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Well at least they live to fight another day in the Champions League. We will see...

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... Psychologically, winning in defence of an International Championship will be new territory for many in the West Indies team ... I was also imagining Sir Alex being quizzed by some journo of repute with the aim of writing/producing training material on this particular aspect of sports performance management.

How it will be for Windies next time that the World T20 comes around? Well time reach
Have mental preparations started yet for the defence of the title? Or is it all too late for that now?

Was that victory in the last World T20 a fluke or are we to understand that there are players on the squad that will not take under-performance in any game lightly, much less defeat.

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West Indies 129/7 (20/20 ov)
India 101/1 (13/20 ov) ...prompted one onlooker to opine, "this is rubbish; not even a contest". India eventually won by seven wickets scoring the required 130 runs in 19.4 overs.
Anyone care to tek a single to this positive?: Indian batsmen hit 14 judicious boundaries; West Indies hit 15 ill-fated ones.

Insight 101: Windies gameplan favours unMasterly Blasting & if that doesn't come off ... one more loss and it's boom bye, bye.

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Varane on your fantasy soccer team yet? Real Madrid Tells Jose Mourinho To Rethink Chelsea Transfer Plans

Dear Mr Roman,

Far be it for me to imagine how to spend money the likes as you are purported to be worth;
so i will charge you only one million's worth of a currency to be named by me at a future date
for this bit of consultancy!

Consultancy starts: If Mourinho requests that you obtaIn the services of Raphael Varane in pursuit of your ambitions to be at the helm of a football club that aims to be the best, then nike! Got It? Good.

Trust me on this one Roman.

Reading this will imply full agreement on your part.

Consultancy Ends.

That'll be all for now as I know you are a really busy person.

regards

howzdat

We'll keep tabs on this one here: http://tinyurl.com/qbdm8tf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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... Psychologically, winning in defence of an International Championship will be new territory for many in the West Indies team ... I was also imagining Sir Alex being quizzed by some journo of repute with the aim of writing/producing training material on this particular aspect of sports performance management.

How it will be for Windies next time that the World T20 comes around? Well time reach
Have mental preparations started yet for the defence of the title? Or is it all too late for that now?

Was that victory in the last World T20 a fluke or are we to understand that there are players on the squad that will not take under-performance in any game lightly, much less defeat.

Stout. Impossible for me to hear the word without being transported to a time and place in my childhood. Two bottles of Stout Extra from that man they callling Gresham Uriah Ignatious Norbert Nathaniel Egbert Sunilal Sylvester. Nutmeg. Condensed milk and a fridge.
Here comes the anthems ... recipe to follow.

Rally in de Zindabad!!!

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Stealing A Nation

Just who/what the f**k is "a Government" ...anywhere, anytime

'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. The tragedy, which falls within the remit of the International Criminal Court as "a crime against humanity", is told by Islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and by British officials who left behind a damning trail of Foreign Office documents.

Before the Americans came, more than 2,000 people lived on the islands in the Indian Ocean, many with roots back to the late 18th century. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over the main island of Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the surrounding islands be "swept" and "sanitized". Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress and in breach of the United Nations Charter, the British Government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population.

After demonstrating on the streets of Mauritius in 1982, the exiled islanders were given the derisory compensation of less than £3,000 per person by the British government. In the film, former inhabitants Rita Bancoult and Charlesia Alexis tell of how, in accepting the money, they were tricked into signing away their right to return home: "It was entirely improper, unethical, dictatorial to have the Chagossian put their thumbprint on an English legal, drafted document, where the Chagossian, who doesn’t read, know or speak any English, let alone any legal English, is made to renounce basically all his rights as a human being."

Today, the main island of Diego Garcia is America's largest military base in the world, outside the US. There are more than 4,000 troops, two bomber runways, thirty warships and a satellite spy station. The Pentagon calls it an "indispensable platform" for policing the world. It was used as a launch pad for the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.

The truth about the removal of the Chagossians and the Whitehall conspiracy to deny there was an indigenous population did not emerge for another twenty years, when files were unearthed at the Public Record Office, in Kew, by the historian Mark Curtis, John Pilger and lawyers for the former inhabitants of the coral archipelago, who were campaigning for a return to their homeland.

John Pilger first become aware of the plight of the Chagossians in 1982, during the Falklands War: "It was pointed out to me that Britain had sent a fleet to go and save two thousand Falkland Islanders at the other end of the world while two thousand British citizens in islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had been expelled by British governments and the only difference was that one lot were white and the others were black. The other difference was that the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - and especially Diego Garcia - as a major base. So nothing was said, which tells us something about the ruthlessness of governments, especially imperial governments."

In June 2004, shortly before Stealing a Nation’s television screening, the British Government had issued an order-in-council, a royal decree using archaic powers invested in the Queen, bypassing Parliament and the High Court, to ban the Islanders from ever returning home. "The Queen rubber-stamps what in many cases politicians know they can’t get away with democratically," said Pilger. "Dictators do this, but without the quaint ritual."

In May 2006, the High Court finally ruled that the Chagossians were entitled to return to their homeland. However, in the summer of 2008, David Miliband and the Foreign Office began another appeal, to the Law Lords, against the High Court’s judgements. They found in favour of the Government.

In April 2010, the British Government established a marine nature reserve around the Chagos Islands. Several months later, WikiLeaks published a US Embassy diplomatic cable from 2009 which read as follows: "Establishing a marine reserve might indeed, as the FCO's [Colin] Roberts stated, be the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands' former inhabitants or descendants from resettling in the [British Indian Ocean Territory]."

In the film, John Pilger concludes: "Why do we continue to allow our governments to treat people in small countries as either useful or expendable? Why do we accept specious reasons for the unacceptable? The High Court issued one of the most damning indictments of a British government. It said the secret expulsion of the Chagos Islanders was wrong. That judgement must be upheld and the people of a group of beautiful, once peaceful islands must be helped to go home and compensated fully and without delay for their suffering. Anything less diminishes the rest of us."

'Stealing A Nation' was a Granada production for ITV. It was first broadcast on ITV1, 6 October 2004. Directors: John Pilger and Chris Martin. Producer: Chris Martin.

Awards: Best Single Documentary, Royal Television Society Awards, 2005; The Chris Statuette in the Social Issues division, Chris Awards, Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Ohio, 2003

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Dear Mr. Roman,

Is me again Mr Roman, anything more from Jose about that Varane ... No Ah well. Let me draw your attention to the fact that now as a Copa Del rey winner his price gone up even sky higher ... and consequently so has mine

Far be it for me to imagine how to spend money the likes as you are purported to be worth; so i will now charge you only five million's worth of a currency to be named by me at a future date for this bit of consultancy!

Trust me on this one Roman.

Reading this will imply more full agreement on your part.

Consultancy Ends... aagin

That'll be all for now as I know you are a really busy person.

regards

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btw who is Gareth Bale

Nice one GB 6495

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Well at least they live to fight another day in the Champions League. We will see...

But not much more beyond that, as eventually "All Glazed Over" Reds sack Moyes!!

Lawd that page is one for the wayback machine. Talk about terse

22/04/2014 08:30, Report by Communications Department
David Moyes leaves United

Manchester United has announced that David Moyes has left the Club.

The Club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role

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There is no truth in the rumour that Moyes sent thanks to Fergie as he trousered the £7m.

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Am i the only one that is left sort of baffled after listening to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom respond to questions about his conduct when he was in office

I swear that he and that Donald Rumsfeld fellla are kindren

I imagine that even if you in the same room Is like Bliar is behind a glass, lips moving but the words just don't add up to the injected conviction he projects them at you with; on and on his answers go earnestly trying to convince you that what you are thinking really, really, really isn't the case.

Mouth as a Weapon of Mass Deception, indeed Tony Bliar, squaddie in the "known unknowns" brigade

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List of Board of Directors of the WICB
Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron – President
Hon. Emmanuel Nanthan – Vice President
Joel Garner – President, Barbados Cricket Association
Deighton Smith – First Vice President, Barbados Cricket Association
Anand Sanasie – Secretary, Guyana Cricket Board
Anand Kalladeen – Treasurer, Guyana Cricket Board
Billy Heaven – President, Jamaica Cricket Association
Dr. Donovan Bennett – First Vice President, Jamaica Cricket Association
Auckland Hector – President, Leeward Island Cricket Association
Enoch Lewis – Leeward Islands Cricket Association
Azim Bassarath – President, Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board
Baldath Mahabir – Executive Member, Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board
Elson Crick – Vice President, Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control
Julian Charles – Director, Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control
Clifford Reis (non-member director, Chairman and Managing Director, Banks DIH Ltd)
Jennifer Nero (non-member director, Managing Director, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank)
Hon. Ricky Skerritt (non-member director, Minister of International Trade, Industry Commerce and Consumer Affairs)
Don Wehby (non-member director, CEO Grace Kennedy Ltd)