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Eric Dier, pictured right, grew up in Portugal. Jesse Lingard’s grandparents came from St Vincent and the Grenadines. Harry Kane’s grandfather was Irish. Raheem Sterling was born in Jamaica. Dele Alli’s father is Nigerian. This could go on.
The Migration Museum erected a digital banner outside London’s Billingsgate Market explaining what England’s strongest XI, which started the first match against Tunisia and will start again against Croatia tonight, would look like minus the impact of first and second-generation immigrants.
Southgate would have been left with goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, defenders John Stones and Harry Maguire, right wing-back Kieran Trippier and midfield anchor Jordan Henderson. Which would be enough for a particularly robust five-a-side team which would not concede many goals, but lack someone to finish off up front.
“We’re really proud of the support we’re receiving,” Southgate said. “We’ve had the chance to make a difference. Our supporters, our country has had a long time of suffering in terms of football.
Let’s face it, somewhere along the line we were all from somewhere else, and this World Cup is a glorious example of that. A large portion of the French national team have African roots. Most of South America was populated by Europeans and Africans. A lot of the Belgians left the country in their teens to learn about f...
Nowadays, it is impossible to completely separate sport and showbiz and politics. The president of the United States is a billionaire reality TV star. Boxer Manny Pacquiao is a senator of the Philippines. Vitali Klitschko, another boxer, is mayor of Kiev. Former Chelsea and AC Milan striker Andrei Shevchenko is a Ukrai...
Southgate has been talked up as a Brexit consultant or the next prime minister. As a fashion icon who has revived the waistcoat. He’s not actually all that comfortable with the whole thing. He is deeply private about his family, and wants to vanish back home when the World Cup is over. If he had the choice between bein...
“Let me tell you, whether we win or lose the game, my life will not change,” Southgate said. “I will go home, take the dogs for a run, disappear to Yorkshire, but it is of course a chance to be involved in something incredibly special.
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GARY NEVILLE says he has no sympathy for Eden Hazard after the Chelsea star's difficult start to the season.
Hazard was named PFA Player of the Year after his exploits last term but has struggled to replicate that form.
After helping Chelsea cruise to the Premier League title in the last campaign, comparisons were made with the world's best players, but the Belgium international appears to have a long way to go to match the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
No such resemblance is being talked about now, and Manchester United legend Neville appeared to blast the 24-year-old by suggesting his struggles were all his own fault.
"I've got no sympathy for Hazard," he told Sky Sports. "I expect more of him. The level he got to last season, you started to see a great player.
"Hazard, there was talk last season of him getting into that bracket of Messi and Ronaldo. Of course they [players] have off periods but even in the off periods they still contribute, they score goals.
"You saw Ronaldo breaking the record [becoming Real Madrid's leading goalscorer in history] at the weekend, and what Messi's done.
"Hazard's got to pull himself out of it. I've got no sympathy for the very top players with the best talent, the best skill, they really have got everything at their feet.
"I'd expect them not just to go and be [PFA Players'] Player of the Year this year.
"I'd expect them to take it forward and get confidence from that and go and score 30 goals next season, be the best player in the league again, and dominate and dominate.
"He hasn't done that at the start of this season and he needs to pull himself out of it.
"Every player goes through a tough patch but he's got to do it quickly because that's what the best players do, they come out of these patches very quickly."
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Area pet owners shouldering steep vet bills hope their online campaigns will ease the burden.
Despite self-classifying 2015 as a "lost season," Rory McIlroy has enjoyed a pretty good year. He won four times across the world, was named European Tour Player of the Year, and perhaps most importantly, got engaged.
Moreover, Rory, already one of the more proactive personalities in the golf world regarding fan interaction, upped the ante this campaign. He famously gave away a driver to a fan and maintained a consistent and forthright presence on his social media accounts.
"When are you going on Howard Stern?" Rory: "Whenever he asks."
"Who would win in a wrestling match between you and Jordan Spieth?" Rory: "Me...although he might beat me in a putting match.
"Course you're most excited to play?" Rory: "Augusta."
Was it just me, or was there an ominous tone to McIlroy's "Augusta" answer? Almost like he was calling his shot. A green jacket would give McIlroy the career grand slam, and after the way he played at the end of the year, I wouldn't bet against him.
Of course, Jordan Spieth did just set a tournament record at age 21 last year, and I'm sure that Jason Day guy has something to say about it. Man, April can't get here soon enough.
PACOIMA – For homeowner Evalyn Burnie, the hard knocks were the lightest blows leading to the near-loss of her home.
First came breast cancer. Then the loss of her clerical job, which prompted her to refinance the family home with a controversial adjustable-rate mortgage. Then came the brink.
Burnie, 53, joined a throng of affordable-housing advocates as they announced the expansion of a program aimed at saving homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
During a community fair Saturday, experts will be available to connect homeowners with the Home Equity Loss Prevention program, administered by ACORN Housing.
Lenders such as Countrywide Finance and American Home Mortgage Servicing will be available to negotiate new terms with debtors, and loan counselors and public-interest lawyers will also be available for consultation.
“What we do is pressure the banks,” said Peter Kuhns, a Los Angeles organizer and activist for the nonprofit Association for Community Organizers for Reform Now, which claims to have helped 10,000 families save their homes.
Burnie said she was making $12.50 an hour working for a school district nutrition program when she got breast cancer and lost her job.
Relatives helped pay the bills while she battled medical problems, and she ultimately refinanced her house last year.
The result: Her house payment shot from $832 to $2,200 under an adjustable-rate mortgage whose rate will increase again in two years.
With Social Security paying her less than $1,600 a month, she’s on the brink of losing the family home.
“ACORN could not help me, because I didn’t have a budget to show the mortgage company,” Burnie said, dressed in a red ACORN T-shirt and cap. “But they gave me inspiration.
ACORN Housing will hold a free Foreclosure Prevention Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Braude Constituent Service Center, 6262 Van Nuys Blvd., Van Nuys.
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has warned that an attempt to impose sanctions on his nation would destabilise the region and the entire world.
Al-Assad was speaking on Sunday to Russia's Rossiya state television before this week's release of a UN report on the progress of the investigation into the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
He again declared Syria's innocence in the murder, and said the UN probe was politicised.
"The Middle East is the heart of the world, and Syria is the heart of the Middle East," al-Assad said. "If the situation in Syria and Iraq isn't good, the whole region will become unstable, and the entire world will pay for that."
An interim report by UN investigator Detlev Mehlis issued in October implicated top Syrian and Lebanese security officials in al-Hariri's assassination. The UN Security Council has warned Syria it has to cooperate fully with Mehlis' inquiry or face further action, a diplomatic code for sanctions.
Mehlis is to deliver the next report to the UN Security Council this week.
"If the situation in Syria and Iraq isn't good, the whole region will become unstable, and the entire world will pay for that"
The names of top Syrian officials - al-Assad's brother, Maher, and brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat - were removed from the previous report in what was seen then as a UN attempt to soften the findings.
Asked whether he would be eager to turn his relatives over to justice if they are named by investigators, al-Assad said that any citizen found guilty of involvement in the murder would be considered a traitor and severely punished, but added that the commission must provide hard proof for any of its claims.
"It's not names that matter ... but proof," al-Assad said. "We don't accept politicising the probe. There is a certain political situation around the commission that disorganises its work."
Russia has opposed sanctions against its Soviet-era ally, Syria, but strongly urged Damascus to cooperate with the UN investigators.
Despite the US and French pressure, "we have friendly relations with other countries which know and understand our position and realise that Syria is right," al-Assad said in the interview.
Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain on Thursday moved to AC Milan in a three-player swap deal between the seven-time European champions and Juventus that will see Leonardo Bonucci return to Turin after just a season away. Milan signed 30-year-old Higuain on a one-year loan deal worth a reported 18 million euros ($21 mill...
BAGHDAD, Iraq—Baghdad stood a city divided Thursday—divided between the secure and insecure, mayhem and calm, lawlessness and efforts to re-establish law, between a relatively peaceful, if chaotic, sector west of the Tigris River and a sector where combat still flared on the river's east.
To provide security, Marines set up a cordon of tanks, armed vehicles and barbed wire in the central city around hotels occupied by hundreds of foreign journalists. But there was no security for the Marines: a suicide bomber slipped up to a checkpoint there and blew himself up. Four Marines were seriously wounded.
Businesses remained shuttered in much of the city as looters continued to plunder abandoned government ministries. But some fruit stands and restaurants opened in the afternoon, and on a quiet corner a few men relaxed at a sidewalk cafe and sipped tea.
One man laughed as he watched his neighbors cart off appliances and furniture from the luxurious home nearby of a Baath party official. "Ali Babas," he said, gesturing toward them, using the term that everyone here equates with thieves.
Navy Chief Petty Officer Matthew Lubold said the finding of ciprofloxacin and Valium, used in the treatment of anthrax and nerve gas exposure respectively, could be suspicious. He also questioned why the state-owned cigarette factory—employer to many Baath Party members and activists—had so much unused medication when ...
Other defensive material had been stored at the factory. Also found in the basement of its main building were more than 2,000 unopened gas masks and air filters; about 30 pieces of new and used computer equipment of Syrian, American and British origin; and 150 assault rifles, including the Chinese SKS.
Throughout Baghdad, there was a sense of war and calm, but no clear sense of which could be found where.
Near the Tigris, men threw papers from a government building that had been blasted by U.S. tanks Wednesday. A man sat in a window and cheered as the papers floated down, some into the river below.
Two sharp explosions shook the riverbank—U.S. soldiers destroying a weapons cache found nearby.
At nightfall, a mosque across the street from the Palestine and Sheraton hotels was illuminated by electric lights. A mother sat reading evening prayers with a child.
In the distance, gunfire rattled sporadically in the city.
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York City Knights' half back Chris Thorman is likely to miss several games for the club after undergoing surgery on a broken thumb.
He played on with the injury in the Knights' win over Dewsbury in the Championship at the weekend.
Coach Dave Woods told BBC Radio York: "We don't know how long it will be (before he's fit).
"Doctors always give you the worst and they've said it could be anywhere between three weeks and ten weeks."
Woods added: "Knowing Chris he'll be wanting to be back as quick as possible."
Thorman will definitely miss Friday's game against Batley Bulldogs.
Woods said: "He had three breaks in his thumb and it was disjointed. He played on with that from the first half so it was a good effort from him and he's telling everyone too!
"Chris been playing some really good footy for us lately and I think having Anthony Thackeray there takes that pressure off him.
"It will be a loss to leave Chris out but like he said, him being out is an opportunity for someone else to step up."
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins flies above Peru while attached to the station's robotic arm during a spacewalk.
HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have received a gift just in time for Christmas: a new pump module to repair their ailing cooling system and to restore the outpost to full power.
NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins embarked on their second spacewalk together, setting out at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Tuesday (Dec. 24) to complete the work they began Saturday to remove and replace an ammonia pump module with a faulty flow control valve.
NASA's Mike Hopkins holds the space station's new pump module while floating past a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
"No, thank you guys," astronaut capcom Doug Wheelock replied from NASA's Mission Control in Houston. "It is the best Christmas ever. Thanks, guys."
"I'd just like to add to that," Hopkins said. "Fantastic work, merry Christmas to everybody. It took a couple of licks to get her done, but we got it."
The Christmas Eve EVA — extravehicular activity, NASA’s term for a spacewalk — had the two astronauts retrieve a spare of the refrigerator-size cooling system device and install it on the space station’s starboard, or right, side backbone truss. The 780-pound (355 kg) pump module replaced a faulty unit Mastracchio and ...
The removal, which came just 10 days after a valve inside the module ceased working properly, was originally slated to be part of this second outing, but Mastracchio and Hopkins made quick work of disconnecting the degraded unit, allowing them the time to also remove and stow the module during the spacewalk Saturday.
Their get-ahead work negated the need for a planned third spacewalk.
The failure of the flow control valve, which regulates the temperature of the ammonia coolant passing through the pump, resulted in restricting the space station to the use of just half of its cooling loop system needed to maintain equipment temperatures inside and outside of the outpost. Non-critical systems and scien...
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins prepares to attach himself to the International Space Station's robotic arm during a Christmas Eve spacewalk on Dec. 24, 2013.
The new pump module, installed by Mastracchio and Hopkins on Tuesday, was to return the space station to its full cooling and power capacity.
Trading spaces since their spacewalk together on Saturday, Hopkins, riding the end of the station’s robotic arm, and Mastracchio working alongside him, retrieved the spare pump module from the station’s External Stowage Platform 3 (ESP-3) and installed it in the slot on the truss they earlier emptied of the faulty unit...
“Mike, I think you're in charge now of the pump module,” Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata radioed Hopkins as he controlled the robotic arm to pull Hopkins and the spare pump module away from the stowage platform. “It looks good, you're doing a great job, it looks beautiful."
The two astronauts then set about connecting five electrical and four fluid lines linking the new module to the station’s systems. In the process, the pair ran into some trouble freeing one of the so-called “quick disconnect” lines from a temporary jumper box that the two installed during Saturday’s spacewalk.
“One thing we never expected,” Mastracchio observed.
“Getting it off the jumper box?” Hopkins replied.
“About one little snowflake a second,” Mastracchio reported to Mission Control, adding that the flakes did make contact with both astronauts’ spacesuits, a contamination concern.
As the line was vented, the astronauts confirmed it had “stopped snowing” and they proceeded with connecting it and the remaining lines to the new pump module. All nine lines were connected at about 12:45 p.m. EST (1645 GMT), 5 hours and 52 minutes into the spacewalk.
“Houston you have a new pump module,” Mastracchio radioed Mission Control.

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