Arrizabalaga
। made two stops - from
James Maddison and
Kelechi Iheanacho -
and Chelsea bounced
back through
------- Havertz after good
। work from Enzo.
1 Leicester, watched
by home boy Gary
Lineker, kept
attacking but looked
like conceding.
Conor Gallagher
cleared off the line to
deny Harry Souttar but
the killer blow came through
captain Kovacic (left), whose
brilliant volley connected with
Mykhaylo Mudryk’s pass.
Having needed 14 games to
record two wins, Chelsea have
three in a week - the 1-0 victory
over Leeds and that marvellous
2-0 win over Borussia Dortmund
in the Champions League, which
takes them to the quarter-finals.
After this away trip, Potters
men entertain Everton, Aston
Villa and Liverpool.
As he said: “We were a few
centimetres away from another
couple for offside too. It was a
game in the balance and our
quality saw us over the line."
Ward Pereira ..... ...7 ...7
Souttar.......................... ...6
Faes................................ ....6
Castagne....................... ...6
Amartey ........................ ....6
Mendy............ ........ ...6
Iheanacho..................... ....6
Maddison ....7
Dewsbury-Hall ...6
Daka ...6
SUBSTITUTES Barnes (for Daka, 66) ...5
Sou ma re (for Mendy, 66) ...5
Tete (for Amartey, 66) ...5
Vardy (for Iheanacho, 76)..... ...5
Evans (for Maddison, 89) ...5
NEXT GAME v Brentford (A)..... Mar 18
Chelsea
Arrizabalaga............6
Fofana ............................... 7
Koulibaly_______________7
Cucurella_______________7
Loftus-Cheek____________6
Enzo __________________ 8
Kova c ic............................. 7
Chilwell________________7
Felix___________________6
Havertz_________________8
Mudryk__________________7
SUBSTITUTES
Gallagher
(for Felix, 46)_________7
Chalobah
(for Loftus-Cheek, 72) ..5
Pulisic
(for Chilwell, 72)______5
Chukwuemaka
(for Mudryk, 82)________5
Badiashile
(for Fofana, 85)________5
It was the ninth successive
Premier League game in which
Leicester have conceded the first
goal. They have done in 14 of this
season's 26 games.
FRAGILITY: Chris Wilder
Gareth's
relief after
a rethink
QPR.±.....................1
’ Iroegbunam 15
WATFORD...................0
By STEVE JUDGE_______________
GARETH AINSWORTH revealed
he had to rip up his game plan
after Watford sacked Slaven Bilic
but still came up with a winning
strategy.
Loftus Road was rocking after
Tim Iroegbunam’s15th-minute
strike delivered a first win for
new boss Ainsworth.
He called the post-game
celebrations a mixture of relief
at ending a nightmare 13-game
run without a win and optimism
after a battling display that
overpowered the Hornets in the
first-half.
That was a disappointing
aspect for Chris Wilder in his first
game as Watford boss, while
Ainsworth paid homage to his
analysts for helping him prepare
for a team under new
management.
He said: "The commitment
levels of the boys, my staff, the
fans - it was a real OPR as one
performance. We did all our prep
Tuesday afternoon for Slaven
Bilic's team and at 5pm he was
sacked, so I have to thank my
analysts Josh Hart and Sam
Tuohy for showing us how Chris
has set up in the past."
OPR announced this was
going to be a physical battle and
the Hornets just were not up to
the task. It was typified by the
only goal of the game.
Iroegbunam was first to react
when his attempted through ball
had been partially intercepted
and he drove through to angle a
left-foot shot across Daniel
Bachmann into the right corner.
Wilder said: "There is a bit of
fragility to our game and a lack
of confidence in the final third.
"It was a game Gareth would
have wanted and it is becoming
relevant in the Championship
that teams that win duels and
second balls dictate the game.
"They did enough of that to
win the game."
OPR: Dieng 6; Dickie 7. Field 7, Dunne 7; Drewe
7 (Armstrong (85) 6), Iroegbunam 8 (Johansen
(71) 6), Dozzell 7 (Amos (85) 6). Kakay 8; Lowe
7. Martin 7. Dykes 7 (Adomah (57) 6)
WATFORD: Bachmann 7: Porteous 6 (Asprilla
(77) 6). Cathcart 6. Hoedt 6; Gaspar 5,
Choudhury 5. Louza 6, Serna 5; Sarr 6
(Assombalonga (77) 6). Pedro 8. Davis 6
STAR MAN: Tim Iroegbunam - Outstanding
first-half display that won the game for
Rangers.
REF: James Linington 8
TP1ST
6
Rocket by Reda gives Blues
the edge in relegation scrap
JOHN EUSTACE praised an
"outstanding" performance
to ease Birmingham’s
relegation worries.
Brum are now 10 points
clear of the drop zone and
Eustace said: "It was a great
first half from us and then
second half we had to show
our other side at times but
it's all about getting wins.
“We’re not getting
carried away. Anything can
happen in the
Championship and it’s
relentless." Rotherham
BIRMINGHAM..........2
Khadra 5, Long 35x _
ROTHERHAM............ 0
By DAVE ARMITAGE
battled to carve a way back
after the break but couldn’t
undo the first-half damage.
Boss Matt Taylor
switched things around and
did unsettle the home side
but the Blues managed to
hold on to what they had
worked so hard for. With
both sides too close to the
relegation mix, the
importance of three points
was clear and Brum struck
a decisive early blow.
They were in front after
just five minutes in
spectacular fashion when
Reda Khadra sent an
unstoppable shot flying into
the net from the edge of
the box.
Ten minutes before the
break they increased their
lead in controversial
circumstances from a
wrongly awarded corner.
Rotherham hadn’t finished
protesting when Kevin Long
seized on a loose ball and
smashed in a left-foot shot.
But Millers manager
Taylor said: "We needed to
keep it at 1-0 by half-time
but we can’t blame that.
"The fact is that we
started poorly and
deserved to be behind."
BIRMINGHAM: Ruddy 7; Trusty 7, Dean
7. Long 7, Colin 7; Bielik 5 (James (31)
7). Chang 7; Chong 8 (Mejbri (79) 5).
Khadra 8 (Roberts (79) 5). Hall 7 (79) 5):
Jutkiewia 7
ROTHERHAM: Johansson 8; Harding 6,
Humphreys 6, Peltier 6 (Bramall (64) 6),
Hjekfe 6 (Washington (46)7): Coventry
6 (Kelly (64) 6). Fosu 7; Ferguson 6
(Blackett (64) 6), Odoff in 6 (Lindsay
(46)6), Og bene 6; Hugill 6
STAR MAN: Reda Khadra - Gave Brum
the perfect start they needed.
REF: Geoff Eltr ingham 7
TOTTENHAM.........3
KANE 19,35 (P), SON 62
S HARRY KANE came to Spurs’
rescue yet again as he thrashed in
his first penalty since that
nightmare World Cup miss.
If only he had shown the same
composure three months ago when
blasting horribly high during England’s
cruel exit to France.
Of course, the pressure was
considerably less yesterday with Spurs
already leading through his early
header and cruising towards a huge
victory in the battle for the top four.
For a split second, though, it seemed
he had committed the same mistake as
in Qatar - before the ball rocketed
under the bar and into the net
Heung-min Son added a third on 62
minutes but Kanes double, taking him
to 20 Premier League goals for the sixth
time in nine years, was always going to
be enough against a Forest side with
the worst away record among the elite.
There was a fightback with Forest
skipper Joe Worrall scoring and Andre
Ayew squandering a 90th-minute
penalty but it was too little, too late.
Instead, victory put Tottenham six
points ahead of fifth-place Liverpool,
lifting some of the gloom engulfing
them following a wretched fortnight
- including crashing out of the FA Cup
and Champions League.
And the sight of under-pressure boss
Antonio Conte leaping in the dug-out
I only raised home spirits further.
!He did not look like a coach simply
waiting to jump or be sacked.
Nor did Kane seem as if he had one
eye on a big-money move.
Conte said: “Never, never did I think
he would miss that penalty. He could
score it blindfolded.
“But it’s not about his goals. It was
about Harry’s desire and determination.
I I saw fire in my players’ eyes.
“The problem is we are talking about
I singular achievements when it should
I be about the team’s achievement.”
Iй As for staying in the top four, Conte
added: “There’s only one place left and
the race is tough. To be in the top four
for us is like winning the Premier
League!”
Kane labelled the cup defeat to
Championship Sheffield United a
‘dagger in the heart’.
Well, after being further slashed in
Europe by Milan, he took his frustration
out by cutting Forest to ribbons in the
opening period.
Needing a pre-match boost,
Tottenham got it courtesy of Liverpool
failing to close the gap on them
By Harry Pratt
AT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM
following a lunchtime loss at
Bournemouth. That was a kick where
it hurts for Steve Cooper’s Forest, '
though, with the Cherries just two
points behind in the survival scrap.
Whether fighting for Europe or
against the drop, the message is clear
- rely on nobody as nothing is nailed
on in this crazy season. The Match of
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N FORST............
> WORRALL 81
Harry Kane has scored eight
headed goals in the league this
Ее 'JJ season - only Duncan Ferguson
। •? . has ever netted more in a single
I Я campaign (nine in 1997-98).
Joe Worrall scored his first
league goal in 85 games for
Nottingham Forest, since netting
against Brentford in the Champi-
onship in December 2020.
IN HARRY
and buries,hispen.woes
NOD-LIKE PRESENCE:
Kane scores his first as
boss Conte (left) sees
Spurs find their spark
To ttenham
. Shots on target.
Shots off target.
...Blocked shots-
....Corners.....
....Fouls.......
....Offsides....
87________Passing success %___________81
И_______________Tackles_______
55..........Tackles won %...
56___________Possession %-..
THREE
SPIRIT: Son
’ hits the third
MATCH
RATINGS
Tottenham
Forster .............................. 6
Romero____________________7
Lenglet_.......................7
Dier______________________7
Porro 8
Skipp_____________________8
Hojbjerg..................7
Davies____________________7
Richarlison...............8
Son-----------------------7
Kane______________________9
SUBSTITUTES
Sarr
(for Skipp, 90)............6
Kulusevski
(for Richarlison, 84)......6
Moura
(for Son, 84)_____________6
NEXT GAME
v S'hampton (A)... Mar 18
N Forest
Navas_________________6
Aurier...............................б
Worrall...............5
Felipe................5
Lodi__________________5
Freuler_______________5
Shelvey_______________6
Mangala...............5
Lingard_______________5
Gibbs-White...........5
Johnson
SUBSTITUTES
Yates
(for Freuler, 67)______6
Ayew
(for Mangala, 46)______5
Dennis
(for Lingard, 46)_____6
Wood
(for Johnson, 67)_____6
NEXT GAME
v Newcastle (H)...___Fri
REF: Craig Pawson 7
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Kane extended the advantage
f from the spot before the break
J His nutmeg pass to Richarlison
inside the area led to central
defender Worrall’s stupid, illegal
lunge and the penalty award. Sons sixth
league goal this season then put
Tottenham out of sight,
Scant consolation for Cooper who
said: “We looked the more dynamic and
aggressive team in the second half. But
it was in the first half where the result
was defined.
“We needed to be a lot more
competitive. Spurs are full of quality but
you have to back yourself so this was a
missed opportunity in that we can play
much better.”
STAR MAN
Harry Kane - On fire
as he did the double
and wiped out World
Cup penalty nightmare.
PEP GUARDIOLA collared Bruno
Guimaraes last week to tell him he
was "bueno, good."
Newcastle's talisman and fan
favourite says he has spoken to
Guardiola "a few times and "he is a
genius, the best coach in history".
Flattering, flirty words to Brazilian
media, creating that nagging worry
for Geordies that Guimaraes could be
off in the summer.
Bruno G has admitted Real Madrid
called him last year for a brief
conversion, to check on his situation.
And that situation is he has a deal
with Newcastle, who don't actively
want to sell, until 2026.1 say actively
because everyone has a price and
Bruno's is probably north of £80m -
double the amount that the club paid
for him 15 months ago.
Guimaraes (below) has been a
magnificent
В ambassador for
r Newcast,e and himself
, j on and off the pitch.
‘ He is unpressible -
Л wriggling out of tight
midfield corners to
jES launch forward
momentum. So he’s
vital to boss Eddie
Howe's front-foot way of playing.
As Sean Longstaff said, playing
alongside him makes you look good.
There will be a big hunt for top
midfielders this summer. Manchester
City need to replace llkay Gundogan,
who will be out of contract.
Every elite club wants Declan Rice
or Jude Bellingham but not all can
succeed - so would Guimaraes
become a viable alternative?
It may depend on how patient he is
to be part of Newcastle's rebuilding.
At 25, could impatience and a pay
rise see him seek Champions League
football elsewhere?
Much could also hinge on where
faltering Newcastle finish. Top four is
still possible but Howe’s side have
not scored in more than five hours of
play and won only once in the league
since Boxing Day.
The Toon need four new, quality
stars in the summer - and to ward off
interest in their main man.
The last ivcrd...
SUNDERLAND and Newcastle are
sharing a problem. Expectation
management.
The Mackems raised hopes of a
play-off charge with a good run, but
in reality should be happy with
mid-table consolidation after four
years in League One.
Top eight would be a great
achievement for Toon but they've
got sight of the top four and Europe
next season. Given that was the
players' aim at the start of the
season they should push on and
relish finishing the season on a high.
TPIST
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^BOURNEMOUTH........1 LIVERPOOL
L И/ Л BILLING 28
SWIFT RETRIBUTION: Baggies celebrate the winner
Carlos has the last
laugh as Warnock
pays the penalty
WEST BROMWICH ALBION [?- 1 ""
Salah has
boss Carlos Corberan had
WEST BROM............1
Swift 30 (pen)
HUDDERSFIELD........ 0
6уТ1Й NASH
range efforts from Erik
Pieters and Okay Yokuslu
failed to seriously test
goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik
while Daryl Dike missed the
ball after Pieters put him
through.
West Brom's persistence
paid off when they netted
the crucial penalty on the
half hour.
West Brom Hudd'field
4 Shots on target 1
4 Shots off target 3
5 Blocked shots 0
9 Corners 2
8 Fouls 13
0 Offsides 0
1 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
84 Passing success % 61
9 Tackles 11
78 Tackles won % 64
70 Possession % 30
the last laugh against his
old club Huddersfield to
silence Neil Warnock.
Before the game the
veteran Terriers boss, 74,
had claimed Corberan
“must have a good agent"
to have landed the West
Brom gig.
John Swift’s penalty
made it nine wins and a
draw in 10 games for the
Baggies and kept the
Terriers - who head coach
Corberan led to the
Championship play-off final
last season - languishing in
the drop zone.
West Brom's third win in
four - all
without
conceding -
put them
three points
outside the
play-off zone.
They have
also bettered
a 100-year
club record
of conceding
just once in 11
home games in all
competitions.
Corberan refused to get
involved in a slanging
match with one of his
successors however.
"Because of the way I
was brought up, I've got
massive respect for every
opponent I play," explained
the Spaniard.
'Tm always very pleased
when my team wins,
especially when it’s as a
conseguence of the
performance."
Huddersfield have missed
a ‘new manager bounce’
following Warnock’s return
from retirement.
And the Terriers are now
six points adrift of safety
after one win in five under
Warnock.
Ironically, Huddersfield
had arguably the best two
chances of this feisty
fixture.
But Tom Lees headed
Josh Koroma's corner over
the bar and clean-through
David Kasumu fired wide
with only goalkeeper Josh
Griffiths to beat.
But in between, the
Baggies dominated. Long-
Vadik 6; Pearson 4 (Edmonds-Green
(63)6). Lees 6. Helik 5. Ruffels 5;
Koroma 5. Hogg 6; Kasumu 6 (Diarra
(83) 6). Jackson 5 (Hungbo (89) 6):
Rudoni 6: Waghorn 5 (Rhodes (83) 6)
STAR MAN: Jed Wallace - Supplied the
pass that led to the penalty and oozed
quality throughout. A real top-quality
performance.
REF: Dean Whitestone 7
Conor Townsend
anticipated Matty Pearson's
clumsy challenge tussling
for Jed
Wallace’s
pass and
referee Dean
Whitestone
pointed to
the spot
Swift made
no mistake,
drilling the
ball hard to
Vadik’s right,
sending the
keeper the wrong way.
Warnock complained:
"We missed two great
chances today with
Tom's header - then J
when David was
through on goal as Л
well. At the
moment, we’ve got J
no chance of
staying up
because we
haven't scored ZD
for four
games,"
WEST BROM:
Griffiths?;
Furlong 7,
O'Shea?,
Pieters 8,
Townsend 7;
Molumby 7,
Yokuslu 7
(Chalobah (76)
6); Wallace 8
(Ajayi (97) 6),
Swift 7.
Reach 6
(Albrighton
(75)6);
Dike?
MO-BRAINER:
Salah cannot
believe he fluffed
his penalty kick
MO SALAH looked as
powerless and uncomfortable
as a senior BBC executive as
the tide flowing Liverpool
towards European football
next season was dramatically
turned.
The Egyptian hung his head in
disbelief after missing a second-
half penalty, while the relegation
waters threatening Bournemouth’s
survival ebbed enough to lift them
off the bottom of the table.
Ebb and flow. Ups and downs.
One of the competitive
strengths - and joys - of the
Premier League is that a team
can lose 9-0 in one fixture, as
Bournemouth did at Anfield,
к and then reverse that outcome
later in the same campaign.
| Or, that a side busily
[» humiliating Manchester
К United with seven goals
I six days before - as
L Liverpool were at
t Anfield - can be felled
I by the lowest of the low.
The hosts deserved
► their victory, earned
L through hard work,
F organisation and the
u creation of sufficient
first-half chances that the
odds were on one of them
going in.
After that, it was just a case of
whether their tenacity and
willpower would be enough to
nudge and shove Liverpool out of
their recent smooth rhythms.
They were, just although few
would have foreseen Salah curling
that 69th-minute penalty way
over the junction of post and bar.
It was Liverpool’s first penalty
of the season in the league, a rare
gift spumed.
A goal from Dane Phil Billing
just before the half hour was
enough for the hosts to cling to,
like a precious raft in heavy seas.
It was created by the livewire
Dango Ouattara, the 21-year-old
recent £20million signing from
Lorient, who was a constant
menace to Liverpool with his
ability to run in behind the Reds’
defence.
Boss Jurgen Klopp was
frustrated more than angry with
a defeat that he believes wiII stall
By Graham Thom
AT THE VITALITY STADIUA
momentum gathered for г
four bid, rather than kill
altogether.
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knock, but you know hov
with knocks, said Klopp.
“You have to see how bi
scars are and go from there.
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what we wanted and we p
for 95 minutes the {
Bournemouth wanted to pl
“We had our moment
scored a goal that was offsid
we had plenty of opportu
from set pieces.
“Bournemouth began fi.
spaces, finding chances, ar
didn’t cover well enough.”
Virgil van Dijk had one h
cleared off the line from a c
and then another he allow
skim off his hairline.
A shot from substitute I
Jota was well saved by Ch
keeper Neto, before the pre
Liverpool built from aroun
hour mark eventually paid <
James Milners cross was r
Jota, but the header was div
by the trailing arm of defi
TP1ST
Bournemouth recorded
only their second ever
competitive win against
Liverpool and first since a
4-3 back in December 2016.
Liverpool have lost
consecutive league matches
against opponents starting
bottom of the table for the
first time since late 2010.
Gary O'Neil became the
first English manager to
defeat Jurgen Klopp's
Liverpool in 23 Premier
League matches.
Liverpool's Mohamed
Salah took his 21st penalty
in the Premier League, with
today's effort his first to
completely miss the target.
weak soot
iREAT DANE TAKES TOP BILLING
SALAH-DAZE:
Egyptian hitman
misses target
from the spot
eader
orner
ed to
CHERRY ON
TOP: Billing bangs
in winner for brave
Bournemouth
Adam Smith - giving Salah his
CIS chance from the spot.
. As it curled upwards towards
!____ the fans behind the goal, Klopp
i top- looked at his feet - a dark outline,
it off wrapped up in his own thoughts.
Gary O’Neils decision to hit
issive Liverpool on the counter, through
r it is deep-laying winger Ouattara
regularly paid dividends and hit
g the ^e jackpot with Billing s goal.
Burkina Faso international
site of Ouattara - who had already
layed carved out and missed one good
rame chance - drove deep into Reds
ay. territory and found Billing who
s we scored with a crisp, low shot.
e but F°r Bournemouth boss O’Neil
nities
riding
id we
MATCH STATS
Liverpool
MATCH
RATINGS
B’mouth
Neto________________7
A Smith
Stephens .......................... 6
Senesi____________________6
Kelly_____________________7
Ouattara______________ ..8
Lerma___..................7
Billing___________________7
Anthony____________.......6
Rothwell__________________7
Solanke_________________..7
SUBSTITUTES
Christie
(for Billing, 71)_________6
Fredericks
(for Smith, 80)___________6
Cook
(for Lerma, 80)___________6
Vina
(for Anthony, 88)_________6
Semenyo
for Solanke, 88)__________6
NEXT GAME
v Aston Villa (A) ..Mar 18
Liverpool
Alisson________________6
Alexander-Arnold.
Diogo
erries
assure
d the
iff.
net by
erted
*nder
2_________Shots on target________6
3.........Shots off target_______8
0__________Blocked shots__________1
3............Comers..............8
7____________Fouls...............9
2____________Offsides____________4
65_______Passing success %______84
11____________Tackles___________19
55.........Tackles won %........79
31_________Possession %_________69
2H° 10
the results was reward not j ust for
this game, but for performances
he felt deserved more -
particularly their dramatic late
loss at Arsenal a week before.
He said: “We deserved it and
I’m just pleased for the boys.
That’s no fluke today.
Performances have been
really good in recent games
against top opposition.
“We needed to find a way
today to make sure the fine
margins go our way. With
the stuff that’s gone our way
today, we deserved F CL.
something.
Tm sure we’ll win again
and I’m sure will lose again
but it’s a big three points for
us. To suffer the late goal
against Arsenal and then
show everybody what
they’re made of is
fantastic."
O’Neil also put
Wales international
David Brooks on the
bench - more than 500 days
since he was diagnosed with
Hodgkins Lymphoma.
“I felt privileged to even be able
to tell him. I was desperate to get
him on but unfortunately the
game didn’t go that way? he said.
piles on
pounds
BRISTOL CITY..........2
Weimann 58. Scott 81
BLACKPOOL.........!...0
By RICHARD LATHAM
Konate_________________6
Van Dijk...............6
Robertson______________6
Elliott________________6
Fabinho________________6
Bajcetic_______________5
Salah..................5
Gakpo................. 6
Nunez................. 5
SUBSTITUTES
Milner
(for Alexander-Arnold, 65)._ 7
Jota
(for Elliott, 46)______7
Firminho
(for Nunez, 65)________6
Henderson
(for Fabinho, 65)______6
Carvalho
(for Bajcetic, 87)_____6
NEXT GAME
v Real Madrid (A).... Weds
REF: John Brooks 8
STAR MAN
Dango Ouattara -
Stretched Liverpool to
breaking point with his
energy and fine assist.
NIGEL PEARSON talked of
placing a £25million-plus price
tag on Alex Scott after the
highly-rated youngster netted
the clinching goal against
relegation-threatened
Blackpool.
Midfielder Scott fired low
past Chris Maxwell on 81
minutes after a cross from
Harry Cornick was cleared
into his path 12 yards out.
That built on Andi
Weimann's superb left-footed
strike from outside the box on
58 minutes, which found the
top corner and gave Pearson's
team three well deserved
home points.
Scott has been attracting
the attention of top Premier
League clubs, although
Pearson insisted there had
been no firm bids.
He said: "If an offer is made
for Alex it will need to be
more than £25m in today's
market.
"I believe he will play for
England one day. I thought
that when I first saw him in a
training session and nothing
since has changed my mind.”
Blackpool’s fears of the
drop increased with a
disappointing display, which
began by losing Gary Madine
to a knee injury that resulted
from a first-minute challenge.
The visitors had the best
first-half chance when Jerry
Yates shot wide, but were
generally outplayed.
Boss Mick McCarthy said:
"It didn’t help losing Gary to
injury so early.
"He has a brace on his knee
and we can only hope it isn't
serious. It was a poor
performance and I told the
lads we had let out fans down.
"We were well beaten and it
wasn't good enough.”
BRISTOL CITY: O'Leary 7; Tanner 7, Vyner
6. Pring 7. Dasilva 7; Scott 8. King 7 (Taylor-
Clarke (83) 6), Mehmeti 7; Sykes 7 (Cornick
(67) 6). Wells 7 (Bell (90) 5), Weimann 9
BLACKPOOL: Maxwell 7; Gabriel 7. Nelson
7, Thomiley 7, Thompson 7; Bowler 6,
Hamilton (68) 6). Connolly 6, Madine 5
(Rogers (6) 6), Carey 6, Garbutt 5 (Dougall
(68) 6); Yates 5
STAR MAN: Andreas Weimann - The game's
most lively attacker and scorer of a superb
goal to break the deadlock.
REF: Darren Bond 8
TP1ST
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GARY ROWETT owed a vital
win that took Millwall back
into the top six to a dead-
eyed German penalty-taker.
Andreas Voglsammer
smashed home a first-half
spot-kick after Reading
keeper Joe Lumley brought
down Zian Flemming right
on the edge of the area.
England have suffered in
international competition at
the hands of the 31-year-old
midfielder's compatriots in
shootouts.
And Rowett said: "The
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MILLWALL..........2... 1
Voglsammer 11 (pen)
By HECTOR NUNNS
penalty was so close to the
line, but Vogey took it and it
was a brilliant finish and
impossible to save.
"He said to me
afterwards, Tm German,
what do you expect - of
course I'm going to score!'
"A bit of banter from him,
and we have waited a long
time for one."
The winner came after
just 11 minutes. Flemming
benefited from a mistake by
Naby Sarr, and he was then
fouled taking the ball wide
of Lumley.
Referee Michael
Salisbury gave the penalty,
even though bafflingly he
failed to hand Lumley even
a yellow card.
Despite crosses lumped
in the general direction of
Andy Carroll, Reading could
scruffy game because
that's the way Millwall make
it. The referee was very
poor, it was stop-start all
match."
READING: Lumley 5: Holmes 6. Dann
6 (Moore (46) 6), Sarr 5; Yiadom6
(Mbengue (46) 6). Ince 5, Hendrick 6,
McIntyre 6 (Azeez (78) 6), Guinness-
Walker 5 (Casadei (60) ft S Long 6
(Joao (60) 6). Carroll 6
MILLWALL: G Long 7; McNamara 7,
Cooper 8. Cresswell 8, Wallace 7; Saville
7. Leonard 7: Honeyman 6 (Hutchinson
(78) 6), Flemming 7, Voglsammer 7
(Burke (78) 6); Bradshaw 7
STAR MAN: Jake Cooper - Heroic
leader in a terrific Millwall defensive
display preserving an early lead.
REF: Michael Salisbury 4
POINT OF VIEW:
McNeil's looking
up after securing
Toffees victory
PUT IT
McNeil mover.
TPIST
BRENTFORD.—О
This was Everton’s
first league victory
against Brentford
since a 6-1 win in
February 1954.
Gyokeres given
one Hull of a time
Bl
Toffees a 'step' closer
BRIGHT AND
EARLY: Dwight
McNeil scores
after just
35 seconds
MATCH STATS
Shots on target..
Shots off target.
...Blocked shots _
____Comers_______
________________Fouls___________
________________Offsides_
63_______Passing success %_______78
25_____________Tackles__________10
56_________Tackles won %______80
33..........Possession %______67
20
LET down by their lofty
neighbours, Everton took
matters into their own hands
to bounce out of the bottom
three.
By John Richardson
AT GOODISON PARK
It took just 35 seconds for Sean
Dyche’s side to deliver their
snarling response to Liverpool's
failure to send Bournemouth
packing on the south coast
The home side came hurtling
out of the blocks and the earliest-
ever winning goal in their history
eased growing relegation anxiety
around the place.
A delighted Dyche said: “This
i is another step (to safety) and
I there are plenty more steps to
1 go-
“We should have gone in at
В half time further in front with
F the chances we created.
In the second half, fair play to
them. It got nervy and we gave
them too many chances but you
have to find ways of winning
football matches.”
It was definitely back into the
trenches as Brentford eventually
woke up from their early
slumbers to lay siege to Jordan
Pickford s goal in a frenzied finale.
Everton hung on and brought to
an end the Bees’ impressive
sequence of 12 unbeaten Premier
League games which had them
dreaming of European football.
Coincidently, their longest ever
unbeaten run of 14 matches back
in 1936 was also ended by
Everton.
Fast forward to the present day
and in the lightning start Demarai
Gray found Abdoulaye Doucoure,
and the midfielder calmly moved
forward to set up Dwight McNeil
who produced an outstanding
finish from just inside the area for
his first goal since October.
Goodison couldn’t believe
what they had witnessed. The old
place was rocking before some
fans had arrived in their seats.
And if the Toffees had taken a
glut of first-half chances they
would have been out of sight at
the interval, Amadou Onana the
biggest culprit, hooking over a
gaping goal.
An unusually shaky David Raya
was almost caught out by a
Michael Keane header but made
amends with excellent stops in
the space of 60 seconds from
Gray and Alex Iwobi while VAR
adjudged Gray’s 42nd-minute
opportunist finish in a hectic
scramble had been via an arm.
Within two minutes of the
restart Pickford was forced to
come to the rescue with a
stunning save to keep out Rico
Henry’s diving header.
Goal hero McNeil became goal
saviour in the 69th minute,
clearing off the line from Ethan
Pinnock, while Ivan Toney’s free-
kick from the edge of the area
deflected wide off the wall.
Substitute Kevin Schade
headed wide while Raya’s last-
gasp attempted heroics from an
added-time corner from Saman
Ghoddos ended with a header
which flew just wide.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank
said: “It doesn’t help losing a goal
after 35 seconds. But we created
enough chances to score.
“We have to be so determined
and willing to bounce back and
start another run.”
Brentford suffered
only their fifth Premier
League defeat of the
season and their first
since October.
RATINGS
Everton
Pickford_____________7
Coleman______________7
Keane..______________7
Tarkowski____________7
Godfrey______________7
Iwobi........~.......6
Doucoure......._.....7
Gueye----------------6
Onana________________7
McNeil_______________8
Gray_________________7
SUBSTITUTES
Davies
(for Onana, 80)______6
Gray
(for Maupay, 86).....6
Mykolenko
(for Iwobi, 90) _____6
NEXT GAME
v Chelsea (A)___Mar 18
Brentford
Raya_________________6
Hickey_______________6
Pinnock..............7
Mee__________________7
Henry................................ 7
Janelt_______________6
Norgaard_____________6
Jensen_______________6
Mbeumo _____________ 7
Toney________________6
Damsgaard____________6
SUBSTITUTES
Dasilva
(for Damsgaard, 62)..6
Schade
(for Jensen, 62).......6
Wissa
(for Hickey, 74).....6
Onyeka
(for Norgaard, 74).....6
NEXT GAME
v S’hampton (A)...Weds
REF: Simon Hooper 7
STAR MAN
Dwight McNeil - A
hero at both ends of
the pitch with an early
goal and later a timely
goal-line clearance.
MARK ROBINS called for
referees to offer better
protection to his star striker
Viktor Gyokeres after
seeing his Coventry side
frustrated.
The Sky Blues’ 17-goal
star man was superbly
marshalled by the Hull
defence but responded by
setting up Matty Godden to
cancel out Oscar
Estupinan's opener.
Robins, though, was
unhappy with Gyokeres’
treatment
He said: "Viktor should
get more protection. He has
to learn to avoid that
“Referees have to see it.
He’s been getting unfair
punishment off the ball.
They are smashing him
from side to side.
“They need to see it.
They were hindering his
movement.”
Opposite number Liam
Rosenior said: "I love Viktor,
I worked with him but I was
not going to tell my players
to let him have the ball and
have a nice game.
"Viktor is the best striker
in the league by far. I like
Mark but I’d much rather
teams were not happy that
we were physical than not.”
Benjamin Tetteh picked
up a first-half injury for the
Cannon fires to
down Bluebirds
IT took a bit of magic from
Tom Cannon to break the
often dire deadlock of this
battle of the low scorers.
The 2O-year-old Everton
loanee had only scored
one goal out of Preston's
season tally of just 31
before his super strike.
Cannon took delivery of
a well-placed through pass
from Greg Cunningham to
then control beautifully.
He kept his cool and
steadied himself before
unleashing a powerful
right-foot shot that beat
keeper Jak Alnick.
And as late sub Ched
Evans scored his eighth of
the season, there was
more drama as Cardiff
keeper Alnick was
red-carded for a reckless
tackle on Cannon - out of
his area and in added-on
time.
On came sub keeper
Rohan Luthra, who
managed to save Evans*
shot, but could do nothing
to stop him hitting home
the rebound.
It was the second game
running when Cardiff had
their keeper sent off, last
week's being Ryan Allsop
late on at Bristol City.
Bluebirds boss Sabri
Lamouchi admitted: *Tm
COVENTRY..............1
Godden 71
HUH....................1
Estupinan 52
By IAN BAKER
Tigers with Estupinan
coming on in his place.
And it was the
Colombian, scorer of a
hat-trick in the earlier
fixture this season, who
netted into the top corner
seven minutes into the
second half after Ryan
Howley had given the ball
away.
Fellow sub Malcolm
Ebiowei missed a great
chance to seal things
before Coventry came
roaring back.
Gyokeres eventually got
the better of the Hull
defence to cross from the
left for Godden to score his
fifth of the campaign.
COVENTRY: Wilson 7: McNally 6,
McFadzean 6 (Maguire (64) 6). Doyle
6. Dabo 6 (Burroughs (74) 6), Eccles
6. Hamer 6, Bidwell 6 (Wil son-Esbrand
(74) 6): Howley 6 (Norton-Cuffу (64) 6);
Gyokeres 7, Godden 7
HULL: Darlow 7: Coyle7. Jones 7.
McLoughlin 7. Elder 6; Simons 6
(Ebiowei (46) 6), Seri 7 (Traore (81)
6); Tufan 6 (Docherty (81) 6). Pel kas 6
(Sayyadmanesh (60) 6). Slater 6; Tetteh
5 (Estupinan (22) 7)
STAR MAN: Lewie Coyl. His bravery
summed-up a strong defensive show.
REF: Josh Smith 7
PRESTON............2
Cannon 68, Evans 90
CARDIFF..........'...0
By LINDSAY SUTTON
very disappointed. I've
never before had two
keepers sent off in two
consecutive matches.
"It was unbelievable, but
this was our fault A back
pass here put our keeper
under pressure.
"We had our chances,
but then we conceded
those two goals. Mistakes
let us down."
Preston manager Ryan
Lowe said: "Tom Cannon’s
goal was sublime. Greg
Cunningham's through ball
was excellent
"He had another chance
earlier, but he fluffed that
one. Ched Evans showed
great reaction for his late
strike."
PRESTON: Woodman 6; Storey, Diabe
5, Cunningham 6; Whiteman 6; Potts 6,
Johnson 7 (Onomah (83) 4), Fernandez
5 (Ledson (83) 4), Woodburn 6 (Evans
(60) 6): Parrot 6 (Brady (60) 6). Cannon 8
CARDIFF: Alnick 6 (Luthra (90)3); Ng
6. McGuiness 6, Kipre 6; Philogene 5.
Wintie 5. Rinomhota 5 (Harris (72) 5).
Sawyers 6.0’Dowde 5; Kaba 7 (Ojo (64)
5). Etete 6
STAR MAN: Tom Cannon - Everton
loanee broke the deadlock with a
fine goal.
REF: David Webb 7
TPIST
STOKED: The Black Cats were thumped
LEEDS.............2 BRIGHTON..........zJH
BAMFORD 40, HARRISON 78 > MAC ALLISTER 33, HARRISON 61 (0G) I .fa
Play-offs still
in our sights,
say injury-hit
Black Cats
NORWICHvSUNDERLAND
> Carrow Road, Today, Noon, Sky Sports
By SIMON BIRD
TONY MOWBRAY insists Sunderland's
play-off hopes are not a "write off" as they
face four promotion rivals this month.
The injury-hit Mackems are looking to
recover from a 5-1 thrashing by Stoke last
weekend as they visit Norwich, six points
ahead of them in the Championship.
They are on a run of three defeats, with
Sheffield United, Luton and runaway
leaders Burnley up next.
Mowbray said: "No one is writing it off. If
we win the next four....
"Last weekend was not the norm, and I
don’t see us losing heavily like that every
week. We have been in every game
conclusively and that won’t change.
"I am sure the team will be competitive
in all the remaining fixtures.”
Sunderland were not expecting a play-off
challenge in their first season back in the
second tier for four years.
Instead they want consolidation and
progress, and have been unlucky to lose
main striker Ross Stewart for so long.
Mowbray (below) added: “The team isn’t
as strong as we'd hoped for in the second
half of the season because of injuries.
"We are playing the next four games
against the top six. Now is not the time to
put some real inexperience into the team.
But the games after that, maybe.
“We might have to drop the odd one into
the situation but we won’t damage young
players. But players on the bench now will
get starts and we will see how they look for
next year.
"The narrative is, if we fall away you will
see lots of young players in. The difference
between finishing 10th and 16th, if it means
giving them game time, we'd probably do
that.
"But we have to build them in."
On Norwich he added: "I have watched
Norwich and studied Norwich, they build up
slowly, put their players into attacking
positions and ask
questions of your
defence. ,
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team, an all >
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Leeds Brighton
Shots on target
Shots off target
Blocked shots
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Yellow cards
Red cards
Passing success %
Tackles
Tackles won %
Possession %
WHAM BAM:
Patrick Bamford
fires home to
make it 1-1
GOOD HARR DAY
Harrison hits stunner to rescue Gracia's strugglers
MATCH STATS
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JACK HARRISON went from
despair to pure joy at Eiland
Road after a stunning equaliser
- but Leeds are still in big
trouble.
The winger was credited with an
own goal after getting the final
touch as Brighton went 2-1 ahead
with an hour gone.
But with time running out he
atoned with a fabulous curling
leveller to give Leeds fans some
hope after Javi Gracia’s side dropped
to second bottom in the table.
Former hero Lucas Radebe, a
guest of the club yesterday, knew
better days when Leeds were title
contenders and Champions League
semi-finalists.
But although these are nervy
I times for the Yorkshire giants
I Radebe, a defensive warrior in his
В day, can’t deny Leeds are fighting
В hard for their new boss after twice
В coming from behind.
В Gracia said: “We were looking for
1 three points but after a game when
Li we were twice behind a draw is OK
By Steve Bates
AT EILAND ROAD
against a very good team.
“I don’t like to look at the table
too much, I prefer to focus on the
next game. That’s the only way to
achieve our aims."
After Bournemouth’s surprise
lunchtime win over
Liverpool had pushed
Leeds into the drop
zone the need for
victory was
paramount - but it
wasn’t to be.
Leeds tried to feed
off Eiland Road’s early
energy but it soon became
clear Brighton’s technically-
gifted stars, led by Alexis Mac
Allister (above) were dangerous.
With Brighton on top it was no
surprise they took a 33rd-minute
lead. Pascal Gross cleverly guided
a cross to the far post and Kaoru
Mitoma out-jumped Luke Ayling to
put the ball on a plate for a simple
Mac Allister header.
Boos cascaded down from Leeds
fans with Brighton in control but
the Seagulls then chucked away all
their good work.
Joel Veltman lost the ball,
Harrison streaked away and
crossed to Bamford who saw his
shot flick off Adam Webster’s boot
and over keeper Jason Steele
before going in off the bar.
It was only his second
league goal of an
injury-hit season and
it galvanised the home
crowd.
Brighton should
have been in front at half
time but Mac Allister shot
wide from inside the box after
a super Mitoma pass.
After the restart Leeds made the
early running but Steele saved from
Brenden Aaronson and Ayling
blazed a great chance high over.
Brighton took full advantage
with Harrison unluckily turning the
ball past Ilian Meslier at the far post
as Solly March lunged onto to a
Mitoma cross which pinballed
around the area.
Sub Danny Welbeck missed a
great chance to kill the game,
shooting high over soon after
coming on - and Harrison made
them pay with his equaliser after a
short Wilfried Gnonto corner.
Brighton complained two balls
were on the pitch as the corner was
taken but referee Paul Tierney
ignored protests.
Albion boss Roberto de Zerbi
said: “Two balls were on the pitch
but we had to be more
concentrated in that part of the
game. We had many chances to kill
the game before that"
LEEDS: Meslier 6; Ay ling 6. Koch 6, Wober 7. Firpo 6;
Adams 6, Roca 5 (McKennie (66) 5): Summerville 5
(Gnonto (66) 6), Aaronson 6 (Rutter (84) 6). Harrison
8 (Sini sterra (90) 5); Bamford 7 (Rodrigo (66) 5)
BRIGHTON: Steele 6; Veltman 5. Webster 6 (Van
Hecke (87) 5), Dunk 6, Estupinan 7; Gross 7. Caicedo
7: March 7. MacAllister 7. Mitoma 7; Ferguson 6
(Welbeck (66) 5)
STAR MAN: Jack Harrison - Scored brilliant
equaliser after assist for Bamford goal.
REF: Paul Tierney 6
TP1ST
SHEFF UTD...0 LUT0N....1
> MORRIS 53
Show Blues no fear in title
clash Skinner tells Devils
13
Brighton have failed to win
in their last six.
Elsewhere, Tottenham
will travel to Liverpool,
Leicester will aim to jump
off the foot of the table
MANCHESTER UNITED
boss Marc Skinner
highlighted the need for his
side to play with "no fear"
against title rivals Chelsea
in the Women's Super
League today.
The top two will face off
in a blockbuster encounter
which could go a long way
in determining who wins
the title at the end of the
season.
Chelsea ran out 3-1
winners the last time the
two sides met in the league
WSL ROUND-UP
in November, handing the
Red Devils their only league
defeat this season and
another win this weekend
could see them jump above
United, who currently sit
top of the table.
Skinner knows the size of
the task they have in front
of them but wants his side
to be fearless.
He said: "What we must
do is play with no fear.
'Til be very clear when I
speak to the girls and they
know this. When we go into
this game, we will be ready,
we will be high energy and
will be looking to impose
ourselves on the game as
much as we possibly can."
Five other matches are
set to go ahead this
afternoon, including in-form
Manchester City travelling
to struggling Brighton.
City have not lost since
November and ran out 3-1
winners the last time the
two sides met, while
when they entertain
Everton, West Ham host
Aston Villa and, in the late
kick-off, Jonas Eidevall's
Arsenal will play host to
Reading at Meadow Park.
The sides met earlier in
the season when Stina
Blackstenius scored the
only goal of a close affair as
they ran out 1-0 winners.
And the Gunners come
into this one fresh off the
back of their League Cup
triumph last week while
Reading aim to avoid a fifth
successive loss.
A few are great and deserve
respect. But Duncan
Edwards was the greatest’
SIR BOBBY CHARLTON
HECK RAP AS BLADES STUMBLE
*A fitting
book for a
legend of this
magnitude.
Magnificently
told'
DANIEL TAYLOR,
THE ATHLETIC
PAUL HECKINGBOTTOM urged
his team to shake things up after
the gap between Sheffield United
and Middlesbrough was cut to
four points.
Carlton Morris scored his 15th goal
of the season when he swept home
Elijah Adebayds low cross after he
had all too easily shrugged off the
Blades defence.
It was enough to fire Luton to
fourth as they set a new club record
of 10 away wins in a second-tier
season.
But it was another stutter by the
hosts who laboured throughout,
although John Egan and Oli McBurnie
threatened late on.
It was a fourth defeat in six league
games for Sheffield United and boss
Heckingbottom said: “In the next 10
games we’ve got to play with a
freedom and risk the ball and be the
ones forcing the issue because that’s
what’s got us in this position.
“But we can control our
performance and our intent"
There was little in the way of
attacking quality in the first half with
Jayden Bogle and Anel Ahmedhodzic
both comfortably thwarted by Luton
keeper Ethan Horvath. It was no more
By Liz Byrne
AT BRAMAH LANE
than Luton deserved when they went
ahead and Cauley Woodrow almost
doubled the lead late on, only for his
shot to flash beyond the far post
They moved to within seven points
of the Blades although boss Rob
Edwards refused to be drawn on
whether they were in the hunt for
automatic promotion.
He said: “That’s not for me to say
- that’s for you lot
“We’re just working really hard
every single day and we want to be in
that mix with five games to go -
whatever mix that is, well see.
“We are doing well and we’re
enjoying it but we’ve got another
massive game on Wednesday now
and that’s all I can think about.”
SHEFFIELD UNITED: Foderinqham 6; Ahmedhodzic 6,
Egan 6, Robinson 6 (McAtee (70) 6): Bogle 6, Berge 6,
Norwood 6 (Doyle (70) 6), Fleck 6 (Sharp (59) 6). Lowe 6;
Ndiaye 6, McBurnie 6
LUTON: Horvath 7; Osho 7, Lockyer 7, Bell 7; Orameh
6. Nakamba 6, Campbell 7, Mpanzu 6 (Berry (26) 6);
Onyedinma 7 (Bradley (85) 5); Morris 7 (Woodrow (76)
6). Adebayo7
STAR MAN: Carlton Morris - took his solitary chance
well to secure a vital win for the Hatters.
REFEREE: Leigh Doughty 7
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Premier League
Sweeney
not sweet
Hartlepool 1 Northampton 1
ANTONY SWEENEY was
disappointed Hartlepool
could not hold on for victory
as they battle to stay in the
EFL. Cobblers boss Jon
Brady raged afterwards that
Pools' opening goal scored by
Josh Umerah was not ruled
out for offside eight minutes
before half-time.
Brady was also angry
referee Thomas Kirk did not
send Hartlepool defender
Euan Murray off after he
wiped out Jack Sowerby in
the second half.
But Northampton did claim
a point in their push to secure
promotion courtesy of Sam
JIM BENTLEY felt Rochdale
displayed naivety at Grimsby.
On-loan Grimsby striker
George Lloyd got in behind the
home defence to settle the
game. It left Rochdale five
points from safety and rooted
to the bottom of the table.
Boss Bentley said: "We
haven't dealt with one moment
in the game. "We made them
aware, ‘Lloyd in behind, Lloyd in
behind’. But the one time
nobody has checked his run, it
STEVE EVANS hailed Josh
March and Stevenage’s fitness
staff after the January
signing's brace earned victory.
"We've kept working with him
physically and it's paid off,” said
Barrow 0 Sutton 0
PETE WILD was
frustrated after
Barrow’s draw
with Sutton.
Boss Wild said:
"Sutton are the form
team in the league
and we looked really
comfortable.
"We couldn't get
the ball over the line
but that wasn't for
the want of trying."
Sutton boss Matt
Gray said: "I was
pleased we got a
clean sheet, I was
desperate for that."
C'chester 0 St'port 1
DAVE CHALLINOR
hailed his side for
earning a first win
in four games.
Kyle Wootton's
first-half header
sealed victory.
Challinor said:
"It was a good
performance on a
tough pitch. It took
a big effort to get
those three points."
New Colchester
boss Ben Garner
said: "We deserved a
point which would
have been fair."
sky bet
LEAGUE TWO |@ EFL )
Hoskins’ headed equaliser with
nine minutes remaining.
Hartlepool first-team coach
Sweeney said: "We have 10
games now in a little mini
season. "I'm disappointed
we didn't hold on. Come the
end of the season hopefully it
will be a valuable point.’’
Grimsby 1 Rochdale 0
was too easy for him to go
through. From that moment
there was a lot of huff and puff.
"But if you give them a leg
up, then it’s a carnival
atmosphere. It allows them to
turn to the dark arts.
"We have fallen into the trap
so many times."
Grimsby coach Ben Davies
said: "We looked a little bit
leggy, but we upped things."
Stevenage 3 Walsall 1
Evans. "I said, ‘Thank you* to
the staff as well because
they've got players up to
speed.” Luke Norris scored
BOSS Danny Schofield
was delighted for
Doncaster striker George
Miller after he scored his
first goal in 17 games in
the win over AFC
Wimbledon.
Miller sealed the
comeback after Harrison
Biggins had cancelled
out Josh Davison's
opener. "He took it really
well," Schofield said.
"It was a well-worked
free-kick and George got
good contact and
finished it nicely. That'll
do him the world of
good." Victory moved
Rovers within six points
of the play-off places.
NEIL HARRIS is not
celebrating safety just
yet after Gillingham
coasted to victory.
The Gills are now
nine points clear of the
relegation zone thanks
to goals from Shaun
Williams and Conor
Masterson.
Harris’ side have
lost just twice in 12
matches since
mid-January, winning
five out of six home
matches in that time.
He said: "It'll be nice
to get over the
40-point barrier soon
but we’ve got 11 games
D'caster 2 Wimb'don 1
Schofield said: “The lads
showed great character."
Visiting manager
Johnnie Jackson refused
to be too downbeat
despite a fourth straight
loss. He said: "It was
another tight game. We
were not at our best in
the first half, but we were
the dominant team in the
second. We created four
or five good chances but
did not put them away.
"Their keeper was the
busier one and their
centre-half won man of
the match which tells the
story of the game."
GiU'ham 2 Гтеге 0
to go - that's a quarter
of a season still.
"We were on
14 points at the
halfway stage. It’s
embarrassing looking
back and seeing that
but it shows how far
we've come."
Tranmere boss
Micky Mellon said:
"You would expect
more from a Tranmere
team - that wasn't a
Tranmere team. We’re
short of where we
should be. It was
very frustrating."
Northampton boss Brady was
frustrated after witnessing the
decisions he disagreed with.
Brady said: "The first goal
was completely offside. It was
so disappointing from the
officials. And for their player to
forearm smash Jack Sowerby in
the eye, he had to come off.”
Crawley 3 Harrogatel
SCOTT LINDSEY felt Crawley's
display was their best under him
as they ended a six-match losing
streak. Aramide Oteh’s brace and
another from Jordon Mutch
sealed victory over Harrogate,
who had Toby Sims sent off late
on before Anthony O'Connor
netted a consolation.
Lindsey said: “It was the best
performance since I arrived."
Harrogate manager Simon
Weaver said: "We need to fight."
Boro's second and while Manny
Monthe pulled one back, Walsall
boss Michael Flynn admitted:
"I’ll hold my hands up as well
but they’ve got to give me more
than they did first half."
Newport! Bradford!
GRAHAM
COUGH LAN cursed
Newport’s luck after
Bradford keeper
Harry Lewis
escaped with a
yellow card for
handling outside
his area. Andy Cook
put the visitors
ahead before Liam
Ridehalgh's own
goal earned a draw.
Coughlan said:
"How the ref came
to that conclusion...
the law is pretty
simple and basic.”
Swindon! Carlisle 2
PAUL SIMPSON had
settled for a draw at
Swindon before
Ryan Edmondson's
stoppage-time
winner for Carlisle.
Edmondson
scored after Jack
Armer's goal had
been cancelled out
by Tyrese Shade.
Simpson said:
“Wow, what a
fantastic result.”
Swindon's Jody
Morris said: “We’ve
shot ourselves
in the foot.”
EUROPEAN RESULTS
SPAIN - Celta Vigo3. Rayo Vallecaioft
Elche 1. Valladolid I; Real Madrid 3, Espanyol
1: Valencia L. Osasuna L TODAY - Athletic
Bifcao v Barcelona; Mallorca v Real Sode-
dad; Sevilla v Almeria; Villarreal v Real Betis.
P W D I F A Pts
Barcelona 24 20 2 2 46 8 62
Real Madrid 25 IT 5 3 50 19 56
At Madrid 24 13 6 5 38 19 45
Sxiedad 24 13 5 6 32 23 44
Real Betis 24 12 5 T 32 25 41
Villarreal 24 П 4 9 28 23 3T
Valecano 24 9 8 7 29 25 35
Osasnaa 24 9 7 8 22 23 34
AthBifeao 24 9 6 9 33 26 33
Nalorca 24 9 4 П 21 25 31
Girona 24 8 6 Ю 38 38 30
Celta Vi«o 24 1 1 Ю 26 34 28
Real Valladolid 25 8 4 13 19 35 28
Espanyol 25 6 9 Ю 31 39 27
Cadiz 25 6 9 Ю 20 37 27
Getafe 25 6 8 П 25 34 26
Almeria 24 7 4 13 28 42 25
Sevilla 24 6 7 H 27 39 25
Valencia 24 6 5 13 27 28 23
ache 25 2 7 16 19 49 13
ITALY - Bologna L Lazio L Empoli 0,
Udiiese 1; Napoli 2. Atalanta 0. TODAY - Cre-
monese v Fiorentina; Juventus v Sampdo-
ria; Lecce v Torino; Roma v Sassuolo; Verona
vMonza
Napoli P 26 W 22 D 2 I 2 F 60 A 16 Pts 68
Inter Milan 26 16 2 8 47 30 50
Lazio 25 14 6 5 41 19 48
AS Iona a И 5 6 32 21 47
AC Milan 25 M 5 6 42 32 47
Atalanta 26 12 6 8 42 30 42
Jnvente a 15 5 5 40 20 35
Bolopa 25 Ю 5 Ю 31 34 35
Udnese a 8 n 7 34 30 35
lorino 25 9 7 9 27 29 34
Monza 25 9 5 II 30 35 32
Fiorentina 25 8 7 Ю 29 31 31
Sasaoio 25 8 6 П 30 37 30
Enpoli 26 6 Ю Ю 23 34 28
Lecce 25 6 9 Ю 24 29 27
Salernitana 25 6 7 12 28 44 25
Spezia 26 5 9 12 23 42 24
Verona a 4 6 15 20 37 №
Sampdoria 25 2 6 17 П 39 12
Cremonese 25 1 9 15 21 46 12
EVERTON 1 BRENTFORD 0
McNeill
HT:1-0
FRANCE - Auxerre Q Rennes 0; Brest
L PSG L TODAY - AC Ajaccio v Montpelier
Angers v Toulouse; Clermont foot v Lens;
Lorient v Troyes; Marseille v Strasbourg: Mo-
naco v Reims; Nantes v Nice.
P W 0 L F A Pts
PSG 26 20 3 3 66 25 63
Marseille 26 17 4 5 49 25 55
Monaco 26 15 6 5 55 36 51
Lens 26 И 9 3 40 21 51
Rennes 27 И 5 8 45 29 47
LiBe 27 13 7 7 49 36 46
Nice 26 П 9 6 34 22 42
Lyon 27 И 7 9 42 31 40
Reins 26 9 13 4 34 26 40
Lorient 26 H 7 8 38 36 40
Clermont Font 26 9 7 Ю 26 34 34
Torionse 26 9 5 12 41 46 32
Montpellier 26 9 3 14 41 46 30
Nantes 26 6 Ю Ю 27 34 28
Brest 26 5 8 13 27 42 23
Auerre 27 5 8 M 23 49 23
Strasbonnj 26 4 Ю 12 30 44 22
AC Ajaccio 26 6 3 17 20 47 21
Troyes 26 4 8 14 36 57 20
Angers 26 2 4 20 21 58 Ю
Vinicius sees Real
close gap on Barca
VINICIUS JUNIOR sparked
Real Madrid's 3-1 comeback
over Espanyol yesterday -
their first La Liga win in
three matches.
Second-placed Real cut
the gap on Barcelona to six
points but the leaders visit
Atletico Bilbao tonight
ahead of next weekend’s El
Clasico at the Nou Camp.
Joselu Mato put Espanyol
ahead at the
Bemabeu in the
eighth minute.
But Vinicius
(right) equalised
before Eder
Militao headed
Madrid in front and
substitute Marco
Asensio added a third goal
in stoppage time.
In the Bundesliga, Bayern
Munich beat Augsburg 5-3 -
and then found themselves
with a two-point lead at the
top after Borussia
Dortmund drew 2-2 away at
GERMANY - Bayern Munich 5. Augs-
burg 3t Eintracht Frankfurt 1, Stuttgart t
Hertha Berlin I Mainz t RB Leipzig 3, Borus-
sia M'gladbach 0; Schalke 04 2, Borussia
Dortmund 2. TODAY • Freiburg v Hoffenhe-
im; Werder Bremen v Bayer Leverkusen;
Wolfsburg v Union Bertn.
Pill F A Pts
Bayern Much 24 15 7 2 71 25 52
В Dortmund 24 16 2 6 49 30 50
RBleipav 24 13 6 5 49 29 4
Union Berln 23 13 5 5 35 27 44
P W D L F A GO Pts
Arsenal 26 20 3 3 59 25 34 63
Man City 27 19 4 4 67 25 42 61
Man Utd 25 15 4 6 41 35 6 49
Tottenham 27 15 3 9 49 37 12 48
Liverpool 26 12 6 8 47 29 18 42
Newcastle M 10 11 3 35 17 18 41
Brighton 24 fl 6 7 45 31 14 39
Fulham 26 fl 6 9 38 34 4 39
Brentford 25 9 11 5 40 33 7 38
Chelsea 26 10 7 9 27 26 1 37
Aston Villa 25 10 4 11 31 38 -7 34
Crystal Pal 26 6 9 11 21 33 •12 27
Wolves 26 7 6 13 19 35 -16 27
Nottm F 26 6 8 12 21 47 -26 26
Everton 27 6 7 14 20 38 -18 25
Leicester 26 7 3 16 37 46 -9 24
Bournemouth 26 6 6 14 25 51 26 24
West Ham 25 6 5 14 23 33 -10 23
Leeds 26 5 8 13 31 42 •11 23
Southamptn 25 6 3 16 20 41 -21 21
BOURNEMOUTH! LIVERPOOL 0
Billing 28
HT: 1-0 Att; 10.536
CRYSTAL PAL 0 MAN CITY 1
Haaland 78 (pen)
HT:0-O
Freiburg 23 12 1 > 5 35 32 42
Em Frankfort 24 П i 1 6 46 34 40
Mainz 24 10 I i 8 39 35 36
VfLWolfsbnrg 23 9 i f 7 42 31 34
В Leverkusen 23 9 ‘ 1 10 40 37 31
BM'tfadbach 24 8 1 i 10 38 42 30
W Bremen 23 9 : ) П 35 43 30
Cologne 24 6 < ) 9 32 38 27
Augsbvg 24 8 : ) 13 31 44 27
VfL Bochum 24 7 1 16 26 56 22
Hertha Berlin 24 5 1 > 13 29 45 21
Stmttpart 24 4 1 ! В 29 41 20
Schalke B4 24 4 1 1 В 20 44 20
Hoffenheim 23 5 - 1 14 29 42 19
HOLLAND - AZ L. Groningen U Emmen
2. Excelsior 0; fortune Sittarti L Twente L;
Sparta L Vitesse L TODAY - Feyenoord v
VOIendam; Heerenveen v Ajax; NEC v Utre-
cht; PSVvCambuir.
P W D L F A Pts
Feyenoord 24 16 7 I 54 22 55
Ajax 24 15 7 2 66 23 52
UAlkmaar 24 15 5 4 50 28 50
PSV Eindhoven 24 15 4 5 61 28 49
Twente 24 П 8 5 39 21 41
Spa Rotterdam 24 11 7 6 36 26 40
Utrecht 24 Ю 7 7 39 37 37
RKC Waalwijk 24 8 8 8 39 37 32
Heerenveen 24 8 7 9 27 32 31
NEC Mjmegen 24 6 12 6 30 23 30
FortmaSRtard 24 8 5 П 31 41 29
Go Ahead Eagles 24 6 8 10 34 43 26
Vitesse 24 5 8 H 28 42 23
Volendan 24 6 5 13 28 53 23
Emmen 25 4 9 12 23 43 21
Excelsior 25 6 2 17 21 60 20
Groningen 24 4 5 15 25 49 17
Cambuur 24 4 4 16 17 40 16
LEEDS 2 BRIGHTON 2
Bamford 40 HacAISsterM
Harrison 78 Harrison 61 (og)
HT: 1-1 Aft; 36,471
LEICESTER 1 CHELSEA 3
Daka 39 Chilwell П
Havertz 45
HT: 1-2 Att: 32.170 Kovacic 78
TOTTENHAM 3 NOTTM F 1
Kane 19,35 (pen) Worrall81
Son 62
HT; 2-0 Att 61,460
THIS WEEK'S FIXTURES
EURO ROUND-UP
Schalke. Bayern were
trailing as early as the
second minute as Mergim
Berisha put the visitors
ahead. Joao Cancelo
equalised and by half-time
it was 4-1 as Benjamin
Pavard scored twice and
Leroy Sane struck the
other. Berisha then pulled
one back from a
penalty, Alphonso
Davies made it
5-2 before Irvin
Cardona
reduced the
arrears in
stoppage time.
Leipzig moved into
third with a 3-0 win over
Borussia Monchengladbach.
In Serie A, runaway
leaders Napoli won again as
they beat Atalanta 2-0
thanks to second half goals
from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
and Amir Rrahmani.
TODAY 3PM UNLESS STATED
PREMIER LEAGUE
Fulham v Arsenal (2pm); Man Utd v Southampton (2pm);
Newcastle v Wolverhampton (4.30pm); West Ham v
Aston Villa (2pm).
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
Norwich v Sunderland (12pm).
SCOTTISH CUP SIXTH ROUND
Rangers vRaith 0pm).
TOMORROW 7.45PM UNLESS STATED
SCOTTISH CUP - SIXTH ROUND
Falkirk v Ayr.
TUESDAY 7.45PM UNLESS STATED
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - ROUND OF 16,
SECOND LEG
FC Porto (0) v Inter Milan (1) (8pm); Man City (1) v RB
Leipzig (1) (8pm).
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
Blackpool v OPR; Middlesbrough v Stoke (8pm): Millwall
v Swansea; Rotherham v Preston North End: Watford v
Birmingham; Wigan v Coventry.
SKY BET LEAGUE ONE
Accrington Stanley v Portsmouth; Bristol Rovers v
Wycombe; Burton Albion v Peterborough; Morecambe
v Charlton.
SKY BET LEAGUE TWO
Newport County v AFC Wimbledon; Northampton v
Mansfield; Stevenage v Crewe; Sutton Utd v Grimsby;
Walsall v Swindon.
WEDNESDAY 7.45PM UNLESS STATED
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE • ROUND OF 16,
SECOND LEG
Napoli (2) v Eintracht Frankfurt (0) (8pm); Real Madrid
(5) v Liverpool (2) (8pm).
PREMIER LEAGUE
Brighton v Crystal Palace (7.30pm); Southampton v
Brentford (7.30pm).
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
Blackburn v Reading; Cardiff v West Brom; Huddersfield
v Norwich; Hull v Burnley; Luton v Bristol City;
Sunderland v Sheff Utd (8pm).
THURSDAY 7.45PM UNLESS STATED
EUROPA LEAGUE - ROUND OF 16, SECOND LEG
Arsenal (2) v Sporting (2) (8pm), Real Betis (1) v Man
Utd (4) (5.45pm).
UEFA EURO CONFERENCE LEAGUE ROUND OF 16
SECOND LEG: West Ham (2) v AEK Larnaca (0) (8pm).
FRIDAY 7.45PM UN LESS STATED
PREMIER LEAGUE
Nottm Forest v Newcastle (8pm).
SKY BET LEAGUE ONE
Sheff Wed v Bolton.
SATURDAY 3PM UNLESS STATED
THE EMIRATES FA CUP - SIXTH ROUND
Man City v Burnley (5.45pm).
PREMIER LEAGUE: Aston Villa v AFC Bournemouth;
Brentford v Leicester Chelsea v Everton (5.30pm);
Southampton v Tottenham; Wolverhampton v Leeds.
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP: Blackpool v Coventry;
Middlesbrough v Preston North End; Millwall v
Huddersfield; OPR v Birmingham; Reading v Hull;
Rotherham v Cardiff; Stoke v Norwich; Sunderland v
Luton; Watford v Wigan.
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CHAMPIONSHIP P W D L F A CD Pts Burnley 36 23 П 2 71 28 43 80 SheffUtd 36 20 7 9 56 32 24 67 Middlesbro 36 19 6 11 64 41 23 63 Luton 36 16 12 8 44 34 10 60 Blackburn 36 18 4 14 41 41 0 58 Millwall 36 16 9 11 46 38 8 57 LEAGUE ONE ^EFL P W D L F A GO Pts SheffWed 34 23 8 3 61 22 39 77 Plymouth 36 22 8 6 63 41 22 74 Ipswich 36 20 12 4 70 31 39 72 Barnsley 34 20 6 8 55 29 26 66 Derby 36 18 10 8 59 35 24 64 Bolton 37 18 9 10 51 30 21 63 LEAGUE TWO f^EFL P W D L F A GD Pts L Orient 35 21 9 5 46 22 24 72 Carlisle 35 18 10 7 58 35 23 64 Stevenage 34 18 9 7 49 31 18 63 Northamptn 35 16 12 7 48 33 15 60 Stockport 36 17 8 И 49 31 18 59 Bradford 35 16 П 8 43 30 13 59
Norwich 35 16 7 12 51 39 12 55 West Brom 36 15 9 12 46 38 8 54 Coventry 36 14 11 11 42 35 7 53 Watford 36 13 12 П 41 39 2 51 Preston North End 36 13 11 12 32 38 -6 50 Sunderland 35 13 10 12 50 43 7 49 Bristol City 36 12 12 12 45 43 2 48 Stoke 36 13 7 16 47 44 3 46 Hull 36 12 10 14 41 49 -8 46 Reading 36 13 5 18 38 55 -17 44 Swansea 36 П 10 15 48 55 -7 43 Birmingham 36 П 9 16 41 47 -6 42 OPR 36 П 9 16 37 52 -15 42 Rotherham 36 9 13 14 40 49 -9 40 Cardiff 36 10 8 18 27 40 -13 38 Blackpool 36 7 11 18 33 53 -20 32 Huddersfield 36 8 8 20 30 52 -22 32 Wigan 36 7 П 18 31 57 -26 32 Wycombe 35 Я 6 12 48 34 14 57 Shrewsbury 36 16 7 13 47 39 8 55 Peterboro 35 17 3 15 55 45 10 54 Portsmouth 35 13 12 10 46 41 5 51 Exeter 35 12 10 13 47 45 2 46 LincoInCity 35 9 18 8 33 35 -2 45 Bristol Rvrs 35 12 9 14 50 56 -6 45 Port Vale 36 12 8 16 36 50 -14 44 Fleetwood 36 10 13 13 37 38 -1 43 Charlton 35 10 12 13 46 47 -1 42 Cheltenham 36 11 7 18 29 46 -17 40 Burton A 34 10 8 16 42 63 -21 38 Oxford Utd 36 9 9 18 38 48 -10 36 Accrington 34 8 11 15 29 52 -23 35 Morecambe 36 7 12 17 35 57 -22 33 MK Dons 36 9 6 21 32 54 -22 33 Cambridge U 36 8 6 22 27 57 -30 30 Forest Green 36 5 8 23 28 69 -41 23 Salford City 36 16 8 12 54 41 13 56 Mansfield 33 16 7 10 54 43 11 55 Sutton Utd 36 15 10 H 40 39 1 55 Barrow 36 15 7 14 38 41 -3 52 Doncaster 35 15 5 15 38 46 -8 50 Swindon 34 13 10 П 45 38 7 49 Tranmere 36 13 9 14 35 35 0 48 Walsall 34 10 14 10 36 32 4 44 AFCW’don 35 10 12 13 37 41 -4 42 Grimsby 33 11 9 13 36 41 -5 42 Crewe 34 9 15 10 33 43 -10 42 Newport 35 9 12 14 34 41 -7 39 Gillingham 35 9 11 15 23 37 -14 38 Colchester 36 9 8 19 31 43 -12 35 Harrogate T 36 8 11 17 41 54 -13 35 Hartlepool 36 6 12 18 38 64 -26 30 Crawley Tn 34 7 8 19 37 58 -21 29 Rochdale 36 6 7 23 29 53 -24 25
BIRMINGHAM 2 ROTHERHAM 0 Khadra5 Long 35 HT: 2-0 Alt: 15,932 BRISTOL CITY 2 BLACKPOOL 0 Weimann 58 Scott 81 HT: 0-0 Ait: 19,070 BURNLEY 3 WIGAN 0 BARNSLEY 3 PLYMOUTH 0 Philips 60 Andersen 77 Cadden90 HT: H Att: 12,443 BOLTON 0 IPSWICH 2 Hirst 44 Burgess 68 NT: 0-1 Att: 20,532 BURTON A 2 WYCOMBE 1 BARROW 0 SUTTON UTD 0 HT: 0-0 Att: 3,696 COLCHESTER 0 STOCKPORT 1 Wootton 37 HT: 0-1 Att: 3,530 CRAWLEY TN 3 HARROGATE 1
Telia 14,47 Foster 76 HT: 1-0 Att: 20,249 COVENTRY 1 HULL 1 Taylor 10 DeBarr85 Powel18 HT: 2-0 Att 3,965 CHARLTON 1 ACCRINGTON 1 Otehl,44 O'Connor 90 Mutch 67 HT: 2-0 Att 3,317 DONCASTER 2 AFC W’DON 1
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Dominant Hoops
cruise into semis
ANGE POSTECOGLOU
hailed his Celtic players for
cancelling out the
Tynecastle atmosphere as
they cruised into the
Scottish Cup semi-finals
with a 3-0 win over Hearts.
Aaron Mooy (below)
steered home a second-
minute opener after Jota
got away from Kye Rowles
down the Celtic right.
The visitors
dominated the vast
majority of the
game and Kyogo
Furuhashi's
creative finish
just before the
break increased
their advantage
SCOTTISH CUP
to Tynecastle the one thing
you don't want to do is give
their crowd anything. They
are going to be up and
about it anyway so we
needed to start the game
very strong.
"The way we started was
outstanding."
Hearts manager Robbie
Neilson said: "The
before Cameron Carter-
Vickers headed a third with
10 minutes left.
Postecoglou said: "It was
important. When you come
SCOTTISH CUP QTR-FINAL
HEARTS..........0 CELTIC_____________3
PREMIERSHIP
P W D L F A Ms
Celtic 28 26 I 1 90 20 79
Rangers 28 22 4 2 68 25 70
Hearts 28 13 6 9 49 40 45
Hibernian 28 12 4 12 44 43 40
Aberdeen 28 12 2 14 43 52 38
St Mirren 28 10 7 11 30 41 37
Livingston 28 10 6 12 29 43 36
St Johnstone 28 9 4 15 32 47 31
Motherwell 28 8 6 14 34 40 30
Ross County 28 6 6 16 24 41 24
Kilmarnock 28 6 6 16 23 50 24
Dundee Utd 28 5 6 17 29 53 21
LEAGUE 1
AIRDRIEONIANS......6 KELTY HEARTS______1
CLYDE..............1 OUEEN OF SOUTH.....1
FC EDINBURGH......0 ALLOA.............2
PETERHEAD_________P DUNFERMLINE.......P
P W D L F A Pts
Dunfermline 27 18 8 1 46 16 62
Falkirk 27 16 6 5 56 29 54
FC Edinburgh 28 14 3 11 52 41 45
Alloa 28 13 6 9 44 37 45
Airdrieonians 28 12 7 9 58 43 43
Montrose 27 10 8 9 39 36 38
Queen of Sth 28 10 6 12 42 46 36
Kelly Hearts 28 9 6 13 33 44 33
Clyde 28 3 6 19 27 55 15
Peterhead 27 2 6 19 13 63 12
OTHER RESULTS
biggest thing was
losing the goal so
к early in the
| game."
I After
Inverness
Caledonian Thistle
shocked Kilmarnock
2-1 on Friday to be the
first team into the semi-
finals, Rangers are at home
to Raith Rovers this
afternoon, and then
tomorrow evening Falkirk
meet Ayr United.
CHAMPIONSHIP
MORTON____________0 PARTKK...____________0
P W D L F A Pts
Queen's Part 28 15 6 7 56 37 51
Dundee 27 13 7 7 44 31 46
Partick 28 13 5 10 49 39 44
Ayr 27 12 7 8 50 35 43
Morton 28 11 9 8 40 34 42
Inverness 27 9 9 9 38 39 36
Raith 27 9 8 10 33 36 35
Cove Rangers 28 6 8 14 33 56 26
Hamilton 27 6 7 14 25 45 25
Arbroath 27 4 12 11 24 40 24
LEAGUE 2
ANNAN ATHLETIC ......4 ELGIN__________1
DUMBARTON........P FORFAR____________P
(Postponed - due to frozen pitch)
STENHOUSEMUIR......I EAST FIFE______2
STIRLING...........2 BONNYRIGG ROSE....1
P W 0 L F A Ms
Dumbarton_____26. 16 5.5 40 24 . 53.
Stirling 25 15 6 4 50 28 51
Annan Ath 28 П 7 10 50 43 40
East Fife 28 11 6 11 39 43 39
Stenhousemr 28 10 8 10 44 45 38
Forfar 26 9 7 10 29 33 34
Elgin 27 9 6 12 39 46 33
Stranraer 27 9 5 13 35 45 32
Albion 27 7 6 14 32 36 27
Bonnyrigg Rose 28 7 6 15 29 44 27
N IRELAND PREM WELSH PREM
P W D L F A Pts P W D I F A Ms
Larne 31 21 6 4 56 18 69 The New Saints 25 20 4 1 87 12 64
Linfield 31 19 5 7 58 25 62 Connah's Quay 26 14 8 4 38 18 50
Cliftonville 30 19 5 6 56 36 62 Penybont 26 13 8 5 41 22 47
Crusaders 30 17 6 7 58 33 57 Cardiff Met Uni 26 14 3 9 34 35 45
Coleraine 31 17 6 8 52 28 57 Bala Town 25 12 6 7 45 25 42
Glentoran 30 Я 4 9 58 23 55 Newtown 26 11 5 10 45 43 38
Carrick 31 11 4 16 41 58 37 Haverfordwest 26 10 3 13 34 40 33
Glenavon 31 9 8 14 47 56 35 Caernarfon Tn 26 10 2 14 39 44 32
Ballymena Utd 30 9 5 16 30 46 32 Flint Town Utd 26 8 7 11 34 43 31
Newry 30 7 2 21 27 53 23 Pontypridd Utd 26 9 3 14 32 46 30
Dungannon 31 6 2 23 20 70 20 Aberystwyth T 26 8 2 16 33 68 26
Portadown 30 3 3 24 16 73 Я Airbus UK 26 0 1 25 15 81 -2
FA Trophy Quarter Finals: Aidershot 0. FC Halifax 2;
Gateshead 0, Farsley Celtic 0; Gateshead win 4-2 on
penalties. Maidstone Utd 2. Barnet Z Barnet win 4-3
on penalies. York I Altrincham 2.
Vanarama National League: Chesterfid I Yeovil
1; Eastleigh 1. Oldham 0: Notts Cnty 3. Dorking
Wanderers 1: Torquay 1, Wealdstone 2; Woking 2.
Maidenhead Utd 0: Wrexham 1. Southend 0.
Vanarama National League North: AFC Fylde 3.
Darington 2; Banbury Utd 1, Buxton 3; Blyth Spartans
1, Boston Utd 4; Curzon Ashton 3, Brackley 1: Hereford
FC 0. AFC Telford 0; Kettering 3, Chorley 3 K minster
I, King's Lynn Town 1; Leamington 0, Chester FC 0;
Scarborough Athletic 0. Gloucester 3; Spennymoor
Town3, Peterborough Sports 3.
Vanarama National League South: Braintree
Tn 0. Weymouth 0: Cheshunt 0. Taunton Town 0:
Chippenham 3 Dover t Dartford 3, Farnborough 1;
Dulwich 2. Havant and W t Hampton & Richmond 2.
Chelmsford 1: Hemel Hemp 0. Oxford City 3; Slough
4, Hungerford Town 0; St Albans 2. Eastbourne
Borough 3; Tonbridge Angels 1, Ebbsfleet 1; Welling 0.
Concord Rangers t Worthing I Bath City 1
Danske Bank Irish Premiership: Dungannon Swifts
0, Carrick 1; Newry L Portadown L; Glentoran 0,
GlenavonZ.
The Southern Premier South: Bracknell Town 2.
Dorchester Town 0; Chesham Utd 2, Hanwell Town 2;
Gosport Borough a Salisbury FC 0: Hartley Wintney
0, Beaconsfield Town 3: Hendon 2, Tiverton Town 2;
Merthyr Town Z Truro City 1; Plymouth Parkway 2.
Swindon Supermarine I; Poole Town 1, Met Police
1; Winchester City 0, Weston-S-Mare I Yate Town 1,
North Leigh 3.
Northern Ireland Championship 1: Annagh Utd 1.
Baliyc lare 3: H & W Welders 2, Dundeia 1; Knockbreda
P, Baliinamallard Utd P Loughgall 0, Dergview 1;
Newington P, Ards P Warrenpoint Town 2, Institute 1.
Welsh Premier League: Aberystwyth Town 0.
Haverfordwest County I; Fint Town United Z Airbus
UK Broughton 1: Penybont 1. Connah's Quay Nomads
1: Pontypridd Utd 1, Caernarfon Town 0.
Mows Gray Alliance: Buckley Town P, Holyhead
Hotspur P Gresford Athletic P, Chirk A A A P.
Llanidloes Town P, Prestatyn Town P. Penrhyncoch
2. Mold Alexandra 2; Porthmadog 0, Colwyn Bay 2.
Breedon Highland League: Banks ODee I Buckie
Thistle 3: Brechin P. Brora P Clachnacuddin P
Fraserburgh P Forres Mechanics I Formartine
United t Inverurie Loco Works P. Wick Academy P
Lossiemouth 2. Turriff United 2; Nairn County 2.
Huntly 0; Rothes P. Deveronvale P; Strathspey Thistle
P. Keith R
Geosonic Lowland League: Bo'ness Utd 3. Gretna
2008 0; Caledonian Braves 3, Berwick Z Civil Service
Strollers 0, Stirling University 0; East Stirling 5.
Dalbeattie Star t Edinburgh Univ 0. Rangers В 3: Gala
Fairydean 1, Cowdenbeath 1; Hearts В P, East Kibride
P Open Goal Broomhill FC I Tranent 2.
Airtricity League of Ireland Premier Division: Sligo
Rovers L Cork City L
The Isthmian Premier Division: Aveiey 2, Folkestone
Invicta t Billericay 0, Wingate & Finchley I; Bishop's
Stortford 2. Hastings Utd 3; Bowers & Pitsea 2.
Haringey Borough t Canvey Island 5, Margate
2; Corinthian Casuals 1, Carshalton Ath 4; Cray
Wanderers 5. Potters Bar Town 0: Heme Bay 2,
Bognor Regis Town 1; Hornchurch 4. Brightlingsea
Regent t Kingstonian L Horsham 4; Lewes I, Enfield
Town 0.
Isthmian Division One North: Basildon Utd 0.
Gorleston 0: Brentwood Town 0, Great Wakering
Rovers t Bury Town ITibury 0: Coggeshall Town
P, Witham Town p East Thurrock Utd 0, Wroxham
2: Felixstowe S Walton Utd 1, Grays Athletic 0;
Heybridge 1, Hashtag United Z Lowestoft Town 4.
Hullbridge Sports 2; New Salamis 1, AFC Sudbury 1;
Stowmarket Town 1, Maldon & Tiptree 0.
Isthmian Division One South East Beckenham
Town 4. Littlehampton Town 2; Burgess Hill Town 4.
Corinthian 1; Chatham Town 0, Haywards Heath Town
0: Cray Valley (PM) 5. Ashford Utd 1; Hythe Town 1.
Chichester City 0; Lancing 2, Faversham Town 1;
Ramsgate 5. East Grinstead Town 0; Sheppey Utd
1. VCD Athletic 0: Sittingbourne 1, Three Bridges 1;
Whitehawk 3. Sevenoaks Town L
The Northern Premier Division: Ashton Utd P.
Liversedge p Atherton Collieries 1, FC United ol
Manchester 0; Bamber Bridge 2, Stafford Rangers t
Belper Town R Marske Utd p Gainsborough Trinity Z
Warrington Rylands 0; Marine 1. Guiseley 3: Morpeth
Town P. Warrington Town p Nantwich Town 2, Lancaster
City 1: Radcliffe 1. Hyde Utd ft Stalybridge Celtic 3.
South Shields 3: Whitby Town 4, Matlock Town 1.
The Northern First Division West: Bootle 2, Runcorn
Linnets 3; Colne P, Workington P; Hanley Town 2.
Kidsgrove Ath Z Leek Town P, Mossley P Newcastle
Town 0. Macclesfield FC 2; Ramsbottom Utd P. 1874
Northwich P Trafford 2, Clitheroe t Widnes P, City of
Liverpool P Witton Albion I Prescot Cables 0.
FA Vase Sixth Round: Congleton Town 1, Bury
AFC 1: Newport Pagnell Town 2. Atherstone Town
2; Peacehaven & Tefecombe 1. Corsham Town 1;
Corsham Town win 3-2 on penalties. West Didsbury
& Chorlton 1, Ascot Utd L
I VANARAMA NATIONAL VANARAMA NORTH
P W D L F A Ms Wrexham 37 28 7 2 95 34 91 , Notts Cnty 37 26 9 2 93 34 87 Woking 37 20 8 9 62 38 68 I Chesterfield 36 18 8 10 60 44 62 Eastleigh 37 18 6 13 44 38 60 ! Barnet 35 18 5 12 66 59 59 Boreham W 35 15 13 7 43 30 58 I WeaWstone 36 15 10 11 48 51 55 i Southend 35 15 8 12 44 35 53 . Bromley 36 13 13 10 50 45 52 Dag & Red 36 15 6 15 53 60 51 I Soilhull M 36 13 9 14 53 52 48 Altrincham 36 12 10 14 54 65 46 Oldham 36 12 8 16 47 52 44 । Maidenhead 37 12 7 18 40 51 43 FC Halifax 36 11 9 16 34 42 42 ! York 36 10 9 17 4 3 47 39 Aidershot 36 11 6 19 49 61 39 Yeovil 35 7 16 12 30 39 37 Dorking W 36 10 7 19 51 81 37 1 Gateshead 34 7 13 14 41 52 33 1 Torquay 36 7 9 20 42 66 30 1 Scunthorpe 36 7 9 20 41 67 30 1 Maidstone Utd 37 5 9 23 39 79 24 i P W D l F A Pts AFC Fylde 35 21 8 6 62 36 71 King's Lynn Tn 36 19 И 6 64 37 68 Chester FC 37 Я 15 5 57 34 66 Brackley 36 Я 10 9 45 31 61 Scarborough Ath37 16 10 11 63 57 58 Darlington 35 16 9 10 63 49 57 Chorley 38 14 14 10 52 39 56 Gloucester 38 16 8 14 62 58 56 Alfreton Tn 34 13 13 8 43 32 52 Hereford FC 38 И 7 17 42 42 49 Spennymoor T 35 12 13 10 51 52 49 Buxton 38 12 13 13 42 46 49 Kidderminstr 38 13 10 15 35 40 49 Curzon Ashton 35 13 7 15 45 44 46 Peterborough 35 12 9 14 4 3 47 45 Southport 34 12 8 14 41 43 44 Banbury Utd 34 12 8 14 47 51 44 Kettering 37 10 12 15 34 50 42 Boston Utd 37 11 8 18 53 59 41 Leamington 36 8 17 11 34 40 41 Farsley Celtic 35 9 11 15 39 57 38 BlythSp 37 9 10 18 36 56 37 Bradford PA 37 8 10 19 34 56 34 AFC Telford 38 4 13 21 27 58 25
I VANARAMA SOUTH ISTHMIAN PREMIER SOUTHERN PREM SOUTH SOUTHERN PREM CENTRAL NORTHERN PREMIER
P W D L F A Pts Ebbsfleet 38 26 7 5 89 39 85 Dartford 37 21 7 9 69 40 70 OxfordCity 38 17 13 8 66 46 64 Braintree tn 37 17 12 8 54 42 63 Havant 8 W 36 18 6 12 66 51 60 Worthing 38 16 12 10 70 61 60 Chelmsford 37 Я 8 12 47 36 59 Tonbridge A 38 17 7 И 57 56 58 St Albans 36 16 7 13 56 43 55 BathCity 37 15 10 12 52 45 55 EastbmeB 38 Я 4 Я 63 60 55 Farnborough 34 15 8 11 43 35 S3 Hemel H 37 13 10 14 39 46 49 Dover 37 11 И 15 37 50 44 Slough 37 11 10 16 46 64 43 Welling 36 10 13 13 43 52 42 Hamp & Rich 36 10 8 18 46 60 38 Dulwich 36 11 5 20 51 74 38 ! Taunton Town 31 9 10 12 32 34 37 Chippenham 34 8 13 13 36 48 37 Cheshunt 36 9 9 18 42 60 36 Weymouth 35 9 5 21 42 62 32 Concord Rqs 32 8 7 Я 31 56 31 Hungerford Tn 35 7 8 20 31 48 29 1 P W D L F A Ms Hornchurch 33 21 6 6 81 36 69 В Stortford 35 20 7 8 57 32 67 Aveiey 35 20 7 8 56 35 67 Canvey Isl 34 18 8 8 62 36 62 Enfield Tn 34 17 9 8 60 35 60 Hastings U 35 17 8 10 48 31 59 Carshalton A 35 17 7 11 45 41 58 Cray 35 15 12 8 61 39 57 Horsham 34 15 10 9 63 46 55 Folkestone Inv 35 17 4 14 68 52 55 Lewes 33 14 12 7 60 43 54 Billericay 35 15 6 14 54 52 51 Potters Bar Tn 33 13 4 16 44 69 43 Bognor Regis 33 11 7 15 58 61 40 Margate 34 10 10 14 41 51 40 Haringey Bgh 34 10 9 15 56 64 39 Wingate 8 F 34 9 12 13 42 51 39 Kingstonian 35 8 9 18 34 62 33 Herne Bay 34 7 7 20 46 76 28 Bowers 8 Pitsea35 6 9 20 36 62 27 Corinthian Cas 35 5 5 25 32 75 20 Brightlingsea R 34 4 8 22 34 89 20 P W D I F A Ms Vfeston-S-M 32 24 5 3 75 21 77 Truro City 34 21 8 5 69 33 Л Bracknell Town 30 19 6 5 75 40 63 Chesham Utd 33 18 8 7 66 47 62 Poole Town 33 16 10 7 65 45 58 Swindon Super 32 16 7 9 64 52 55 Hayes 8 Yead 32 15 7 10 59 47 52 Merthyr Town 34 15 6 13 60 50 51 Met Police 32 15 6 11 52 44 51 Beaconsfield T 34 12 П 11 58 51 47 Plymouth Pway 31 13 7 11 50 45 46 Dorchester Tn 33 13 5 15 46 57 44 Tiverton Town 33 12 7 14 51 59 43 Salisbury FC 34 Я 5 Я 42 54 41 Hanwell Town 34 11 6 17 43 53 39 GosportB 34 10 5 19 49 67 35 Winchester City 34 8 11 15 41 61 35 Hendon 33 7 10 16 47 62 31 Harrow В 33 7 10 16 36 60 31 NorthLeigh 35 8 5 22 39 72 29 Yate Town 35 7 7 21 41 75 28 Hartley Wintney 35 7 6 22 35 68 27 P W D L F A Ms Tamworth 34 22 7 5 78 34 73 Leiston 34 19 11 4 73 40 68 Coalville Town 31 20 6 5 72 31 66 Nuneaton Bgh 33 19 8 6 52 34 65 RushallOly 33 19 6 8 62 39 63 Mickleover 33 16 6 11 64 55 54 Ilkeston Town 34 13 Я 9 63 50 51 Royston Town 34 14 8 12 53 6 0 50 Stourbridge 33 11 14 8 50 38 47 RedditchUtd 33 13 7 13 50 50 46 Barwell 33 12 9 12 52 51 45 Hitchin Town 35 11 11 13 42 55 44 Bromsgrove Sp 34 12 7 15 48 58 43 BasfordUtd 34 И 9 14 41 52 42 St Ives Town 35 11 8 16 55 59 41 Alvechurch 31 11 7 13 47 50 40 Kings Langley 34 10 7 17 38 56 37 Needham Mkt 32 10 6 16 38 41 36 Stratford Town 33 8 11 14 47 64 35 Bedford Tn 34 8 6 20 49 75 30 Hednesford Tn 35 4 9 22 37 66 21 RushSDiam 32 4 3 25 25 78 15 P W D L F A Ms South Shields 34 21 9 4 62 29 72 Hyde Utd 35 17 10 8 55 32 61 Radcliffe 34 16 11 7 50 39 59 Warrington Tn 34 15 13 6 50 33 58 Bamber Bridge 34 17 7 10 51 52 58 Gainsborough Tr 34 15 Я 7 63 34 57 Marine 33 14 10 9 46 31 52 MattockTn 35 14 10 И 46 44 52 Guiseley 35 15 6 14 49 44 51 Whitby Town 35 13 8 14 39 44 47 FC United 34 13 9 12 51 39 45 Lancaster City 34 11 12 11 37 39 45 Warrington Ryl 35 12 8 15 50 47 44 Stafford Rgs 35 12 8 15 43 49 44 Atherton Coll 34 10 12 12 31 39 42 Ashton Utd 34 12 8 14 44 48 41 Stalybridge Cel 35 10 9 16 39 46 39 Morpeth Town 33 11 4 18 44 49 37 Nantwich Tn 35 9 8 18 33 47 35 Marske Utd 31 10 2 19 41 66 32 Liversedge 31 9 3 19 34 67 30 Belper Town 34 5 7 22 35 75 22
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Barnsley 3 Plymouth 0
MICHAEL DUFF insists
Barnsley will not get
carried away despite their
impressive run. Second-half
goals from Adam Phillips,
Mads Andersen and Nicky
Cadden made it 10 games
unbeaten for the Reds.
Duff said: "One of the most
pleasing things is how far
we've come as a group since
the first game of the season.
"It’s been a lot of hard work
and it takes time. The boys
are showing the effort and
application but that doesn't
guarantee results.
"A lot of people said this
was a pivotal run of games
but we have the mentality of
just focusing on the next one.
We won't get distracted by
the noise. We keep rolling on."
Plymouth boss Steven
Schumacher said: "It's just a
defeat. We got beat 3-0 by a
team who I felt in the second
half deserved it."
Portsmouth 0 Sheff Weds 1
DARREN MOORE was beaming with
pride after Wednesday ground out a
win at his old club Portsmouth.
Josh Windass's 11th-minute goal
was enough to extend Wednesday’s
club record unbeaten run to 22
matches. Moore said: "It is a good
three points. Fratton Park is a
difficult place to come but the
players set their stall out.
"We scored an early goal from
a real ruthless finish by Josh
and then it was all about being
resolute and doing our jobs."
The Owls played the final 12
minutes with 10 men after Dominic
lorfa was sent off for a second
yellow card after bringing down
Connor Ogilvie. Moore said: “I have
no complaints about the second
yellow card but the first one for
time-wasting is debatable."
Pompey head coach John
Mousinho said: "We are
disappointed and frustrated.
"We came off the pitch thinking
we were the better side and showed
more intent from the start.
"We just did not have quite
enough quality to open them up."
Oxford 2 Derby 3
PAUL WARNE was delighted
with the grit Derby showed.
Louie Sibley scored twice
as the Rams hit back from
going behind to Sam Long's
header. A Long own goal,
diverting James Collins'
header into his own net, made
it 3-1 to County before a late
Kyle Joseph effort for Oxford.
Derby manager Warne said:
"There are different ways to
win and today we showed
a bit of grit. We've been
a bit soft-centred at times
in parts of our away
performances this year.
"We had to dig in and this
will give the lads a real boost.
In the second half we didn't
have much control but I'm
really pleased with the way
we managed the game at the
end."
Oxford caretaker boss
Craig Short said: "We're in a
fight. In this league, we've
lost the midfield battle."
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LEAGUE ONE
BOLTON
EFL
AKJ
1 CAM THE MAN:
• Burgess heads in
BOSS Kieran McKenna savoured
"a performance to enjoy" after
his team's win at Bolton.
Goals from George Hirst and
Cameron Burgess won it for the
visitors, whose goalkeeper Christian
Walton saved a Dion Charles penalty
when they led 1-0.
McKenna said: “It was a
performance to enjoy: full of
determination, grit and organisation
while producing and executing in the
big moments when we needed to.
“It was probably never going to be
free-flowing because of the
conditions and because of the stage
of the season with both teams
fighting like mad for points.
“But there were so many good
things from a mentality point of view,
especially seeing the growth in the
team and individuals since we started
the season against Bolton. It can be a
big one for the belief in the squad.
Charlton 1A Stanley 1
ACCRINGTON manager
John Coleman picked the
positives from the draw at
Charlton. Shaun Whalley's
header was cancelled out
by Steven Sessegnon and
Coleman said: "We’re
disappointed with the draw.
"I'm so proud of how we
played, that’s the best
we’ve played for a long
time.” Charlton boss Dean
Holden added: "The goal
was a cheap one to give
away. We get pulled apart."
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We have been close on quite a few
occasions but against opposition of
this level we haven’t done it and it is
something we wanted to do."
On Walton’s spot-kick save,
McKenna added: “We have not had
too many breaks or bits of luck that
have gone our way in the first part of
the season.
“But this was maybe one of those
moments."
Hirst’s finish justified him starting
ahead of 16-goal Freddie Ladapo and
McKenna added: “I think there is a
good forward in there. Freddie came
on and was good as well.
“It is a good decision to have two
good strikers bringing different things
to the group. Both understand the
dynamic, both are going to have a
Exeter 2 Lincoln 1
MARK KENNEDY
believes Lincoln are
in a "good place".
Sam Nombe’s double
gave Exeter victory after
Paudie O'Connor’s opener.
"When I look at what
we are achieving over 35
games, it is good," boss
Kennedy said.
"There are 11 games to
go and we are looking up."
Exeter assistant Kevin
Nicholson said: "We kept
going and got the win.”
Fleetwood IP Vale 1
DARRELL CLARKE hailed
his "tremendous" Port Vale
players. Vale led through
Matty Taylor's goal but
were denied victory by
Jack Marriott, who bundled
in a late equaliser.
Clarke said: "I thought
the boys were tremendous.
We just have to finish."
Fleetwood manager
Scott Brown said: "I'm
delighted for Jack. He
could have had two there
but he’s a goalscorer."
part to play starting games and both
are going to have a part to play
coming off the bench."
Boltons Ian Evatt said: “Automatic
promotion has gone. We are all
realistic here; we are just looking to
cement ourselves in the play-offs.
“I thought Ipswich deserved to win.
They were more mature with their
performance and we looked a little
bid timid and nervous.
“Some parts of that I didn’t like so
we need to be back to ourselves.
“But missing the penalty changed
everything. It sapped the life out of
our fans and our players.
“After that they scored from a
set-play and that was that.
“Over 90 minutes they deserved to
win but if that penalty goes in it is a
completely different game.
“We are going through a difficult
moment so we have to ride out the
dip and come again.”
Forest G1 Bristol R 3
JOHN MARQUIS scored
twice as Bristol Rovers
ruined Charlie Savage's
big moment.
Robbie Savage's son's
first senior goal put the
visitors ahead.
But Marquis' brace
either side of Scott
Sinclair’s goal turned
things around.
Forest Green boss
Duncan Ferguson said:
"We took our goal well.
Then we made mistakes."
Burton 2 Wycombe 1
DINO MAAMRIA rode a roller
coaster of emotions as
10-man Burton defeated
play-off hopefuls Wycombe.
Dale Taylor and Joe Powell
goals put Albion in charge but
Deji Oshilaja was sent off on
the stroke of half-time.
Joe Jacobson missed a late
penalty for Wycombe before
Tjay De Barr pulled a goal
back. "We have seen
everything," Maamria said.
"One minute we are
disappointed not to go 3-0
up, the next minute we get
a red card. The big picture is
a huge win for us."
Wycombe boss Matt
Bloomfield said: "Fair play to
the boys they kept going, but
there is plenty for us to go
over from this game."
Peterborough 0 Chelt'ham 3
ALFIE MAY’S "special" performance
inspired Cheltenham to victory.
After Tom Bradbury's opener,
May volleyed Town's second from
the halfway line and smashed home
a fine third. "Alfie is a special player
and the two goals are top drawer,"
manager Wade Elliott said. "His first
was a hell of a finish. Even the touch
to set it up, not just the finish.
"You talk about him being the
talisman and when he plays with
that enthusiasm and spark, it
transmits through to everybody."
Posh boss Darren Ferguson
blasted his "unprofessional" side,
adding: "We were way off. It
unfolded in the warm-up, which
was awful and they got warned."
MK Dons 1 Cambridge 0
MARK JACKSON was thrilled
with MK Dons' resilience.
Mo Eisa’s first-half free-
kick was enough for the Dons
to claim victory but a strong
display thrilled Jackson as
his side secured a much-
needed boost.
He said: "I'm really
delighted with the three
points, delighted for the
manner of the three points as
well - it's been a challenging
week for the group and
everyone at the club.
"The boys stayed strong,
kept pushing and created
chances In the second half
and withheld their pressure
as well which was pleasing."
Cambridge boss Mark
Bonner said: "We're
disappointed with our level."
Shrewsbury 3 Morecambe 1
STEVE COTTERILL was happy
Shrewsbury did not suffer from
complacency. Luke Leahy and Rob
Street put the Shrews ahead and,
despite Dan Crowley pulling one
back, Chey Dunkley added a third.
CotteriII said: “The danger is that
our fans and our players could look
at their league position and expect
an easy win but I knew this would be
tough as they have good players.
"With that in mind I'm really
pleased with the three points."
Morecambe manager Derek
Adams said: “I thought we played
well and passed it well and opened
them up a few times and got in
good areas but didn’t take the
shot when we had a chance."
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^SUNDAY 3
riends fans around the world were
delighted recently when Lisa Kudrow
________ and Jennifer Aniston joined Courteney
Cox as she received a star on the
Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
The accolade, which honours her 40
years in the entertainment industry, came a week
ahead of the release of Scream VI, in which the
actress reprises her role as reporter Gale Weathers.
As well as her former Friends co-stars, Courteney,
Й 58, who played Monica Geller in the hit sitcom,
g was supported on her special day by her daughter
g Coco, 18, and her partner, Snow Patrol’s Johnny
McDaid. The actress listened as Jen, 54, paid
g tribute to her, saying, “To be friends with Courteney
2 is to be family with Courteney. When we met her
| she was immediately inclusive, warm, loving,
S interested in everything about you.”
a She added, “You’re one of the funniest human
§ beings on the planet earth. Nothing makes me happier
than a Courteney joke. Thank you for enriching our
lives with your work. We are so proud of you."
Lisa, 59, went on to say that it was because of
Courteney that the cast - which also included Matt
Le Blanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer
- became so tight, saying, “She really set us up
to become one of the closest, most loving and
supportive casts in, I’ll say, the history of television.”
She ended her glowing tribute with, “Courteney,
we just want to say that we are deeply, deeply
proud to know you. You are the definition of a truly
beautiful, talented, and, what’s most important,
a truly good and decent human being. Thank
you for enriching our lives personally.”
While Friends is undoubtedly what Courteney is
best known for (along with her five co-stars, she
famously earned a whopping million dollars an
episode for the last two series), she’s equally
loved by horror fans who can’t get enough of
Gale, her Scream alter ego.
4 ^SUNDAY
The star has appeared in all six of the slasher
movies, the first of which was released in 1996 at
the height of her Friends fame. And the Alabama-
born star - who shot to fame aged 20 when she
landed a part in Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In
The Dark video - hasn’t lost her enthusiasm for
the horror franchise.
Talking about her latest outing as Gale, the
actress said she has an exciting encounter with
the dreaded Ghostface, revealing, “I’ve obviously
been stabbed many times and all that, but this time,
to work with Ghostface and not know who’s under
the mask, it was really fun.”
Aside from giving her a lucrative sideline away
from Friends, her involvement in the Scream films
also changed Courteney’s life on a personal level as
it’s where she met her ex-husband David Arquette.
lalking about their romance, David, Ы, who
played Deputy Sheriff Dewey Riley in the films, said,
“We met on Scream 1 and on Scream 2 we were
kind of on-and-oft dating. And by Scream 3 we
were married.”
While it was love at first sight for David, the actor
admits he had to work hard for Courteney’s affection,
saying, “I had to trick her. I’m a little too wild for her.
She deserves someone who is more together."
The “tricking” certainly worked and the pair were
married for 11 years, during which
time they had their daughter, Coco.
But Courteney spoke publicly
about her difficult journey towards
motherhood. Opening up about her
miscarriages, she said she became
pregnant “pretty easily”, but had a
“hard time keeping them”. After
undergoing IVF, she and David
had their only child in 2004, but
six years later they announced they
were separating. She said at the time,
“He’s my favourite person in the world. No matter
what happens in our future, he’s my very best friend.’
David, who entered a rehab facility to get help
with his alcohol addiction in 2011, admitted his
wife was tired of looking after him. “She says
that to me, ‘I don’t want to be your mother any
more.’ I appreciated that,” he said previously. “I
respected that. I’ve been going to therapy. I’m
trying to grow up."
Their attempts to repair their relationship failed
and they finalised their divorce in 2013,
agreeing to share custody of Coco.
Today, Courteney’s relationship
with her daughter is something she
cherishes. During an appearance
on The Ellen DeGeneres Show last
year, the actress told the host
how sad she was about her
daughter leaving home to go to
college. Last week, as she gave
her acceptance speech at the
Hollywood Walk Of Fame
ceremony, Courteney said it
‘One day
I brought
Johnny to
Courteney’s
and he didn’t
come home’
W SUNDAY CELEBRITY CHAT
“meant the world" to her that her daughter could
be there to witness her big moment.
She said, “I just want you to know you shine
your own unique light and I love you so much and
I’m so proud of you. I’m proud to be your mom.”
One person who will certainly have provided
Courteney with a shoulder to cry on as she faces
this new chapter as an empty nester is her partner
Johnny McDaid, who she got together with 10
years ago after being introduced by their mutual
friend Ed Sheeran. Talking about his matchmaking,
Ed said, “I introduced her to my best mate Johnny,
who I wrote Shape Of You and Bad Habits with.
She invited me round her house and I just kept
going round and then one day I brought Johnny
and he didn’t come home.”
Courteney credits the musician
with teaching her “to be a better
person”. Describing Johnny, 46, she
said he is “a great listener”, adding,
“I’ve never met someone more patient.
He’s a great advice-giver. I love his
heart, his intentions, his morals. He’s
extremely talented and obviously
musical, but he’s a poet and a writer.
He’s just so smart and I find that
really sexy. And then he is gorgeous.”
Courteney, who starred in Cougar
Town, playing a divorced mum of one, is almost as
well known for her age-defying looks as she is for
her acting. But the star has been open about the
fact that she “tried to chase that [youthfulness] for
years" and now regrets tampering with her looks.
“There was a time when you go, ‘Oh, I’m changing.
I’m looking older’ and I didn’t realise that, oh s**t,
I’m actually looking really strange with injections
and doing stuff to my face that I would
never do now,” she said.
And talking about the big birthday
that she’ll be celebrating next year, it
sounds like the actress has finally come
to terms with getting older. “There’s
nothing wrong with being 60,”
she said. “I just can’t believe
it. I ime goes so fast. I here’s
.' no question that I am more
w I grounded. I’ve learnt so
much in my life - what to
enjoy, what to try to do more
of and what to let go of.”
Good for you, Courteney!
She’s been with
Johnny for a decade
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^SUNDAY 7
Celebrity party planner Liz Taylor, 66, from Cheshire, has spent decades
throwing glam bashes for everyone from King Charles to TV royalty such
as Mark Wright, Michelle Keegan, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford
h, so you’re the other Liz
Taylor," says Prince Charles
- as he then was - to me.
I’m attending a prestigious
Prince’s Trust lunch in
Manchester, in my role as
the charity’s first female board member in
the North West. “No, I’m the Liz Taylor,” I tell
him, with a straight face. He bursts into
laughter - but it’s true, I’ve made a name
for myself as the ultimate party planner.
My reputation precedes me.
Over the years I've worked with royals
many times, planning their lavish parties.
I helped throw a Centrepoint charity ball in
2013, attended by Prince William - who
famously sang on stage with Taylor Swift
and Jon Bon Jovi. I’d received a call
only three weeks earlier and was
summoned to Kensington Palace the
very next day. I pulled off a dinner for 250
VIP guests, followed by a concert in a
marquee with a spectacular winter
wonderland theme complete with life-size
ballerina statues, snowflakes projections
and glistening trees.
I don’t tend to get starstruck, even by
future kings - they’re just normal people.
The only exception is the Coronation
Street cast. They’ve been on my telly
since I was a little girl and I still have to
keep my cool when I throw the ITV show’s
anniversary parties and when I work with
8 ^SUNDAY
Prince William in
tune with Taylor Swift
and Jon Bon Jovi •
the Corrie stars. From Catherine Tyldesley
and Alan Halsall to Jennie McAlpine and
Suranne Jones, I’ve helped with everything
from weddings to leaving parties.
But my life hasn’t always been glitz and
glamour. My party-planning journey started
in 1986, when I was pregnant with my
second daughter and in
a marriage that wasn’t
going exactly how I
hoped. I’d been working
at M&S as a management
trainee for a decade but
craved something bigger.
So I quit.
I ended up meeting the
director of sales at Holiday Inn almost
by accident. I was pitching a personal
shopping scheme for hotel guests and
we got chatting. She wanted to promote
the company’s new Manchester hotel to
local business people and press with a
Hollywood-themed party.
I told her I could do it. I had no
experience throwing parties. I just saw an
‘Mark pointed
me out during
his groom’s
speech’
opportunity and grabbed it. I filled their empty pool
with black and silver balloons, with Chester Harriott
- chef Ainsley’s dad - at a piano.
With no contacts in the party business world, I’d
been ringing up suppliers and running in and out of
shops. It was very basic and predictable - not
something I’d do now - but impressive to many
guests. From there things
organically grew as different
people passed on my details.
I’ve thrown actor Antony Cotton
a birthday party on a train, secured
Gary Barlow a Bentley for a charity
auction, organised numerous
parties for Manchester United and
planned a three-day wedding with
a £1.75 million budget. We turned the venue into a
full-scale medieval village banquet. I’ll never forget
the reactions when guests saw the transformation.
It was magic.
If a task seems impossible then I’m more
motivated. I once got Harry Styles to deliver a cake
to an 18th party, where the birthday girl was a huge
fan. I went through a chain of friends of friends until I
got to him. I had an entire vintage carousel built for a
^SUNDAY 9
circus-themed party, and I threw a
Narnia-themed bash where guests
stepped through a wardrobe into
the wonderland.
Selling the idea of a party is a
big part of my job. I sat next to
Eamonn Holmes at a Manchester
United dinner and by the time the
dessert arrived, I’d convinced him
to let me throw a 50th for him. I
then organised his wedding to
Ruth Langsford, where
Christopher Biggins dressed up as
Susan Boyle - that brought the
house down. It’s all about having
the balls to make things happen.
My business is my name so I’m
just as hands-on now as I was for
that first party. If an event goes
amazingly well, it’s my name on it,
but if it goes tits-up, I’m to blame. I have five great
women working for me, but I need an element
of control - polishing cutlery, rearranging flowers
and checking on the canapes. The girls say I can
spot a spelling mistake on an invite before it’s even
been written.
I don’t really get to enjoy the parties and I definitely
don’t drink, as I can’t take my eye off the ball for one
second. The job also isn’t as glamorous as people
think. It’s like assembling a big jigsaw. It’s all about
logistics and planning every detail from the colour of
the napkins to the band’s opening song. Tablecloths
that don’t touch the floor are a major ick of mine.
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Gary Neville
There have been jobs I’ve turned down, including
David and Victoria Beckham’s wedding. Their team
asked me to sponsor the event - I’d have been
working for free. I had to politely decline but I don’t
have any regrets. I’ve seen the drama around
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz’s wedding
and how the second set of wedding planners are
countersuing the Peltz family. Sometimes these big
weddings can be more trouble than they’re worth.
I’ve had experience of stepping in at the last
minute, too. I was brought in to take over the
planning of Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan’s
wedding three months before the big day. I arranged
‘I don’t regret
turning the
Beckhams
down’
an initial meeting with Mark
at the venue, over four
hours’ drive from me. As I
neared the venue he called
to say he couldn’t make it
as he’d been out the night
before. I told him to f**k off
and that if he didn’t turn up
within an hour I wouldn’t be
involved. He showed up.
I’ve found the rich and famous respect that I’m
a strong woman. They don’t want a yes girt. Mark
even mentioned me in his groom’s speech. “See
that woman over there - that’s my wedding planner,
you don’t mess with her,” he said.
I’ve become an expert in dealing with disasters
with minimal disruption to guests. An outdoor dance
floor started to collapse mid-party. Luckily, I saw the
signs and encouraged an impromptu speech in a
different area to distract guests while handymen
fixed it. There was a kitchen fire just before another
party - the fire brigade had put it out before the first
10 ^SUNDAY
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guest arrived. When I threw a party for businessman
John Whittaker on the Isle of Man, the band
and dancers' luggage got left in Manchester.
I didn’t leave the airport alone until the situation
was resolved.
I don’t take no for an answer and I tell my
employees not to tell me they can’t do something.
Instead they should say, “I can’t do it this way, so
what else can I try?” A girl who left the company
said she’d been doing 55-hour weeks. I told her
if you’re counting the hours you're not in the right
job. We work constantly to make clients' dreams
come true and my working day can start at 5am
and finish at 3am.
But the most pressured parties are those of my
own daughters. They didn’t want anything out of
the ordinary but I felt an extra burden as their mum.
Luckily, they were both very happy.
I may have planned a lot of happily ever afters,
but I’ve been divorced three times and experienced
real turmoil in my life. Party planning remains my
constant partner. My joy comes from watching
people’s faces light up when they see their dream
theme come to life. It’s so special to be part of
so many milestone moments and events people
consider the best days of their lives. The thank you
cards from customers, and the money I’ve helped
raise at charity parties, inspire me on tough days.
I will keep going as long as possible - and
continually remind myself I’m only as good as
my last event.
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^SUNDAY 15
FORMORE
RECIPES, GO TO
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CO.UK
1 large leek
3 rashers back bacon
15g butter
1 tbsp olive oil
S 6 eggs
100g strong Cheddar
cheese, grated
Handful rocket leaves
(optional)
5-6 cherry tomatoes
(optional)
25g soft goat’s cheese,
crumbled (optional)
Salt and pepper
Fresh parsley, chopped
ICut the leek in half lengthwise,
then into thin slices. Wash and
then pat dry with a tea towel, if
necessary, or give your leek a spin
in a salad spinner.
2 Cut the bacon into 1cm
pieces with a pair of sharp
kitchen scissors.
3 Preheat the oven to
200°C/180°C fan/gas mark 6.
4 Put the butter and olive oil in a
frying pan and melt over a
medium heat. Add the leek and
bacon and saute for 5-10 minutes,
stirring gently until the bacon is
cooked and the leek is tender.
5 Crack the eggs into a large
bowl and whisk with a fork.
6 Add the bacon and leek mix,
and the grated cheese.
Season with salt and pepper and
whisk again. If you want to use
some rocket leaves, stir these in.
7 Transfer to a 20cm non-stick
or oiled oven-proof dish. Pour
in the egg mixture.
8 Cut the tomatoes in half and
arrange on top of the egg
mixture along with the crumbled
goat’s cheese, if you’ve chosen to
include them.
9 Put into the oven and bake for
25-30 minutes. When the
frittata is ready, the top will be
golden and puffed, but the frittata
will still have a slight wobble in the
middle and will finish cooking as it
cools. Serve with some parsley
scattered on top.
16 ^SUNDAY
Baked salmon on a bed of
leeks with roasted tomatoes
SERVES 4
INGREDIENTS
2 large leeks
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper
200-250g vine tomatoes
4 salmon fillets
1 lemon, cut into slices
Fresh parsley, chopped
ITrim the leeks, discard any
tough outer layers and cut
lengthwise into 8cm pieces, then
into quarters crosswise. If needed,
wash and then pat dry with a tea
towel or use a salad spinner.
2 Put the leeks into a medium
roasting tin. Add the olive oil,
season with pepper and salt, and
toss well to coat them. Prick each
tomato with the tip of a knife and place
on top of the leeks.
3 Roast at 180°C/160°C fan/gas
mark 4 for 12-15 minutes or until
the leeks have started to soften.
4 Halfway through cooking, lift the
tomatoes off, give the leeks a good
stir, then replace the tomatoes and
return to the oven.
5 Add the salmon fillets, topping
each with a slice of lemon, and
return to the oven for a further 12
minutes until cooked through.
6 Use tongs to arrange some of the
leeks between each piece of
salmon. Replace the lemon with fresh
slices and scatter some freshly chopped
parsley over to garnish.
Butterbean and leek soup
with rosemary croutons
SERVES 4
INGREDIENTS
300g sourdough bread, cut
into 3cm cubes
6 tbsp olive oil
5 rosemary stalks
1 red onion, roughly diced
About 6 leeks, whites sliced
into 1-2cm rounds, green part
shredded
1 litre stock
2 tins butter beans, drained
Sea salt flakes and black
pepper
1-2 tbsp cider vinegar
25g parsley, finely chopped
Lemon zest, optional on
croutons or soup
ISet the oven to 220°C/180°C
fan/gas mark 7. Place a large
oven tray in the oven to heat.
2 Toss the bread in 4 tbsp olive
oil and a good pinch of salt in
a large mixing bowl. Coat well.
Remove the tray from the oven and
spread out the oiled bread evenly.
3Add the rosemary to the bowl
and cover in any remaining oil.
4 Return the tray to the oven
for 15 minutes. Then give the
tray a shake, rotate it 180 degrees
in the oven, and cook for a further
10 minutes. Add the rosemary on
top of the bread and cook for a
final 5 minutes.
5 Meanwhile, in a pan that
will fit in all the remaining
ingredients, heat 2 tbsp oil over a
medium heat. Add the onion and
cook for 5 minutes.
6 Add in the leeks and stir to
combine. Cook for a further
2 minutes, then add the stock and
beans and bring to a simmer. Once
the leeks are tender, check the
seasoning and add salt and vinegar
to your taste.
7 Remove the croutons from the
oven - they should be crisp
and browned. Once cool enough
to handle, pull the rosemary leaves
from the stalks and crumble them
over the croutons. Mix to combine
and put on a serving dish.
8 Stir the parsley through the
soup and portion into bowls,
topped with lemon zest if you like.
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♦SUNDAY 17
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Melanie tilts her head another
fraction to the right, ignores
the pain shooting down her
back and smiles as she stares
down the lens. They asked
for sultry and sweet four
hours ago. She isn’t sure she has either left.
Freddie looks up from the camera and
winks. A friendly gesture, Melanie hopes.
He’s good-looking, in that shaggy kind
of way, but twice her age.
“That’s great, Melanie. Let’s do one
more. Can I see your sex-kitten look? Pull
your hair back.”
Melanie pushes her fingers into the twisted
brunette locks that took a hairdresser two
hours to perfect. Then she adjusts her
smile and wonders if he’s forgotten she’s 16.
Sex kitten? Really?
“And we’re done. Drinks back at mine,”
he calls to the team, his eyes fixing on hers.
She pretends not to notice and turns away,
spotting Nell at the back of the room, waving
a magazine in the air.
Her best friend grins, blonde ponytail
swishing as she rushes towards
Melanie. “I’ve got it!”
A giddy excitement bursts
inside Melanie. “Is it in there?”
She knows it is but there’s a part
of her that still can’t believe it.
A double-page advert in one of
the weeklies. An entire sports line
designed around her.
“Yes!” Nell replies, her eyes
flicking from Melanie to the studio,
and just for a second Melanie
catches the hurt on Nell’s face, the
why-not-me question that Melanie
doesn’t know how to answer.
“Wanna see?” Nell’s grin returns
and she flicks open the magazine.
Melanie stares at a photo of
herself. Her legs look long and
toned, her hair glossy.
“No one will notice the trainers
you’re modelling,” Nell laughs.
“You look beaut.”
“Thanks.”
Melanie steps into the empty
make-up room, grabs a bottle of
water and flops on to the sofa.
Her mouth is bone dry and there’s
the start of a headache throbbing
behind her eyes.
She takes a long gulp of water and flicks
to the next page in the magazine. It takes
her a moment to grasp what she’s seeing.
“Don’t bother looking at that,” Nell says
from the mirror, lipstick lofted mid-air. It’s
too late. Melanie has seen it. Another
photo of her. A paparazzi shot taken on
a London street a few weeks ago. There’s
a yellow circle around her face and a
caption beside it, “SPOT of bother for
model Melanie Lange.”
• • •
A fiery hole of anguish burns in her
chest. Her next breath is short, gasping.
She’s had girl-about-town photos before
but never this.
Melanie touches her cheek, remembering
how sore her skin felt - the allergic reaction
to a make-up brand used on one of the
shoots. A bad day captioned and ridiculed
for everyone to see.
“Why... would they print this? I look
terrible.” Tears prick at the corners
of her eyes.
“Hey, you’re not upset are you?” Nell
pulls a face, looking at Melanie through
her reflection in the mirror.
“Yes,” Melanie cries out. “Wouldn’t
you be?”
Nell huffs a laugh and spins to face
Melanie. “I would kill to be as successful as
you. Hundreds of models would. You’re so
lucky. This is what you wanted, remember?
You asked for this. The fame, the fortune.
You have to take the rough with the smooth.”
A lump forms in Melanie’s throat but she
nods. “Yeah. Course.”
She waits for Nell to turn back to the
mirror before heaving a shaky breath.
Melanie normally loves how straight talking
her friend is, but today her sharp words are
paper cuts to her insides.
Melanie forces herself up and moves to
stand beside Nell. There’s a pack of make-up
removal wipes on the counter and Melanie
reaches to take one, desperate to clean her
face. Then she stops, thinking of the waiting
paparazzi and what the magazines will print
next week. She turns away and slips into
her jeans and jumper instead.
“Come on," Nell grins, her lips
now a bright red. “Let’s head to
the after-party.”
“I can’t,” Melanie groans. “My dad’s
sent a car for me. I have to go straight
home and do homework.”
“Oh. I thought...”
“Nell, I’m sorry. You know what
my dad is like.”
“It’s fine," Nell says. “I’ll go on
my own.”
“You will?” Melanie frowns,
her thoughts turning to the wink
Freddie gave her.
“Not all of us are as lucky as you,
Mel. I need to network if I have
a hope in hell of getting a job.”
Melanie bites her lip and tries not to
think about what networking means
to a man like Freddie. Nell is a year
older than her but still Melanie hates
the thought of her friend in the same
room as him. A shiver races down
her spine. “I’m sorry I can’t come
with you,” Melanie says again.
Nell leans close, giving Melanie’s
shoulder a squeeze. “You’re a
superstar now. You can’t be hanging
out with the likes of me all the time.”
18 ^SUNDAY
Nell laughs, a cackle of a noise that’s
usually contagious.
But today Melanie wonders if beneath
Nell’s humour there is sadness. The hole in
Melanie’s chest burns again as she hugs
her friend goodbye.
At the door, Melanie takes a breath and
slides on her sunglasses before stepping into
the bright daylight.
“Melanie? Melanie?" Voices shout from
every direction. Cameras flash in her face.
She was expecting it but still feels wrong-
footed. Nell’s words echo in her head as she
‘You’re
lucky -
you’ve
got what
you
wanted’
dives into the waiting car. “You’re so
lucky. This is what you wanted. You
asked for this.”
Later, when her homework is
done, Melanie sits on her bed
and opens her laptop. She shouldn’t
look, she shouldn’t care, but still
she clicks on the magazine’s
website, finds the photo and scrolls
down to the comments.
“OMG Pizza face anyone?”
“Disgusting!! I wouldn’t leave the house if
I was her.”
“How is she a model?”
The words are shouts and catcalls in Melanie’s
mind, as loud as the paparazzi
on the street.
She slams her laptop shut
and as the tears begin to fall
easily down her face, Melanie
wonders just how lucky she
really is and what exactly she’s
asked for. The thought spins in
her head. But she wipes her eyes and takes
a shuddering breath.
Melanie can’t quit modelling. She won’t
let everyone down. If only the future she sees
ahead of her - the fame, the spotlight, the
attention - looked as bright and glittering to her
as it does to everyone else.
ILLUSTRATION: GETTY
♦SUNDAY 19
YOU CAN
FLOURISH BY
CHERYL RICKMAN
(VIE, £12.99) IS
OUT NOW
Learn to
get a buzz
out of life
Give yourself a happiness hit by making plans
and discovering how to live in hope
here’s nothing like the buzz of having
something to look forward to. Taking
pleasure from anticipation is built into
us - and key to our mental wellbeing.
When we imagine our future selves
doing something we love, our brains release the
happiness hormone dopamine, giving us the
motivation to endure difficult days.
It’s one of the reasons life in lockdown felt
grey and flat - we couldn’t enjoy making plans.
There’s even scientific proof that we take
more pleasure from expectation than reward,
as dopamine drops when we get what we want.
“Humans don’t like waiting, but positive
anticipation is really good for us," says Cheryl
Rickman, a positive psychology practitioner.
“Aside from the dopamine, the emotions it creates
help us cope with stress and boost our problem-
solving. There are also neurons in the brain that
light up when we imagine future good things.
It’s known as The Hope Circuit and it reduces
feelings of helplessness.”
Here’s how you can harness the power of
anticipation to make you happier...
KEEP A
THRILL-
FILLED
DIARY
Travel agents look forward to
“Sunshine Saturday” in January
as clients shake off the post-
Christmas slump by booking a
holiday. But you don’t need big
treats to feel the benefits - just
pencil regular and realistic cheap
thrills into your calendar. “This
could be a theatre trip, a walk
in the sunshine or cooking
your favourite meal,”
says Cheryl. “It gives
your days and
weeks a positive
focus."
Seeing a list
of thrills, big
and small,
written down
in a diary
will help you
to enjoy the
countdown.
TURN ANXIETY
ON ITS HEAD
Anxiety can be the flipside
of anticipation - being fearful
of a future event or worrying it
won’t come to fruition. “Some people don’t
want to anticipate a good thing as they
can’t face disappointment,” says Cheryl.
“But it’s worth taking the hopeful view as
there’s a bit of magic in hope. It brings
enjoyment to the present and means you’re
more likely to strive for your goals, leading
to further reward.
“I’m not talking about ‘toxic positivity’
[the belief that people should stay
positive no matter how dire
a situation is], but just
allowing yourself to
believe in possibilities
so that you grab
opportunities and
take risks."
If nerves are
making you
dread a pending
engagement,
flip your focus.
List potential
positive
outcomes
instead of
negative ones.
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20 ^SUNDAY
3LIVE OLD-
SCHOOL
Do you remember
how exciting life
could be when
you were a child and the
world was there to be
discovered? The instant
gratification of 21st-century
living has made it harder to
find that youthful state of
expectancy in the day-to-day.
“We no longer have to wait
for things, thanks to streaming
services, social media and online
shopping,” says Cheryl. “The
anticipation of waiting to get photos
developed, watch a TV show live or buy a
new record from the shop is lost."
Challenge yourself to recreate that buzz by spacing out
episodes of a box set or restricting online purchases.
4 HAVE A PLAN
Setting ambitions and booking treats
will only lead to fulfilment if you’re
committed and realistic.
“Think about what you want, how
you’ll do that and if you have the
agency to get it done," says Cheryl. “If you want
to hit a work target, be honest about what steps
are needed to reach that goal. If you’re going on
holiday, how will you ensure you can afford it?
When you have a clear plan, you’re more hopeful
of achieving the outcome - and more likely to.”
You’ll get a dopamine hit for every completed
step, not just the final target.
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5 FEEL GRATITUDE
FOR NOW
Much-anticipated events or milestones
will bring joy, but don’t rely on them
alone to feel contentment.
“You need a balance between anticipation and
gratitude," says Cheryl. “Otherwise you get into
that negative cycle of thinking, Til be happy
when...’ and never be satisfied with your lot in life.”
Make a daily or weekly note of what you’re
glad for in that moment - perhaps in your diary
alongside your anticipated events to have
maximum impact.
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6 AMPLIFY THE JOY
While dopamine drops when you reach your reward, Cheryl says there are
tricks to extend the pleasurable effects.
“When you’re in the moment, savour the experience, appreciate it and
remember that feeling,” she says. “Taking a few photos or journalling about
it allows you to reminisce. This is where social media can be a positive force because
you can return to that moment in the future. It amplifies the experience and allows you
to recreate that warm glow on a down day.”
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Fred takes the
contestants to the
South of France
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Tuesday, 9pm, E4_
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red Sirieix takes on his
biggest challenge yet with
Fred’s Last Resort, a series
in which the First Dates
star takes 12 young Brits
to the South of France and
tries to train them in the high-end
hospitality business.
“I have a passion for hospitality,
it’s what I’ve done since I was 15,”
says Fred, 51. “It’s a career that’s
never been appreciated
or respected, so I always
want to showcase it in a
way that can be admired.
It’s a true profession that
needs skill, people who are
passionate, determined and focused.”
At the start, Fred’s recruits can
politely be described as excitable
and hungover (we blame the luxury
drinks they have to sample in one of
their first tasks) as glasses are broken
and shellfish spilled on the floor in
challenges at the five-star Hotel Les
Roches Blanches. But it will all be
worth it in the end, as one lucky
contender wins an impressive prize.
“They are there to run the hotel
with me,” explains Fred. “At stake
is a life-changing opportunity. The
winner will get a job opportunity with
Accor Hotels and £10,000 to help
them relocate."
Fred - who trained in Monte
Carlo, not far from the Last Resort
hotel - has his hands full with his
trainees, especially as some of them
are very inexperienced.
“Out of all the recruits a few of them
had never been abroad before,” he
explains. “Then there is, of course,
the fact that you come to the South
of France, one of the wealthiest parts
of the world, known as the playground
OUR
PICK
OF THE
.WEEK j
red Sirieix trains 12 novices
in high-end hospitality as
they compete for a top job
of the rich and famous. You see it
on TV, you see it in movies... and
this is where our recruits have landed
for their summer season.”
The awestruck contestants don’t
have much time for fun in the sun,
though, as Fred is determined to show
them the work ethic required.
“I was clear with what I wanted, my
standards. I showed them but then it
was up to them to do it," he says.
“It was frustrating when I could
see it would have been so easy
for me to take over and direct them,
but that’s defeating the object.
It is up to them to show they have
what it takes.”
Edge Of Tomorrow
Sunday, 9pm, 5STAR
Sci-fi epic in which Tom Cruise
plays a reluctant soldier who lives
the same day over and over while
battling a seemingly invincible alien
race. Can he help Emily Blunt’s
special forces warrior win the war?
(2014/12) ★★★★
The Ipcress File
Thursday, 9pm, BBC Four
Slow-paced spy thriller, with
Michael Caine as a special agent
investigating the kidnapping
and brainwashing of British
scientists. The film was a major
influence on Mission: Impossible.
(1965/PG) ★★★★
Terminator 2:
Judgment Day
Friday, 11.05pm, ITV4
With Linda Hamilton looking
bad-ass with a pump-action
shotgun and Arnie promising he’ll
be back, this sci-fi sequel was one
of the most thrilling event movies
of the 90s. (1991/15)*****
King Richard
Tuesday, 11.20pm,
Sky Cinema Oscars
Biographical drama following the
journey of tennis players Venus
and Serena Williams, as their
ambitious father Richard coaches
them into global superstars.
(2021/12) ★★★★
^SUNDAY 23
SUNDAY
12 MARCH
7
8
9
10
BBC One
6.00am Breakfast 7.35 Match of the
Day (R) 9.00 Sunday with Laura
Kuenssberg 10.00 Politics
England 10.30 Sunday Morning
Live. Topical debate. 11.30
Homes Under the Hammer
(R) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (R)
1.00 News; Weather
1.15 Songs of Praise The Rev Kate
Bottley meets the stonemasons
of Gloucester Cathedral.
1.50 The Bidding Room Nigel
Havers meets Samantha and
Joshua, who are hoping to sell
their art deco cinema seat. (R)
2.15 UES Six Nations Rugby Union
Scotland v Ireland (Kick-off
3.00pm). Gabby Logan
presents all the action from the
match at ВТ Murrayfield.
525 News; Regional News
5.50 Countryfile Adam Henson
visits an equine rehab centre.
7.00 IMi Wild Isles David
Attenborough explores British
woodland, grassland,
freshwater and ocean habitats,
revealing the wildlife that exists
right on our doorstep. The first
episode examines the benefits
of Britain’s natural geology.
8.00 Antiques Roadshow
Rona Bruce presents the show
from the grounds of Belmont
House in Kent, where she
encounters a disguised Michael
McIntyre preparing a prank for
his Saturday night show and a
David Hockney painting.
9.00 The Gold The police find
details of a foreign bank
account that has been
laundering Brink’s-Mat
proceeds, and Boyce is sent to
Switzerland on a mission to
learn who controls it. Crime
drama with Hugh Bonneville.
10.00 News; Regional News
10.30 Match of the Day 2
Mark Chapman presents action
from today’s Premier League
fixtures, including Fulham v
Arsenal, Manchester United v
Southampton and and West
Ham United v Aston Villa.
11.45 The Women’s Football
Show Highlights of the
weekend’s games in the Super
League, including Chelsea v
Manchester United, Arsenal v
Reading and Brighton & Hove
Albion v Manchester City.
12.30am Bill Bailey: Larks in
Transit. (R) 1.30 Question of
Sport (R) 2.00-6.00am News
BBC Two
6.35am Sunday Morning Stories (R)
7.05 Gardeners’ World (R) 8.05
Countryfile (R) 9.00 Life in a
Cottage Garden with Carol
Klein (R) 9.30 Saturday Kitchen
Best Bites 11.00 Rick Stein's
Cornwall (R) 11.30 The A toZof
TV Cooking (R) 12.15pm ПЕЗ
MOTD Live Women’s Super
League. Chelsea v Manchester
United (Kick-off 12.30pm). All
the action from the top-flight
encounter at Kingsmeadow.
2.40 ЕДД The Third Man
(1949/PG, b/w) Thriller, starring
Joseph Cotten. ★★★★★
4.20 Interior Design Masters with
Alan Carr Ten interior designers
compete in a London-based
makeover challenge. (R)
5.20 Flog It! From Nottingham. (R)
6.00 Six Nations Highlights The key
moments from the fourth
weekend of the championship.
7.00 Amazing Hotels: Life
Beyond the Lobby
Monica Galetti and Giles
Coren visit the Yorkshire Dales
to work at Swinton Estate,
they look the heart of the
grand house and its charm, as
well as the wider estate. (R)
8.00 Paul Whitehouse: Our
Troubled Rivers Paul visits
the River Wye and discovers
how an explosion of algae
caused by fertiliser run-off from
farming is part of a cocktail
overwhelming the habitats
along the waterway.
9.00 We Need to Talk
About Cosby W Kamau
Bell examines how actor
Bill Cosby built his reputation
in the 1970s, becoming
an on-screen educator and
moral authority - a man
thought to be trustworthy.
io.oo
E Jones (2019/15) In 1933, a
Welsh journalist travels to
Moscow to interview Stalin, but
instead uncovers a devastating
famine in Ukraine. Fact-based
drama, starring James Norton
and Vanessa Kirby. ★★★★
11.50 Murder in the Pacific The
police investigation into the
sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.
(R) 12.35am Our Rag Means
Death. Stede vows to make
things right with his wife. (R)
1.15 Dave (R) 1.40 Question
Time (R) 2.40 Sort Your Life Out
with Stacey Solomon (R)
3.40-6.15am This Is BBC Two
ITV1
6.00am CITV 9.25 ITV News 9.30
Love Your Weekend with
Alan Titchmarsh. With Duncan
Preston and Bonnie Langford.
11.25 James Martin’s Saturday
Morning. With country-pop
duo Ward Thomas. (R)
1.40pm The Masked Singer US
Nick Cannon presents as the
singing contest returns. (R)
2.40 You’ve Been Framed! A delivery
drone drops a painful parcel. (R)
3.101Я11Д1 Mr Popper’s Penguins
И (2011/PG) A businessman’s life
is thrown into turmoil when he
inherits six penguins from his
explorer father. Family comedy,
starring Jim Carrey. ★★★
5.00 Celebrity Lingo With Michelle
Visage, Vernon Kay, Ranj Singh,
Jenny Ryan and Ellie Taylor. (R)
6.00 ITV News; Weather
6.15 Regional News; Weather
6.30 Dancing on Ice Phillip
Schofield and Holly Willoughby
host the grand final of the
skating challenge, with the last
three celebrities and their
partners performing spectacular
routines, including the iconic
Bolero. Last in series.
8.00 Endeavour Morse's
investigation into a number of
untimely death notices in the
Oxford Mail, each with a cryptic
message, takes him to a series
of funerals before forcing him
to confront his own mortality.
Thursday is facing more than
one confrontation of his own as
his past closes in on him, while
he resorts to desperate
measures to protect those he
loves most. Final episode of
the Inspector Morse prequel,
starring Shaun Evans and
Roger Allam. Last in series.
10.00 ITV News; Weather
10.20 Morse and the Last
Endeavour Documentary
marking the end of the line for
the Oxford detective, explore
the global appeal of the original
Inspector Morse series and its
spin-offs, Lewis and Endeavour.
11.10 Gallagher Premiership
Rugby Union Highlights
Action from the 20th round of
fixtures. 12.05am Shop: Ideal
World 3.00 The Widow. Georgia
returns to Kinshasa (R) 3.50
Unwind with ITV 5.05-6.00am
Jeremy Pang’s Asian Kitchen.
The chef puts his own twist on
popular Asian dishes. (R)
Channel 4
6.10am 111У Snoopy and Charlie
Brown: The Peanuts Movie
(2015/U) Animation, with the
voice of Noah Schnapp.
★ ★ ★ ★ 7.40 The Simpsons
(R) 9.30 Sunday Brunch. Fred
Sirieix chats about his new E4
show, Fred’s Last Resort.
12.30pm The Simpsons (R)
1.20 The Dog House Double bill.
Funeral workers Amy and Alex
want to rescue a dog in need;
Border collie Patch displays an
impressive array of tricks in his
bid to find a new owner. (R)
3.30 Crufts 2023 Clare Balding and
Sophie Morgan present live
coverage, featuring the
culmination of the Flyball
competition. Radzi
Chinyanganya is in the main
arena for Agility finals.
6.00 Channel 4 News Including
sport and weather.
6.15 The Andrew Neil Show
Political discussion show,
featuring extended interviews
with decision-takers.
7.00 Crufts 2023: Best in
Show Clare Balding presents
live coverage of the Best in
Show final at the NEC in
Birmingham, from 8.30. Prior
to the dog show’s climax, the
last two contenders will be
chosen in the judging of the
Utility and Toy Groups. With
commentary from Frank Kane,
Alison Mitchell and Laura
Crombie. Last in series.
9.00 The Great Pottery
Throw Down: The Final
Siobhan McSweeney hosts the
final, with the three remaining
contestants challenged to
create a stacking, pyramid
vase centrepiece and a
sgraffito globe. Last in series.
10.15 Gogglebox The
armchair critics are back to
tuck into their takeaways while
watching the best of the
week's TV and streaming
output, sharing their thoughts
and reactions for the rest of the
viewing public to see. (R)
11.15 First Dates A Bristol woman
seeks a man who will accept
her and her snake. (R) 12.15am
Walter Presents: Inspector
Ricciardi. Italian supernatural
crime drama, set in 1930s
Naples. 2.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) 3.05 Come
Dine with Me (R) 5.15-6.10am
Location, Location, Location (R)
Channel 5
6.00am Milkshake! Children’s fun.
9.45 The Smurfs Animation.
10.00 SpongeBob SquarePants (R)
10.05 Entertainment News on 5
10.10 Friends Double bill. (R)
11.05 lallul All Creatures Great and
Small (1975/PG) A naive
vet takes on a challenging
apprenticeship in the Yorkshire
Dales. Drama, with Simon
Ward, Anthony Hopkins
and Lisa Harrow. ★★★
1.00pm ЕИЛ My Fair Lady (1964/U)
A cockney flower girl is trained
to pass as an upper-class
lady by an arrogant elocutionist.
Oscar-winning musical,
starring Audrey Hepburn
and Rex Harrison. ★ ★★★
4.35 Ant & Dec’s 30 Greatest
Moments A countdown
celebrating the double act. (R)
6.25 5 News Weekend Headlines.
6.30 When Holidays Go
Horribly Wrong A selection
of disastrous excursions,
featuring a tourist who soon
regretted going on a hang-
gliding day trip in the Swiss
Alps when his pilot failed to
attach the safety cord. (R)
8.00 22 Kids & Counting
The Radfords address the
question of why they have
such a big family, and Noel
decides to discover more
about his birth parents, with
potentially life-changing
consequences. Last in series.
9.001Ж1 Britpop: The
Music That Changed
Britain Documentary
charting the birth, rise and
fall of the music culture
movement that put the focus
on Britishness, looking at the
fortunes of its bands.
10.30 Oasis: Live A 2001
concert at Glasgow's
Barrowland Ballroom, featuring
performances of songs
including Go Let It Out,
Supersonic, Live Forever, Roll
with It, Don’t Look Back in
Anger and Supersonic. (R)
11.50 Britain’s Favourite 90s Hits
Chart countdown celebrating
the biggest-selling singles of the
1990s. (R) 1.40am The
LeoVegas Live Casino Show
3.40 The Gypsies Next Door.
Travellers’ struggle to live side
by side with settled
communities. (R) 5.15-6.00am
World’s Busiest Train Stations
ITV2 Freeview 6
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records 6.35 Love Bites 9.25 Dress to
Impress 11.30 Catchphrase 12.15pm
Family Fortunes: Gino’s Best Bits 12.50
In for a Penny 1.15 Ш1Д1 Yogi Bear
(2010/U) A cunning bear and his sidekick
plot to save their national park home
from being closed down. Comedy,
starring Anna Faris, with the voices of
Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake. ★★
2.55 Ш1Д1 The Lego Batman Movie
(2017/U) The caped crusader swings
into action to save Gotham City from the
Joker. Animated comedy, featuring the
voices of Will Arnett and Michael Cera.
★★★★ 5.00 EIE1 Matilda (1996/PG) A
youngster uses her special powers to
turn the tables on the nasty headmistress
at her prison-like school. Children’s
fantasy comedy, starring Mara Wilson
and Danny DeVito. ★★★★ 6.55 HUAI
Yes Man (2008/12) A downtrodden man
has his life transformed when he decides
to say yes to every opportunity. Comedy
based on the book by Danny Wallace,
starring Jim Carrey and Zooey
Deschanel. ★★★★ 9.00 Love Island. It’s
the night before the live final and
excitement in the villa is reaching fever
Sch. 10.00 Love Island: Aftersun 11.05
mily Guy. Double bill. 12.05am
American Dad! 1.00 All American 2.00
Hey Tracey! 2.45 Unwind with ITV
3.00-6.00am Teleshopping
ITV3 Freeview 10
6.00am Man About the House 6.35
Emmerdale Omnibus 9.25 Doc Martin
11.30 Downton Abbey 6.00pm
Rosemary & Thyme 8.00 Long Lost
Family. Missing relatives found much
closer than the searchers could ever
have imagined. 9.00 Joanna Lumley’s
Home Sweet Home - Travels in My Own
Land. The final episode takes Joanna
from North Wales to St Michael’s Mount.
10.00 Larry Grayson: Shut That Door!
Documentary exploring the entertainer’s
life. 12.05am Upstairs, Downstairs.
Elizabeth embarks on an affair. 2.20 Man
About the House 3.25 Emmerdale
Omnibus 5.50-6.00am Unwind with ITV
FILM4 Freeview 14
11.00am It Came from Beneath the Sea
(1954/U, b/w) Monster adventure,
starring Kenneth Tobey. ★★★ 12.40pm
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011/PG) Animated
comedy sequel, with the voice of Jack
Black. ★★★★ 2.25 Madagascar: Escape
2 Africa (2008/PG) The escaped zoo
animals meet their wild counterparts after
their plane crashes in Africa. Animated
comedy sequel, with the voices of Ben
Stiller, Chris Rock and David Schwimmer.
★★ 4.10 Little Women (2019/U) The
story of the March sisters - four young
women, each determined to live life on
her own terms. Historical drama, starring
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and
Florence Pugh. ★★★★★ 6.50 Bend It
Like Beckham (2002/12) Comedy,
starring Parminder Nagra and Keira
Knightley. ★★★★9.00 Terminator: Dark
Fate (2019/15) Sarah Connor must stop
an advanced liquid Terminator from
hunting down a young girl, whose fate is
critical to the human race. Sci-fi, starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger. ★★★★ 11.35
Vivarium (2019/15) A couple are keen to
buy their first home together, but when
they do, things take a strange turn. Sci-fi
thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg. ★★★
1.30-3.55am Carol (2015/15) Two
women from different backgrounds fall in
love in 1950s New York, but have to
keep their relationship a secret. Romantic
drama, starring Cate Blanchett. ★★★★
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12.00noon This Is BBC
Scotland 7.00pm The Seven
7.15 Sportscene: Scottish Cup
Highlights 8.00 The Adventure
Show. Amy Irons and hiking
partner Lauren MacCallum
explore Harris. 8.30 City Lights.
A money-making scheme puts
Willie’s literary ambitions on
hold. 9.00 Tuned In: 100
Years of Scottish Broadcasting.
Kaye Adams looks at how
BBC Scotland has changed
over the past 100 years.
10.00 Still Game. Victor feigns
ilness. Last in series. 10.30
Two Doors Down 11.00pm-
12.00m’t Seven Days
BBC One Scotland
Dancing On Ice
6.30pm, ITV1
Over the past eight weeks, the likes of
Nile Wilson, Carley Stenson, Mollie
Gallagher, Siva Kaneswaran, Joey
Essex and The Vivienne have all
impressed judges Oti Mabuse, Jayne
Torvill, Christopher Dean and Ashley Banjo
and the viewers at home. But who will take
over the crown from Regan Gascoigne?
As it’s the final, the last three celebrities
and their partners must perform their most
spectacular routines yet, including the
famous Bolero, to claim the trophy.
As BBC1 except: 10.00am-
10.30am The Sunday Show
5.40pm-5.45pm Reporting
Scotland 11.45 Sportscene:
Scottish Cup Highlights.
Action from Rangers v Raith
Rovers. 12.30am The
Women's Football Show
1.15 Bill Bailey: Larks in Transit
2.15 Question of Sport 2.40
Weather for the Week Ahead
2.45-6.00am BBC News
As BBC1 except: 10.00am-
10.30am Politics Wales.
Presented by James Williams.
11.30 The Repair Shop.
Experts restore items including
a leather keepsake box.
12.30pm-1.00pm Legends
of Welsh Sport: Tanni
Grey-Thompson. How
Tanni Grey-Thompson
recovered from disappointment
at the 2004 Paralympics.
Crufts 2023
3.30pm & 7pm, Channel 4
Clare Balding is at the NEC in Birmingham,
where this year’s Best In Show is revealed.
Prior to the event’s climax, there is the
culmination of the flyball contest and the
agility finals this afternoon. Then, the last two
contenders will be chosen in the judging of the
utility and toy groups, before victors join the
other group winners for the finale.
Which dog will succeed the flat-coated
retriever Baxter who won the top prize in 2022?
The Great Pottery
Throw Down: The Final
9pm, Channel 4
There’s another big final taking place
tonight - this time for pottery, as the three
remaining competitors go head-to-head
and face two of their toughest challenges
yet. They have to create a stacking,
pyramid vase centrepiece and a
daring sgraffito globe.
Siobhan McSweeney is the host, while
judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller
will decide which potter is the winner.
BBC Two Wales
As BBC2 except: 6.00pm
Scrum V Six Nations Special.
Action from Italy v Wales.
7.00-8.00pm Back in Time for
Birmingham. The Sharma
family mark Divali and Bonfire
Night. Last in series.
Mil
As ITV1 except: 6.15pm-
6.30pm STV News
3.50am-5.05am Night Vision
ETTA
6.00am Cyw 8.50 Penblwyddi
Cyw 9.00 lolo: Deifio yn у
Barrier Reef 10.00 Y Cosmos
11.00 Dechrau Canu Dechrau
Canmol 12.00noon Yr
Wythnos 12.30pm Bwrdd i Dri
1.00 Stori'r laith: Lisa J6n 2.00
Sain Ffagan 2.30 Gwesty
Aduniad 3.25 Cefn Gwlad 4.25
Clwb Rygbi Rhyngwladol 6.10
Pobol у Cwm Omnibws 7.15
Newyddion a Chwaraeon 7.30
Dechrau Canu Dechrau
Canmol. Marking the
centenary of the Welsh
Women’s Appeal for world
peace. 8.00 Ysgoloriaeth Bryn
Terfel Urdd Gobarth Cymru
2023. Highlights from the Urdd
Gobaith Cymru Bryn Terfel
Scholarship. 9.30 Cyrnry ar
Gynfas. A portrait of Bryn
Terfel. 10.00 Teulu, Dad a R.
Emotional series following
Wayne and Connagh Howard's
family history. 11.00-11.35pm
Darn Bach о Hanes
'he week in soao
Emmerdale i™
Leyla’s setting up of Callum
at the nightclub has serious
consequences this week. Callum
attacks Suzy with a brick, putting
her in hospital.
With Marshall living at Jai and
Laurel’s, his dad Colin changes
tack and seems desperate to
convince the lad how much he
misses him. Can he manipulate
his son into returning home?
Charles convinces Alex to go
for a job interview. Naomi is
delighted when he gets the role,
but then realises it is in Wales.
MORE4 Freeview 18
8.55am George Clarke’s Amazing
Spaces 9.55 Ugly House to Lovely
House with George Clarke 11.00 George
Clarke’s Old House, New Home
12.00noon Come Dine with Me 2.40pm
Four in a Bed 5.20 Come Dine with Me
8.00 Emergency Helicopter Medics. A
12-year-old suffers a broken thigh bone
after a motorcycle collision in Oxfordshire,
while a paraglider is treated for multiple
injuries after a crash on the Cumbrian
coast. 9.00 24 Hours in A&E. A
22-month-old girl needs urgent treatment
after being kicked in the head by a horse,
and a man with epilepsy seeks help after
falling face-first onto the pavement. 10.00
EastEnders BBC One
Stacey is overwhelmed by guilt after
stealing money from an office she was
cleaning. But her plan to return the cash
goes wrong and she finds herself
questioned by the police.
Under pressure from Ravi, Denise
considers hacking into Jack’s laptop, but
can’t go through with it. Ravi decides to use
Chelsea as a way to get what he wants.
Desperate to keep Ravi away from her
daughter, Denise pushes her towards Keanu.
Emma returns to Walford and encourages
Jay to spend time with his mates while she
takes Lola to a hospital appointment. While
out, Jay gets talking to a girl.
24 Hour Baby Hospital. Michelle and
Clive return to the Rotunda three years
after the birth of their first child, who
passed away in the hospital. 11.05
Emergency Helicopter Medics. A boating
accident ends with a woman losing part
of her foot and medical crews face a race
against time to save a woman severely
injured in a major gas explosion. 12.10am
24 Hours in A&E 1.15 24 Hour Baby
Hospital 2.20 Emergency Helicopter
Medics 3.25-3.50am Food Unwrapped
E4 Freeview 13
6.00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 8.30 Married
at First Sight Australia 11.30 Ramsay's
Kitchen Nightmares USA 1.30pm The
Big Bang Theory 5.10 Lego Masters
Australia 6.25 lilAl Indiana Jones and
the Last Crusade (1989/PG) The intrepid
archaeologist sets out to find his father,
who has gone missing while searching
for the Holy Grail. Action adventure
sequel, starring Harrison Ford and
Sean Connery. ★★★★★ 9.001ДТЖЛ1
The Inbetweeners 2 (2014/15) The
awkward teenagers find university does
not live up to their expectations, and go
to Australia in search of adventure.
Comedy sequel, starring Simon Bird and
James Buckley. ★★★★11.00 The
Inbetweeners. Six episodes. 2.20am
Naked Attraction 3.15 The Inbetweeners
3.45-6.00am Hollyoaks Omnibus
Coronation Street ITV1
It looks like Stephen is set to kill again as he takes his crusade
against Carla to a new level. After dosing her with LSD when
the American clients visit the factory, Stephen finally convinces
her that she needs help. Dr Gaddas prescribes Carla
medication and later Stephen lets himself into the flat and
turns on the grill, leaving it burning while Carla sleeps.
Daisy is shocked when Justin’s sister calls at the Rovers and
warns her that Justin is dangerous and this isn’t the first time he
has had an obsession that has got out of control. Later, Daisy
spots a delivery van in the street and starts to have a panic
attack. Can she live her life constantly looking over her shoulder?
Tim is seeing his granddaughter Miley behind Faye’s back.
Later, he tries to persuade Faye to take the opportunity to
get to know her daughter, but when Miley arrives, Faye is
a nervous wreck.
SKY SHOWCASE
6.00am Where’s Wally 8.05 The
Simpsons 9.00 Shark Squad 12.00noon
Uptown Otters 1.00pm David
Attenborough's Galapagos 2.00 The
Simpsons 3.30 The Equalizer 4.30 The
Oscars’ Most Iconic Moments 5.30
Arctic from Above 6.30 [EH WSL.
Arsenal v Reading (Kick-off 6.45pm).
9.00 S.W.A.T. When violence erupts at a
popular food truck festival, the team is
left to contend with a deadly cartel
determined to recover a lost drug
shipment at any cost. 10.00 NCIS: Los
Angeles. The team investigates an arson
attack at a naval defence contractor.
11.00 Oscars 2023: Red Carpet Live.
Immerse yourself in the Oscars’ glitz and
glamor and get all the latest news
straight from the 95th Academy Awards'
red carpet. 12.00m’t Oscars 2023: The
95th Annual Academy Awards 3.00am
Road Wars 4.00 Nothing to Declare
5.00-6.00am The Early Rundown
GOLD
6.00am Teleshopping 7.30 Ever
Decreasing Circles 8.40 Only Fools and
Horses 4.40pm The Vicar of Dibley 5.20
Only Fools and Horses 8.20 Dad’s Army
9.00 The Vicar of Dibley. Double bill.
10.20 Coupling. Triple bill. 12.20am
French and Saunders 2.55 Newark,
Newark 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping
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BBC One
Freeview 1
7.00 The One Show
7.30 EastEnders Jay and Lexi
worry about Lola’s health.
8.00 Cops, Cash and
Fraudsters - Panorama
Reporters follow Kent
Police as their detectives
try to catch fraudsters.
8.30 Scarlett’s Driving School
Scarlett Moffatt meets
would-be drivers, while
trying to pass her own test.
9.00 Better Lou attempts
to live a normal life within
the law. Last in series.
10.00 News; Regional News
10.40 An Irish Goodbye Comedy
drama, starring James
Martin. ★★★★★ (2022)
11.05 Go Hard or Go Home
BBC Two
7.00 Between the Covers
7.30 Mastermind
8.00 Only Connect Quiz show.
8.30 University Challenge
9.00 Parole A hearing for an
inmate serving a sentence
for biting a man’s ear off.
10.00 Detectori sts Andy finds
himself with a job interview.
10.30 Newsnight Current affairs.
11.15 Don’t Look Now
Supernatural thriller, starring
Donald Sutherland and Julie
Christie. ★★★★★(1973/15)
ITV1 Freeview 3
6.30 ITV Evening News
7.30 Emmerdale Marshall is
grateful to Jai and Laurel.
8.00 Coronation Street
Daisy receives a warning
from Justin’s sister.
13 MARCH
9.00 Unforgotten The victim’s
turbulent past comes to light.
10.00 ITV News Headlines.
10.30 Regional News
10.45 Cold Case Detectives A
specialist team of detectives
revisit unsolved crimes.
11.40 English Football
League Highlights Action
from the latest fixtures.
Channel 4 Freeview 4
7.00 Channel 4 News
7.55 The Political Slot
8.00 Jamie’s £1 Wonders
Jamie shares clever ways to
make meat stretch further.
9.00 Paula Part one of a two-part
profile of Paula Yates.
10.00 Sex Actually with Alice
Levine The presenter finds
out about mixing sex and
food. Last in series.
11.05 Send Nudes: Body SOS
Channel 5 Freeview 5
7.00 Motorway Cops:
Catching Britain’s
Speeders Following officers
as they crack down on the
nation's worst drivers.
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Traffic Cops A day trip to
Scarborough turn into a
high-speed pursuit.
8.58 5 News Update
9.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
Second Counts A flood of
patients with Covid-19 puts
staff under pressure.
10.00 999: Emergency Call Out
Paramedic Ayshe and
special sergeant Hannah
respond to two calls.
11.05 999: Critical Condition
TUESDAY
BBC One
Freeview 1
7.00 The One Show
7.30 EastEnders Emma undoes
all Jay’s good work with Lola.
8.00 Interior Design Masters
with Alan Carr The
teams make over three
classrooms of a children’s
nursery in Oxfordshire.
9.00 Emma, Oti & Rylan’s Big
Red Nose Day Challenge
Emma Willis, Oti Mabuse
and Ryian attempt to
climb the Cairn Gorm.
10.00 News; Regional News
10.40 Sully - Miracle on the
Hudson Drama, starring
Tom Hanks and Aaron
Eckhart. ★★★★(2016/12)
BBC Two
7.00 Saving Lives at Sea In St
Agnes, the crew is involved
in a race against time to
rescue two young men.
8.00 Great British Menu
Chefs from Northern Ireland
serve up their canapes,
starters and fish dishes
on an animation theme.
9.00 The Holy Land and
Us: Our Untold Stories
Part one of two. The impact
of the founding of the
state of Israel in 1948.
10.15 QI XS With Sandi Toksvig.
10.30 Newsnight Current affairs.
11.15 Parole A hearing for an
inmate serving a sentence
for biting a man's ear off.
ITV1 Freeview 3
6.30 ITV Evening News
7.30 Emmerdale Leyla
acts on some advice.
ITV2 Freeview 6
7.00 The Masked Singer US
8.00 Superstore Double bill.
9.00 Love Island: The Live
Final Maya Jama hosts as
the competition reaches the
end. Last in series.
10.35 Family Guy Double bill.
11.35 American Dad! Double bill.
ITV3 Freeview 10
6.55 Heartbeat
8.00 Grace Crime drama.
10.00 Grantchester Double bill.
Film4 Freeview 14
6.30 Charlotte Gray Second
World War drama, starring
Cate Blanchett and Billy
Crudup. ★★ (2001/15)
9.00 Bandits Comedy crime
adventure, starring Bruce
Willis. ★★★ (2001/12)
11.25 Elizabeth Historical drama,
starring Cate Blanchett.
★★★★★ (1998/15)
Oscars 2023:
Highlights 8pm, Sky Max
The best moments and stories from
last night's 95th Academy Awards
ceremony. Fantasy adventure
Everything Everywhere All At Once
leads the way with 11 nominations,
but it could face stiff competition
from Irish drama The Banshees Of
Inisherin for the Best Picture award.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who
oversaw proceedings in 2017 and
2018, is back hosting at the Dolby
Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
Sky Showcase
6.30 The Simpsons Triple bill.
8.00 Oscars 2023: Highlights
10.00 Sport’s Funniest
Moments Farcical moments
from the sporting world.
11.00 A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Southeast
Asia With Alan Carr, Joel
Dommett and Emily Atack.
GOLD
6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill.
8.00 The Good Life Double bill.
9.15 The Young Ones
10.00 Not Going Out
10.40 Live at the Apollo
11.40 The Good Life
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Paula
9pm, Channel 4
It is 23 years in September
since journalist Paula Yates
died from an accidental heroin
overdose. This two-part film,
concluding tomorrow, looks
back at her life and centres on
four interviews in 1998 and
1999 shortly before Paula's
death. We also hear from her
friends and former colleagues.
Love Island: The
Live Final 9pm, ITV2
Maya Jama kicked off the
winter edition of the reality
dating show in South Africa
back in January,
and over the past
eight weeks,
we’ve seen
no end of
dumpings,
recoupling
and
betrayals
at the villa.
As the
sun-kissed
madness
comes to an
end, we all
want to know
who will be
the winners.
14 MARCH
ITV2 Freeview 6
8.00 The Martin Lewis Money
Show: Live The cash expert :
continues to answer viewer’s ;
pressing financial questions.
9.00 DNA Journey Alex Brooker
and Johnny Vegas explore
their family histories.
10.10 ITV News Headlines.
10.40 Regional News
10.55 The Jonathan Ross Show
10.00 Grantchester Double bill.
7.00 The Masked Singer US
8.00 Superstore Double bill.
9.00 Loaded in Paradise
10.00 Family Guy Four episodes.
ITV3 Freeview 10
With Maya Jama, Prue
Leith and Niall Horan.
6.55 Heartbeat
8.00 Grace A schoolteacher is
found dead in Brighton.
Skinner & Mina’s
Literary Road Trip:
Pope & Swift
8pm, Sky Arts
Frank Skinner and Denise Mina
follow in the footsteps of two
of the most brilliant humorists
in the history of literature - Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
After Have I Got News For You team captain Ian Hislop explains
how the pair created satire that still influences writers today, Frank
and Denise explore the remains of Pope’s grotto in Twickenham.
Channel 4 Freeview 4
F ilm4 Freeview 14
7.00 Channel 4 News
7.55 The Political Slot
8.00 Food Unwrapped’s Lunch
Box Kate Quilton finds out
the difference between soft
and crusty bread rolls.
9.00 Paula A look at Paula Yates’
career as a writer.
10.00 Katie Price’s Mucky
Mansion Katie sets out to
create a Barbie-inspired
office. Last in series.
11.05 24 Hours in A&E
6.45 Gl Joe: The Rise of
Cobra Action adventure,
starring Channing Tatum.
★★★(2009/12)
9.00 The Equalizer An ex-secret
agent fights to bring down
a crime syndicate. Thriller,
starring Denzel Washington.
★★★★(2014/18)
11.40 Call Me by Your Name
Drama, starring Armie
Hammer. ★★★★(2017/15)
Sky Showcase
Channel 5 Freeview 5
7.00 GPs: Behind Closed
Doors A patient passes out
after Dr Chris Ferdinand
administers a steroid
injection into his knee.
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Dogs Behaving (Very)
Badly Graeme Hall meets
an excitable English Bulldog.
8.58 5 News Update
9.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in
the Wild Ben spends a
week in Dorset with former
paratrooper Chris and his
faithful dog. Last in series.
10.00 Who Killed Billie-Jo?
6.30 The Simpsons Triple bill.
8.00 A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Southeast Asia
9.00 Red A retired CIA agent
survives an assassination
attempt, and reunites
his old hit squad to find out
who wants them dead.
Action thriller, starring Bruce
Willis. ★★★ (2010/12)
11.05 S.W.A.T Crime drama.
GOLD
6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill.
8.00 The Good Life Triple bill.
10.00 The Young Ones
10.50 The Good Life
11.25 Live at the Apollo
Emma, Oti & Rylan’s Big
Red Nose Day Challenge
9pm, BBC One
Cameras follow Emma Willis, Oti Mabuse
and Ryian as they attempt a turbulent trek
to the top of Cairn Gorm Mountain in the
wintry Scottish Highlands. Setting off in
high spirits from the village of Braemar, the
trio are given a rapturous send-off to the
beat of the Ballater & District Pipe Band.
However, it’s not long before hazardous
weather conditions, which could pose a
danger to life, set in, putting the trio's
summit attempt in serious jeopardy.
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15 MARCH
BBC One Freeview 1
7.00 The One Show
7.30 EastEnders Whitney’s first
day back at work is tough.
8.00 The Repair Shop Jay
Blades and the team of
experts restore a jazz guitar
and a veneered card table.
9.00 Christine McGuinness:
Unmasking My Autism
Christine McGuinness
explores her autism
diagnosis and uncovers a
world full of women who
have been misdiagnosed.
10.00 News; Regional News
10.40 Jerk Double bill.
11.30 Live NBA Cleveland
Cavaliers v Philadelphia
_______76ers (Tip-off 11.30pm).
9.00 The Bay Jenn finds
evidence that all was not
well in the Metcalfs’ home.
10.00 ITV News Headlines.
10.30 Regional News
10.45 Peston Political Magazine.
11.40 Heathrow: Britain’s
Busiest Airport
Channel 4 Freeview4
ITV2 Freeview 6
7.00 The Masked Singer US
8.00 Superstore Double bill.
9.00 Loaded in Paradise
10.00 Family Guy Triple bill.
11.35 American Dad! Double bill.
ITV3 Freeview 10
BBC Two Freeview 2
7.00 Saving Lives at Sea At
Beachy Head, the Eastbourne
crew have to deal with a base
jumper’s disastrous takeoff.
8.00 Great British Menu The
Northern Ireland chefs serve
up their mains and desserts.
9.00 Saving Lives in Leeds
Neurosurgeon Ryan
Mathew sets out to rebuild
a man’s missing skull.
10.00 Live at the Apollo
10.30 Newsnight Current affairs.
11.15 Betty Boothroyd: Call
Me Madam A profile.
7.00 Channel 4 News
7.55 The Political Slot
8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It
or List It Brilliant Builds
Kirstie and Phil look back at
a tale of two unfinished
projects impacting both
property values and family life.
9.00 The Piano: The Final
A concert at The Royal
Festival Hall sets the stage
for the final. Last in series.
10.15 Gogglebox: 10 Year
Anniversary Special
11.50 Kathy Burke: Growing Up
6.55 Heartbeat
8.00 Grace Branson and Grace
investigate the murder of
socialite. John Simm stars.
10.00 Grantchester
11.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Film4 Freeview 14
Secret Life Of The Forest
8pm, Channel 5
It’s the height of summer in Dalby and
Cropton and the forests are a hive of
activity - particularly in the beaver pond.
We also learn about the Lumberjills, the
affectionate name given to the women
who worked in the forest during the
Second World War. And finally, we meet
a modern-day hero in the form of Slate,
a dog who is undergoing training to
join the local mountain rescue team.
Channel 5 Freeview5
ITV1 Freeview 3
6.30 ITV Evening News
7.30 Emmerdale Leyla is
bound and gagged.
8.00 Coronation Street Stephen
spikes Carla’s drink during
an important client meeting.
7.00 The Gadget Show:
Shop Smart, Save Money
Ortis and Georgie check out
some of the latest D J
equipment and speakers.
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Secret Life of the Forest
The young beaver kits bond
with the rest of the family.
8.58 5 News Update
9.00 Tyrant: The Rise of Adolf
Hitler New series. A look
at the events that lead to
the Second World War.
10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
Second Counts
11.05 Motorway Cops: Catching
Britain’s Speeders
6.20 X-Men: Apocalypse
Superhero adventure
sequel, starring James
McAvoy. ★★★★(2016/12)
9.00 The Equalizer 2 Action
thriller, starring Denzel
Washington and Pedro
Pascal. ★★★★(2018/15)
11.20 Trading Places Comedy,
starring Dan Aykroyd.
★★★★ (1983/15)_________
Sky Showcase
6.30 The Simpsons Triple bill.
8.00 UFO Documentary.
9.00 SEAL Team
10.00 A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Southeast
Asia With Alan Carr, Joel
Dommett and Emily Atack.
11.00 Fantasy Football League
11.35 Funny Woman____________
The Bay
9pm, ITV1
Jenn and the team find evidence
that all was not well in the
Metcalfs’ home. However, the
detective is soon distracted by
her own personal life as she
has a disagreement with Chris.
Meanwhile, secrets Dean would
prefer to remain hidden are
uncovered by the team.
GOLD
6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill.
8.00 The Good Life Triple bill.
10.00 The Young Ones
10.45 Live at the Apollo
11.50 French and Saunders
The Piano:
The Final
9pm, Channel 4
Claudia Winkleman, Mika
and Lang Lang get the four
amateur pianists ready for
the performance on one of
the world’s great music
stages at London’s Royal
Festival Hall. Plus, Mika and
Lang Lang have got one last
surprise up their sleeves.
THURSDAY
16 MARCH
BBC One Freeview 1
7.00 The One Show Live
chat and topical reports.
7.30 EastEnders Zack tries
to talk to Whitney about
having a memorial for Peach.
8.00 Dragons’ Den An Olympic
athlete hopes for a podium
finish for her figure skating
clothing brand.
9.00 The Apprentice Familiar
faces return to interrogate
the final five candidates on
their business plans.
10.00 News; Regional News
10.40 Question Time Hona
Bruce hosts the political
debate from Rugby.
11.40 Newscast
BBC Two Freeview 2
7.00 Saving Lives at Sea A
cargo ship loses all power
and is drifting towards rocks.
8.00 Great British Menu The
two highest scoring chefs
from Northern Ireland cook
their six-course menus again.
9.00 Murder in the Pacific The
bomber reveals how he
planted bombs on the
Greenpeace ship, Rainbow
Warrior. Last in series.
10.00 The Apprentice: You’re
Fired With Tom Allen.
10.30 Newsnight Current affairs.
11.15 Slammed: The Seventies
Expectation levels are at an
all-time high when the Welsh
players return home.
ITV1 Freeview 3
6.30 ITV Evening News
7.30 Emmerdale Jimmy opens
up at the man dub meeting.
8.30 The Martin Lewis
Money Show: Live How
the spring budget is likely to
affect personal finances.
9.00 Cold Case Detectives
Detectives investigate a
60-year-old murder.
10.00 ITV News Headlines.
10.30 Regional News
10.45 The Late Debate
11.10 Morse and the Last
Endeavour Documentary
marking the end of the line
for the Oxford detective.
Channel 4 Freeview 4
7.00 Channel 4 News
7.55 The Political Slot
8.00 The Dog House Two very
different puppies are offered
to a couple and their family.
9.00 Nazanin Documentary
about Nazanin Zaghari-
Ratcliffe, who was accused
of spying by Iran.
10.30 Gogglebox Double bill.
Channel 5 Freeview 5
7.00 World’s Most Scenic
River Journeys A journey
down Italy's River Po.
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Isle of Wight: Jewel
of the South The island's
High Sheriff attends the
annual steam fair.
8.58 5 News Update
9.00 A Country Life for Half
the Price with Kate
Humble Part one of two.
The presenter joins families
moving to pastures new.
10.00 Killer at the Crime Scene
Forensic teams investigate
the murder of a teenage girl.
11.00 The Philpott Fire: What
Happened Next Events
surrounding the arson attack
that killed six children.
ITV2 Freeview 6
7.00 The Masked Singer US
8.00 Superstore Double bill.
9.00 Loaded in Paradise
10.00 Family Guy Triple bill.
11.30 American Dad! Double bill.
ITV3 Freeview 10
6.55 Heartbeat
8.00 Grace Skeletal remains are
found in a storm drain.
10.00 DI Ray Double bill.
Film4 Freeview 14
6.55 Hampstead Comedy
drama, starring Brendan
Gleeson. ★★★★ (2017/12)
9.00 Hitman Action thriller,
starring Timothy Olyphant.
★★★★(2007/15)
10.50 The Mustang Drama, with
Matthias Schoenaerts.
★★★★(2019/15)________
Sky Showcase
6.30 The Simpsons Triple bill.
8.00 The 80s: Cinema’s
Greatest Decade
9.00 A Town Called Malice
New series. Crime thriller,
starring Jack Rowan.
10.10 Funny Woman
11.10 Brassic Comedy.
GOLD
6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill.
8.00 The Good Life Double bill.
9.20 The Young Ones
10.10 Knowing Me, Knowing
You - With Alan Partridge
10.50 The Last Fast Show Ever
Dragons’ Den
8pm, BBC One
An Olympic athlete tries to stay cool
as she presents her figure-skating
clothing brand to Deborah Meaden,
Peter Jones, Touker Suleyman, Sara
Davies and Steven Bartlett. Plus,
there’s a vacuum attachment which
aimes to combat dust from drilling,
a coffee company couple's new
idea and a volunteering app.
A Country Life For Half
The Price With Kate
Humble 9pm, Channel 5
The presenter meets up with Pete
and Sharon, who are relocating nearly
700 miles from Bristol to Orkney
along with with Sharon's mum and
over 80 animals, including horses,
sheep, goats and geese. How will
they adapt to island life and can they
cope with the weather in one of the
remotest spots in the UK?
Cold Case Detectives
9pm, ITV1
The second of this three-part series
about the now 60-years-old unsolved
murder of six-year-old Carol Ann
Stephens. As the detectives interview
the witnesses, we are reminded of how
difficult it can be to find justice for cases
that have lain unanswered for so long.
However, thanks to the determination of
teams such as these, there is no barrier
to learning the truth. With senior
forensic scientist Claire Morse (left).
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7.00 Comic Relief 2023
A night jam-packed full
with celebrity guests,
hilarious sketches and live
musical performances.
10.00 News; Regional News
10.40 Comic Relief: The Best
of the Best Bits Highlights
from 35 years of Red Nose
Day which, since its
inception in 1985, has raised
more than £1 billion for a
range of vital causes.
11.40 The Peanut Butter
Falcon Light-hearted
adventure, starring Shia
LaBeouf. ★★★★ (2019/12)
BBC Two Freeview 2
7.00 Saving Lives at Sea
The Tobermory lifeboat
crew save a 40-foot fishing
boat that’s lost all power.
8.00 Gardeners’ World
New series. Monty Don
and the team are back with
a celebration of spring.
9.00 Becoming Frida Kahlo
Frida and Diego travel to San
Francisco where he has an
important commission.
10.00 When Comic Relief
Did Big Brother
10.35 Newsnight Current affairs.
11.10 MOTDx Football discussion.
11.40 Couples Therapy
ITV1 Freeview 3
6.30 ITV Evening News
7.30 Emmerdale Cathy's
life is in danger.
8.00 Coronation Street
Stephen lets himself into
Carla’s flat while she is asleep.
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9.00 Redemption New series.
Crime drama, starring Paula
Malcomson and Abby Fitz.
10.00 ITV News Headlines.
10.30 Regional News
10.45 The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Comedy, starring Steve
Carell. ★★★★(2005/15)
Channel 4 Freeview4
7.00 Channel 4 News
8.00 Highclere: Behind the
Scenes Documentary
following life at the real-life
Downton Abbey.
9.00 Gogglebox The armchair
critics are back to watch
the best of the week’s TV.
10.00 The Last Leg
11.05 The Inbetweeners
Channel 5 Freeview 5
7.00 Motorway Cops:
Catching Britain’s
Speeders David Reed
races to deliver life-saving
equipment to a motorist.
7.55 5 News Update
8.00 Motorway: Hell on the
Highway One motorist
goes airborne following an
encounter with a roundabout.
8.58 5 News Update
9.00 Amazing Railway
Adventures with Nick
Knowles From the Viking
capital of Trondheim, through
snow-capped mountain
scenery, Nick travels north.
10.00 Draining the Thames:
Secrets Revealed
Exploring London's history.
11.00 The Fifth Element Sci-fi
adventure, starring Bruce
Willis. ★★★★(1997/PG)
SATURDA
BBC One Freeview 1
5.25 Match of the Day Live:
The FA Cup Manchester
City v Burnley (Kick-off
5.30pm). Action from the
match at Etihad Stadium.
7.55 Michael McIntyre’s The
Wheel With guests including
Jonathan Ross and Sara Cox.
8.50 Casualty Hospital drama.
9.40 Not Going Out Comedy.
10.10 BBC News Headlines
10.30 Match of the Day
11.30 MOTD: FA Cup Highlights
BBC Two Freeview 2
6.50 Saving Lives at Sea
7.50 Universe Professor Brian
Cox explores the cosmos.
8.50 Chaka Khan at the BBC
Archive performances
by the American singer.
9.20 Aretha Franklin: Duets A
1993 concert from New York
City's Neederlander Theatre.
10.20 Randy Crawford - Live at
Drury Lane A concert by
the jazz and R&B singer.
11.20 Queens of Soul
Celebration of the female
singers who define the genre.
11.55 Northern Soul Drama,
starring Elliot James
_______Langridge. ★★★ (2014/15)
ITV1 Freeview 3
4.30 Six Nations Live Ireland v
England (Kick-off 5.00pm).
Mark Pougatch the action
from Aviva Stadium.
7.15 Ant & Dec’s Saturday
Night Takeaway
Entertainment show,
featuring undercover pranks,
guests and competitions.
ITV2 Freeview 6
7.00 The Masked Singer US
8.00 Superstore Double bill.
9.00 Loaded in Paradise
10.00 Family Guy Triple bill.
11.30 American Dad! Double bill.
ITV3______________ Freeview 10
7.00 Heartbeat
8.00 Grace Crime drama.
10.00 DI Ray Double bill.
Film4 Freeview 14
6.55 Maid in Manhattan
Romantic comedy, with
Jennifer Lopez and Ralph
Fiennes. ★★ (2002/PG)
9.00 Terminator. Dark Fate
Sci-fi adventure, starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
★★★★(2019/15)
11.35 Four Lions Satirical
comedy, starring Riz Ahmed.
★★★★(2010/15)________________
Sky Showcase
6.30 The Simpsons
9.00 A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Southeast
Asia Previously unseen
footage from the show.
10.00 Fantasy Football League
10.35 SEAL Team Action drama.
11.35 Intelligence Double bill.
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6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill.
8.00 The Good Life Double bill.
9.15 The Young Ones
10.00 Knowing Me, Knowing
You - With Alan Partridge
10.40 The Last Fast Show Ever
11.35 The Fast Show: Just a
Load of Blooming
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18 MARCH
8.45 Starstruck Oily Murs hosts
as four more teams of
superfans are transformed
into their music idols.
9.55 The Jonathan Ross Show
Celebrity interviews.
10.55 ITV News; Weather
11.15 Bradley & Barney Walsh:
Breaking Dad The actor
and his son hit the road.
11.45 English Football
League Highlights
Channel 4 Freeview 4
6.30 Bettany Hughes’
Treasures of the World
Historical artefacts
from around the world.
7.30 Edward VIII: Britain’s
Traitor King Evidence that
Edward VIII may have
collaborated with the Nazis.
8.30 Formula 1 Saudi Arabian
Grand Prix Qualifying
Highlights Action from
Jeddah Comiche Circuit.
10.00 Midway Second World
War drama, starring Ed
Skrein. ★★★★(2019/12)
Channel 5 Freeview 5
6.35 Zara & Anne: Like
Mother, Like Daughter?
7.50 Harry Wild Investigates
Harry and Fergus agree to
help a local loan shark.
8.50 Challenge Anneka
New series. Revival of the
show in which Anneka Rice
takes on tasks that must be
completed in a set time.
10.20 When Classic TV Goes
Horribly Wrong Less-than-
perfect moments from the
nation's favourite shows.
ITV2 Freeview 6
6.55 Yes Man Comedy,
loosely based on the
autobiographical book by
Danny Wallace, starring Jim
Carrey. ★★★★(2008/12)
9.00 There’s Something About
Mary Comedy, starring
Cameron Diaz and Ben
Stiller. ★★★★(1998/15)
11.30 Family Guy Double bill.
ITV3 Freeview 10
12.50 Midsomer Murders
11.05 Arthur & George Triple bill.
Film4 Freeview 14
6.50 I, Robot Sci-fi thriller, with
Will Smith, Bridget
Moynahan and Alan Tudyk.
★★★★ (2004/12)
9.00 The Equalizer Thriller.
starring Denzel Washington
and Chloe Grace Moretz.
★★★★(2014/18)
11.40 The Equalizer 2 Action
thriller, starring Denzel
Washington and Pedro
Pascal. ★★★★ (2018/15)
Sky Showcase
6.00 Villeneuve Pironi:
Racing’s Untold Tragedy
8.00 Formula 1 Highlights
from the F1 season.
9.45 Red Action thriller, starring
Bruce Willis. ★★★ (2010/12)
11.50 A Town Called Malice
GOLD
11.00 Only Fools and Horses
Fifteen episodes.
9.00 Back to Life Triple bill.
10.45 The Vicar of Dibley
11.40 Coupling Double bill.
Bono And The Edge: A Sort
Of Homecoming With Dave
Letterman Disney+
It’s the US chat show host's
first visit to Dublin. To tie in
with St Patrick’s Day
and the realease of
U2’s album Songs Of
Surrender, the two
musicians join him in
a special concert
performance.
xardeners’ World
pm, BBC Two
may not have felt like it during the
jcent cold snap, but spring is in the air.
1onty Don and the team kick off a new
eries with a celebration of the season,
nd as well as pruning the roses, the
ost will be planting clematis and rocket,
lus, Carol Klein visits Colesboume
iardens in Gloucestershire to revel in
leir vibrant displays of spring colour.
Chaka Khan
At The BBC
8.50pm, BBC Two
A selection of performances
by the multi-Grammy Award
winning American singer
dubbed the Queen Of Funk.
Hits such as I’m Every
Woman, I Feel For You and
Ain't Nobody will feature
as well as collaborations
with other stars.
Becoming Frida Kahlo
9pm, BBC Two
Frida and Diego travel to San
Francisco, where he has an
important commission, and
she catches the attention of
well-known photographers Imogen
Cunningham and Edward Weston.
Then, in New York she meets the
artist Georgia O’Keefe, a woman
who deeply inspires her, and they
begin a romantic relationship.
Live Six Nations
Rugby Union/Six
Nations Live Midday,
BBC One & ITV1, from 2pm
‘Super Saturday’ begins with
Scotland v Italy at Murrayfield,
before France take on Wales in
Paris. Then, the final match of this
year’s championship, as England
head to Dublin to take on the
world’s No.1 team, Ireland.
Conspiracies
Decoded
10pm, Quest
Some of the world’s
leading investigative
experts uncover the
stunning truth
behind
compelling
mysteries.
Future episodes look at a
mystery at Alcatraz and the
Shroud Of Turin. However,
the series begins with a look
at new evidence suggesting
that Hitler’s second-in-
command was replaced by
a doppelganger to escape
impending justice.
^SUNDAY 31
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BRICKWORK ENTERTAINMENT QUIZ
YOU
COULD WIN
£250
Enter the solutions to the clues in their numbered layers of the wall.
Each word must be an anagram of its neighbours, plus or minus one
1 David Tennant and
Jessica Hynes are to
return to their roles as the
parents of a non-verbal
child for a one-off special of
which BBC comedy-drama?
2 Which clarinet player’s
instrumental chart
hits of the 1960s included
That's My Home and
Stranger On The Shore?
3 Which 1996 disaster
film starred Helen Hunt
as a meteorologist and Bill
Paxton as her storm-chasing
estranged husband?
4 Which actress is playing
new Doctor Who
companion Ruby Sunday in
the upcoming 2023 series?
5 What was the title of
Christina Aguilera's first
UKNo.1 hit, in 1999?
6 Which new film stars
Florence Pugh as a
young woman recovering
from the aftermath of
a car crash, and Morgan
Freeman as her would-be
father-in-law?
7 Which actor played
antiques dealer
Lovejoy in the 1980s/90s
TV comedy-drama
of that name?
8 What is the title of
the latest album from
British singer-songwriter
Gabrielle Aplin?
9 Which actor played
the title role in the
1987 teen comedy film
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
W Antonia Gentry
and Brianne Howey
play the titular mother and
daughter in which comedy-
drama series on Netflix?
Solutions next week
£50
CODEBREAKER
WORD LADDER
Congratulations!
Barbara Ferguson from Ballymena
is the latest codebreaker winner
Each number in the grid represents a
different letter. We’ve given three letters
to start you off: the rest is up to you.
Write these letters wherever their
corresponding numbers appear in the
grid and then begin to work out the
identity of the other letters.
All 26 letters of the alphabet will
appear in the finished grid.
Correctly identify the letter for
box 13 and follow the entry
instructions below.
One winner will be picked at random
from all correct entries received by the
closing date and will be sent £50, or for
Irish entries, the equivalent in euros.
5 CODEBREAKER CLUES
0903 659 6061 (80p/min) or text
BREAKCLUE to 61011 (21/text)
FULL SOLUTIONS
0903 659 6061 (80p/min)
CODEBREAKER ENTRY LINE
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Or text TPCODE with
your answer, name and
postcode to 61011 (£1 SOAext)
Solutions next week
Using the clues provided, fill in each step of the ladder
with a new word, changing one letter at a time.
SUMTHING
Ht the listed numbers into the grid so that all the sums
are correct - reading left to right and top to bottom.
abcd^fghIjklmnopqrstuvwxYz
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^SUNDAY 33
£150
VEGA CROSSWORD
Congratulations!
Linda Carter from Sheffield is the latest mega crossword winner
Can you work out the link between the two
celebrities pictured in the grid? Once you’ve
solved the clues, the letters in the coloured
squares will reveal that link, reading across
from top-left to bottom-right.
HOW TO ENTER
For your chance to win the £150 star prize call 0904 161 1122 (£1.50/call) or
text TPMEGA and your answer, name and postcode to 61011 (£1.50/text) by
Saturday 18 March 2023, the closing date.
1 The next day (8)
5 Soft fruit (5)
8 Dangers (7)
14 Politeness (8)
15 New York financial district (4,6)
16 Dutch flower (5)
19 Garden building (4)
20 Writing material (5)
21 Gives out cards (5)
22 Makes a noise like a duck (6)
25 Unusual (4)
26 Singing voice (4)
27 Wanders (5)
28 Optimism (4)
31 Imitated (6)
32 Astonished (7)
33 Nuisance (4)
36 Heavy object for mooring a ship (6)
37 Hollow tube (4)
39 Evade (5)
45 Paddle (3)
46 Military force (4)
47 - Anderson, actress (7)
48 Be afraid of (4)
49 Breathable gas (3)
51 Removes skin from fruit (5)
52 Belch (4)
53 Simpler (6)
57 Home for bees (4)
59 Desert (7)
61 Erase (6)
65 Jealousy (4)
66 Thin pancake (5)
67 Professional cook (4)
68 Untamed (4)
70 Cared for (6)
71 Shaving tool (5)
73 Not right (5)
74 Binds (4)
80 Slack (5)
81 Mathematical device (10)
82 Normal (8)
83 Poisonous substance (7)
84 Not as many (5)
85 Large rocks (8)
DOWN
1 Mexican dish (5)
2 Devices to catch rodents (10)
3 Timetable (4)
4 Hindrance (8)
6 Academic test (4)
7 Tranquil, serene (4)
9 Social insects (4)
10 Mythical king (6)
11 Tasty (9)
12 Non-believer (7)
13 Part of the foot (4)
17 Zodiac sign (6)
18 Journalists (9)
23 Formula One race (5,4)
24 Container for flowers (4)
25 Wealthy (4)
29 Eager (4)
30 Eight-legged creature (6)
34 Digit (5)
35 Vital organ (5)
38 Indian rice dish (5)
40 Cameron -, actress (4)
41 Red flower (5)
42 Costing nothing (4)
43 Woodworker (9)
44 Banquet (5)
46 Reply (6)
50 Citrus spread (5,4)
54 Large jug (4)
55 Permitted by law (10)
56 Require (4)
58 List of items (9)
60 Alcoholic drink (4)
62 Relating to teeth (6)
63 Creature with tentacles (7)
64 Artist, - da Vinci (8)
69 Longest river in the UK (6)
72 Wheel shaft (4)
75 Eyelid infections (5)
76 Corrosive substance (4)
77 Labyrinth (4)
78 Bird of peace (4)
79 Testament (4)
Solutions next week
34 ^SUNDAY
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
VICTORIA PENDLETON Can you spot the 5 differences between these two pictures?
WORD SPIRAL
Starting from 1, fill in the grid clockwise with
four-letter words. The last letter of each
word becomes the first letter of the next to
reveal an Irish sport.
WORD
WHEEL
You have 10 mins to find as
many words as possible using
the letters in the wheel. Each
must use the hub letter and at
least 3 others. Letters may be
used only once. You cannot
use plurals, foreign words or
proper nouns. There is at least
one 9-letter word to be found.
How you rate:
10 words: average
15 words: good
20 words: very good
24 or more: excellent
BRAIN
TEASERS
1 One chemist, one physicist
and one biologist were asked to
complete an important survey
detailing their favourite metals. The
results found that neither Ben nor
the chemist prefer platinum. The
biologist, who is not Kim, does not
like iron. Also, silver is the favourite
metal of either Mary or Kim. What
is each scientist’s favourite metal?
2 Which two words meaning
“blunder" and “also" combine into
one meaning “task”?
3 Find the aircraft in these
anagrams: a) iris hap, b) triple
echo, c) easel nap.
4 After a clear-out, avid toaster
collector Dimitri gave four-fifths of
his toasters to fellow collector
Delphine, half of which she gave
back. He then gave two-thirds of
his remaining toasters to Frieda, of
which she returned half. If Dimitri
now has 24 toasters, how many
cfid he have to begin with?
Solutions next week
MIRROR IMAGE
ORIGINAL A
Solutions next week
1 Practise
boxing
2 Genuine
3 Heather
4 Precious metal
5 Moist
6 Jetty
7 Impetuous
8 Damage
9 Female
servant
10 Sunrise
11 No votes
12 Prophet
13 Overwhelming
defeat
14 Small duck
15 Uneven walk
16 Knitting stitch
GOGEN
Insert letters to form the listed words,
moving between adjacent cells horizontally,
vertically or diagonally in any direction.
Insert all the remaining letters of the
alphabet (except Z) in the grid so all the
listed words are spelt out in this way.
A^CDE/0HI//LMN/PQR/7u/WXY
BEVY
COIL
COPY
FRAUGHT
HIT
IBEX
JACK
PIQUANCY
SMUG
WAND
Which of the shapes А-D is an exact mirror image of the original?
♦SUNDAY 35
SU-DOKU
Su-doku is a fascinating puzzle. The principle of
solving it is incredibly simple. Just complete the
grid so that every row, every column and every
3x3 box contains the numbers 1 -9 only once.
You need to solve this puzzle using logic
(not guesswork!). There are no prizes for our
Su-doku puzzles, so no entries please.
It's just for fun.
£50
WORDSEARCH
Solutions next week
THIS WEEK'S TIP
Try not to note down possible
numbers for a box if there are more
than 4, so you can see patterns
emerging more easily.
Congratulations!
Janet Anderson from
Belvedere is the latest
wordsearch winner
Find the words hidden in the
Wordsearch grid reading in
straight lines - horizontally,
vertically or diagonally - in either
direction.
A term has been added to the
list below that you won't find in
this grid. Work out what it is and
call our entry line below. One
winner will be picked at random
from all correct entries sent in by
the closing date and will receive
£50, or for Irish entries, the
equivalent in euros.
Standard Reach PLC rules apply.
See mirror.co.uk/rules.
WORDSEARCH
ENTRYLINE В г
0904 161 2200 (£1 50/call)
Or text TPSEARCH
with your answer,
name and postcode
to 61011 (£1.50/txt)
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Saturday 18 March 2023.
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SKELETON
MINER
Each number from 1 to 9 represents a
different letter. Solve the clues and insert
the letters in the appropriate squares to
discover a word that uses all nine letters.
452345 gives a holy place
783615 gives a holy being
764389 gives holy
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ANAGRAM
L E G I S
N H В К T
Q С T О L
T N E M N
U E О Y Y
W В X I G
X К L V T
E C Y Y N
T A J T N
N В L Y E
E Z C W G
M D A К D
A X В К G
I S I P P
L S N R E
R N E R H
А О T C A
P V S О U
CONST
E S В F L
L A T I О
I H W L C
L A В Y T
R E V О G
Y F T U T
E G L E U
T E R L T
A V С О T
I R M N T
T В T A E
X Q L S E
К P E G I
I R T P D
P E L E C
К A E P S
R W О С E
M P A I G
N D В I T
I T U E N
G A T S V
N S D A X
Q I N A X
L I W P C
N H N M A
Q О Q M I
I W R T D
F О A F О
F T D N В
N P H О T
E I Y W A
R О U H H
В E X T I
N W F W E
T I О N T
U H M E О
A P R D О
N M S M A
E L E V T
C Y M К L
P Q W U P
D Y S N L
J V P A G
Z N I X L
О К N H W
R R G T I
X T C C M
S A Y J F
H F P I К
О C A L L
L Q Q I E
Z D E D T
I Y I A A
м в M w В
I E I R E
Y E N P D
С В I О L
W N S L D
T Q T I К
Y L E С P
W Y R Y H
I All but ONE of these politics-themed words can be found in the grid i
ADMINISTRATION ELECTION PHOTOCALL
BACKBENCH GOVERNMENT PLATFORM
BALLOT INTERVIEW POLICY
CABINET LEGISLATION REPRESENTATION SOUNDBITE
CAMPAIGN MINISTER SPEAKER
CONFERENCE MOTION SPIN
CONSTITUENCY PARLIAMENT TERM
DEBATE PARTY WHIP
In our Skeleton you have to complete
the grid - numbers and squares - as
well as answering the clues. We have
inserted four black squares and four
clue numbers to get you going. The
crossword has a four-way symmetry:
both top and bottom and left and right
match, so you can fill in several more
squares immediately.
ACROSS
1 Honest (11)
9 Ballpoint pen (4)
10 Connolly, comedian (5)
11 Zero (4)
12 Expressions (7)
14 African language (7)
16 Spanish punch (7)
18 Medical instrument (7)
21 Detest (4)
22 Soviet political prison (5)
24 Italian volcano (4)
25 Not the best (6-5)
DOWN
2 Spanish wine (5) 13 Biblical priest (3)
3 Weep (3) 15 Manner, method (3)
4 Side of a house (4) 17 Long-necked birds (5)
5 _ Winstone, British actor (3) 19 Notions (5)
6 Intuitive feeling (5) 20 Pleased (4)
7 Without delay (5,4) 22 Sticky substance (3)
8 Lacking refinement (9) 23 Solidify (3)
36 ^SUNDAY
ARROW WORD
TIMED CODECRACKER
Arrow words are like crosswords, but the clues
are printed inside squares on the grid. Write your
answers in the blank squares in the direction
indicated by the arrows.
Jnpreoict- able hnormous small bird _ Vegas. US city Shock Aged
E~ T"
Scientific workroom Gambling Neither Reddish brown pigment
U" ~r~ ! Seabird
take a seat Group of nine Metal ► ~Г"
Г“ Rea^to
Number Male Mie
Г“ Jackie . martial artist
TETROMINOS
Using the
given shapes,
create four
four-letter
anagrams by
dividing the
grid into
sections. You
may rotate
the shapes,
but may not
flip them.
A N L О
В К Y N
S T D В
J I C E
FILL IN
Place the listed
words in their
correct positions
in the grid0.
Sometimes
several words will
fit the same
space, which
means you will
have to think a
few steps ahead
and try different
combinations of
words until you
find the ones that
fit. When you’ve
completed the
puzzle, the
shaded squares
will spell out
a weapon.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNp'PQR'STUVWXYZ
1 2 3 4 R 5 6 7 8 9 О 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
3 LETTERS 4 LETTERS
Apt Ante
Arc Bear
Are Cert
Era Meet
Get Path
Hot Race
Set Slam
Sow Toed
5 Lt IILHS 6 LETTERS
Dates Canter
Embed Cornea
Major Haired
Motor Praise
Puree Sheens
Rebel Tisane
7 LETTERS
Abducts
Engorge
ENTER VOWEL
TARGET
20mins22secs
Here’s your chance to
test your word power
and code-cracking skills
against the clock.
Each grid number
represents a letter -
and all 26 letters of
the alphabet are used.
This week’s clue letters
are below the main grid.
Write in the appropriate
letters wherever its
number appears in the
main grid. Don’t give
up. Call the Extra Letter
Clue line, where you will
also find a little bit of
extra help, followed by
the full solution.
Need some help? |
EXTRA LETTERSW
& FULL SOLUTION!
0903 655 6061 (60p/min)
Hear up to five extra
letters, deduct two
minutes from your
Target Time for each
clue letter heard.
Full Solution follows
the Extra Letter advice.
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Solution next week
In this puzzle each clue is the answer word with the vowels removed. For example,
the clue TM (4) might lead to Atom, Item, Time, Tame etc but not Mute or Moat. You
have to figure out which option fits with its neighbouring words to complete the grid.
Across
1 DMRR(8)
6 CTS(4)
8 ВТ (4)
9 CHLR (7)
10 RTH(5)
11 SMN (6)
12 GLYD (5-4)
17 RSTC (6)
19 MZ(5)
21 MNBS (7)
22 PLM (4)
23 RC (4)
24 PRTR (8)
Down
2 NML(6)
3 NTR(5)
4 LCHL(7)
5 TMS (5)
6 CTT (7)
7 TRS (6)
13 NTNN (7)
14 NMSS (2,5)
15 RMR(6)
16 CLLR (6)
18 CBR (5)
20 NPT(5)
♦SUNDAY 37
PHOTOS: PA IMAGES
FAMOUS
FACE
IShe was bom
Mary Louise in
Summit, New Jersey.
Her first Oscar
nomination was
for the 1978 film
The Deer Hunter.
3She is the
spokeswoman for
the National Women’s
History Museum.
SOLUTIONS for last week's puzzles: 5.3.2023
BRICKWORK
Mat, Team, Mater, Market,
Maker, Ream, Mar
MEGA CROSSWORD
CODEBREAKER
1 =V, 2=F, 3=U, 4=S, 5=W, 6=L
7=I,8=B, 9=A, 10=D, 11 =R,
12=E, 13=G, 14=N, 15=M,
16=Y, 17=K, 18=R 19=T, 20=Z,
21 =J, 22=0,23= H, 24=Q,
25=X, 26=C.
ENTERTAINMENT QUIZ
1 Lily Slater; 2 The Last Waltz;
3 Anne Bancroft; 4 The Bear,
5 Shakin’All Over, 6 Anna
Kendrick; 7 John Gregson;
8 Every Loser, 9 American
Graffiti; 10 Rosa Salazar.
SUMTHING
4x8=32,4x6=24,8+2=10
WORD LADDER
Post, Most, Mast, Malt, Mall,
Ball, Bail.
ENTER VOWEL
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WORD WHEEL
REDEEMING
BRAINTEASERS
1) Paul iron 1, Pete driver 2,
Pat putter 3, Phil wedge 4.
2) Real-lots.
3) a) Hydrogen, b) Methanol,
c) Isobutane.
4) 6 metres.
WORD SPIRAL
1 Chef; 2 Flap; 3 Plea; 4 Ague;
5 Etch; 6 Hurt; 7 Tuba; 8 Able;
9 Ewer; 10 Riot; 11 Tees;
12 Stub; 13 Balm; 14 Memo;
15 Oral; 16 Lobe.
Keyword: Alberta
ACROSS: 1 Airdrop, 5 Knitwear, 9 Writhe, 15 Kelly, 16 Use up, 17 Croup, 18 Invaded,
19 Dispensary, 20 Anglesey, 22 Escape, 24 Vets, 26 Enter, 29 Ibiza, 30 Dory, 31 Gore,
32 Etna, 34 Explode, 35 Distemper, 39 Bruises, 41 Road-tests, 43 Other, 44 In-
command, 47 Sprayer, 49 Molecules, 50 Narrate, 52 Oval, 53 In on, 54 Duos, 56 Ideas,
58 Islet, 60 Cads, 62 Decide, 66 Scornful, 68 Elaborated, 73 Teeming, 74 Youth,
75 Satin, 76 Usher, 77 Essays, 78 Adriatic, 79 Treated. DOWN: 1 Aikido, 2 Relish,
3 Rhyme, 4 Prussia, 5 Kip, 6 Inca, 7 Wool, 8 Appease, 10 Reviewed, 11 Tidiest, 12 Eddy,
13 Hear hear, 14 Ring, 21 Trials, 23 Seaworthy, 25 Shrub, 27 Linear, 28 Wisp, 30 Duets,
31 Gerbils, 33 Tessa, 35 Dustman, 36 Seoul, 37 Ethic, 38 Peril, 40 Unmarried, 42 Aorta,
45 Cones, 46 Dressy, 47 Stop in, 48 Runic, 51 Aden, 55 Undulate, 57 Eternity,
59 Lackeys, 61 Delayed, 63 Cabinet, 64 At that, 65 Adored, 67 Fags, 69 Rouge, 70 Stye,
71 Fuji, 72 Shut, 75 Sac. Celebrities: Gordon Ramsay and Stevie Wonder
Hidden link: They live next door to one another.
FILL IN
SU-DOKU
TETROMINOS
GOGEN
W
G
D
S
EASY
8 5 7 2 3 1 6 9 4
2 1 4 8 9 6 5 3 7
3 9 6 5 7 4 1 2 8
5 4 2 7 6 3 8 1 9
1 3 9 4 2 8 7*6 5
6 7 8 9 1 5 2 4 3
9 4 8 6 5 1 1 3 4 8 2 7 3 7 9 5 6 2
7 2 3 6 5 9 4 8 1
DIFFICULT
8 1 3 2 Гб" 4 7 6 9
9 7 5 1 3 6 8 4 2
6 2 4 7 9 8 5 1 3
1 4 6 8 7 3 2 9 5
5 9 8 4 1 2 6 3 7
7 3 2 9 6 5 1 8 4
4 6 7 3 2 1 9 5 8
3 5 9 6 8 7 4 2 1
2 8 1 5 4 9 3 7 6
SKELETON
A L I L
G F L T
О G T I
L D N E
ARROW WORD
Q A G A
M U S C u L A R
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
Sinitta’s hair is slightly thicker
on her left side, while the pink
light over her shoulder has
gone. Her coat has an
additional large button, her red
necklace has been removed,
and she no longer has a
shadow.
ANAGRAM
INTERIOR
ARIES March 21-April 20
Sometimes it is not speaking out and sharing your own
views that matters, but rather the willingness you show
to listen to others. Someone in your life needs to be
heard and to feel they are important to you.
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TAURUS April 21-May 21
Life has come to a pause. This will be temporary.
Use this time to observe the big picture. Consider
your situation from different perspectives. Don’t fall too
easily into wishful thinking. Take a rational approach.
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GEMINI May 22-June 20
A friend will share some great thoughts with you.
You are reluctant to act on these for fear of being
accused of stealing their ideas. One of the hardest
things to know is what is right for you and what isn’t.
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CANCER June 21-July 22
Your thoughts are all over the place - there
are a number of options you are considering for
the future. You are being reminded that life is an
adventure and it is time to have a little more fun.
For more, call 09057 8941 74 80p/min + ntwk access
LEO July 23-August 22
Be responsive to what is going on. Being present in your
approach to life will give you new perspectives as you
make important decisions. Getting involved in a different
social circle will bring excitement.
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VIRGO August 23-September 22
You’re curious to learn more about subjects you have
recently been introduced to. It makes sense to join forces
with someone who shares your interests. A new friend
will have a big influence on your life.
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LIBRA September 23-October 23
It isn’t fun when someone commits you to something
you aren't keen on. Don’t let them manipulate you.
You've been working hard to keep others happy
while staying on top of your own responsibilities.
For more, call 09057 8941 77 80p/min + ntwk access
SCORPIO October 24-November 22
Stay open to new creative projects. This will be a way
to keep learning and expanding your mental and physical
horizons. Things may be moving rapidly soon but trust
you will have the energy to cope.
For more, call 09057 8941 78 80p/min + ntwk access
SAGITTARIUS Nov 23-Dec 21
Worries are keeping you awake at night and although
you can’t stop your mind from returning to the same
problems, as the week goes on you’ll discover that
nothing is or will be as bad as you imagined.
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CAPRICORN December 22-January 20
Repetition gives you a sense of security but it also stops
you from challenging yourself and stepping outside your
creative, career or family boundaries. An addiction to
the familiar is holding you back.
For more, call 09057 8941 80 80p/min + ntwk access
AQUARIUS January 21 -February 19
You will have a feeling that you can’t trust someone you
have just been introduced to. Once you’ve had a chance
to get to know them, you will realise that your judgement
in some areas has been wrong.
For more, call 09057 8941 81 80p/min + ntwk access
PISCES February 20-March 20
You know someone isn’t being genuine. They are using
your friendship while waiting for something definite to
occur in their life elsewhere. This is a temporary phase
as you don’t have a place in their future.
For more, call 09057 8941 82 80p/min + ntwk access
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company's network access charge - maximum
of 5 minutes duration. You must be over 18 and
have the bill payer's permission.
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