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English FA queries Mourinho over ‘tactical foul’ comments.

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho has been asked by the English Football Association to provide his observations on comments he made ahead of last weekend’s derby against Manchester City. Mourinho has until 6 p.m. on December 18 to respond to the request, relating to comments made on December 8, two days before the match, which City won 2-1 at Old Trafford. An FA statement did not specify which particularly remarks were of interest, although Mourinho suggested in a news conference that City players are prone to going to the ground and to commit “tactical fouls.” In his pre-match press conference, Mourinho at first praised City’s talent, but then added: “If you ask me one thing that I don’t like a lot it’s that they lose their balance very easily. You know, a little bit of wind and they fall.” He later told multiple English newspapers that when City lose the ball, “many times they need what is called a tactical foul. Then it is up to the referee to analyse and make ...

In Man City’s shadow, top-four scrap begins.

With Pep Guardiola’s record-breaking Manchester City team galloping away towards the Premier League title, attention is starting to shift to the jostling for Champions League positions. Manchester United, 11 points below City in second place, and third-place Chelsea are well placed, but beneath them the picture is more fluid. Just a point separates fourth-place Tottenham Hotspur and seventh-place Arsenal, while Burnley and Leicester City are both threatening to crash the cabal of the ‘Big Six’. Man Utd and Chelsea lower their sights United and defending champions Chelsea find themselves in a strange hinterland, both miles behind City — 11 and 14 points respectively — but otherwise enjoying broadly successful seasons. Jose Mourinho’s United had gone 40 home games without defeat prior to last Sunday’s stormy 2-1 loss to City in the derby, while Chelsea have taken 22 points from a possible 27. United drew a line beneath the derby defeat by beating Bournemouth 1-0 on W...

Champions League hurting Chelsea’s chances – Hazard.

Eden Hazard admits Chelsea are experiencing a more gruelling December than during last season’s Premier League title-winning campaign because of the club’s involvement in the Champions League. Antonio Conte’s side welcome Southampton to Stamford Bridge this weekend after recovering from the shock defeat at West Ham United with a convincing 3-1 midweek win at Huddersfield Town. The display against the newly-promoted Yorkshire side highlighted Chelsea’s forward strengths with Hazard combining well with Willian and Pedro to overwhelm the hosts. The win opened up a four-point gap to fifth place and while Conte may have already conceded his side have no hope of defending their title, they are making impressive headway towards the target of ensuring their return to the Champions League next season. Having failed to qualify for last season’s European football, Conte’s side benefited from a reduced fixture list that contributed to them eventually becoming champions. This ...

Beckham’s Miami MLS venture gets go-ahead for additional owners.

English football icon David Beckham has a new trio of partners in his bid to bring a Major League Soccer club to Miami. The league said Thursday it had approved the addition to Beckham’s ownership group of Jorge and Jose Mas, leaders of telecommunications giant MasTec, and Japanese entrepreneur and SoftBank founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son. Beckham, Sprint chief executive and Brightstar founder Marcelo Claure and entertainment entrepreneur and manager Simon Fuller were all already part of the consortium which has been battling to secure a stadium site. The group edged closer toward its goal earlier this year after securing a land deal for a proposed stadium project. MLS Commissioner Don Garber acknowledged earlier this month that the Miami franchise project was “the most complicated situation in any market that we’ve experienced” citing Miami’s local political structure and it’s fast-changing real estate environment. Jorge and Jose Mas are Miami nativ...

Wenger desperate for win in race for Champions League places.

Arsene Wenger knows Arsenal cannot afford another slip-up when they face Newcastle at the Emirates Stadium aiming to end a damaging run of three Premier League games without a win. Wenger’s team played a scoreless draw at West Ham United on Wednesday and is in seventh place going into Saturday’s meeting with Rafael Benitez’s team. Only one point separates the Gunners from Tottenham Hotspur in fourth, but in what is shaping up to be a tight battle for the Champions League places, Arsenal can ill-afford to drop more points against a struggling team. The West Ham draw was preceded by a stalemate at Southampton — both games Wenger would have expected to win — reinforcing the view that Arsenal have not yet recovered from the blow of losing to Manchester United at home. Wenger shuffled his pack for the short trip to West Ham, with both Jack Wilshere and Olivier Giroud making their first Premier League starts of the season. Wilshere declared himself satisfied with his per...

Everybody Talks About CX, but Nobody Does Anything About It.

Customer experience quality didn't improve in the retail industry this year, despite keen competition among online retailers, according to Forrester's U.S. 2017 Customer Experience Index. The three highest-ranked online retailers -- Etsy, QVC and Zappos -- came within fractions of a point of each other, based on data released last week. Among the industries Forrester examined, online retail was the only one in which no brands kept the same position as last year. Forrester analyzed 314 online retail brands across 21 industries. Average CX quality at online retail scores decreased by a single point this year. "In the era of an attention economy, we are trading loyalty for convenience, for value, and for status," observed Ray Wang, principal analyst at Constellation Research . "This is why CX is in a confused state," he told CRM Buyer. Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt, suggested Michael Jude, research manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sulliv...

Africa Code Week trains 1.3m youth.

The 2017 edition of Africa Code Week exceeded expectations by empowering 1.3 million youth across 35 countries with basic coding skills. This number, according to organisers, indicated a 203% increase over the 2016 iteration, which saw nearly 427 000 youth trained across 30 African countries. Launched in 2015 by SAP EMEA, in partnership with the Cape Town Science Centre and the Galway Education Centre, Africa Code Week is an initiative that brings together hundreds of schools, teachers, governments, businesses and non-profit organisations with the aim to empower young people across Africa with digital literacy skills. Over the next 25 years, Africa’s working-age population will double to one billion, exceeding that of China and India. In the meantime, the digital skills gap in the continent is widening, and coding, according to SAP, has the power to put millions of young Africans on the path to successful careers and empower them to build sustainable growth in a where...

Bharti Airtel battles Globacom, eight others for 9Mobile.

Bharti Airtel is currently battling Globacom, Dangote (Alheri Engineering) and seven others for 9mobile – formerly the local unit of Etisalat – as bankers push to complete a sale by December 31. The Guardian gathered that Abraaj Capital, Africa Capital Alliance, Carlyle Group, Centricus Capital and Africell,Helios Towers, Smile Telecoms Holdings and Teleology Holdings are the companies seriously bidding to takeover 9Mobile by year-end. The bidding process is being handled by Barclays Africa. 9mobile is being sold after regulators saved the company from collapse when both an investment fund and Etisalat exited the country in June following the default of a $1.2 billion loan. Market Analysts believed that the battle for the soul of 9Mobile rest strictly between Globacom and Airtel because of their financial war chest and experiences in the Nigerian market. Should either be successful in the bid, the additional connections may see them overtake MTN as market leader. Air...

ICT changes lives – a taste of my dreams.

My name is Victoria Aduwo, the only female child of my parents and the first of two. I am from Ondo State, Nigeria and I grew up in Navy Town, Festac area of Lagos. My father is a retired Nigerian Naval officer and my mother is an entrepreneur. I studied Chemical Engineering at the Lagos State University, LASU. Growing up, I always wondered what it was like to be an innovator. As a little girl, I had dreams of being one of the world’s most prominent female innovators. I loved to create things. I enjoyed exploring and experimenting. This shaped all I thought about and all I aspired to do with my time. It fueled my passion. I spent my time experimenting and trying to develop solutions. Unfortunately, this sort of behavior was generally regarded as masculine, especially as the male gender dominated the sciences, and information technology. I had little or no encouragement from my parents or the people around me. But I was not deterred. I remember what it was like trying t...

Teens Acting Badly? Smog Could Be to Blame.

FRIDAY, Dec. 15, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Teens are more likely to behave badly -- lie, steal, vandalize, use drugs -- if they live in areas with heavy air pollution, a study of children living in greater Los Angeles suggests. Younger kids exposed to increased levels of air pollution tended to have delinquency scores similar to teens three or four years older, the study authors said, though the study did not prove that pollution actually caused delinquent behavior. Regardless, the researchers estimated a 22 percent increase in delinquency among Southern California teenagers for every 4.5 microgram per cubic meter increase in the airborne particulate matter to which they're exposed. To put that in perspective, the federal government says clean air should contain no more than 12 micrograms per cubic meter of particulate matter, each speck of which is 30 times smaller than a strand of hair. Three-quarters of the kids involved in this study regularly breathed in air that exce...

Israel PM faces new questions in graft probe.

Fraud squad detectives questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem residence on Friday, the seventh time in a nearly year-long corruption probe, police said. “Police questioned the PM today for a number of hours as part of an ongoing investigation,” a brief police statement said. Public radio said an investigation into suspicions Netanyahu received luxury gifts from wealthy supporters, including Israeli businessman and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Australian tycoon James Packer, was nearing completion. “This is likely to be his last interrogation” on the gifts case, it said. “After that the police intend to wrap up the case within a short time.” The Maariv newspaper reported that detectives believed they had sufficient evidence to pass the file to the state prosecutor. “The police are still deliberating whether to attribute to Netanyahu the offence of bribe-taking or receiving benefits,” Maariv said. The prime minister wa...

Will Smith Is The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Again.

The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air is back! Ok, well not exactly. Will Smith, took us down memory lane when he dressed up as Will, the character he played in the popular early 90s’ sitcom, The Prince Of Bel Air, at the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Will Smith Dressed Up As The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. Photo credit: E! Online He pulled this up in the spirit of #ThrowbackThursday after informing viewers that he would be joining Instagram. Trust Ellen “The Generous” to show the 49-year-old how to use the duck face and take mirror selfies. With this one act, we guess we will be seeing a lot of dramatics from him.