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While Ollie Watkins gave the most articulate response to his omission from the England squad with the goal that clinched this confirmation of Aston Villa’s place in the top four, ending their three-game losing sequence in the Premier League, the most rousing noise around Villa Park arrived when Youri Tielemans replaced John McGinn a minute earlier. The whole of the ground took to their feet and cheered the Belgian’s name more loudly than anyone else’s as he made his return after two months out with an ankle injury.
On a day when McGinn, Villa’s inspirational captain, followed up his opening goal in the Europa League victory over Lille on Thursday with another nerve-settling strike here, the returning strength and quality of Unai Emery’s squad offers substantial evidence that they can maintain their two-pronged approach for Champions League qualification. It is now 18 days until Villa play again, when they visit Bologna in the first leg of their third successive European quarter-final, and their fans can bask in a satisfying glow until then, and quite possibly beyond. Villa are five points clear of Liverpool in fifth place and were good value for this return to winning home ways in the league.
Continue reading...It promises to be a long three weeks for Tottenham Hotspur and Igor Tudor. That is if Tudor gets the time, after Nottingham Forest plunged Spurs deeper into the relegation fight, recording a humiliating 3-0 victory at this vast arena.
When Spurs, now a point above the relegation zone, do re-emerge after the international break, their trip to Sunderland will be the first of seven games to save their Premier League status. Perhaps appropriately, here Tudor was dressed all in black and there was a funereal feeling to things when the final whistle blew and the jeers rang out from the stands.
Continue reading...Het zal niemand verbazen dat het Australische Glass Beams opgezet werd door een van oorsprong Indiase muziekproducent, drummer Rajan Silva.
Gezien hun mix van Oosterse klanken en Westerse instrumentatie, behoeft het geen verwondering dat zij de onbedoelde vader van de acid house, Charanjit Singh, eer bewijzen. Op hun eigen wijze, dat dan weer wel.
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TBILISI (ANP) - Judoka's Simeon Catharina en Jur Spijkers hebben brons overgehouden aan de Grand Slam in Tbilisi. Het zijn de tweede en derde Nederlandse medailles bij het toernooi in Georgië. Eerder won Joanne van Lieshout zilver.
Simeon Catharina versloeg in de strijd om het brons in de klasse tot 100 kilogram Darko Brasnjovic uit Servië met ippon. Hij had in de derde ronde verloren van de Rus Idar Bifov, die later het goud greep. Michael Korrel verloor in de herkansingen van Nika Geokharazishvili uit Georgië.
Jur Spijkers verloor in de klasse boven 100 kilogram de strijd om een plek in de finale van de Georgiër Irakli Demetrashvili. Daarna verzekerde hij zich van brons doordat Dzhamal Gamzatkhanov uit Azerbeidzjan in de golden score tegen zijn derde straf aanliep.
