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Il difensore del Manchester City Micah Richards è la prima vittima illustre dell’ influenza suina, virus che ha contratto durante le vacanza a Cipro. Il giocatore della “Blue Moon” è già in via di guarigione e presto inizierà la preparazione per la prossima stagione che nelle intenzioni dei “Citizens” dovrebbe essere quella del tanto atteso riscatto, dopo milioni di sterline spesi per annate davvero deludenti. Il Man City,anche quest’anno, è la squadra che ha maggiormente operato sul mercato, circa il quale segnaliamo tutti i trasferimenti ad oggi ufficiali. In assenza di calcio giocato, sono le tensioni sociali in Inghilterra ed Irlanda del Nord a catalizzare l’ interesse anche di molti “lads”. Domani nelle “Sei Contee” si svolgeranno le principali tradizionali marce della comunità protestante ( foto ) e quest’anno, oltre che con i cattolici con i quali si inizia ad avvertire un clima più disteso, momenti di contrapposizione potrebbero avvenire anche con gli immigrati dall’ est europeo. Tutte le organizzazioni ufficiali lealiste hanno invitato a manifestare pacificamente ma quello che si teme è la presenza di frange isolate dai vari schieramenti.Intanto in Inghilterra raccoglie consensi e si sviluppa la “English and Welsh Defense League” dichiaratamente promossa da “football casuals” ma aperta anche a contributi esterni di altri settori della società. L’ organizzazione, che ha già inscenato diverse manifestazione e ne ha altre in calendario, intende denunciare la presenza di estremisti di religione musulmana nel Regno Unito. Il movimento, che si dichiara apartitico e privo di alcun pregiudizio di razza, dichiara di volere difendere i valori tradizionali ed i costumi del popoli britannico. Intanto, si infittisce il programma di interessanti amichevoli pre-campionato che coinvolgeranno le principali squadre di Oltre Manica, come da tradizione alcune anche contro formazioni italiane.
Richards makes swine flu recovery
Richards was part of England Under-21 squad for the European Championships
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Manchester City defender Micah Richards is making a good recovery from swine flu after contracting the illness while on holiday in Cyprus.
“The 21-year-old has been confined to his hotel room but his publicist Max Clifford says he is making progress.”He is fine, he is virtually back to his old self now and he can’t wait to get back,” Clifford told the BBC.”To my knowledge he’s the first professional footballer to get swine flu so he’s made a bit of history.”
The England international revealed to The Sun newspaper he caught the virus while on holiday in Ayia Napa, where he was relaxing after helping England reach the final of the Under-21 European Championships in Sweden – a match they lost 4-0 to Germany.”At first I thought it was a really bad chest infection, or maybe alcohol poisoning,” he told The Sun.”I felt so weak that I couldn’t move or eat. My friends had to bring me drinks in bed.
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No-one out there is so fit and healthy they can’t catch swine flu. If I can get it, anyone can.
Micah Richards
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“When I was told I had swine flu all sorts of things started going through my mind. You see on the news people dying of it.“Richards, who was due to fly home on Wednesday, is taking Tamiflu medication while in isolation in a five-star hotel in the Cypriot party resort on the south east coast and hopes to be able to return to Britain on Sunday.
“My club have been very understanding. I’ll get some stick from the lads when I do return – they will probably all turn up to training in surgical masks.”No-one out there is so fit and healthy they can’t catch swine flu. If I can get it, anyone can.The British government said Wednesday that 9,718 cases of swine flu had been confirmed since the disease reached the country in late April, and so far 15 people have died from the illness in Britain.”
(BBC Sport )
PREMIER LEAGUE INS AND OUTS
Arsenal
Ins: Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax, £11m)
Outs: Amaury Bischoff, James Dunne, Rui Fonte, Abu Ogogo, Paul Rodgers, Rene Steer, Vincent van den Berg, Anton Blackwood (all released)
Aston Villa
Ins: Courtney Cameron (Northampton)
Outs: Martin Laursen (retired),Gareth Barry (Manchester City, £12m), Stuart Taylor (Manchester City, undisclosed),
Birmingham City
Ins: Christian Benitez (Santos Laguna, £9m), Scott Dann (Coventry, £3.5m), Joe Hart (Man City, loan), Giovanny Espinoza (Barcelona SC, undisc), Roger Johnson (Cardiff, £5m), Lee Bowyer (West Ham, free)
Outs: Mehdi Nafti, Radhi Jaidi, Artur Krysiak (all released), Stephen Kelly (Fulham, free)
Blackburn Rovers
Ins: Elrio Van Heerden (Bruges, free), Gael Givet (Marseille, undisc), Lars Jacobsen (Everton, free), Nikos Giannakopoulos (Asteras Tripolis, £52,000),
Outs: Aaron Mokoena (Portsmouth, free) Andre Ooijer (PSV Eindhoven), Tugay (retired), Johann Vogel (released), Roque Santa Cruz (Manchester City, £18m), Matt Derbyshire (Olympiakos, undisc), Tony Kane (Carlisle, free), Dean Winnard (Accrington Stanley, free), Josh O’Keefe (released)
Bolton Wanderers
Ins: Sean Davis (Portsmouth, free)
Outs: Blerim Dzemaili (Torino, undisc), Rob Sissons, Nathan Woolfe, James Sinclair (all released)
Burnley
Ins: Tyrone Mears (Derby, £500k), Steven Fletcher (Hibernian, £3.5m), David Edgar (Newcastle, free)
Outs: Steve Jones, Alan Mahon, Gabor Kiraly, Alex MacDonald (all released)
Chelsea
Ins: Ross Turnbull (Middlesbrough, free), Daniel Sturridge (Man City, tribunal), Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow, £18m)
Outs: Slobodan Rajkovic (FC Twente, loan),
Everton
Ins: Anton Peterlin (Ventura County Fusion, undisc), Shkodran Mustafi (Hamburg, free)
Outs: Lars Jacobsen (Blackburn, free) John Irving, Cory Sinnott, Nuno Valente, Andy van der Meyde (all released)
Fulham
Ins: Stephen Kelly (Birmingham, free)
Outs: Moritz Volz, Collins John (released), Leon Andreasen (Hannover, free)
Hull City
Ins: Steven Mouyokolo (Boulogne, £2m)
Outs: Dean Windass, John Welsh, Michael Bridges, James Bennett, Ryan France, Joe Lamplough, Matthew Plummer, Tom Woodhead (all released), Wayne Brown (Leicester City, free)
Liverpool
Ins: Glen Johnson (Portsmouth, £18.5m), Aaron King (Rushden & Diamonds, undisc)
Outs: Jack Hobbs (Leicester, undisc), Sami Hyypia (Bayer Leverkusen, free), Ronald Huth, Godwin Antwi, Miki Roque, Gary MacKay-Steven (all released), Jermaine Pennant (Real Zaragoza, released), Jermaine Pennant (Real Zaragoza, free)
Manchester City
Ins: Gareth Barry (Aston Villa, £12m), Roque Santa Cruz (Blackburn, £18m), Stuart Taylor (Aston Villa, undisc), Nils Zander (Schalke, undisc)
Outs: Joe Hart (Birmingham, loan), Dietmar Hamann, Richard Martin, Danny Mills, Ben Morris, Curtis Obeng, Chris Ramsey, Darius Vassell, Daniel Sturridge (Chelsea, tribunal), Gelson Fernandes (St Etienne, undisc)
Manchester United
Ins: Antonio Valencia (Wigan, £17m), Michael Owen (Newcastle, free), Sean McGinty (Charlton, undisc), Gabriel Obertan (Bordeaux, undisc)
Outs: Carlos Tevez (end of loan), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, £80m), Rodrigo Possebon (Braga, loan)
Portsmouth
Ins: Aaron Mokoena (Blackburn, free)
Outs: Glen Johnson (Liverpool, £18.5m), Djimi Traore (Monaco, free) Sean Davis (Bolton, free), Joe Collins, Noe Pamarot, Lauren, Glen Little and Jerome Thomas (all released)
Stoke City
Ins:
Outs: Vincent Pericard, Marc Grocott, Jimmy Phillips, Tom Thorley (all released)
Sunderland
Ins:
Outs: Peter Hartley (Hartlepool, free), Arnau Riera, Dwight Yorke, Nick Colgan, David Connolly, Niall McArdle (all released), Darren Ward (retired), Greg Halford (Wolves, £2m) Michael Chopra (Cardiff, undisc)
Tottenham Hotspur
Ins:
Outs: Ricardo Rocha, Simon Dawkins, Kyle Fraser-Allen, Cian Hughton, Jacques Maghoma, Takura Mtandari (all released) David Hutton (Cheltenham, free), Danny Hutchins (Yeovil, free), Didier Zokora (Sevilla, undisc)
West Ham United
Ins: Peter Kurucz (Ujpest FC, undisc), Luis Jimenez (Inter Milan, loan), Jack Lampe (Harlow, free)
Outs: Freddie Sears (Crystal Palace, loan), Diego Tristan, Walter Lopez, Kyel Reid, Tony Stokes, Jimmy Walker (all released), Joe Widdowson (Grimsby Town, free), Lee Bowyer (Birmingham, free)
Wigan Athletic
Ins: Jordi Gomez (Espanyol, £1.7m), Hendry Thomas (Deportivo Olimpia, undisc)
Outs: Antonio Valencia (Man Utd, £17m),Lewis Montrose (Wycombe, free), Henri Camara, Lewis Field, Matt Hampson, Craig Mahon, Andrew Pearson, Antoine Sibierski (all released)
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Ins: Nenad Milijas (Red Star Belgrade, undisc), Marcus Hahnemann (Reading, free), Kevin Doyle (Reading, £6.5m), Andrew Surman (Southampton, undisc), Greg Halford (Sunderland, £2m), Ronald Zubar (Marseille, £2m)
Outs: Matt Bailey, Lewis Gobern, Alex Melbourne (all released)
Belfast immigrants warned: ‘Get out by tomorrow – or you die’
By David McKittrick
Saturday, 11 July 2009
(“Belfast Telegraph” )
“The message in the letter to immigrant communities in Belfast could not be starker or more brutal. “Get out of our Queen’s country before our bonfire night and parade day,” it declared.Emblazoned with a skull, it descended into a mixture of the semi-literate and the directly threatening with the warning: “Other than your building will be blown up.”The leaflet was delivered to centres in Belfast representing the city’s Islamic, Indian and Polish communities, in advance of this weekend’s high point of the loyalist marching season.It has clearly generated worries among those communities, since all three of the centres would not comment on the threat.
But Patrick Yu, who heads the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities, said the leaflets were designed to threaten and frighten, adding: “It really is more about trying to reignite the issue.”Just last month more than one hundred Romanians were flown out of Northern Ireland following a wave of attacks on their south Belfast homes in an episode which received worldwide publicity.Although the letter is marked “Combat 18” and bears loyalist slogans, the authorities do not believe that any local or outside organisation is behind this threat or other racist attacks.
The belief is that both the attacks on Romanians and the general pattern of incidents are largely the work of racist individuals, mostly teenagers, in a primitive show of xenophobia and dislike of “outsiders.“But the major complication this weekend is that the annual 12th of July celebrations have been extended with several nights of festivities in prospect before the main Orange Order march takes place on Monday.
In the evenings loyalists gather round bonfires piled high with waste wood, unwanted furniture and old vehicle tyres. While most of these occasions pass off without serious incident, very large amounts of alcohol are consumed by many.With large numbers of intoxicated teenagers and young men roaming the backstreets, the concern is that some of them might decide to target the homes of migrants for casual violence.Racist incidents are already running at a rate of almost a thousand a year, mostly taking the form of attacks on migrants and their homes. Many of these live in or close to loyalist areas and are therefore vulnerable.
The police said yesterday: “Hate crimes and racially motivated attacks will not be tolerated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. It is important to point out that it is a small group of people who are responsible for these incidents.””Anyone out there who has information about anyone involved in the production or distribution of material which promotes or incites racism must bring that information forward.”The police and Orange Order this year launched a joint initiative aimed at reducing the consumption of alcohol, using the slogan “Enjoy the day – make sure it’s not a blur.”They have urged people “to behave responsibly, to show tolerance, to avoid provocation or an inappropriate response to provocation.”
July in Northern Ireland is sometimes described as a mad month when the blood can run high, with Catholic-Protestant tensions often increasing as the marching season reaches its climax.In a familiar annual pattern, the past few weeks have seen sectarian attacks in and around Belfast and especially in County Antrim with both Protestant and Catholic premises targeted. Orange halls have been damaged in arson attacks while five Antrim Catholic churches were this week attacked with paint bombs.
All but a handful of Catholic families now remain in the village of Ahoghill, which has seen regular outbreaks of sectarian violence.Antrim Protestant clergyman the Rev Robert Coulter said of those responsible: “These are mindless thugs who, it must be emphasised, are acting alone. This type of sectarian vandalism – be it Protestants attacking Catholic churches, or Catholics attacking Orange halls – will find no support within any community.”
Against such a background the risk is that migrant homes may present an easy and tempting target to young drunks. At court proceedings arising from previous July incidents defendants were said to have been “out of their heads” after days and nights of drinking.The fact that racist attacks now take place at a rate of almost a thousand a year seems to indicate that they have become endemic. Due to the troubles, migration to Northern Ireland was for a long time comparatively rare.
But with the steady reduction of paramilitary violence a stream of immigrants has arrived from Poland, other European countries and further abroad in the last five years.Almost from the start some of these new arrivals came under attack, producing claims that racism is the new sectarianism.Official surveys have confirmed a significant level of local opposition to those moving in from abroad.Asked in a survey if Eastern Europeans were acceptable as residents in their local area, 18 per cent of respondents said no. This figure was even higher for members of the Islamic faith: 31 per cent said these were unacceptable”
Football Hooligans vs Islamic Extremists
Paul Ray (yes, yet again) carries a warning from “Seasider Marshy” of the “Welsh Defence League”:
The most organised and the most ruthless street army in the country is arising and uniting in solidarity in the face of the threat that is now posed to the future of our Nation and people by the militant wing of the Islamic religion that is now living in our midst.Did people think that the ‘Casuals’ would stay silent whilst their familes, friends and their neighbours lives were endangered by this invading religious military political force that has set out on its path of conquest against us?…What has started cannot be stopped now.This coming football season will see the ‘truce’ work itself out, and the brothers and comrades throughout the land unite in their common cause, against their common enemies, foreign and domestic.What hope is there for our Nation if the home guard cannot put aside their petty differences and rivalries over such a serious threat to the life of our Nation.
May Almighty God bless each of those who arise and answer the call.
It has begun.
A group called “Casuals United” is now taking credit for the recent “anti-extremist” protests in Luton, London, and Birmingham; according to a Facebook site it incorporates the “English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland Defence Leagues”. Further:
NO BNP, NF OR NAZIS as this is NOT a racist group, we are uniting Britain against this threat and are already being attacked as “racists” (predictably)While our troops are fighting the holy war abroad, we at home are here to stand up against those who would insult them while they plan their campaign of murder against our people.
So far there are nearly 500 members. The site carries an email address that also appears on this site promoting a book about Cardiff City football club. The local hooligan “firm” is known as the Soul Crew, and book on the subject entitled Soul Crew Seasiders by a certain Jeff Marsh can be seen here.Ray also links to two videos about “Casuals United”, which appear on the Youtube channel of a certain “taffytrouble”. These again assure us that the new group is not racist (even using the slogan “black and white unite”)”
( Barthsnotes.wordpress.com )