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sábado, 30 de abril de 2011
Panorama 1b_Dog Hiking_Nora_Montseny_Barcelona
Panorama 1b_Dog Hiking_Nora_Montseny_Barcelona
Les Agudes (1707m) – Barcelona - Montseny
Dog hiking
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Sublime day hiking with our dog Nora
In the midst of this stunning landscape with breathtaking sceneries of outstanding beauty.
It is a beautiful example of one picture saying more than thousand words.
I hope you will enjoy the pictures as we did it on this sublime and amazing day.
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For us and for our dog Nora there is nothing more important than passing the time together so that Nora can experience freedom in the unique world of the mountains, being with nature in outstanding and inherent nature beauty sceneries, far away from civilization. One day more, we experienced memorable and unique moments that will last for ever.
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Mrtola e a Cultura rabe IPBeja0454
Mrtola e a Cultura rabe IPBeja0454
No dia 27 de Abril de 2011, no Auditrio 1 do IPBeja ,decorreu o colquio “Mrtola e a Cultura rabe”, organizado pela Cmara Municipal de Mrtola e a Escola Superior de Educao do IPBeja, no dia 27 de Abril de 2011.
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sexta-feira, 29 de abril de 2011
quinta-feira, 28 de abril de 2011
Lionel Messi an 'outrageous' talent Barcelona are lucky to have says Pep Guardiola after win over Real Madrid
Lionel Messi an ‘outrageous’ talent Barcelona are lucky to have says Pep Guardiola after win over Real Madrid
Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola hailed freescoring playmaker Lionel Messi following the Argentinian’s starring role in their tetchy 2-0 Champions League semi-final first leg victory over Real Madrid as an “outrageous” talent the Catalans are lucky to have.
A class apart: Lionel Messi's second goal for Barcelona in their win over Real Madrid turned an ugly match in to a thing of beauty Photo: REUTERS
By Telegraph staff and agencies 12:19AM BST 28 Apr 2011
Messi scored both goals in the 2-0 victory at the Bernabeu, the second of which was a breathtaking individual effort, to take his tally to an astonishing 52 in all competitions for Barca this season.
It also saw him move up to third in Barca’s all-time list of record goalscorers, with 179, leaving him behind only Cesar Rodriguez (235) and Ladislau Kubala (194).
“That’s the good fortune that we have, to be able to be a colleague of his,” Guardiola said.
A disappointing, foul laden match was decorated by the Argentinian twice late in the second half after Pepe had been harshly sent off for a foul on Daniel Alves.
His second goal especially will live long in the memory, though Guardiola was not surprised, claiming the wondrous slalom through the heart of the Real defence is repeated at Barcelona’s training ground when Messi has the ball.
“It’s not the first time he has done it,” the coach said.
“At the age of just 23 he is the third highest scorer in the history of Barca. It’s outrageous.
“But that’s the beauty of our football and our game.”
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quarta-feira, 27 de abril de 2011
Stoke's Matthew Etherington fighting to be fit for FA Cup final after hamstring injury against Wolves
Stoke's Matthew Etherington fighting to be fit for FA Cup final after hamstring injury against Wolves
Stoke winger Matthew Etherington will have a scan on his damaged hamstring today which could force him to miss the FA Cup final next month.
Sad sight: Matthew Etherington stretchered off against Wolves Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Telegraph staff and agencies 9:43AM BST 27 Apr 2011
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Etherington pulled up sharply, clutching his left leg, in the first half of the 3-0 Premier League victory against Wolves and was carried off on a stretcher.
The 29 year-old now faces a race against time to be fit to face Manchester City in the FA Cup final at Wembley on May 14.
It was another blow for Stoke manager Tony Pulis, with Ricardo Fuller (ruptured Achilles) and Danny Higginbotham (knee) already ruled out for the rest of the season.
Pulis said: "It is a massive disappointment for us. We won't know the extent of Matty's injury until he has a scan.
"But we will do our damnedest to make sure (he is ready) as he has 17-18 days yet. The first week is very important as we will get it sorted out.
"Then he will have 10 days after that to get it as strong as he possibly can to play in the final.
"Having lost Ricardo and Danny it is a massive blow because we haven't got the resources of Manchester City. It would have been tough enough with our best players."
On a more positive note, Stoke have almost certainly secured their top-flight status for a fourth successive season thanks to the win over Wolves last night, secured by goals from Kenwyne Jones, Ryan Shawcross and Jermaine Pennant.
Jones headed in his 11th goal of the season in the 16th minute and Shawcross added a second with a close-range finish on the stroke of half-time.
Pennant extended their lead in the 51st minute but Pulis is not relaxing just yet.
"It was a big game for us," he said. "The players' attitude and application towards the job was fantastic. The first half was as good as we have played in the Premier League.
"We hope our status is guaranteed now. To get to a fourth season in the Premier League and reach the FA Cup final is quite a remarkable journey."
It was Wolves' 13th defeat in 17 away league games and the prospect of relegation remains very real.
Manager Mick McCarthy said: "That's as poor as we have played here. They were better than us. They stopped us playing.
"It is a difficult time when you are in the bottom three and playing against a good side who have just got to Wembley.
"Playing for Premier League survival should be enough to motivate us. We will play better in the remaining four games."
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terça-feira, 26 de abril de 2011
Czech Republic - Prague - Praha - Dusk over Historical Center with St. Nicholas / Svaty Mikulas Church at Lesser Town Square / Malostranske Namesti
Czech Republic - Prague - Praha - Dusk over Historical Center with St. Nicholas / Svaty Mikulas Church at Lesser Town Square / Malostranske Namesti
St. Nicholas Church at the Lesser Town Square is the most important High Baroque building in Prague. The impressive cupola is more than 70 metres high and the nave of the church has a ceiling with one of the largest frescoes in Europe, painted on an area of 1500 square metres. There used to stand a Gothic Church of St. Nicolas in the area originally. It was handed over to the Jesuit Order after the victory of Catholicism in the 17 th century. The Jesuits planned to build a new large church there, so they bought the surrounding lots – gardens, schools and 12 houses. The old St. Nicholas Church was demolished and the foundation-stone for the new one was laid down festively in 1673.
Prague is surely one of the most visited European cities (especially now, when so many European tourists decided not to go to some Arabic countries and stay in Europe instead), and it was captured 1.000.000.000 x 1.000.000.000 over, so it is rather difficult to come with new view... this one is one of those that I have not seen anywhere else so far :-)
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segunda-feira, 25 de abril de 2011
Hafenmuseum >Hamburg<
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domingo, 24 de abril de 2011
Sunset over Donegal Hills from Portstewart
Sunset over Donegal Hills from Portstewart
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Slow Boat 2011
Slow Boat 2011
I went to the Black Country Museum yesterday as part of IYP (Ikon Youth Programme)'s slow boat project... Check out their blog here: iyp.tumblr.com
This was on the canal boat tour through the tunnels :-)
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sábado, 23 de abril de 2011
sexta-feira, 22 de abril de 2011
Wigan Warriors 28 St Helens 24: match report
Wigan Warriors 28 St Helens 24: match report
Read a full match report of the Super League match between Wigan Warriors and St Helens at the DW Stadium on Friday April 22, 2011.
In form: Patb Richards (centre) scored two tries as Wigan Warriors claimed a 28-24 victory over St Helens Photo: ACTION IMAGES
By Telegraph staff and agencies 5:16PM BST 22 Apr 2011
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Reigning man of steel Pat Richards scored two second-half tries to help Super League champions Wigan pull off a breathtaking derby victory over a depleted St Helens in front of capacity crowd of 24,000 at the DW Stadium.
Saints looked to have overcome a glut of injuries when they fought back brilliantly from 22-10 down after an hour to draw level with the aid of 19-year-old Tommy Makinson's first Super League try.
And Royce Simmons' men were on course to take advantage of Huddersfield's shock defeat by Crusaders to take over at the top of the table when young winger Jamie Foster's penalty goal edged them in front seven minutes from the end.
But the Warriors snatched the spoils with the last play of an enthralling match when substitute forward Liam Farrell went over for a fifth try to seal Wigan's first derby triumph in front of their own fans since 2007.
The visitors went into the game without six regulars and lost full-back Paul Wellens and half-back Gary Wheeler through injury 30 minutes into the match when they led 10-0.
Wheeler, a third-choice stand-off in the absence of Leon Pryce and Lee Gaskell, had played an important role in Saints' impressive opening, along with England duo James Roby and James Graham.
It was Roby, who has enjoyed an immense start to the season, who came up with the first break of the match, but the chance went begging when Wellens could not take the final pass, while Graham made his presence felt with a thunderous tackle that flattened Wigan's Kiwi international Jeff Lima.
Saints duly went in front on 13 minutes when second rower Sia Soliola put Wheeler through a hole in the home defence and England centre Michael Shenton crossed wide out for the game's first try.
It was no surprise, either, when the visitors extended their lead on 26 minutes, with Foster using an overlap to cross from centre Francis Meli's pass after Wigan's Joel Tomkins had come out of the line attempting an interception.
The older Tomkins made amends four minutes before half-time when he sent winger Josh Charnley over for Wigan's first try after brother Sam had cleverly switched the point of attack to stretch the Saints defence.
When the visitors were exposed out wide once more early in the second half, with George Carmont sending Richards over for his first try of the season, it was significant that vastly-experienced trio Wellens, Graham and Tony Puletua were all on the sidelines.
Graham was back in action shortly afterwards, but his first task was to deliver a rallying call behind the posts after the Tomkins brothers had yet again combined to get Charnley over for his second try, which put Wigan in front for the first time.
With Richards landing conversions from both touchlines, the champions were on a roll and the Ireland international was quick to cash in on Saints' disarray by scoring his second try after a break from Carmont.
When Richards kicked his third goal to make it 22-10 after 55 minutes, the game appeared over as a contest, but plucky Saints had other ideas.
Meli fashioned a second try for Foster, who kicked the touchline conversion to cut the gap to six points, and he levelled the scores on 68 minutes when converting Makinson's try, which was set up by Puletua.
Foster then maintained his composure to edge his side in front with seven minutes to go with a penalty goal after Carmont dropped on a loose ball in an offside position.
The drama continued right to the final whistle, however, with Graham pulling off a flying tackle to halt Sam Tomkins' mazy run and Richards twice going preciously close to completing a hat-trick.
Just when Saints looked to have weathered the storm, substitute Farrell found a chink in their defensive line to cross for the winning try and Richards added a fourth goal.
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quinta-feira, 21 de abril de 2011
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Photo prise lors des Rencontres Mditerranennes Toulon 2 octobre 2010
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quarta-feira, 20 de abril de 2011
Home Retail profits fall in tough trading conditions
Home Retail profits fall in tough trading conditions
Home Retail Group, owner of Argos and DIY-chain Homebase, reported a 9.5pc drop in pre-tax profits and warned trading will continue to be tough.
8:06AM BST 20 Apr 2011
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The group also said on Wednesday the Sara Weller, the managing direcor of Argos, is standing down for personal reasons.
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Profits fell to £265.2m in the year to February 26, down from £293m in previous year, the company said in its results statement. Revenue slid 2.8pc to £5.85bn and the cash gross margin fell 4pc to £2.18bn.
Looking ahead, the company said: "Prospects for the 2011/12 financial year are uncertain as consumers’ disposable income, and their willingness to spend, is impacted by an increased VAT rate, an increase in personal taxes and the rising cost of living plus the additional threat of public sector job losses and potential interest rate increases."
The company reiterated forecasts made with a profit warning last month that it expects a low-to-mid single digit percentage fall in like-for-like sales at Argos this financial year, along with a broadly flat outcome at Homebase.
Despite savings initiatives, Home Retail said rising prices would push up costs at both Argos and Homebase over the coming year.
The company will pay 10p a share dividend on July 20, maintaining its full year payout at 14.7p.
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Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish giving home-grown talent the chance to help shape the future at Anfield
Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish giving home-grown talent the chance to help shape the future at Anfield
After more than a decade of drought, Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish believes the production line of home-grown talent that groomed the likes of Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen is ready to start churning out the stars of Anfield’s future again.
Young guns: Jay Spearing (left) has shone since breaking into the Liverpool side Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Rory Smith 10:33PM BST 18 Apr 2011
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The Scot has already brought teenage full-backs John Flanagan and Jack Robinson — both of whom finished Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Arsenal – into his side, while granting another graduate of the club’s Kirkby academy, Jay Spearing, his first run in the senior team.
While all three have been fast-tracked into Dalglish’s plans because of Liverpool’s paper-thin squad and increasingly lengthy injury list — featuring Martin Kelly, another graduate – the 60 year-old has such faith in the quality of players being produced at youth team level that he is convinced they are blazing a trail many others will follow.
“I think some of [the academy players] have a lot to offer, whether it’s this year or next,” he said. “We are delighted with the progress the academy has made, and the individual players, too. It is in really good shape.
“Rafa [Benitez] put the structure in place over a year ago, bringing in Pep Segura and Rodolfo Borrell, and Frank MacParland going down there for recruitment. Since then, what they have done has been brilliant — really helpful to the players, and, if it’s helpful to them, it will be of use to the club.”
Dalglish, of course, was part of the original revamp of the academy staff, being brought in to work at Kirkby as a club ambassador. It was no surprise to see him sharing a smile with Robinson as he came on at the Emirates, or a quiet word with Flanagan after his clash of heads with Carragher: these are players he has seen grow up.
There are others, too. Raheem Sterling, the 16-year-old winger and star of the club’s Under-18 side, warmed up with Dalglish’s substitutes before the game against Arsenal, while Conor Coady, an England Under-17 captain, was included on the bench for a Europa League game with Sparta Prague.
The Scot insists he cannot explain why Liverpool’s formerly prolific youth system lay fallow for a decade — Stephen Warnock, now of Aston Villa, was the last player of note to emerge — but it is easy to conclude that his intricate knowledge of the academy means he is better placed to judge the merits of its products than any of his predecessors.
That, in turn, makes him uniquely placed to fulfil the wishes of the club’s new owners, to have a side comprised of big-money signings and free, home-grown talent.
“Certainly all the lads who have been here training I knew from working down there,” he said. “Maybe that does help, but maybe you know too much about them. It does not matter where the squad comes from, it is the quality that is most important. The greatest priority is ability, and we have been delighted by what we have seen from the academy.
“We have also got to be really careful we don’t throw them in and spoil them and then don’t have them for the future.”
One noteworthy graduate, though, is clearly impressed by what he has seen of the new generation. It should, perhaps, be of no surprise that
Carragher is confident the future is in safe hands: his eight-year-old son, also James, enrolled in the club’s academy last week.
“Over the last few years the academy has had a bit of criticism,” said Carragher. “But over the last 15 or 20 years there cannot be many clubs to have produced more quality players than Liverpool. There are still players to come through but. what Flanagan and Robinson look like they have already, is character in abundance.
“To play for Liverpool you need that, no matter how good you are because you have ups and downs.”
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terça-feira, 19 de abril de 2011
Department stores ditch perfume sprayers
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When you walk into a department store what is the #1 thing you dread most? OK, besides a frustrating dressing room experience trying on bathing suits. For us it's desperately trying to avoid the people who spray perfume at you. We try to avoid the fragrance department unless absolutely necessary because it's nauseating and headache inducing (even when they don't smell like bacon), and we've never actually been convinced to buy a scent after receiving an unwelcome spritz. So today is a happy day.
Department stores are phasing out perfume sprayers! Rejoice! According to a recent New York Times article, fragrance experts like marketer Pamela Vaile have realized that “accosting a consumer with your product doesn’t convey luxury." Apparently these spritzers came to fruition in the 1950s when women first started buying perfume for themselves. Back then, the market was new and ladies could be swayed into trying—and buying—a new scent, but women are more savvy now and prefer testing products out on their own rather than forced into their nostrils. Marketer Ann Gottlieb told the New York Times, "It’s gone from being something that was a little bit fun, and something you could avoid since there weren’t that many of them, to feeling like you’re dodging bullets all the time." Yes! Thank you for noticing!
Sephora's Deluxe Fragrance Sampler
Instead of spraying wrists, salespeople have been advised to give customers a paper or ribbon misted with perfume. But over the coming months, department stores will phasing out the professional perfume sprayers for knowledgeable salespeople who will as you about your fragrance preferences—a great improvement, especially with the ultra-saturated and confusing fragrance market. Nordstrom will soon have "fragrance advisers," sort of like a stylist who can help you achieve the scent you're looking for. They'll ask which scents you've liked in the past, and if you prefer florals or woody orientals, and provide samples for you to take home and try and your convenience. This will give the customer "what’s right for her, not what we think is right for her," Laurie Black, the executive vice president for cosmetics at Nordstrom, told the New York Times.
We've always loved the way Sephora salespeople let you browse but are on hand to help and provide samples. They even offer three different gift boxes of 10-14 fragrance samples (for a total of $50) that come with a voucher to select a free full size bottle of your favorite in the store (click here to buy). We're much more likely to buy from a store with less aggressive, more knowledgable salespeople so let's hope all stores catch on soon.
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London Wasps 51 Leeds Carnegie 18: match report
London Wasps 51 Leeds Carnegie 18: match report
Read a full match report of the Aviva Premiership game between London Wasps and Leeds Carnegie at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday, April 16 2011.
Touchdown: Zak Taulafo (left) is congratulated by his Wasps team-mates after scoring a try at Adams Park Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Mick Cleary, Rugby Correspondent, at Adams Park 7:08PM BST 17 Apr 2011
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At a time when Leeds’s Premiership prospects look decidedly bleak after their 16th league defeat, Wasps have set about shaping their own future. Elliot Daly, an 18-year-old schoolboy centre, is the pick of a crop of fresh-faced youngsters entrusted with restoring the club to their former glory. Leeds, level on points at the bottom with Newcastle but having played a game more, could only look on forlornly. The abyss beckons.
Wasps certainly needed to do something to pull out of their own tailspin. Injury may have forced their hand but the presence of 11 players under the age of 23 (three of them schoolboys) in their match-day squad only illustrates that Wasps should trust in youth if they are to bring the good times back to Adams Park. The kids certainly brought energy and a devil-may-care attitude. Scrum-half Joe Simpson, hardly geriatric at 22, was a handful, busy and purposeful, scoring two tries and orchestrating play splendidly.
“I want people to look back in 10 years’ time and see a day like this as the start of the revolution,” said Wasps’ acting director of rugby, Leon Holden. “The young players have got no fear and there’s a touch of arrogance about them such that they’ll do things older players wouldn’t do.”
Daly, who will take up a three-year contract in the summer after finishing his A-levels at Whitgift School in Croydon, has been a star turn for England Under-20s this season, scoring seven tries in their Grand Slam junior Six Nations campaign. He has pace, balance and a punch in the tackle, and twice floored big lumps opposite him. Both tackles, first on heavyweight Leeds centre Luther Burrell and later on England hooker Steve Thompson, set up tries for Wasps. Joe Simpson finished off the first after Richard Haughton had hacked through, Haughton himself completed the honours for the second such try shortly after half-time.
Wasps are mindful of the celebrity circus that enveloped one of their former young bucks, Danny Cipriani. They stress only that a lot lies before Daly. That is true. And that can only make followers of English rugby feel upbeat and hopeful. The likes of Courtney Lawes and Ben Youngs have come through the same route. Daly is next in line.
“Seeing what they’ve done does give you that impetus that it could be you one day,” said Daly, who eventually succumbed to a heavy knock to his shoulder in the 64th minute but his work was done.
Wasps are pretty much outside the reckoning in the Premiership in eighth place, a fittingly low placing given that this was only their second victory in their past eight league matches. At least, though, they are finishing with a sense of purpose and can look forward to their St George’s Day outing against Bath at Twickenham on Saturday with relish.
For Leeds, there is only an all-too-familiar grim struggle to stave off relegation. Their survival is out of their hands. They play Harlequins at home this weekend before a final day trip to high-flying Northampton. Their points difference is inferior to Newcastle who have that precious game in hand.
There was a real sense that they might get something from their travels here. They fielded a gnarled pack of forwards and from their early dominance in the set-piece, it looked as if that experience might get some purchase against a callow Wasps side. For long stretches of a hard-fought first half that is exactly what appeared about to happen.
Aside from Simpson’s early first score, Leeds traded on pretty much equal terms. At 5-3 with just seven minutes to go to the break, the match had the air of a typically scrappy end-of-season affair. Then a yellow card was shown, rather harshly, to Leeds full-back Michael Stephenson, and Wasps took full advantage.
Within quarter of an hour of the second half starting Wasps led 37-6, Haughton having scored tries either side of half-time, hooker Joe Ward crashing over and Simpson bagging a second.
Leeds’s die was well and truly cast. They did not fold but they were too one-paced and limited. Rhys Oakley got one back before a rattle of tries from Harrow schoolboy, Billy Vunipola and prop, Zak Taulafo, settled the issue, Christian Lewis-Pratt scoring with the last act of the match for Leeds.
“The squad feel they let everyone down but we’re still going to give it a dig,” said Leeds’s head coach, Neil Back.
His side will need all that defiance in the coming days.
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Dave Grohl interview
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'The Nicest Man in Rock' on endless touring, the legacy of Nirvana and what he'd do to protect the Foos
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By Craig McLean 8:48AM BST 18 Apr 2011
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Is Dave Grohl, leader of Foo Fighters and former drummer with Nirvana, The Nicest Man In Rock? Everyone – journalists, other musicians, his mother – says he is. But is he really? Here’s the case against. For one thing, these days he may be a happily married father of two, but after his first marriage ended, he had a John Lennon-style “Lost Weekend”.
“I moved to Los Angeles for one year in 1997. That was post-divorce,” remembers the 42-year-old who, via his two Nirvana albums and six Foo Fighters releases, can lay claim to record sales of 25 million copies. He didn’t lose himself in a haze of drug abuse, “but I did all of the other things...”
So, he’s a sleazeball. Well, he was. Briefly. Fourteen years ago. “And that’s it. That was enough for me, that one year. Because how could that possibly make you feel fulfilled? That momentary reward isn’t enough.”
More evidence for the prosecution: Foo Fighters have been chugging onwards, pumping out sturdy pop-rock hit singles (This Is A Call, Everlong, Times Like These) since 1995, the year after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain shot himself. But they’ve had a revolving door of personnel in that time. The man responsible for the hiring, firing and retiring of a fistful of guitarists and drummers? David Eric Grohl.
This merry-go-round is recounted in wincing detail in Back And Forth, a new documentary about the band. It is being released in cinemas in parallel with the appearance of the latest Foo Fighters album, Wasting Light. However, all the ex-members of the band were happy to be interviewed for the film. If grudges are held, they’re outweighed by the musicians’ continued respect for their erstwhile leader. Plus, to his credit, Grohl admits he found it “abso-f------ -lutely uncomfortable watching the film”.
Did he feel guilty? “Totally. Yeah, it was hard – but it’s a true story so why not tell it?”
The Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and guitarist says that his “territorial” protection of his band is what led him, for example, to re-record all the drums himself on Foo Fighters’ second album, The Colour And The Shape (1997), much to the distress of the band’s then-drummer (cue drummer walking out). “I did it because I knew the album wasn’t going to make it unless I did.” Thus, paradoxically, protecting the band is what makes him get his “claws out”?
“Absolutely,” he nods vigorously, pointing out that the current line-up of the band has been unchanged for five years. “I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.” The prosecution rests, and will proffer a plea bargain. The evidence suggests that Grohl may indeed be The Nicest Person In Rock, a smart, candid, respectful, generous, enthusiastic purist. He even loves Ikea.
My month shadowing Grohl and his bandmates (guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett, bassist Nate Mendel, drummer Taylor Hawkins) begins one February night at the plush premises of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts in central London.
Bafta is hosting a screening of Back And Forth. As a piece of “rockumentary” film-making goes, it exhaustively grills the band about their relationships with each other – in the words of the singer, there are few “wacky tour anecdotes”. In unflashy detail, and via archive footage and new interviews with the band conducted by the director (“I did 14 hours!”), it details Grohl’s musical history: pre-Nirvana, when he was in punk bands in Los Angeles and Seattle; joining Nirvana in 1990, prior to the recording of their landmark second album Nevermind; his “crash course in rock”, between 1991-94, when the trio, contrary to anyone’s expectations, became the biggest band in the world; the horror of Cobain’s descent into heroin addiction and his suicide, 17 years ago, at the age of 27.
As the nearly two-hour film zips onwards, we see Grohl’s re-emergence as a gifted writer and frontman in his own right. It was more than anyone expected from the drummer dubbed “grunge Ringo” – even if he had been fundamental to the success of a band that reshaped what “alternative rock” meant.
Then we follow 16 years of roaring success – in support of their last album, 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Foo Fighters sold out two nights at Wembley Stadium; that’s 170,000 tickets – and some occasionally troubling inter-personnel trauma. After the screening, the band file into the Bafta bar. Strapping, well-preserved Grohl is dressed, as is his is wont, in a rock-oriented T-shirt (Motorhead), jeans and trainers. His shiny hair is shoulder-length, his goatee neatly trimmed; his tattooed forearms are meaty, his teeth bright, white and big.
The following night, Foo Fighters are guests of honour at the NME Awards at Brixton Academy in south London. Grohl is being honoured as 2011’s “Godlike Genius” by the music magazine. Towards the end of the boozy bash, Roger Daltrey presents Grohl’s award. The Who frontman introduces Grohl by saying he’d heard “the sound of knickers hitting the floor when Dave walked in the room”. A sheepish Grohl concludes a short speech by saying “this one’s for Kurt”. When I ask why he said this, he replies: “Because can’t you imagine that he would have had that award years ago? So yeah, I was sharing it with him.”
At the close of the ceremony, Foo Fighters were expected to play a short set of four or five songs. They began with Daltrey joining them on a cover of The Who’s Young Man Blues. They ended, two and a half hours later, with Grohl playing another huge guitar solo.
The next night, they turn up at the invitation-only opening of an exhibition dedicated to Queen, being held in an old brewery in Shoreditch. Grohl, a rock Anglophile whose earliest music obsession was Led Zeppelin, admits to being a fan.
Roger Taylor and Brian May, the two active/alive members of the band, also turned up. But, Grohl tells me afterwards, he didn’t enjoy it so much. “I wanted to be this anonymous Queen fan, walking around and taking it all in, with the headphones on. But I wound up having to pose for a picture with everybody and their mother. So I gave up after about an hour.”
I next see Foo Fighters in mid-March. They’ve come to Austin, Texas, to SXSW (South By Southwest), a music festival for, mainly, up and coming “buzz” bands. There is also a film strand, and the LA-based five-piece are here to premiere their documentary. And while they’re here, they might as well do another secret show. They play for almost two hours behind a rib shack called Stubbs. The second song is new single Rope, which already sounds like a classic Foos anthem.
The following afternoon, the band are in a stone-built, 90-year-old scout hut in a country park a little way from the centre of town. Grohl, true to engaging form, is buzzing: happy to be “on the road”, happy to be talking about the new record, thrilled to be launching it at SXSW. That said, he is missing his children. Violet is four and Harper is 18 months old. Jordyn, the wife he met 10 years ago and a former MTV producer, is used to his extended absences. But having a young family was one reason he decided to make Wasting Light at home, in his garage. The documentary’s final portion sees these recording sessions, with walk-on parts for his children.
“I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids. This,” he says, showing me a chunky gold ring with his initials on it, “the day I was leaving, my daughter said, ‘Daddy, I want you to wear this. And every time you miss me, look at this ring and just know that I love you so much’. She’s not even five! I was blown away.”
Grohl is a renowned workaholic – he has participated in numerous musical side-projects, and one of the themes of Back And Forth is just how long Foo Fighters spend on tour.
Does having a young family make him use his time more efficiently? “Yeah. I was talking to my mother about this the other day. She was a public school teacher for 35 years, so she worked. And I was driving to the studio – because even on our time off, it’s not time off – I’m in there every day, 10 in the morning, doing stuff. I’m president of Foos Inc, that f------ corporation!”
His mother, who now lives near him in LA, was worried he worked too hard. He had to tell her that was how she’d raised him. After his parents divorced when he was seven – his father was a political speech writer in Washington DC – money was scarce. Hard work was ingrained.
In any case, Grohl points out as we talk on a windy terrace overlooking Austin: “How could you not want to do this? I get to sit around and talk about rock’n’roll all day, then go play music with my friends and laugh my a-- off backstage, until it’s time to have a beer and get 80,000 people to sing with me. That’s not work!”
Does Violet understand what her father’s job is?
“Absolutely. We have this Richard Scarry book, Busytown. Joe’s a plumber, Joe fixes your pipes when they’re blocked. This is a lawyer, he helps people settle arguments.” One day two years ago, Grohl had to go to the “office”: 606 Studios, Foo Fighters’ huge rehearsal and recording facility in Northridge, 45 minutes’ drive from West Hollywood. “And I said, ‘OK, Boo, I’m leaving’.”
“‘Where are you going?’”
“‘I’m going to work’.”
“‘Why?’”
“‘Well, some daddies are lawyers, some are doctors – I’m a musician, that’s my job. And I go to work so that I can make money so we can have food and you can have clothes and you can have toys’. And she immediately said, ‘I don’t have enough toys!”’ Grohl laughs uproariously.
“But I have little tricks – if I’m gone for 10 days, I’ll write 10 letters, and every day I’m gone, my wife gives them a letter. Or I make a calendar and I’ll let them draw the pictures. I left high school at 17. I was on the road on my 18th birthday. And my mother watched me jump in a van with five other dirty punk rockers, and I’d say, ‘OK, I’ll be back in two months’. Called her once or twice from a payphone, sent her a postcard.”
Pause. “I would never let my child do that!”
His life, he says, revolves around two families: the band, and his wife and kids. They, and his closeness to his roots, kept him grounded when he might have been expected to lose it in the manner of so many rockers before him.
“When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family. And if I ever felt like I was being swept away, I’d just run back to Virginia. Drinking at the rib restaurant with my buddies, and the bartender I went to high school with, that’s what kept me from losing it.”
Also, he has perspective on the destructive force of drugs. He lost Cobain, and he almost lost Taylor Hawkins. The Foo Fighters drummer overdosed in London in 2001 and Grohl sat with him until he came out of his coma. “A part of me resented music for doing this to my friends. I just felt like, ‘I don’t want to play any more if it’s gonna make my friend die’.” He seriously thought about giving up music? “Absolutely!” Grohl says forcefully. “When he woke up, I said, ‘Dude, I just want you to know, we’re not talking about the band until you’re ready.’ And we didn’t for a while.”
His inner-strength, he acknowledges, had been forged early on. And, in a way, out of necessity. “I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. And I didn’t do hard drugs. I saw it as something that would make everything a little more difficult.
“I also know myself well enough to keep out of that. As soon as I get my face in a pile of coke, it’s game over – teeth out, money gone. You see the way I drink coffee! It’d be all over!” he laughs.
“Plus, I’ve seen it before – before I was in Nirvana I knew people who had OD’d. I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?”
What kind of 44-year-old does Grohl think Cobain would have been? “I don’t know,”’he says a little heavily. “He’d probably be the same 25-, 26-year-old he was. Unfortunately we’ll never know.” Talking about Cobain is the one time his natural ebullience levels off. Next month is the 20th anniversary of the recording of Nevermind. Grohl admits the memory of those more innocent times still looms large in his thoughts.
As does, it seems, Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, with whom there is no love lost. The infamously ranting sometime-musician has variously claimed that Grohl used to repeatedly “hit on” her; that Cobain “loathed” Grohl; and that he wanted him out of Nirvana.
In a manner more legal than gutter, Grohl and Krist Novoselic have clashed with Love over the commercial use (and abuse) of Nirvana’s music and Cobain’s legacy, most recently over a Cobain avatar that appeared on computer game Guitar Hero 5. On the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace song Let It Die, Grohl sang of “a simple man and his blushing bride/intravenous, intertwined” – widely seen as a reference to Kurt and Courtney.
Today, mention of Love makes him grit his teeth, but he leavens his scant comments with humour. “Can I describe my relationship with Courtney in three words? No. I. Can’t!”
Grohl says he continues to dream about his former bandmate. Making Wasting Light with producer Butch Vig (who worked on Nevermind) and having the band’s bass player Novoselic guest on a song, “brought back some really funny memories. When you’re with people who were there at the same time, you feel like you’re there again.”
Are the dreams musical? “No,” he begins. “Well, I’ve had a few dreams where Kurt shows up and I’m so blown away. ‘Wait, you never died?’ For whatever reason, he’d just been hiding.” He smiles, a little. “And the three of us get together to be a band again.” He pauses and frowns. “It’s totally weird.”
The afternoon ahead is packed with media engagements. In the evening, Foo Fighters are premiering Rope on an MTV show being filmed live in Austin. Then it’s home to LA for a while. On the horizon: a summer of touring, including two sold-out performances at Milton Keynes Bowl. Until then, Grohl will slip back into his domestic role.
“There have been times in LA when I’ll be in a farmers’ market with my wife and we’re sitting down away from everyone, and she’s breastfeeding our child – and paparazzi are taking pictures of her breastfeeding! If I didn’t think I’d get sued I’d murder that person. How dare anyone do something like that?”
The Nicest Guy In Rock is angry. Time to wind him up further. Recently there was a statistical analysis of the kind of songs that had been successful in the charts in 2010. For the first time, r&b and pop dominated, at the expense of the musical form that has occupied most of Grohl’s waking – and sometimes dreaming – thoughts since his adolescence.
So, does Dave think rock is dead? He scoffs. “They say that every year. What, it’s dead again?” He grins his toothy grin. “Ask the 130,000 people who bought a ticket to Milton Keynes if they think rock is dead. I don’t. It’s not dead to me. Never has been.”
‘Wasting Light’ (Columbia) is out now. For tour details visit www.foofighters.com
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Manchester City v Manchester United: Owen Hargreaves out for rest of season and may have played his last game
Manchester City v Manchester United: Owen Hargreaves out for rest of season and may have played his last game
Owen Hargreaves could have played his last game for Manchester United after manager Sir Alex Ferguson revealed the midfielder almost certainly will not be fit before the end of the season.
Injury-plagued: Owen Hargreaves' career has been be-set by problems Photo: PA
By Telegraph staff and agencies 11:38AM BST 15 Apr 2011
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The England international has endured chronic injury problems since his arrival from Bayern Munich in 2007.
Although he was a member of Manchester United's Premier League and Champions League-winning squads during his debut campaign, he had to battle through a major tendinitis problem in both knees, which eventually required surgery.
Hargreaves managed only seconds on the field last term, during a late-season encounter at Sunderland and lasted just five minutes of a surprise start against Wolves at Old Trafford this year before pulling his hamstring.
Now the 30 year-old has sustained a shoulder injury which Ferguson does not believe he will recover from. Hargreaves' contract is due to expire in the summer and there must now be major question marks over him ever playing for United again.
"I don't see it at all," said Ferguson. "It is a shoulder injury. It has just brought his season to an end.
"He has just carried bad luck all the time he has been here. I am pretty sure he won't be playing this season.
"His contract is up at the end of the season but I don't know what is going to happen.
"(United chief executive) David Gill had a discussion with the boy last week. But no more than that. We have to make a decision."
Wayne Rooney and Jonny Evans are both missing too through suspension, whilst Ferguson revealed Scotland international Darren Fletcher is still a couple of weeks away from a return after being laid low by a chronic virus that has kept him out since the defeat at Liverpool on March 6.
"Darren Fletcher is back in training now," said Ferguson. "He is not doing a lot but he has put the weight back on, which is good. He is a couple of weeks away."
Ferguson otherwise has a clean bill of health for one of the most significant derby clashes in recent memory, with midfielder Anderson pushing for a start after coming through a midweek reserve-team outing.
"He is much better now," said Ferguson. "We thought the Chelsea game would be too much for him because we knew what the pace was likely to be.
"Tomorrow should be a very exciting game. It is a derby match in London, which is unusual in itself.
"But we have great momentum at the moment. We are playing well and confidence is high and we are looking forward to it."
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St Johnstone 0 Celtic 1: match report
St Johnstone 0 Celtic 1: match report
Read a full match report of the SPL match between St Johnstone and Celtic at McDiarmid Park on Tuesday April 12, 2011, kick-off 1800BST.
Off the mark: Beram Kayal (left) celebrates his first goal for Celtic with captain Scott Brown Photo: PA
By Telegraph staff and agencies 8:12PM BST 12 Apr 2011
Beram Kayal's first Celtic goal was enough to beat St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park and take the Hoops five points clear of Rangers at the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.
The Hoops midfielder, signed from Maccabi Haifa last summer, struck in added time in the first half to give Neil Lennon's side a deserved interval lead which they never looked like losing.
Saints survived a controversial penalty claim in the 85th minute when substitute Michael Duberry appeared to handle the ball twice in the box as he lay on the ground but referee Iain Brines surprisingly took no action.
Had the home side somehow managed to grab an equaliser no doubt more would have been made of that decision but as it was Celtic saw the game out and put pressure on to the champions who play Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Wednesday night.
Celtic boss Lennon, who returned to the dugout for the first time following a five-match touchline ban, took the acclaim of the travelling support at the end realising his side are again in the driving seat in the title race.
Lennon had earlier sprung a surprise by naming Daryl Murphy in his side.
The burly Irish striker had not featured since February 1 at Aberdeen but was paired with Georgios Samaras in attack as Celtic tried to overcome a poor playing surface by adopting a more direct approach.
Celtic skipper Scott Brown returned to midfield while Mark Wilson came back in at right back, both having been rested for the win over St Mirren at the weekend.
Saints boss Derek McInnes had one eye on Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final with Motherwell at Hampden when he named his side, leaving key players Duberry and Chris Millar on the bench.
Rather bizarrely, moments after the game began referee Brines had to call a halt when several balls bounced on to the pitch after coming from outside the stadium, as Celtic fans held up banners protesting about the six o'clock kick-off.
Murphy set up Samaras a couple of times in the early stages with headers but the Greek striker failed to take advantage.
However, in the 10th minute Saints keeper Graeme Smith made a decent save down at his right-hand post from Kris Commons' free-kick, awarded when Graham Gartland fouled Murphy.
Six minutes later, as the visitors pressed again, Commons volleyed over the bar from distance with Smith out of his goal after the keeper had come out to punch clear, before making a save from a Samaras header.
The visitors were firmly in control in the 25th minute and Murphy should have scored with a free header from a Charlie Mulgrew corner but the former Sunderland striker somehow missed the target from six yards.
On the half-hour mark Samaras had a great chance when he was set up by Brown inside the box but Smith made a good block from the former Manchester City striker's side-footed effort.
There was fury in the St Johnstone dugout when referee Brines refused to give a free-kick at the edge of the box when Brown tangled with Stevie May but that soon subsided as a brief spell of pressure from the home side came to an end.
But there was to be a sting in the tail for the Saints just as they believed they had survived the first 45 minutes. In the first minute of added time Brown flicked the ball on to Kayal who got the break of the ball inside the box before he knocked it past Smith with the outside of his foot.
Kayal's goal had changed the complexion of the game and St Johnstone looked a little more urgent at the start of the second half.
McDiarmid Park midfielder Murray Davidson was replaced in the 50th minute by Chris Millar but the SPL leaders retained their grip on the game.
The tempo dipped for a spell with neither side offering much in attack and neither keeper was seeing much action although Smith made a comfortable save from Commons' long-distance effort in the 62nd minute.
A minute later at the other end, Fraser Forster made a fine save from Liam Craig's 25-yard drive, the Celtic keeper diving to his left to push the shot round the post for a corner which came to nothing, before Duberry replaced Saints defender Dave Mackay.
St Johnstone's Danny Grainger was booked following his late challenge on Mark Wilson before Hoops' defender Emilio Izaguirre picked up a caution for catching Cleveland Taylor.
With 10 minutes remaining, Saints substitute Millar walked off the pitch appearing to have picked up an injury leaving the Perth men, who had used all three replacements, to play out the rest of the match with 10 men.
There was a moment of controversy five minutes from the end Duberry fell on the by-line under pressure from Samaras and appeared to grab the ball twice.
However, Brines, looking bemused, waving play on as the Celtic players and supporters roared for what looked to be an obvious penalty.
Brown cracked the bar with a drive in the 88th minute and from the rebound, Shaun Maloney, on for Commons, headed towards goal but Smith got back to claw the ball away on the line but the second goal was not needed.
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Carlo Ancelotti has doubts over his Chelsea future after admitting blunder in playing Fernando Torres
Carlo Ancelotti conceded his Chelsea future is beyond his control after admitting he may have made a mistake by selecting Fernando Torres ahead of Didier Drogba in the club’s Champions League exit at Old Trafford.
Worried man: Carlo Ancelotti admitted his future is out of his hands after Chelsea's Champions League exit Photo: ACTION IMAGES
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Torres is still waiting for his first Chelsea goal since his £50million transfer from Liverpool after being replaced by Drogba at half-time during the Premier League champions’ 2-1 quarter-final second-leg defeat against Manchester United.
With his 11-game goal drought now appearing to have drained the Spanish forward of any remaining confidence, Ancelotti’s decision to start with Torres looked to have backfired with Drogba scoring in an impressive second-half performance.
And when asked whether his decision to keep faith with Torres was a mistake, Ancelotti said: “Maybe. Could be, but I thought a lot of time to take this decision.
“I preferred to start with Fernando for this kind of game, with these kind of tactics, but Didier played very well in the second half. He did better than Torres in his 45 minutes.
“I wanted to put more pressure in front. We needed to score. Didier was fresh and could use his power in front. This was the reason I took off Fernando.
“We have to believe (in Torres), though. We have to wait until he improves.”
Ancelotti, a two-time Champions League winner with AC Milan, admitted he cannot be certain whether he will remain as Chelsea manager long enough to see Torres finally justify his transfer fee, however.
“I don't know.” Ancelotti said. “It's not the kind of question a manager can answer.
“I’m not concerned. I have to work. I have to try to do my best. It’s not my decision whether I stay or not here. I haven’t spoken with him (Roman Abramovich).”
Ancelotti dismissed Sir Alex Ferguson’s claim he ‘had to play’ Torres from the start in the game.
“This is not true.” Ancelotti said. “I put Fernando in because he has skills and ability that could be good for us.”
Ferguson, who will look forward to his seventh Champions League semi-final as United manager against Schalke or Inter Milan later this month, insisted that Torres will eventually come good at Chelsea.
He said: “If you had the opportunity to sign Torres, you wouldn’t have turned it down. He (Ancelotti) wouldn’t have turned it down.
“Everyone said at the time it was a fantastic piece of business. You can’t criticise him for that. He’s a good signing.
“It’s not working at the moment, but he’s a young man with other seasons ahead.
“He’s a good player, but Nemanja (Vidic) and (Rio) Ferdinand, with their experience, should be able to handle the best players in the world. They’re up in there in that sphere of being top players themselves.”
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Carlo Ancelotti has doubts over his Chelsea future after admitting blunder in playing Fernando Torres
Carlo Ancelotti conceded his Chelsea future is beyond his control after admitting he may have made a mistake by selecting Fernando Torres ahead of Didier Drogba in the club’s Champions League exit at Old Trafford.
Worried man: Carlo Ancelotti admitted his future is out of his hands after Chelsea's Champions League exit Photo: ACTION IMAGES
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Torres is still waiting for his first Chelsea goal since his £50million transfer from Liverpool after being replaced by Drogba at half-time during the Premier League champions’ 2-1 quarter-final second-leg defeat against Manchester United.
With his 11-game goal drought now appearing to have drained the Spanish forward of any remaining confidence, Ancelotti’s decision to start with Torres looked to have backfired with Drogba scoring in an impressive second-half performance.
And when asked whether his decision to keep faith with Torres was a mistake, Ancelotti said: “Maybe. Could be, but I thought a lot of time to take this decision.
“I preferred to start with Fernando for this kind of game, with these kind of tactics, but Didier played very well in the second half. He did better than Torres in his 45 minutes.
“I wanted to put more pressure in front. We needed to score. Didier was fresh and could use his power in front. This was the reason I took off Fernando.
“We have to believe (in Torres), though. We have to wait until he improves.”
Ancelotti, a two-time Champions League winner with AC Milan, admitted he cannot be certain whether he will remain as Chelsea manager long enough to see Torres finally justify his transfer fee, however.
“I don't know.” Ancelotti said. “It's not the kind of question a manager can answer.
“I’m not concerned. I have to work. I have to try to do my best. It’s not my decision whether I stay or not here. I haven’t spoken with him (Roman Abramovich).”
Ancelotti dismissed Sir Alex Ferguson’s claim he ‘had to play’ Torres from the start in the game.
“This is not true.” Ancelotti said. “I put Fernando in because he has skills and ability that could be good for us.”
Ferguson, who will look forward to his seventh Champions League semi-final as United manager against Schalke or Inter Milan later this month, insisted that Torres will eventually come good at Chelsea.
He said: “If you had the opportunity to sign Torres, you wouldn’t have turned it down. He (Ancelotti) wouldn’t have turned it down.
“Everyone said at the time it was a fantastic piece of business. You can’t criticise him for that. He’s a good signing.
“It’s not working at the moment, but he’s a young man with other seasons ahead.
“He’s a good player, but Nemanja (Vidic) and (Rio) Ferdinand, with their experience, should be able to handle the best players in the world. They’re up in there in that sphere of being top players themselves.”
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Mark Cueto banned by Sale Sharks for rest of season following citing for alleged eye gouging
Mark Cueto banned by Sale Sharks for rest of season following citing for alleged eye gouging
England wing Mark Cueto has been banned by his club Sale Sharks for six weeks.
Internal punishment: Sale Sharks have banned Mark Cueto for six weeks Photo: ACTION IMAGES
By Telegraph staff and agencies 12:22PM BST 09 Apr 2011
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Sale's punishment follows his citing for making contact with the eye or eye area of Northampton lock Christian Day during an Aviva Premiership game at Franklin's Gardens last Saturday.
Cueto, a pivotal figure during England's recent Six Nations title-winning campaign, faces a Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing on Monday.
The Sale suspension means that he will not play for his club again this season, as they have no chance of making the Premiership title play-offs.
Cueto did not play in last night's 36-31 victory over Gloucester at Edgeley Park. His replacement Paul Williams scored two tries.
And Sale's hard-line stance suggests that Cueto might be in for a difficult evening when he faces RFU disciplinary chiefs in Haydock.
Even if the RFU decide Cueto's alleged offence was at the lower end of their punishment scale, he could land a 12-week ban.
But that could rise to anything from 18 weeks to the maximum sanction of a three-year punishment.
Cueto's current England team-mate Dylan Hartley collected a six-month suspension in 2007 for gouging, and it is an offence the sport's disciplinarians have repeatedly vowed to crack down on.
A long-term absence from the game would threaten Cueto's participation for England in the World Cup, which kicks off in just five months' time.
Announcing his club suspension, Sale executive director of sport Steve Diamond said a decision had been made following discussions between club owner Brian Kennedy and the coaching staff.
Diamond said: "I have spoken to owner Brian Kennedy and the coaching staff, and we decided on this action.
"Mark let the club and his team-mates down, and he is very upset that he has done so.
"He will present himself at the disciplinary hearing on Monday evening, and hopefully he will learn from his actions."
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