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Perusing the records we could find of Leyton Orient’s 4-0 shellacking of Sheffield Wednesday on a cold January afternoon in 2011 at Brisbane Road, Football Daily could find little or no indication that the young tyro who scored the O’s second goal might one day be presented with the most prestigious individual gong in world football. On loan from Spurs, a whey-faced 17-year-old Harry Kane marked his first senior start with what the BBC described as “a neat finish”, stealing in at the far post to convert a Dean Cox free-kick. Even after a breakthrough 2014-15 season for Spurs that yielded 31 goals and earned him an England call-up, assorted experts predicted Harry would prove to be little more than a one-season wonder – a kind of footballing Chumbawamba but with better manners and neater hair. Eleven seasons later the immensely likable Bayern Munich striker continues to bang them in for club and country with such monotonous regularity that few were surprised to see him presented with the Ballon d’Or! Ballon d’Or!! Ballon d’Or!!! Ballon d’Or!!!! by the original and best Ronaldo live at the London Palladium. Not since the late Bruce Forsyth has any Englishman in an over-sized crushed velvet bow tie looked more at home on the famous old venue’s stage.

Re: yesterday’s Football Daily. OK, so it may not be that contemporary, but Omar Berrada’s name fits into a jaunty song I came up with when bored, to the tune of Escape (the Piña Colada song) by Rupert Holmes: ‘If your name’s Omar Berrada / Head should be hangin’ in shame / If you’re supportin’ the Glazers / You’ve only got half a brain / If Jason Wilcox hasn’t done one / When he is mostly to blame / Then we’re the fans that you’ve stuffed / How do we stop the pain?’ I’m not even a United fan, but they’re all welcome – Simon Mazie.

I would happily take the Manchester United job, as it’s a surefire way to earn three years’ pay in six months – Alex Lester.

Now the shambles at United is even clearer, might Bryan Mbeumo be wishing he had chosen Spurs instead? – Richard Fernandez.

About Jonathan Chester-le-Street’s excellent idea to nominate Noble Francis for the Fifa presidency (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). I back that nomination and look forward to his first act in office: the creation of a Noble prize, awarded to himself obviously – Peter Oh.

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Keri M, a marathoner in her 50s, knew the race would be terrible.

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De vrouw was zaterdag aan het werk in het verblijf van twee mannelijke panters toen ze werd aangevallen. Met ernstige verwondingen werd de medewerker naar het ziekenhuis vervoerd.

Hebron, de grootste Palestijnse stad op de Westelijke Jordaanoever, is grotendeels afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Ruim drieduizend bewoners zijn verdreven, kort voor de parlementsverkiezingen in Israël. Ook het kleurrijke buurtje Al-Maskobiya is niet langer veilig.

Boetes mogen niet worden verhoogd om het begrotingsgat te dichten, vinden CDA en Pro. Het verkeersboetebeleid oogst al langer kritiek. Volgens de partijen moeten allereerst de „disproportionele ophogingen” worden gehalveerd. Ernstige overtredingen moeten juist harder worden bestraft.

In Izumi Kato’s surreal paintings, stones appear to float, bodies disappear in water, and feet become fish tails. In his new eponymous solo exhibition at Perrotin, two- and three-dimensional works converge in a dreamlike grouping where time slips, bodies morph, and space is simultaneously flattened, compartmentalized, and stretched.

The Tokyo- and Hong Kong-based artist’s practice has evolved from painting to include wood forms, soft vinyl sculptures, and cast metal. As Kato explores materiality, his sculptures emerge from the same almost alchemical approach to canvas. He paints the tiny wooden figures with the same approach he does a flat surface, and the stones are actually lightweight cast aluminum, which at times the artist suspends from the ceiling in a play on perception.

Kato has long painted what he refers to as hitogata, which literally means “dolls” in Japanese. These humanoid figures often emerge from totem-like stacks of multiple canvases that evoke the surrealist drawing technique of cadavre exquis, or exquisite corpse. The figures’ eyes swirl like tiny pools, and their noses and mouths uncannily merge, blending into nebulous forms around the forehead or the mind. Sometimes their limbs or torsos transmogrify into amphibious legs or the refractions of light in water. Their enigmatic features and vacant stares transcend time; they may be visiting from the future, or they could be ancients.

A repeating motif of marine creatures nods to Kato’s longtime love of fishing, itself a primordial human activity. An uncanny wooden sculpture perched on a stand consisting of two rods, for instance, has the trophy-like appearance of an aquatic animal or a lure, and its small rider evokes a kind of spiritual or metaphysical connection between humans and the sea. Other compositions incorporate an above-and-below view of pelagic ecosystems replete with coral, jellyfish, and a shark.

Kato’s protagonists seem to alternate between appearing and disappearing into their surroundings, their expressions inscrutable. Do they feel threatened? Hopeful? Concerned? In an exhibition essay, Katonah Museum of Art director and chief curator Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe says, “When considered as a whole, this new body of work affirms the undeniable bond between humanity and nature, and the enduring continuum of the creative impulse across chronologies and geographies to seek the answer of what it means to be human.”

The exhibition opens tomorrow and continues through December 19 in New York City.

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Driedubbele rampspoed voor 2 Oekraïense broers: een oorlog ontvluchten, terechtkomen in Hengelo en er door het COA worden uitgeknikkerd. Dat laatste hebben ze best wel aan zichzelf te danken: "De broers kregen begin oktober een locatieverbod nadat medewerkers op hun gedeelde kamer harddrugs, gevaarlijke grondstoffen en een groot mes hadden aangetroffen." Het locatieverbod bleek een behoorlijke upgrade: "Omdat er geen andere opvangplek beschikbaar was, verbleven ze tijdelijk in een hotel." Het hotel werd betaald door de advocaat (wie de advocaat betaalt, is dan weer een gezellig vraagteken). De broers, bekend om grote messen en principes, willen dat de gemeente opdraait voor deze kosten.

Het wordt nog Nederlandser: "De voorzieningenrechter vindt dat de gemeente onvoldoende heeft aangetoond dat zij alles heeft gedaan om ander onderdak te vinden." De gemeente blijft namelijk verplicht om in hun eerste levensbehoeften, bijvoorbeeld het opslaan van gevaarlijke stoffen bij 80 kinderen, te voorzien.

De broeders mogen niet terug naar de opvang. Maar de gemeente wordt wel gedwongen een vorm van opvang aan te bieden: "Als de gemeente niet binnen 24 uur opvang regelt, loopt de dwangsom op tot 2000 euro per dag voor beide broers samen. Dat bedrag kan oplopen tot maximaal 60.000 euro. De gemeente moet daarnaast 1868 euro aan proceskosten en 200 euro aan griffierecht vergoeden. Daar blijft het mogelijk niet bij. Zolang er geen beslissing is genomen over het bezwaar, moet de gemeente de broers opvang bieden. Hoeveel dit gaat kosten, hangt af van de vorm van opvang en hoelang de procedure nog duurt. Als de gemeente opnieuw niet aan de uitspraak voldoet, kan de boete verder oplopen, tot het maximale bedrag van 60.000 euro."

In Hengelo blijf je nog even, aldus de rechter en de citymarketingslogan.

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