Town Start Huge Month Against Millwall
Monday, 31st Dec 2018 18:08
Town begin what manager Paul Lambert says is a “huge” month by hosting fellow strugglers Millwall at Portman Road on New Year’s Day.
The Blues go into 2019 bottom of the Championship, seven points plus goal difference from safety with the Lions in 20th, 10 points ahead of them having won their last two matches, both at the Den.
Asked how big a month January is for Town both on an off the field - with half-a-dozen additions being targeted - Lambert said: “Huge. But I keep going back to it, so was August, so was July, so was June.
Bill Belichick is living a worst-case scenario after moribund Patriots get crushed by Bills
By Dan Shaughnessy Globe Columnist,Updated December 28, 2020, 11:25 p.m.
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Now we know what it feels like when the Tomato Can is on the other shelf; when the local coach is the one getting pantsed; when the Patriots are the team riding in the clown car.
The Buffalo Bills â Bill Belichickâs and Tom Bradyâs personal punching bags for the last two decades â demolished the moribund Patriots, 38-9, on âMonday Night Footballâ at Gillette Stadium.
It was perhaps the worst night ever for the Hoodie in New England. He watched his special teams get suckered on a fake punt. He got mad and fired a telephone into a wall after getting bad advice on a challenge from aide de camp Ernie Adams. He watched his defense morph into Swiss cheese. And he gave New England the collective finger by sticking with Cam Newton to start the second half after Newton submitted
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Enhanced by soundbite machine John McKay s presence, the expansion Bucs effort will live on as long as the NFL does. The ex-USC coach s two-plus months of two-a-day practices set a bad tone for Tampa Bay s inaugural season, with injuries further weakening the NFL s worst modern-era roster. The 0-14 Bucs minus-287 differential is the worst ever. The Steve Spurrier-quarterbacked team came within one score just twice once to the expansion Seahawks and lost five shutouts. The Bucs did not notch their first win until Week 13 of 1977, but McKay s rebuilt defense did lift the 79 team to the NFC title game.
New Zealand s Quote of the Year announced
22 Dec, 2020 06:28 AM
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Massey University s quote of the year has been awarded to the daughter of a man slain in the Christchurch terror attack.
Sara Qasem s father, Abdelfattah Qasem, was killed at Al Noor Mosque. Her defiant statement to the terrorist during his sentencing, let it be known, these tears are not for you , received more than a quarter of the vote in the competition.
Qasem was recalling the smell of her father s cologne as her eyes welled with tears.
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In a statement, she said she was stunned her quote won the competition and was honoured her words had a lasting effect for people to sympathise and resonate.