Hiring Big Sam no guarantee of safety for West Brom after brutal Slaven Bilic sacking

<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6AjKd5GzPkqee3VZO5mb1xS5zj0gUwll_JjXXtqePIDDj4xNhiopl1oH5NPx8VX8gN8RYzOytM5J60XPkRWPct5xtu2lqxfuQZpWhNjR05IV3q9l-l0QX_IN-uslMgUn9MClvPlnCIII/s615/0_West-Bromwich-Albion-manager-Sam-Allardyce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6AjKd5GzPkqee3VZO5mb1xS5zj0gUwll_JjXXtqePIDDj4xNhiopl1oH5NPx8VX8gN8RYzOytM5J60XPkRWPct5xtu2lqxfuQZpWhNjR05IV3q9l-l0QX_IN-uslMgUn9MClvPlnCIII/s320/0_West-Bromwich-Albion-manager-Sam-Allardyce.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">West Brom have gone full circle in three years – from functional to fantasy football and back to pragmatism again.</span></h2><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But as Sam Allardyce takes on his latest project as a firefighter, and puts his record of never being relegated on the line, you have to wonder if, this time, he has picked out the dud bulb in the fairy lights on your Christmas tree.</span></p><div class="gpt in-article gpt-no-ad-label" data-config="{"componentType":"gpt","targeting":{"index":4,"hivis":"n"},"injectionConditions":[{"condition":"stopONAffiliateContent"}],"referenceNode":".article-body > p:nth-of-type(2)","sizes":[[8,8]],"hideOnSensitiveArticle":true,"relativePos":"after","additionalClass":"in-article","name":"div-gpt-ad-vip-slot","type":"VIP"}" data-google-query-id="CJajr4v81-0CFcIx0wodLywHXA" data-gpt-placeholder="" data-rendered-height="1" data-rendered-width="1" data-requested="52872.75499998941" data-response-end="157135.36499999464" data-response-start="8638.865000000806" data-timer-slot-rendered="62767.42000000377" data-type="gpt" id="div-gpt-ad-vip-slot" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #141414; height: 1px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/5293/mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news_2__container__" style="background: rgb(241, 241, 241); border: 0pt none; left: 0px; margin: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe data-google-container-id="3" data-load-complete="true" frameborder="0" height="1px" id="google_ads_iframe_/5293/mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/5293/mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news_2" sandbox="allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" style="background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" title="3rd party ad content" width="1px"></iframe></span></div></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">First of all, I have to say I feel desperately sorry for Slaven Bilic.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He won promotion at the first time of asking, and although seven points from 13 games is not a great return, the Baggies are not miles adrift of the dotted line.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When you analyse their performances this season, their defeat at Manchester United was a cruel result, they were only undone by Harry Kane at the last gasp against Tottenham and, on Tuesday night, Bilic's players fought for their lives to get a point at Manchester City.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Normally, when a tide is going out on the manager, there are tell-tale signs that the players have lost belief in what they are being asked to do.</span></p><div id="popup-parent-6345b443e2192e5564ba30abc7-3527" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wrapper-eplayer-6345b443e2192e5564ba30abc7-3527 abovevideo="0" belowvideo="0" class="player-6345b443e2192e5564ba30abc7" data-current-script="https://player.daznservices.com/player/v4/player4.js#6345b443e2192e5564ba30abc7.y34vu6acsp9x1pu8t337ybx5r$s=1" id="wrapper-eplayer-6345b443e2192e5564ba30abc7-3527" style="clear: both; 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border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But after just 546 days in charge, I watched that team put their bodies on the line for Bilic at the Etihad. He has been harshly treated.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Having said that, I wish Allardyce all the best at the Hawthorns. I've never jumped on the critics' bandwagon to slate the way his teams play – because his record speaks for itself.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Down the years he has saved Bolton, West Ham, Sunderland and Palace from relegation – and you could argue he did the same for Everton, who were struggling when he arrived in 2017.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In his 512 matches as a Premier League manager, Allardyce has won 174 and lost 200 with a 34 per win ratio.</span></p><figure class="in-article-image" data-init="true" data-mod="image" data-observed="false" itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="background: rgb(241, 241, 241); border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 18px 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 688px;"><div class="outer" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="spacer" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; content: ""; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 457.516px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 0px;"></div><div class="mod-image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" content="https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23174852.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Manchester-City-v-West-Bromwich-Albion-Premier-League.jpg" height="419" src="https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article23174852.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Manchester-City-v-West-Bromwich-Albion-Premier-League.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 688px;" width="513" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="publication-theme-indicator" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.07px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="caption" itemprop="description" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It comes after the Baggies brutally dismissed Slaven Bilic</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="author" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Image: Getty Images)</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If he applies the same ratios to West Brom's remaining 25 games, they will finish on around 37 points – which would probably be enough to keep them up.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And while managerial change can be unsettling, if the players buy into Big Sam's methods from the word go, Bilic will be forgotten after one game: That's the cruel nature of football.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The king is dead, long live the king.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some of them will probably have relegation clauses in their contracts – and nothing exercises the minds of footballers more than the prospect of a possible 50 per cent pay cut, or whatever the wage decrease may be.</span></p><div class="converse-re-wrapper" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe class="converse-re cre-bottom" frameborder="0" height="0" scrolling="no" src="https://get-latest.convrse.media/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fnews%2Fhiring-big-sam-no-guarantee-23189731&cre=bottom&cip=21&view=web" style="background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;" width="100%"></iframe></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But it is strange that, as recently as November 2017, West Brom sacked Tony Pulis – another man unfairly derided for his methods, even though he has never been relegated in 28 years as a manager – and turned to Alan Pardew, Darren Moore and Bilic for a more expansive approach.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Three years later, the owners have squared the circle and gone back to pragmatism as their preferred option.</span></p><div class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Premier League survival is now worth at least £100 million a year to clubs, so you can understand the business acumen behind their thinking.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But the fans are not happy at the way Bilic was given only 13 games – after a modest sum to spend last summer – to establish a bridgehead between the Championship and top flight.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And although Allardyce is taking charge of a record eighth Premier League club, there is absolutely no guarantee of a happy ending to this changing of the guard at the Hawthorns.</span></p></div>

Sport West Brom Hiring Big Sam no guarantee of safety for West Brom after brutal Slaven Bilic sacking

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LCY DROPS NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO, ‘GARDEN OF E10’: WATCH

<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodeLp-p8gbMSv4TyuLpLim4EVYrygu5Q_78cWnHtR42u0KVdqLqwUgNPAGum3KPGQ6EqfT6vQREsqFEWWGmwM10UTsjmg48lMnUcRexQrBeeb9srpwXZ20K_dB9DxaKCrqg0O9eVSwIPW/s971/unnamed_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodeLp-p8gbMSv4TyuLpLim4EVYrygu5Q_78cWnHtR42u0KVdqLqwUgNPAGum3KPGQ6EqfT6vQREsqFEWWGmwM10UTsjmg48lMnUcRexQrBeeb9srpwXZ20K_dB9DxaKCrqg0O9eVSwIPW/s320/unnamed_5.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field__items" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="field__item even" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">LCY has dropped her first official single, ‘Garden of E10’, via her own SZNS7N label - with accompanying visuals directed by the artist herself. Check it out below. </span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Laying the foundation for a forthcoming project in the works for next year, ‘Garden of E10’ is a ghostly metallic and bassy cut with warped vocals and textured percussion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The accompanying video solidifies the artist’s vision of uniting her visual and sonic identities after dropping her previous alias (L U C Y) and removing her once signature mask at the start of this year, “in exchange for a more honest approach to music”. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While ‘Garden of E10’ is LCY’s first single proper, she did debut the new alias at the beginning of 2020 with an introductory <a href="https://szns7n.bandcamp.com/album/lcy" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">self-titled release</a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Directed by LCY and Lawrence Blackwell with animation and post FX from Jordan Chappell and others, the artist transforms into a new character via prosthetic makeup and AV effects, entering a unique creative universe which builds as the track develops.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Speaking about the release, LCY said: “During an inevitably anxious year in the material world, I've spent the last 12 months focusing my time on escapism and the conceptual realm of my first fully realised universe.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“This is the first single/video based around this narrative - with the visuals focusing on my personal relationship with world building.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">LCY has also remixed ‘Only God Can Tell’ from Krust’s ‘The Edge Of Everything’ LP, joining Calibre and Flynn on the forthcoming ‘<a href="https://lnk.to/KrustRemixes2?fbclid=IwAR1veQ4JsQBM6NdAm83ZWRPdgRihYZNraC3FgrhRRNPcoxMk5eFzgJzqzEg#music-services" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Krust - TEOE Remixes #</a>2’ EP. You can check that out <a href="https://djmag.com/music/premiere-krust-only-god-can-tell-lcy-remix" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here.</a>  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can stream 'Garden of E10'<a href="https://sq.lnk.to/SZN007" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> here</a> and watch the accompanying video below. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eXndMt9qmC4" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 638px;" width="300"></iframe></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="panel-pane pane-topics article--topics--info" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Gothic A1", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 1.125rem 0px 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 1.8rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div>

LCY Music LCY DROPS NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO, ‘GARDEN OF E10’: WATCH

  LCY has dropped her first official single, ‘Garden of E10’, via her own SZNS7N label - with accompanying visuals directed by the artist he...

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U.N. Chief Urges Leaders Of Every Country To Declare ‘Climate Emergency’

<div class="headbar"><center><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on every country to declare a “climate emergency” on Saturday, as world leaders marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord made mostly incremental pledges relaive to the scale of the crisis.</span></h2><div class="ads"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></center></div><div class="block_single upcoming_music"><div class="post_paragraph"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoN3LadkjG0oWWyDe0FncYOsqhhAGFLA-M8qaB21KKWh_JvK2sBPzPMS27O2lMlGkNdJ2Bym10Hc32GWwl79RIrTa9bTM649VmTjGIQ3n5jxXhdWrIWZZHQ6TynQ0V7GuMwOnjVdrORaxp/s370/download-2020-12-13T074300.225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoN3LadkjG0oWWyDe0FncYOsqhhAGFLA-M8qaB21KKWh_JvK2sBPzPMS27O2lMlGkNdJ2Bym10Hc32GWwl79RIrTa9bTM649VmTjGIQ3n5jxXhdWrIWZZHQ6TynQ0V7GuMwOnjVdrORaxp/s320/download-2020-12-13T074300.225.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Guterres made his call at a summit aimed at building on momentum behind the Paris deal, buoyed in recent months by renewed commitment from China and the prospect of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden bringing the United States back into the pact.</span></p><div align="center"><div class="clear"></div><div class="clear"></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nevertheless, the dozens of leaders who spoke mostly offered tweaks to existing commitments or promises of bolder moves before crucial talks in Glasgow in late 2021, rather than breakthrough new policies to hasten the end of fossil fuels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency?” Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister who has made climate change his signature issue, said via video.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“That is why today, I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With the impacts of climate change increasingly stark since the Paris deal was struck – ranging from wildfires in Australia and California to collapsing ice sheets – popular pressure has grown on leaders to listen to warnings from scientists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Britain, co-hosting the summit, made one of the clearest new commitments, announcing late on Friday it would stop direct government support for overseas fossil fuel projects.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Campaigners hailed the move for putting pressure on other G7 economies to restrict support for oil and gas companies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Renewed pledges to back Paris from countries such as India, Germany and France were welcomed less in terms of substance and more for keeping alive hopes of faster action to meet the monumental challenge of halving global emissions by 2030 in line with the Paris deal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Chinese President Xi Jinping, who surprised many in September when he announced the world’s biggest producer of climate-warming emissions would become carbon neutral by 2060, and unveiled targets to speed the expansion of wind and solar power.FILE PHOTO: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“China always honours its commitments,” Xi said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But China showed no signs of bowing to calls from Guterres and campaigners to wind down finance for new coal-fired power plants, a major source of emissions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Japan and South Korea, which both pledged in October to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, likewise made no commitments on coal finance – though they did pledge to submit more ambitious emissions targets under the Paris accord.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, by contrast, drew praise for saying the country “will not have any more power based on coal”. It was not immediately clear what the pledge would mean for Pakistan’s existing plans to build coal plants under a deal with China.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Argentina, Barbados, Canada, Colombia, Iceland and Peru were among 15 countries who shifted from “incremental” to “major” increases in their emissions pledges, the U.N., British and French co-hosts said in a statement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Climate negotiators say that the Paris process has begun to look far stronger than it did even six few months ago, with countries representing around 65% of global carbon emissions now expected to have committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions or carbon neutrality by early next year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But campaigners pointed to the gulf that still yawns between the pace of action and the Paris goals of capping rising global temperatures quickly enough to avoid catastrophic impacts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It is the melting of permafrost; forest fires that hit closer to the home of the climate crisis deniers; droughts that ransack living beings of their resources; floods that reminded many of us that we have no escape,” Selina Neirok Leem, a campaigner from the Marshall Islands, told the summit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Major emitters Australia and Brazil did not make ambitious enough pledges to qualify to speak, diplomats said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Guterres said economic recovery packages in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic were an opportunity to act on climate – but said G20 countries had so far spent 50% more of their stimulus on sectors linked to fossil fuels than on cleaner energy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“This is unacceptable,” Guterres said. “The trillions of dollars needed for COVID recovery is money that we are borrowing from future generations.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The European Union, which plans to spend 30% of its 1.8-trillion-euro ($2.2 trillion) budget and COVID-19 recovery fund on climate action, boosted its own 2030 climate pledge on Friday, aiming to cut emissions at least 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the world to cooperate to tackle the “toxic tea cosy” of greenhouse gases now quilting the planet, while investors and businesses underscored their support for action.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“We call on companies and governments around the world to do all we can to make 2021 the year we turn the corner for good,” said Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">REUTERS</span></p><div><br /></div></div></div>

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How Lyon’s Toko Ekambi & Kadewere Are Pushing PSG In Simmering Ligue 1 Title Race

<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBsPGmEEZl4DTerHlCNggyVE9vy_GkSK9cMAbmVSlkWk9s-0IfaO-Xtol817aq68sbD9WEQvcrMU0g4rIOvSMS2O_LGlkgd_QxgU1_wVuqSqC0YFehOI_qZN3n38cfSP7ovQPsM7Qyaic/s600/kadewere-toko-ekambi-of-lyon_hwucjkcs9soh1nwuwjdmb0rm0-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBsPGmEEZl4DTerHlCNggyVE9vy_GkSK9cMAbmVSlkWk9s-0IfaO-Xtol817aq68sbD9WEQvcrMU0g4rIOvSMS2O_LGlkgd_QxgU1_wVuqSqC0YFehOI_qZN3n38cfSP7ovQPsM7Qyaic/s320/kadewere-toko-ekambi-of-lyon_hwucjkcs9soh1nwuwjdmb0rm0-1.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span color="var(--font-color-black)" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both forwards are looking to oust the dominant Parisians and could record a statement result at Parc des Princes on Sunday</span></h2><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There’s always that unconscious tendency to root for the underdog; the pony in a contest, due to the subtle joy derived from seeing the little guy get one over the favourite.</span></p><div align="center" style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="clear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="clear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While many will scoff at the idea of Olympique Lyon being the competitor with little chance of success — particularly because they’ve won the sixth-highest number of Ligue 1 titles — when you’re without a top flight victory since 2008 and a trophy of any kind in almost a decade, the ‘little horse’ tag is probably suitable.<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Les Gones</em> may have owned the noughties when they won seven league titles on the trot from 2002 to 2008, but Paris Saint-Germain are clearly the dominant team in France right now, having claimed seven of the last eight Ligue 1 crowns since 2012/13.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">AS Monaco were the last side to stop the relentless Parisians when Kylian Mbappe played a central role in supplanting Unai Emery’s team in 16/17.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="color: green; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-660003" height="338" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/moise-kean-kylian-mbappe-basaksehir-vs-psg-champions-league-2020-21_1c2aglhq9bdoi1ua8po7hmrbc8.jpg" srcset="https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/moise-kean-kylian-mbappe-basaksehir-vs-psg-champions-league-2020-21_1c2aglhq9bdoi1ua8po7hmrbc8.jpg 600w, https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/moise-kean-kylian-mbappe-basaksehir-vs-psg-champions-league-2020-21_1c2aglhq9bdoi1ua8po7hmrbc8-300x169.jpg 300w" style="height: auto; margin: 2px 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 320px; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></span></figure><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Since then, however, no side in the division has challenged the super-rich club in three campaigns on the trot.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">PSG had a 13-point lead in at the end of 17/18, and it was a 16-point chasm the following year. While last season was curtailed early due to the pandemic, Thomas Tuchel’s team held a 12-point advantage over Olympique Marseille having played a game fewer and were awarded their ninth crown.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This year, though, has a different feel to it.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With the Paris outfit inundated with a range of issues from injuries to key players, coronavirus-enforced absences and an unsettled head coach at the helm, others have sensed their opportunity.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">13 games have been played in the league so far but Tuchel’s men are two ahead of Lille and Lyon, who visit Parc des Princes on Sunday night, and one in front of Marseille who have played a game fewer.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Central to Rudi Garcia’s team are Karl Toko Ekambi and Tino Kadewere, who have netted 11 goals combined so far. The pair’s joint-total goal contributions stand at 15, which constitutes 62.5 percent of the team’s entire return of 24.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="color: green; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-660004" height="338" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karl-toko-ekambi-alphonso-davies-lyon-bayern-munich_5enue9ws4e6x18rqglup484r0.jpg" srcset="https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karl-toko-ekambi-alphonso-davies-lyon-bayern-munich_5enue9ws4e6x18rqglup484r0.jpg 600w, https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karl-toko-ekambi-alphonso-davies-lyon-bayern-munich_5enue9ws4e6x18rqglup484r0-300x169.jpg 300w" style="height: auto; margin: 2px 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 320px; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></span></figure><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For the Cameroon star, the integral part he’s played in this year’s seeming title challenge hasn’t only reflected in the raw numbers but the sheer importance of his goal and assists. He’s overcome a slow start in which he fired blanks in the opening four league games of the season, failing to score or set up any in almost two months of top flight action.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The turnaround since October has, in some way, coincided with Garcia’s switch to a 4-3-3, abandoning the usage of three at the back to stunning effect. Having won just one in their opening six games, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Les Dogues</em> have accrued 19 from the last available 21 points, largely down to their Central African forward.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ekambi netted a brace in the 3-2 win over Strasbourg which began the team’s impressive run of results, before netting another pair the following week as Garcia’s men thrashed Monaco 4-1. The former Villarreal man then went two games without scoring and missed one match at Angers through suspension; but Kadewere made sure to take up the mantle, netting three times in as many games.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All three strikes were hugely important, too: the Zimbabwe international netted a brace in Lyon’s second-half turnaround vs Saint Etienne, having come on as a substitute with about 30 minutes to play, while he scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Angers the following week.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Since returning from suspension, Toko Ekambi has been extraordinarily talismanic for the Kids, having a hand in all six goals vs Reims and Metz last time out. It led to the Lyon website using superlatives like ‘formidable’ and ‘unstoppable’ to qualify the growing influence of the Indomitable Lion.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He’s only behind Mbappe for Expected Goals this season and tops the non-penalty xG table in Ligue 1 so far, while he sits fifth for Goal-Creating Actions per 90 in the league after the last round of games. Only Memphis Depay (nine) has fashioned out a higher volume of big chances than the Cameroon forward (six) which ranks the attacker joint-sixth in the whole division.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="color: green; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-660005" height="338" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karl-toko-ekambi-lyon-2019-20_cidapzn237hg1m915m1dkslso.jpg" srcset="https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karl-toko-ekambi-lyon-2019-20_cidapzn237hg1m915m1dkslso.jpg 600w, https://9jaflaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karl-toko-ekambi-lyon-2019-20_cidapzn237hg1m915m1dkslso-300x169.jpg 300w" style="height: auto; margin: 2px 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 320px; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></span></figure><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite already hitting seven goals this season, only Mbappe (10) and Reims’ Boulaye Dia (eight) have more this term, Ekambi could and should have netted more, but for a combination of poor finishing — he’s missed the most clear-cut chances this season (seven) — and bad luck — having hit the woodwork on four occasions already.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">However, there’s also been an element of fortune in Lyon’s run, especially in games vs Saint Etienne and last week vs Metz. The former missed an 88th-minute penalty to equalize while the Kids had an early Anthony Lopes save from the spot to thank before running riot at Stade Saint Symphorien.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Furthermore, a major determining factor in this year’s title race may be continental participation or otherwise and Lyon have seemed to benefit from their non-involvement in Europe. PSG on the other hand have had their squad stretched with the series of games amid injury problems and players contracting coronavirus.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It doesn’t look like Tuchel’s team will run away with Ligue 1 this year as they search for a record-equalling 10th top flight crown, but teams hoping to unseat them will have to prevent the favourites from gaining an advantage from now till mid-February, as they are without European distraction for the next couple of months.Lyon’s four-game winning run and supposed growth will face its litmus test in Paris on Sunday, and Garcia will look to the talismanic Toko Ekambi to cement their reputation as Ligue 1 contenders with a statement performance and, hopefully, a result to match.</span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">source:- goal</span></p>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiut_xMeSJXVqIC4SC2Zi4aI1O8pc3UzuuzHLb3hJTYI2_ODs0kZ7idkApXCUMPjxa2AFcluxdkY87gDMZ6WrbFF7JKLgSheB0eeVhUsYfhffGJWU7CUwmqAP941ruXKUSQGi64-uYcfvzW/s768/Diane-Russet-768x528.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiut_xMeSJXVqIC4SC2Zi4aI1O8pc3UzuuzHLb3hJTYI2_ODs0kZ7idkApXCUMPjxa2AFcluxdkY87gDMZ6WrbFF7JKLgSheB0eeVhUsYfhffGJWU7CUwmqAP941ruXKUSQGi64-uYcfvzW/s320/Diane-Russet-768x528.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Diane Russet, a former Big Brother Naija contestant and actress, has told her fans to stop sending nudes.</span></h2><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">She advised her female fans to stop sending nude pictures of themselves to their lovers.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Russet stated this during an interactive session she had with her fans, and shared on her YouTube Channel.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When a fan disclosed that she had sent her nude pictures to her lover and the said lover was threatening to release them online, Russet said, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I am not going to judge you because you sent nude pictures to your boyfriend.</em></span></p><div align="center" style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="clear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="clear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“But, this is the twenty-first century, you should not send nudes to your boyfriend or husband. Let him see the real things. Why do you have to send the pictures? If it goes south, most people could be childish and want to post it online.</span></em></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Why would I be so comfortable with you to the point where I share something so private with you and at the end of the day, because we had some disagreements, you want to post it online? The bottom line is that you should not share nude pictures with your lovers. That is my candid advice.”</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Counselling another fan who was discouraged about not achieving her goals, the Kaduna State-born entertainer said, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“There are some things happening in my life now that I used to say jokingly before.</em></span></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“One day, I was in the living room with my mum and brother and I told them that I would be on this show (BBN) some day. They thought I would be the first person to leave (the show). But I told them I would go there and stay for long. I was on the show without having any connections.</span></em></p><p style="color: var(--font-color-black) !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Even now, I still have nobody but there are certain things I spoke into being in my life. You will get there. Just trust God and He would direct you.”</span></em></p>

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Music: A.D Desmond – My Last Hope

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Juventus, Fabio Paratici being investigated for role in Luis Suarez citizenship case

<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe64P23GHdsbUPFTarVp86XIbmfdVA_imnzJ0wXvpEKUKIeAMA3ap3FTBp2TgLoYtueZar5eVglp1iRt_zWZY0KXdgcDDOWdU6QNRwibQGWPLtRw1ApeyfmWN6hz_OqDKQhIwSGxDwhyphenhyphen1t/s620/1263007436.0.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe64P23GHdsbUPFTarVp86XIbmfdVA_imnzJ0wXvpEKUKIeAMA3ap3FTBp2TgLoYtueZar5eVglp1iRt_zWZY0KXdgcDDOWdU6QNRwibQGWPLtRw1ApeyfmWN6hz_OqDKQhIwSGxDwhyphenhyphen1t/s320/1263007436.0.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><div class="c-entry-content " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1e1e; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There were days during the summer transfer window when it legitimately looked like Luis Suarez was going to be the answer to Juventus’ search for a new No. 9. It was something that essentially became a three-man race between Suarez, Edin Dzeko and, in a late-summer entry, Alvaro Morata.</span></h2><p id="0Fp7SL" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> The first two names in the previous sentence had their logistical challenges — especially Suarez since he was a non-EU signing where Juve had already maxed out on their two non-EU spots in the transfer window.</span></p><p id="0Fp7SL" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And now, the lingering effects of the Suarez pursuit — one that ended with the Uruguayan striker going to Atletico Madrid after Morata signed with Juventus — are coming out as part of an investigation involving the Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Perugia.</span></span></p><p id="zm64AP" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Juventus Chief Football Officer Fabio Paratici, namely, has been informed that he and the club are being investigated for their role in trying to rush the Suarez transfer through since the former Barcelona striker needed to pass an Italian passport exam to gain citizenship and be considered an EU player. The Prosecutor’s Office cites “irregularities” in the process, with “more investigations ongoing” regarding the effort “to accelerate the recognition of Luis Suarez’s Italian citizenship,” according to a statement released Friday. Juventus lawyers Luigi Chiappero and Maria Turco are also reportedly being investigated, <a href="https://www.corriere.it/sport/20_dicembre_04/caso-suarez-l-esame-fu-farsa-sospesa-rettrice-dell-universita-stranieri-perugia-3684361a-3618-11eb-ab19-bbfa6037f17b.shtml" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #010102; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s, fill 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: inherit;">according to the Corriere della Sera</a>.</span></p><p id="kdACvl" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The statement by the Prosecutors Office is as follows:</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f6f6f6; border-left: 3px solid rgb(1, 1, 2); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.2rem 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0.6rem 1.2rem; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><p id="LL3CAW" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It emerged that the contents of the test had been communicated in advance to the player, in order to arrive at a predetermined outcome and examination score to meet the requests that had been made by Juventus, with the aim of achieving a positive image return, both personal and for the University.</span></p><p id="43YgGg" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Investigations have also allowed us to understand how, in the first days of September 2020, the management of the Turin club was activated, even at the highest institutional levels, to accelerate recognition of Italian citizenship of Suarez. This suggests new hypotheses of crime against persons other than those belonging to the university, still in the process of study.”</span></p><p id="Ahi8p3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Via <a href="https://www.football-italia.net/162992/juventus-management-under-investigation-over-suarez%E2%80%99s-citizenship" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #010102; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s, fill 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: inherit;">Football Italia</a>)</span></p></blockquote><p id="2RklG9" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Juventus issued a statement late in the day Friday regarding Paratici’s involvement:</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #f6f6f6; border-left: 3px solid rgb(1, 1, 2); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.2rem 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0.6rem 1.2rem; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><p id="PjZXqI" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Juventus Football Club confirms that today Fabio Paratici has been notified of information regarding the guarantee and the right of defense. The crime alleged by the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Perugia is exclusively Article 371 bis of the Criminal Code.</span></p><p id="vXv1E9" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Club strongly reiterates the correctness of Paratici’s work and is confident that the ongoing investigations will help clarify his position within a reasonable time.</span></p></blockquote><p id="b6IRWu" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Suarez was the third non-EU player Juventus tried to sign over the summer after acquiring midfielders Arthur and Weston McKennie. Because of that, Suarez — <a href="https://www.blackwhitereadallover.com/2020/9/6/21423950/luis-suarez-bareclona-juventus-2020-la-liga-serie-a-summer-transfer-rumors" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #010102; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s, fill 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: inherit;">who had reportedly agreed to join Juventus</a> — was forced to attempt to get an Italian passport in quick fashion since he was eligible as a result of his wife’s ancestry and it was his only shot of moving to Turin in the summer after he was deemed surplus requirements at Barcelona. However, after it was reportedly discovered that Suarez was tipped off to answers on said September test, the Perugia Prosecutor’s Office decided to open up an initial investigation into the matter.</span></p><p id="27WfT1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Early stages of the investigation did not involve Juventus, with the early stages of the investigation centering around the University of Perugia’s role in the controversy. That, as you can clearly see, has changed.</span></p><p id="SaNqBC" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Paratici, according to the Corriere della Sera, has provided inaccurate information to the Prosecutors Office. Chiappero and Turco could also end up being officially involved with Paratici in the investigation, the newspaper reported Friday.</span></p><p id="1YRnS1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What’s a risk with all of this?</span></p><p id="efb4d3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It ranges anywhere from fines to possible relegation from Serie A — the latter, obviously, would be the absolute hammer coming down on Juventus if the FIGC investigation’s determines that the club’s role in this was about as guilty as it could get.</span></p></div>

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Fire Guts Radio Station ‘LOVE FM’ In Abuja

<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #242424; word-spacing: 1px;">A private radio station, LOVE FM, 104.5 located at Mpape, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been razed by fire.</span></span></h2><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDqNdLOcENCsKz58krD0aE1ovQnO71B5qN3cvsEqTvoyJyfMc5-e2T89YGTWIWmQ9i6daUM28VP3LNtoHG_nSn7TAj4-SrO5k7aAMQaFoa61Fbr9rId1EYYt7xphrrdV7WSDtUhUsPbGg/s564/20201205050646_-82697254_4815636789421899971_364_564_85_webp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDqNdLOcENCsKz58krD0aE1ovQnO71B5qN3cvsEqTvoyJyfMc5-e2T89YGTWIWmQ9i6daUM28VP3LNtoHG_nSn7TAj4-SrO5k7aAMQaFoa61Fbr9rId1EYYt7xphrrdV7WSDtUhUsPbGg/s320/20201205050646_-82697254_4815636789421899971_364_564_85_webp.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #242424; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 24px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">According to a worker, who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters, she said she left the station a few minutes before the inferno started.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It was gathered that it took the men of FCT fire service some hours before they arrived at the scene, but they could not put out the raging fire which had engulfed the entire building.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 24px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The fire, which started around 7.30 pm, razed the computers, furniture and transmitters at the station.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 24px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #242424; line-height: 26px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The cause of the fire could not yet be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.</span></span></p>

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Mark Lawrenson predicts the winner of Tottenham v Arsenal

<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVDnMdwTxIV9jufAL27E_3k84vPPPfuxzr2jDXx9IZE31J105bXDGaYBSjh_ytWDw_wytaf4P6YreUR4g12BUgabbFg1tkuGiQRQELeYLvEUjUOsVQjcZuA_Yv664hfJw_G4aW9uj1zMI/s768/mourinho-2-min-768x434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVDnMdwTxIV9jufAL27E_3k84vPPPfuxzr2jDXx9IZE31J105bXDGaYBSjh_ytWDw_wytaf4P6YreUR4g12BUgabbFg1tkuGiQRQELeYLvEUjUOsVQjcZuA_Yv664hfJw_G4aW9uj1zMI/s320/mourinho-2-min-768x434.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 28px; margin: 25px 0px 18px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mark Lawrenson is backing Tottenham Hotspur to claim a 2-0 victory over Arsenal in Sunday’s crunch north London derby clash in the Premier League.</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spurs have been in good form in recent weeks and they started the weekend leading the way at the top of the Premier League table, with Jose Mourinho’s men having won four of their last five games.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Lilywhites were held to a goalless draw by Chelsea FC at Stamford Bridge in their most recent top-flight outing last weekend and they will be aiming to return to winning ways against their bitter London rivals Arsenal on Sunday.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Gunners have struggled to find consistent form in the Premier League in recent weeks, and Arsenal have only managed to win one of their last five outings in the top flight.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mikel Arteta’s men sealed a 4-1 win over Rapid Vienna in their Europa League clash at The Emirates on Thursday night.</span></p><div class="mobile-tablet-only margin-both-30 " style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; margin-bottom: 30px !important; margin-top: 30px !important;"><div class=" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_mid-article-bulk1 " data-placement-name="Mid Article Bulk" id="taboola-mid-article-bulk" observeid="tbl-observe-0" style="clear: both;"><div class="trc_rbox_container" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="trc_rbox mid-article-bulk1 trc-content-sponsored " id="trc_wrapper_19136" style="border-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); border-radius: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-shadow: none; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><div class="trc_clearer" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;"></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">However, former Liverpool FC star Lawrenson believes that Spurs will have too much for Arsenal when the Gunners take on their derby rivals away from home this weekend.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Writing in his column for <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55144701" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #003366; font-weight: 700;" target="_blank">BBC Sport</a>, Lawrenson said: “Tottenham are a better side than Arsenal, a more reliable side and they are superior defensively which is in large part down to the manager and his philosophy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Jose Mourinho’s forwards Harry Kane and Son Heung-min have also been the best two in the league bar anybody, and will give the Gunners defence a tough time assuming Kane is fit.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Arsenal don’t seem to have leaders at the moment – so when the going gets tough they don’t going.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Their new signing Thomas Partey looked a player in midfield, but just as he got started he got injured. They really miss him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“And in attack, since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang signed his contract… has he been away? It’s just that one goal since the start of November.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It’s a derby with that added incentive, but without much of a crowd it’ll be a strange one.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 27px; margin: 24px 0px; padding-right: 10px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Arsenal have not won the Premier League title since their famous unbeaten triumph in 2004.</span></p>

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Billy Joe Saunders defeats Martin Murray to make the second successful defense of WBO belt

<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMMjlbHtrbXT23vAOSST6LhnWmTKe6AS19FrF_mx064CdjxhcBq5ZIKMbwby_ING1Y8Rb5nc-xwuGNraz15oK8WOHD9LfBH0y55C03SBkdBNxfutfKCSM8KF1crHhgwezluOzgYyH4lWD/s696/billy-joe-saunders-uppercut-vs-martin-murray-696x392.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMMjlbHtrbXT23vAOSST6LhnWmTKe6AS19FrF_mx064CdjxhcBq5ZIKMbwby_ING1Y8Rb5nc-xwuGNraz15oK8WOHD9LfBH0y55C03SBkdBNxfutfKCSM8KF1crHhgwezluOzgYyH4lWD/s320/billy-joe-saunders-uppercut-vs-martin-murray-696x392.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Billy Joe Saunders retained his WBO Super-Middleweight World Title with a dominant unanimous decision win over St Helens veteran Martin Murray to stay on course for a huge unification battle with the winner of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez vs. Callum Smith next year.</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The unbeaten 31-year-old dominated from the opening round with his superior ring skills as Murray fell short in his fifth World Title attempt, losing out on the judge’s scorecards with scores of 120-109, 120-109 and 118-110 at The SSE Arena, Wembley.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1334994464423743488" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=fightmag&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1334994464423743488&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightmag.com.au%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbilly-joe-saunders-defeats-martin-murray-to-retain-wbo-super-middleweight-title%2F&siteScreenName=fightmag&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=500px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 745px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I wasn’t really happy with that performance,” Saunders told Matchroom. “I’m not taking anything away from Martin, he came with a good game plan. He got through it. He tucked up and survived well. I can only be a bit critical of myself because I had a bit of ring rust. My jab was there but there was just that bit of snap missing. I was trying to look for stuff when naturally it’s there.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“When you’re in a training camp getting ready for Canelo Alvarez and you’re in the biggest fight of your life, you’ve got that fear factor and everything there, and then the pandemic came and I can only be thankful to be out this year. But then you’re back in camp and it’s a defence against Martin Murray, I was pencilled in to fight him twice in 2018. It was sort of like a hard kick in the teeth. But look, I’ve got to be thank my management team MTK that I’m even out this year.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It is what it is, and we move on. I’m 30-0 and still unbeaten and still World Champion. I’ve been World Champion now since 2015. People can run my performance down but let’s make the big fights, because it’s certainly not me turning them away. Eddie knows that I’m always there to sign. I had the Canelo fight signed and it fell through, that’s nobody’s fault.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“A big well done to my lads who boxed on the show tonight. Lewie Edmondson and Donte Dixon did well. Martin was a cunning old fox, he knew what he was doing and he had the ref on his side, he had the ref eating out of his hand. Fair play to him. I learnt a lot from him to be honest. Perhaps everything happens for a reason and I learnt a hell of a lot from the fight.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Fair play to Callum Smith and I really do wish him all of the success in that fight. I think he’s got the tools to do the job. Canelo would have been training since May for this fight. He would have had Smith in his eyesight from day one. It’s been sprung on him at five or six weeks. They’re very clever in the way they work. If Smith has done his homework and prepared well then I give him a good chance of winning the fight. We are pushing for big fights constantly. After the Canelo fight I want to know my next date. I’m not getting any younger and I want to show my full potential.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 29px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">James Tennyson TKO’s Josh O’Reilly to win WBA lightweight title eliminator</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hard-hitting Belfast Lightweight James Tennyson took a step closer to the WBA World Title by taking out Canada’s Josh O’Reilly in one round.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tennyson produced a ferocious display before the WBA World Title Eliminator was stopped by referee Marcus McDonnell after two minutes and 14 seconds.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is Tennyson’s sixth straight stoppage win since moving up to Lightweight, further enhancing the 27-year-old’s reputation as one of the most exciting contenders in the red hot 135lbs division.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1334976274947862532" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=fightmag&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1334976274947862532&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightmag.com.au%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbilly-joe-saunders-defeats-martin-murray-to-retain-wbo-super-middleweight-title%2F&siteScreenName=fightmag&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=500px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 721px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It was great to get the win on another great show,” said Tennyson. “I went out and it was sort of nip and tuck, and then I think I caught him with a left hook. I saw him go a wee bit so I thought, ‘you know what’, and just put it on him and it paid off. We came out and there wasn’t too much to see between the two of us until I clipped him with that one shot. I got the win and an early night.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I’m feeling like I’m going to go all of the way here at Lightweight. I’m feeling a heck of a lot stronger and sharper. Eddie just mentioned about Jorge Linares at The SSE in Belfast and the thought of nights like that make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Those are the sort of fights that I’m in boxing for. Given the opportunity, I can put my name right up there and mix it with the top names. The Lightweight division is red-hot. There’s Teofimo Lopez, Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney. I’m here and I’m going to start making some noise.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 29px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shannon Courtenay stops Dorota Nurek in women’s boxing clash</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shannon Courtenay landed the best punch of her career to knockout Dorota Norek in the seventh round as she returned to winning ways.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fighting down at 118lbs for the first time, ‘The Baby Face Assassin’ had to deal with a fast start from her Polish opponent who was intent on imposing another unexpected defeat on her.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Watford prospect brawled her way back into the fight then gradually took control and Norek’s defences began to unravel.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1334969981767966720" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=fightmag&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-2&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1334969981767966720&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightmag.com.au%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbilly-joe-saunders-defeats-martin-murray-to-retain-wbo-super-middleweight-title%2F&siteScreenName=fightmag&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=500px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 649px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“This was needed,” said Courtenay. “I felt like I was back at home. I felt like myself but better. I just needed this to finish the year on a high. I can go into the next fight, whether it’s the rematch or not, with good momentum behind me. She was so rough and coming in with her head, I just thought, ‘you’ve got to be patient’. Like I said before the fight in many of my interviews, timing was going to be key. I had to be patient and wait to let my hands go. I was countering with the left hook when she had me up against the ropes. I wasn’t losing my head and making it scrappy. I knew that if I paced myself, and didn’t rush in, I’d catch her with a right hand because she was open for it. I knew that if I was patient it would come and it did.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“She had a really high groin guard so the body shots weren’t really having an affect. I was going to try and slow her down to the body but it was such a high groin guard I knew that wasn’t going to work. I knew I had to catch her flush to end it so that’s what I did. 118lbs is the lightest I’ve ever been, amateur and pro career. I want the rematch with Rachel Ball. If she genuinely believes that she won the fight, which many people don’t think she did, why wouldn’t she want to prove people wrong. It’s a fight that everyone wants and it makes sense.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 29px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Donte Dixon takes points decision over Angelo Dragone</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rising Sheffield Featherweight prospect Donte Dixon moved to 5-0 with an impressive points win over Welshman Angelo Dragone.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Billy Joe Saunders and MTK-managed talent was taking a big step up in class against his first opponent with a winning record and raised his game to suit the occasion.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1334960419019120651" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-3" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=fightmag&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-3&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1334960419019120651&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightmag.com.au%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbilly-joe-saunders-defeats-martin-murray-to-retain-wbo-super-middleweight-title%2F&siteScreenName=fightmag&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=500px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 720px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I thought I boxed good. At some points in the fight I was standing there a bit too long and not covering up the best I can. We’ll learn from it and come back better. I’m alright with it. I noticed that I’m up there when it comes to the levels. Levels-wise and skills-wise, I was better than him. He kept coming and made it difficult at times but I feel like I passed with flying colours.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Billy is managing me so it was nice to look good on his undercard. Billy is helping us a lot getting on these big shows, this is my third time on a Matchroom show. These are the best shows. Today I got to fight on Sky, I’ve always wanted to fight on Sky. Big thanks to Billy Joe, MTK and Adam Etches.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I got some very important rounds under my belt. He was a tough guy and kept on coming. I thought I nearly got him out of there in the last round when he was holding on. He was looking at the ref but it didn’t happen. It was a good learning fight. Whoever they put in front of me I’ve just got to keep on beating and then we’ll move on from there. Big thanks to my mum, it’s her birthday tomorrow. Happy Birthday mum.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 29px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lerrone Richards defeats Timo Laine by points</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lerrone Richards made a winning start to life as a Matchroom fighter with a comfortable shutout points win over Finland’s Timo Laine.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In what was also his first fight under new trainer Dave Coldwell, unbeaten Richards quickly established his probing jab in the opening minute.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Laine, who was fighting in the UK for the just the second time, had clearly come to survive and offered very little offensively, to the frustration of Richards and his new team.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Richards, who had been out of the ring since outpointing Lennox Clarke in November 2019, cruised to an 80-72 decision on the referee’s scorecard.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1334950025256984576" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-4" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=fightmag&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-4&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1334950025256984576&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightmag.com.au%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbilly-joe-saunders-defeats-martin-murray-to-retain-wbo-super-middleweight-title%2F&siteScreenName=fightmag&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=500px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 770px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I’m pleased with it, we got the rounds under our belt,” said Richards. “We move forwards now towards European honours. He tried to do something in the opening round and I put him in his box, he didn’t want to come out. It was frustrating at times so I stuck behind my jab and got the victory. I’m very pleased, it was my first fight under Dave Coldwell as well and it was good that I could get the ring rust out for the new year.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When asked about fighting behind closed: “To be honest it didn’t feel any different. I just get on with it, it’s my job. I think I started to enjoy it a little bit more later on in the rounds. In round eight I started to talk a bit and have a little fun. I’m happy with my performance overall. We all bounce off each other in the gym and we’re always learning. Like I said, Dave Coldwell is a teacher, he’s not just a coach. We’re all improving every day.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It’s some story and it has been quite hard really the last few years, I’ve been funding myself, nobody really knows that. I’ve not had many sponsors backing me but I believe in myself and I believe that I can go to the top. That’s what we plan on doing. I’m going to auction off my shorts and all of the money will go to the NHS. The NHS has done a great thing for our country in supporting everyone.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“This is a marathon, not a sprint. I know I’m going to get there in the end. When I get there I’m going to stay there. European, and then we’ll talk about world honours after. I’ll tell you and this is a fact, I’ve had more promotion in the last two weeks than I’d had in my whole career and I’m grateful for that. The future is bright.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 29px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lewis Edmondson TKO’s John Telford in Round 3</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Southampton Super-Middleweight prospect Lewis Edmondson moved to 4-0 with the first stoppage win of his career against John Telford in the evening’s opening bout.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">‘The Saint’, who is guided by WBO Super-Middleweight king Billy Joe Saunders and MTK, dominated Manchester’s John Telford from the opening bell, landing sharp hooks and jabs at will.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Telford was dropped in the first round before being put down again in the third, the 26-year-old bravely rose to his feet once more before the ref waved off the fight after another onslaught from Edmondson.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1334933864050024448" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-5" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=fightmag&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-5&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1334933864050024448&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fightmag.com.au%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbilly-joe-saunders-defeats-martin-murray-to-retain-wbo-super-middleweight-title%2F&siteScreenName=fightmag&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=500px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 746px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“We had a game plan with the team and we stuck to it,” Edmondson told Matchroom afterwards. “It obviously paid off. I think it confused him because before the fight he said he couldn’t find much fight footage of me. I think he only found a bit from when I was a kid, and when I was a kid I was only orthodox, as soon as I went southpaw I saw it in his eyes, he was thinking ‘what’s going on here?’. Boom I caught him, and I knew I had him every time I hit him. His legs went a little bit funny and I knew I had him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“I didn’t want to rush it. In previous performances I’ve caught my opponents and I’ve rushed it. I took my time, that’s what we’ve been working on, and I got the job done. I can’t thank my team, Billy Joe Saunders and MTK, enough. I’ve been out twice within a month. This was meant to be a good step-up on paper and a lot of people thought it was a hard fight for me. I’m glad I got to show my level.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“It’s hard trying to break those journeymen down because it’s their job to survive. We knew the stoppages would come once my opponents started opening up a bit. It was a big step up and I think I made light work of him. Billy Joe wants to move me quickly, he’s seen what I’ve been doing in the gym. We’re ready to move forwards. I feel like I’m improving every day.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 29px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Saunders vs Murray results</span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Billy Joe Saunders def. Martin Murray by unanimous decision (120-109, 120-109, 118-110) – retains WBO super middleweight title</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">James Tennyson def. Josh O’Reilly by TKO (R1 at 2:14) – wins WBA lightweight title eliminator</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shannon Courtenay def. Dorota Nurek by TKO (R7 at 1:35)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Zach Parker vs. Cesar Nunez – fight cancelled*</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lerrone Richards def. Timo Laine (28-14, 12 KOs) by points (80-72)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Preliminary Card</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lewis Edmondson def. John Telford by TKO (R3 at 2:22)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Donte Dixon def. Angelo Dragone by points (58-56)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">*Nunez’s trainer reportedly tested positive for COVID-19.</span></li></ul>

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