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So what will the 2010 MLS Draft be remembered for?
Will it be remembered for the fans from Philadelphia, New York and Washington D.C. converging on the Philadelphia Convention Center? Or will it be remembered for the plethora of young talents who helped make this draft one of the most promising in recent years? Hopefully for Zach Schilawski (pictured), the draft won't be remembered for him forgetting which team he was drafted by.
The 2010 MLS Draft will definitely be remembered for Philadelphia's truly impressive haul, but it could also be remembered for the number of teams that passed on playmaker Corben Bone (much like the 2009 draft should be remembered for the number of teams that passed on Stefan Frei).
Here is a closer look at the draft, including some thoughts, projections, and great picks and terrible picks:
Let's start with FC Dallas, which made the interesting decision to sell a first-round pick. You can understand FCD not needing two first-round picks considering how young the team's roster already is, but selling a high pick for what sources tell me was a $150,000 allocation seemed like a waste. Let's remember this deal four or five years from now, when Amobi Okugo is moving to Europe for a seven-figure transfer.
No draft pick left observers more perplexed than the Columbus Crew's selection of Notre Dame striker Bright Dike. How low was his stock in the eyes of other teams? Officials for three teams told me they thought Dike would go in the fourth round, if at all. So why did the Crew reach so badly? Columbus can use a holding forward and the Crew liked Dike's strength and ability to hold the ball (they apparently had no issues with the awful finishing that had turned scouts off even before the MLS Combine).
On to the good picks. Here is our Top Five 2010 draftees most likely to move to Europe on a big transfer in the coming years:
1. Tony Tchani
2. Amobi Okugo
3. Ike Opara
4. Danny Mwanga
5. Teal Bunbury
Wondering which picks were the best and worst of each round? Here is a rundown of the picks that left me impressed and surprised:
Best Pick– Corben Bone, Chicago Fire. Top five talent slides to the Fire, who can use his creativity.
Worst Pick– Bright Dike, Columbus Crew. The Crew reach badly for a player who, at best, was projected as a third-rounder.
Sleeper pick– Collen Warner, Real Salt Lake. Could wind up being the best value as Warner will challenge for the starting right wing job.
Best Pick– Toni Stahl, Philadelphia Union. A first-round talent, Stahl could wind up being first Union draft pick to become regular starter.
Worst Pick– Steven Beitashour, San Jose Earthquakes. A 30th pick is already pretty late, but there was little reason to believe San Jose couldn't have landed Beitashour later in the draft.
Sleeper Pick– Zac Boggs, South Florida. Has bounced around at three schools but his story is an impressive one and he could just be Steve Nicol's latest draft gem.
Best Pick– Chris Schuler, Real Salt Lake. A big centerback who moves well, Schuler could wind up playing more than expected if the rumors linking Jamison Olave to River Plate are true (and yes, we know, they're probably not).
Worst Pick– Kevin Tangney, Chivas USA. Made a great recovery from multiple knee surgeries to play his last season at Maryland, but looked very slow at the Combine and will struggle to make this team.
Sleeper Pick– Andrew Hoxie, San Jose. Combine standout is a good passer and moves well for his size. Could he wind up being what the Earthquakes were hoping Cam Weaver would be?
Best Pick– Sean Johnson, Chicago Fire. Johnson is a project, but has more upside than the rest of the players left in the fourth round. He'll be an MLS starter in three years with the right coaching.
Sleeper Pick– Irving Garcia, New York Red Bulls. Super skillful and dangerously quick, Garcia will be fun to watch if he can handle the physicality of MLS.
So what did we think of the RSL-LA trade that sent Clint Mathis to the Galaxy? It was a classy gesture by Real Salt Lake to let Mathis head to LA to close out his career where it began. In the process, RSL was able to land the player in the draft best equipped to challenge for a starting right midfield roll in Collen Warner. The Galaxy added UCLA midfielder Michael Stephens to Mathis for a nice upgrade in midfield.
And the New England-New York trade for Chris Albright? The Red Bulls had more draft picks than they needed (seven) and was able to unload two of them for a player in Albright who could wind up being very helpful at right back if he can get healthy.
Some other bests and worsts:
Worst Speech mistake: Zach Schilawski thanking the Columbus Crew for drafting him, before realizing it was the New England Revolution that actually took him.
Worst-planned trip: D.C. United sent a bus full of fans to Philadelphia for the draft, but traded away the one pick the club had in the first three rounds (No. 7 overall) before the draft. Trip wasn't a complete waste. D.C. fans got the chance to heckle Philly and Red Bulls fans.
Best Speech: Trying to think of one that stood out, but nobody could deliver a speech like Richard Jata did last year.
Best attempt to win over new fans: Red Bulls draft pick Tony Tchani doing the Jersey Fist Pump as happy Red Bulls fans looked on.
Best attempt to attract a player back to a team: Houston drafting Euan Holden, brother of free agent midfielder Stuart Holden, who looks destined to leave the Dynamo for England. Could Houston lure Holden back with the temptation of being able to play on the same team as his younger brother? It was worth a fourth-round pick for Houston to find out.
Worst use of a draft pick timeout: The Crew were picking at No. 12 and called a timeout, leading many to believe they were ready to trade the pick to a team coveting Corben Bone. Rather than deal the pick or take Bone, Columbus took Bright Dike.
What did you think of the 2010 MLS Draft? Happy with your team's picks? Surprised to see certain players slide? Who did you see having the best and worst drafts?
Share your thoughts on these observations, as well as your own, in the comments section below.
Wow I can't believe he forgot who drafted him. Yeah its an exciting moment and he was probably in a daze but come on kid. You have a scarf around your neck for reference.
(SBI-When he realized his mistake he checked the scarf. To be fair, Columbus picked just before he went, so perhaps he still had that on the brain.)
Ives, you may already know this, but Clint Mathis' wife is from the Los Angeles area (Orange County actually), so that may have had something to do with his trade… just a thought.
3 out 5 of the players from Ives list are foreign born. US soccer needs to step it up to produce top quality home grown players. People are already talking about cap tying Mwanga and Tchani. This is just ridiculous.
About players going to Europe — Ives makes a decent point about getting big bucks for selling the players, but there's another way to look at it. Money doesn't win games; players do. My guess as to why Dallas dealt the pick for what seems like a small allocation sum is that Dallas has an immediate need for the money. My guess is that they need the money to land Lee NGUYEN. So, let's see that Okugo goes to Europe in 4 to 5 years…. Maybe the measure of that trade is whether FC Dallas has a productive Lee Nguyen on their team, while Philly gets only a percentage of the money MLS gets for transferring Okugo's contract. Who says that deal wouldn't work out for Dallas, then?
Look also at Mwanga — How great a pick is it, if he's using Philly to skip the "reserve team" years when he moves to Europe? If they don't have him any more in or 5 years, maybe we could argue they wasted the 1st pick in the draft…
(SBI- If Philly gets three productive goal-scoring years from Mwanga, and a seven-figure transfer on top of that, I don't think anybody from the Union will call it a wasted first pick if he leaves after three or four seasons.)
Bright Dike. That would be a good name for a band.
good stuff, ives. like hearing you share your opinions on this stuff. keep it comin'.
Ives – good call on the second round sleeper. was a little surprised my hometown boy zac boggs didnt get much mention pre-draft, but then according to the local paper he was a bit surprised to be taken himself (didnt attend draft). i dont know the makeup of the Rev's roster but having seen him play i have no doubt boggs could be a starter in MLS in very short order.
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haha, the best part of this post is the analysis on Steven Beitashour. Ives got a nastygram in the mls draft q&a for not mentioning Steven Beitashour, so in 'mls draft a look back' Ives calls Steven Beitashour the worst pick of the second round. classic.
(SBI-Hey, not saying the guy can't play, but when you use a second-round pick on somebody who wasn't on anybody's radar that is the definition of wasted value. Of course, the kid could become a star, and I'll hear about how I ripped the pick, which is fine. I'm all for motivating people.)
the Jersey Shore fist pump… killing me. nice one Tchani!
Isn't the Jersey Shore fist pump to a young woman's jaw?
Here's a theory: Euro-bound picks aren't "the best" picks.
A good MLS roster usually has a few stars — DPs and discoveries heavily contribute — and a relatively deep bench. The draft seems like a good place to find solid players who will contribute for years, but not a place to go gold-mining.
As soon as you strike gold with a young player, he'll look to leave.
DC United continue their shopping in the offseason with acquiring 31 year old Australian striker Danny Allsopp. They have a striker to slide next to Pontius now! DC is going to be quite good next season.
any video of the speech? missed it and want to see what all the fuss is about
"Houston drafting Euan Holden, brother of free agent midfielder Stuart Holden, who looks destined to leave the Dynamo for England. Could Houston lure Holden back with the temptation of being able to play on the same team as his younger brother?"
Probably not.
Euan is trialing at Vejle, in Denmark, right now and looks promising.
On paper, at least, this year's draft class (along with last year's) appear to be the best classes in recent years. I took a quick glance at some of the prominent names projected for next year' draft, and I just don't think next year's class will be as strong. Stay tuned…
Chicago had a great draft this year. Frank Klopas has been on top of his game this off season. I bet we are better this year than last year. And we were the best team in the league last year. With the way the reports are we lose Segares and get Krol. Lose Rolfe and get Martinez from El Salvador. Lose Blanco and get Bone. Get Tim Ward back from injury. Resign Pappa, McBride, Brown. And the best thing that happened to us this off season is losing Denis "The Menace" Hamlett!!!
bit of a shocker to some Quakes fans too, but turns out he's a local boy who went to Leland HS.
And if he does stay for 2,3,4 seasons with the Union till he is 20/21/22, i think Mwanga becomes eligible for USA.
Kevin Tangney to CUSA is about as bad as it gets. We really need center backs here in LA. We passed on Nick Cardenas in later rounds thinking that Kevin is better.
I'm not sure about this pick at all.
CUSA is in full re-building mode.
Ives, I don't get this love for Bone. If he was touted as a top 5 pick, don't you think he would have went. And certainly with the Revs at #9 and their notorious record for picking WF players. Perhaps the coaches don't rate him as high as the "pundits" do.
Plus I think all these "best, worst, and sleeper" picks are too soon to call, after all the preseason hasn't even started. A fair evaluation should come at the end of the season.
(SBI-The Revs needed forward help more than midfield help so they took the Wake forward. As for your "coaches don't rate him as high as pundits" comment, it can be said that most of the teams that passed on him did so to fill other needs. The only team that took a similar player to Bone was Columbus in Dilly Duka. We'll find out just how smart a move that was.
Also, a player sliding doesn't mean a thing with relation to whether they were properly rated. Stefan Frei was widely-regarded as a Top Three talent. Guess what pick he was? No. 13. Frei was a top rookie of the year candidate and is a safe bet to be the first member of the Class of 2009 to leave for Europe on a big transfer.
Am I as sold on Bone as I was on Frei last year? I wouldn't go that far, but I do think Bone should have gone ahead of a handful of the players ultimately taken.
As for the best, worst and sleeper picks, the point of making them now is to see how close they are to accurate by season's end. If predictive picks aren't your thing, then feel free not to read them.)
The Columbus pick of Dike is hugely disappointing. Not only did we pass on Bone, but we allow him to go to the Fire. We need a playmaker far more than a holding forward. GBS has only got one more year left in him. Lenhart and Renteria will take care of the spot vacated by Moreno's departure, but we have done nothing to prepare for the loss of Scheletto.
Tim M.
7 million fig for Okugo? i guess. or he could bolt if he ever fines himself a free agent.
The coaches and GMs had something in mind when they made their decisions, so the correct time to truly judge the picks is 5 or 10 years down the road.
However, its not that fun to wait that long.
Thats why you read Ives to hear his take now and add your two-cents. You are free to post an updated list after the preseason, and after the season. That doesnt mean that it isnt fun to talk about it now.
If you dont think its interesting, dont post.
bo schembechler
no mention, for better or worse, of the wolverines' own mauro fuzetti. he's been around for a while and scored a few goals, so i can't believe nobody wants to even say that he was a useless pick.
Offtopic, but does anyone know when MLS will release the full 2010 schedule?
Well I do think it's interesting, it's one of the reasons why I read Ives daily. It just doesn't sit well with me to read bloggers and reporters handing out grades and who got the best pick and worse when the teams haven't even started preseason yet. A nice look back at some point of the season would be a great piece and I hope I get to see that from Ives.
(SBI-Handing out grades after drafts is something that happens in all sports and something done by all forms of media. The grades are based on how the graders believe the picks will pan out. Not sure why it doesn't "sit well" with you. Not sure what your issue is with it, but to suggest that it shouldn't even been done seems like a bit of a stretch.)
Mary Segal
Compared to Ohio State's Greg Oden (now in the NBA with Portland) Mwanga looks like Oden's son. Note Oden is 20 or 21 compared to Mwanga 18.
Out of the 60 players drafted (4 rounds X 15 teams), I would be willing to bet that after the first three MLS seasons we will never hear from 80% of these kids again.
That leaves 12 players from hundreds of colleges across the nation.
Not a whole lot to celebrate.
This is where youth/reserve teams come into play. I can't believe that the MLS doesn't have the money to get academies in every city. If they don't, perhaps they should team up with European Teams in some type of sharing arrangement.
This whole draft thing is getting pretty old, pretty fast.
I think that Euro-bound picks stink for a handful to 1/2 of the teams.
What is Seattle going to do with more money?
The league max in salary is so low for a team like Seattle and they are making so much, it doesn't improve anything but the owners pocketbooks.
I thought Houston drafted Holden so casual fans wouldn't think that the other Holden left for Europe.
It seemed for a while the plan might backfire, with Stuart staying, as they would have two Holdens, exposing their scheme.
What percentages do you think the youth academy hit at ?
Plus what percent of the best 60 players said don't draft me, because I am going to Europe ?
IF, big IF, MLS actually gets support, those would be included.
sad fact – i went to school with the dumbass who punched the poor girl.
Scott A
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NIMH Project Accept (HPTN 043) HIV/AIDS Community Mobilization (CM) to Promote Mobile HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing (MVCT) in Rural Communities in Northern Thailand: Modifications by Experience
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Project Accept is a RCT designed to test the efficacy of community mobilization (CM), mobile voluntary counseling and testing (MVCT), and post-test support services (PTSS) in reducing HIV incidence in three African countries and Thailand. The intervention started in rural areas, northern Thailand in January 2006. CM initially included door-to-door visits during the daytime, small group discussions and joining organized meetings and followed by MVCT. In February 2007, CM strategy using HIV/AIDS "edutainment" (education and entertainment) during evening hours was introduced. After edutainment was initiated, the number of participants increased substantially. VCT uptake increased from 18 to 28 persons/day on average (t test; t = 7.87 P < 0.0001). Edutainment especially motivated younger people, as the median age of VCT clients decreased from 38 to 35 years old (median test; z = 6.74, P < 0.0001). Providing free MVCT in community settings along with edutainment during evening hours increased VCT uptake and was particularly attractive to younger adults.


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Meandering of the Spiral Tip: An Alternative Approach
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Meandering of a one-armed spiral tip has been noted in chemical reactions and numerical simulations. Barkley, Kness, and Tuckerman show that meandering can begin by Hopf bifurcation from a rigidly rotating spiral wave (a point that is verified in a B-Z reaction by Li, Ouyang, Petrov, and Swinney). At the codimension-two point where (in an appropriate sense) the frequency at Hopf bifurcation equals the frequency of the spiral wave, Barkley notes that spiral tip meandering can turn to linearly translating spiral tip motion.
Barkley also presents a model showing that the linear motion of the spiral tip is a resonance phenomenon, and this point is verified experimentally by Li et al. and proved rigorously by Wulff. In this paper we suggest an alternative development of Barkley's model extending the center bundle constructions of Krupa from compact groups to noncompact groups and from finite dimensions to function spaces. Our reduction works only under certain simplifying assumptions which are not valid for Euclidean group actions. Recent work of Sandstede, Scheel, and Wulff shows how to overcome these difficulties.
This approach allows us to consider various bifurcations from a rotating wave. In particular, we analyze the codimension-two Barkley bifurcation and the codimension-twoTakens-Bogdanovbifurcation froma rotatingwave.We alsodiscussHopf bifurcation from a many-armed spiral showing that meandering and resonant linear motion of the spiral tip do not always occur.


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One of the great biblical summaries of how God wants his people to live is found in the words of the prophet Micah: "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8). The Lord, through his prophet, was not addressing people in general, telling them how to be saved or made right before him. He was, in fact, challenging his redeemed people, those who bear his name, accusing them of living lives that are utterly inconsistent with their calling to be his people. They must not imagine that they could substitute externalized rituals of religion for a God-honoring concern for other people. So he called them to do justice, described earlier in Micah as protecting the disadvantaged and marginalized. In the words of Micah's contemporary Isaiah, "Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow" (Isaiah 1:17). They were also to "love kindness", which goes beyond fulfilling legal responsibilities by showing compassion and kindness to those in need. And this was to be done by "walking humbly with your God", seeking to honor him by giving of themselves to serve others.
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USD/JPY: bears going to reach "Window"
There's a bullish "Doji" at the local low, but its confirmation isn't enough. Therefore, the market is likely going to test the upper "Window", but if we see a pullback from it, there'll be an opportunity to have a new low. As we can see on the Daily chart, the last "Dark Cloud" pattern did such a good job, so bears are likely going to move on.
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The #1 is obvious a week before the draft. In Januray, that's not always the case. In 2011, Couturier was believed to be #1 for a good while, and RNH was just getting on the radar after missing the WJC cut. In 2006, Kessel was expected to contend for #1. Yakupov, Tavares, Stamkos, and Crosby were the only truly obvious #1 picks in January since the last lockout.
Things can still change at this point of the year, and it occurs often enough to legitimately discuss Drouin overtaking Mackinnon.
When Couturier was #1, it was a full year before the draft, and the beginning of the draft year. It's similar to Ekblad at the moment. I assume Ekblad will be #1 ranked for 2014 at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season as well.
At this time in the year, it's usually fairly obvious, but you do have a point about a week before the draft. At that point, it's very obvious, but I still believe in January, you have a very solid idea.
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By JOHN BOSCHINI
Real Madrid couldn't have asked for a better way to all but wrap up the La Liga title.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored just three minutes after Alexis Sanchez briefly gave Barcelona hope to send Madrid seven points clear with a 2-1 win at the Camp Nou. It was Jose Mourinho's first league win over the Catalan club and all but assures that Madrid will win their 32nd title and first since 2008.
Sami Khedira toe-poked the opener past Victor Valdes in the first half, taking advantage of Carles Puyol's inability to clear the ball. Sanchez brought a goal back for Barcelona with a close-range rebound, but Ronaldo rounded Valdes just three minutes later and fired into an open net to wrap up a victory. Madrid need six points from their final four games to clinch the title.
The Bundesliga became the first major European league to crowned its domestic champion on Saturday when Borussia Dortmund officially clinched the German title. The repeat champions easily dispatched Borussia Monchengladbach 2-0 to claim their eighth title, third most in league history. Ivan Perisic and Shinji Kagawa scored in the early stages of either half to spearhead the victory.
Dortmund are the first repeat champions since Bayern repeated in 2006. Bayern will most likely finish second for the second consecutive year, and the two teams will meet for the German Cup final in May.
Here are the rest of the results from a big weekend in Europe:
Just when you thought the race was all over, Manchester City have forced their way back into the title discussion. Manchester United saw their lead over their blue neighbors shrink to three points with a 4-4 draw at home to Everton. Steven Pienaar scored in the 85th minute to draw Everton level in a second half that saw six goals. United held an eight-point lead two weeks ago but have won only one of three since then.
Manchester City kept pace with a 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers as Wolves became the first EPL team assured of relegation. Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri scored for City, while Wolves continue the winless streak that stretches back to the departure of former manager Mick McCarthy. Newcastle are in prime position to make next season's Champions League, as Tottenham lost to Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea, whose best hope for playing in the Champions League next season is to win it this year, were held to a scoreless draw by Arsenal.
Arsenal 0, Chelsea 0
Aston Villa 0, Sunderland 0
Blackburn Rovers 2, Norwich City 0
Bolton Wanderers 1, Swansea City 1
Fulham 2, Wigan Athletic 1
Newcastle United 3, Stoke City 0
Queens Park Rangers 1, Tottenham Hotspur 0
Manchester United 4, Everton 4
Liverpool 0, West Bromwich Albion 1
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Manchester City 2
Valencia finally earned a much-needed emphatic win on Sunday with a 4-0 thrashing of Real Betis. With Malaga not playing until Monday and Levante slumping to a draw with Sevilla, Valencia hold a four-point advantage in third place.
Athletic Bilbao has also crept into the Champions League race as a win over Racing Santander takes them to within three points of fourth place having played a game more.
Mallorca 1, Real Zaragoza 0
Sporting Gijon 2, Rayo Vallecano 1
Barcelona 1, Real Madrid 2
Sevilla FC 1, Levante 1
Granada 1, Getafe 0
Real Sociedad 1, Villarreal 1
Racing Santander 0, Athletic Bilbao 1
Atletico Madrid 3, Espanyol 1
Valencia 4, Real Betis 0
Osasuna vs. Malaga, 3 p.m.
Stuttgart's slim hopes of chasing down Borussia Monchengladbach for the fourth and final Champions League spot is all but gone following a 1-1 draw with FC Cologne. While not mathematically secure, Monchengladbach can wrap up fourth place with a single point in either of their last two games.
Hertha Berlin is guaranteed at least a place in the relegation playoffs as the gap between them and safety has widened to six points. SC Freiburg and Mainz have guaranteed their spots in the Bundesliga for next season
Mainz 0, VfL Wolfsburg 0
FC Cologne 1, VfB Stuttgart 1
Hertha Berlin 1, Kaiserslautern 2
Nurnberg 1, Hamburg SV 1
TSG Hoffenheim 0, Bayer Leverkusen 1
Werder Bremen 1, Bayern Munich 2
Borussia Dortmund 2, Borussia Monchengladbach 0
FC Augsburg 1, Schalke 04 1
Hannover 96 0, SC Freiburg 0
Juventus kept their foot on the gas as a 4-0 demolition of AS Roma extends their lead to three points over AC Milan. Juventus were up 3-0 by halftime and now hold a plus-three advantage over Milan on goal differential. Arturo Vidal scored a double while Andrea Pirlo and Claudio Marchisio added the other goals for Juve.
AC Milan conceded more ground in the race of the Scudetto with a 1-1 draw to Bologna. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in the final minute to salvage at least a point for the visitors. Despite the humiliating loss, AS Roma isn't out of the race for third as both Lazio and Udinese could only manage draws. Lazio currently holds third place with a three-point lead over Udinese and a five-point lead over sixth-placed Roma. Napoli moved into fifth with a 2-0 win over Novara.
In a bizarre turn of events in a clash towards the bottom of the league, Siena's 4-1 victory over Genoa was halted for 45 minutes because of fan disturbance. After Siena went ahead 4-0, Genoa supporters gathered around the tunnel and threatened to invade the pitch unless the Genoa players removed their shirts, claiming the players were not worthy to wear the jersey. Only an emotional intervention by Genoa midfielder Giuseppe Sculli was successful in restoring calm and the match could conclude. Genoa is now only one point clear of relegation.
Chievo Verona 0, Udinese 0
Parma 3, Cagliari 0
Catania 2, Atalanta 0
Napoli 2, Novara 0
Fiorentina 0, Inter Milan 0
AC Milan 1, Bologna 1
Cesena 2, Palermo 2
Genoa 1, Siena 4
Lazio 1, Lecce 1
Juventus 4, AS Roma 0
Paris Saint-Germain were utterly dominant in their 6-1 win over Sochaux but still find themselves two points behind Montpellier in the race for the Ligue 1 title. Five different players scored for PSG with Nene getting the brace. Souleymane Camara's goal after just five minutes was enough for Montpellier to dispatch Valenciennes.
Lille maintained their six-point lead in third place with five games to play. Lyon kept the pressure on with a win over Lorient but time is running out for them to close the gap.
Brest 0, Stade Rennes 1
Caen 1, St. Etienne 4
Dijon FCO 0, Lille 2
Evian Thonon Gaillard 2, Toulouse 1
Montpellier 1, Valenciennes 0
Nice 1, AJ Auxerre 0
Bordeaux 2, Marseille 1
AC Ajaccio 0, AS Nancy Lorraine 0
Paris Saint-Germain 6, Sochaux 1
Lyon 3, Lorient 2
Ajax realistically need only three points over their final three games to wrap up the Eredivisie title. A 2-0 win over FC Groningen takes them to the brink of a 31st league title. AZ Alkmaar kept the pressure on with a 2-1 victory over VVV Venlo. The main focus for AZ is to hold off the challenge for second place being mounted by Feyenoord Rotterdam. The two teams are level on points with AZ holding a one-goal advantage on goal differential.
FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven also won as they lurk one point behind third place.
NAC Breda 0, Roda JC Kerkrade 3
Heerenveen 1, Vitesse Arnhem 1
De Graafschap 2, SC Heracles Almelo 3
RKC Waalwijk 0, FC Utrecht 2
Exclesior 0, FC Twente 1
ADO Den Haag 1, Feyenoord Rotterdam 2
AZ Alkmaar 2, VVV Venlo 1
PSV Eindhoven 2, NEC Nijmegen 1
Ajax Amsterdam 2, FC Groningen 0
What do you think of this weekend's fixtures? Were Real Madrid worthy winners on Saturday? Can Borussia Dortmund become a force on the European stage? Will Juventus continue their unbeaten season and win the title?
Share your thoughts below.
Was it really an "open net" goal for Ronaldo? I saw it as a one-on-one with Valdes that Ronaldo blasted past him near-post. Am I remembering the goal incorrectly?
William the Terror
As a Manchester United fan since the time I was stationed in England in the early eighties, I can only say that United deserves no silverware this year. The team has played lazily in all competitions and has shown no fire at all. The only thing that minimizes my displeasure is the sheer joy of seeing Barca lose this weekend. And although it is blasphemy to say so from the stanpoint of a United Fan, I hope Chelsa show Barca the door this week.
K Bone
Certainly was not an open goal. After Ronaldo beat Valdes he still had plenty of work to do to get it in the net…
Lol theu won't. They may have had a chance of Barca had beat Madrid and may have had a let down but now the champions league is all they have. Chelsea will be under the gun from minute one. Oh and as for Manchester united, I think its part laziness but also lack of talent. Ok Roney,Welbeck, Nani and Young who are good not great United is old lacking in talent. City has twice the talent of United.
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Young? He has dived so much this year he might as well transfer to Barca. As for lack of talent, that may be true. United has not don much on the transfer marker for the last couple of years and their next generation of vaunted youth stars have yet to show much on the filed. But, laziness was definitely the culprit against Basel when they exited the Champions League, and there has been some lazy defending in the Premiership as well.
City has more talent, but at what cost? I'm a big fan of finacial fair play. But, like campaign finance reform, peole will always find a way around it.
Lol young may be at home studying Dani Alves diving clips every night but he is talented is a starter on most teams in Europe. It's hard to compete being smart with your money. That's why what the Bundisliga teams are doing is so impressive. But unless Man U spends or their academy starts pumping out more Welbecks they will continue to struggle. But hey Chelsea Liverpool and Arsenal are in the same boat.
yeah, deuce and jozy should definitely go to Roma …
Most telling thing I read about el Clasico was from Sid Lowe in the Guardian:
"The more Barcelona have focused on controlling the game, the less they seem to have been able to kill it. Against Madrid they completed well over 700 passes; Madrid completed just over 200. Madrid had six shots on target, Barcelona just three."
Barca just doesn't seem to have the same ability to attack as they had in the past. Control the ball, sure. But really put pressure on the keeper, not as much – there is no Eto'o, Henry, or even Ibrahimovic on this team.
I wouldnt mind if Jozy stays in Holland for a little longer. If they can maintain their strike rate theyll be in the champions league qualifying next season. Thats a big if though, tied for second and one point ahead of third which is the europa league spot.
I do think that Saturday Clasico was screaming out for an Ibrahimovic type of player from Barca's standpoint.
I can't say I'm with you on your main point though. Barca have had a poor couple of games in a row. To me, it's nothing more than that.
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Did you guys notice he didn't look up before he shot over Valdes. Wow! 🙂
it seems ridiculous to say, that if barcelona had this one player or that, they could put it all together, when they already have one of the most amazing and complete squads in the history of the game. That said, an in form and healthy eto'o or villa (i.e, the kind of quick, technical, mobile forward who fits in with them) and barcelona is much much more dangerious. i don't think they are any better with ibra.
The angle was acute and he had to hit it while in stride and past Valdez. No 'open net' there.
It truly was a remarkable goal. He looked up when he received the ball. That was it.
most certainly his comment was sarcastic. Roma isn't even the best team in Rome and will end up missing or barely making Europa. in other words, Jozy and Dempsey have no reason to go there.


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Re: I implore you ND Stop nerfing perks and weapons
Internet most certainly is a want and not a necessity. Cell service is identical.
Health care is also a want. It isn't necessity for life but improves it's quality. People have survived by only taking care of themselves or just suffering through pain for most of human history. They did want health service form others (whether it was actually helpful or not) but it wasn't a need for the human race to survive.
Needs for the human race to survive are as follows: shelter from the elements, food, water, procreation.
Re: I implore you ND Stop nerfing perks and weapons
Whereas video game companies are competing for dollars from consumers and if they don't cater to the video game consumers these consumers take their business elsewhere .
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Just because you use a car doesn't make it necessary. Who doesn't use a tv in an industrialized country? Is that also a need then?
The mistake you make it that you don't believe they are catering to consumers wants. You didn't think they were in uncharted multiplayer either by you are wrong about that cause it's more popular than the previous installment.
You can feel free to take your business elsewhere but that doesn't mean you won't be replaced by another consumer who liked this version of the product better. From what I can tell you and your "shiv dance elitist" friends are the minority. Most people I know disagree with you. On the forum it's close but forum regulars don't represent typical consumer. They usually fit a similar mold and throw out (or chase out) those don't fit the mold are typically told to get out.
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Neverbelow you are speaking of products that have much demand and are essential gas, health care that people need to stay healthy and a monopolized internet ?!! This has no bearing on a video game that needs customer support and a company that needs company support to stay viable.
Nobody is saying to hinder their creaivity , I am saying after 8 months of a video game being out that they should listen to the community as to what should be implemented in that video game its that simple.
Problem is they did listen to the community. You have no idea if your side is in the majority. That is a very large assumption that you are in the majority. You only know the people you play with and some of the people who post on here agree with you on certain issues but defendetly not all of them.
Lots of people hated the shiv dance. Lots of people didn't mind it but knew it was an unintended glitch.
I strongly believe ND fixes things as soon as they can. Look at all the threads that have been on this forum. Which are the biggest ones? The black screen, lag, and game crashing topics.
The reason those havn't been fixed yet is because there is no easy fix for them. If they had a solution they would of fixed them already. This is the same reason why the shiv danced was just patched. They just came up with the way to fix it because they knew it was a glitch and had no way to remove it before.
Same reason why the leaderboards havn't been wiped. They don't have a fix for the god mode yet. It would be pointless and a waste fo them to wipe it when it will just be filled with more people cheating so they will leave it until they can stop the hack.
You guys cried the same things when the game first came out and was unbalanced.
"stop asking for nerfs the game is too new." Now its "stop asking for nerfs the game is too old"
In that lodgic no one should ever ask for change ever.
The only problem I see in game play now is the parts after reviving someone is cut in healf and collector doesn't work with support skills. Two glitches out of a mountain of what could of been possible problems.
I still think they did that on purpose to stop boosting. But thats just my opinion.
Re: I implore you ND Stop nerfing perks and weapons
However my point is if they want to be creative and make the game feel different add another mode, add a new gun or two a perk . Nerfing things is not creative. Oh I'm going to make reviving harder and crafter more points no one asked for these things . That is my point .
Re: I implore you ND Stop nerfing perks and weapons
Would you still be complaining if they only removed the shiv dance, nerfed the flamethrower and the SAR?
Because that was what most players were asking for. You say they didn't listen to the community but if they had you have already stated you would quit the game if they touched the SAR.
My point is and I've stated it numerous times that they made the changes in hopes of adjusting the balance of the MP. They didn't change it to be creative and to troll us.
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A post-mortem examination has failed to establish what caused the death of Daniel Spargo-Mabbs, the Croydon schoolboy who died on Monday after taking ecstasy.
Police are awaiting the results of further tests after the examination at Uxbridge mortuary yesterday proved inconclusive.
The 16-year-old, of Rymer Road, Addiscombe, died after taking the drug at what police called an "illegal rave" in Hayes in the early hours of Saturday.
The Archbishop Tenison's High School pupil suffered three heart attacks after taking MDMA, it emerged in court on Wednesday.
He was taken to Hillingdon hospital by paramedics at around 4am on Saturday believed to be suffering a drugs overdose.
The teenager was later transferred to Kings College hospital, where he remained in a coma until dying on Monday.
Two men accused of supplying the MDMA believed to have caused the Croydon teenager's death appeared on court on Wednesday.
Nicqueel Pitrora, aged 18, of London Road, and Ryan Kirk, 20, of Beckenham appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court charged with being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
They were remanded in custody and will next appear at Isleworth Crown Court on February 5.
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In the letter, sent to Sir David before Christmas, Lord McGregor claimed he had incontrovertible evidence that at least one of the royal scandals which caused so much tut-tutting among press critics last year was (horror) disclosed by the members of the Royal Family involved. What is more, members of the Royal Household whose word he trusted told him barefaced lies about it. That, he says, is why, after his emotional condemnation of the stories about the marriage difficulties of the Prince and Princess of Wales, he kept his counsel.
Maybe, but that is not the whole story. Another reason why his first denunciation was his last was that tabloid editors on the commission - notably Patsy Chapman of the News of the World - did not agree with it, and said so in outspoken terms. If self-regulation was to mean anything, Lord McGregor had to keep the tabloids onside.
Whatever the role of the royals in spreading that story, they clearly had no part in circulating the long-lens pool-side pictures of the Duchess of York and her financial adviser. Nor, as far as is known, was there royal collusion in the circulation of the tapes of secretly recorded phone calls made by the Prince and Princess of Wales to close friends.
The McGregor letter is certainly evidence of an attempt to manipulate the press at the highest level. But does it, as Lord McGregor clearly hopes, demolish Sir David Calcutt's proposals for a statutory press tribunal, and reprieve the two- year-old PCC?
The PCC, an odd mix of newspaper editors and the great and good, is being blamed for failing in a task it was not meant to be tackling. The nature of the problems the commission was supposed to address was already changing by the time it came into being in 1991, and changed even more rapidly in the ensuing months.
What prompted the Government to appoint the Calcutt committee in 1989 was a series of flagrant breaches of personal privacy by the tabloid press, involving intrusion and harassment of victims ranging from the celebrated to the unknown. Setting up the PCC, with an agreed code of practice enforced by less cumbersome procedures than those of the old Press Council, was only one of the recommendations of the first Calcutt report, published in 1990.
There was a key difference between the proposals and the reality. Lord McGregor insisted that the press itself choose the commission members and draw up the code of conduct. Sir David wanted both those tasks carried out by an outside body. Even then, he doubted whether it would work. If, as he suspected, there turned out to be 'a less than overwhelming rate of compliance' with the new code, a statutory tribunal would have to be created.
In fact there has been broad compliance with the code, as far as it goes. Lord McGregor is justified in claiming that since 1991 there has been less intrusion into the lives of private people. Most complaints to the commission have related, as they customarily do, to inaccurate reporting rather than ethical issues. PCC rulings have been swift and sensible and have won wide respect, although some have found it too cavalier in dismissing the right of public people to private lives.
However, public concern was diverted into a new area - the obsessive reporting of the personal lives of the Royal Family, particularly by means of bugged telephones and long-lens cameras. The PCC has few weapons for dealing with this, since its code does not cover news-gathering by such means.
Indeed, the first Calcutt report had never envisaged that it should. Sir David recommended instead specific laws to bar both the surreptitious use of surveillance devices and photographing people without permission on private property with long-lens cameras operated from outside. These laws would be enforced by the courts, with no need to create a separate tribunal.
The Government, needing the goodwill of the press with an election in the offing, did not act on those suggestions. Had it done so, it might have been possible to prosecute the papers that broke the royal scandals last year. So it is bad luck on the PCC that it is being judged a failure for not providing a remedy for abuses that are technically out of its remit.
Patsy Chapman, the most powerful tabloid editor to play a founding role in the PCC, said yesterday that the Guardian's revelations had come as a shock, even though she knew the Princess of Wales had colluded in Andrew Morton's book from an early date.
'It was not until this morning that I realised . . . that Lord McGregor had been hoodwinked by the Government and the Royal Family; or that John Major, Lord Wakeham (leader of the House of Lords and chairman of the cabinet committee on Home Affairs) and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all had been involved.'
Although she was head of the committee that drew up the newspaper code of conduct, she had not been personally consulted before the emergency statement on the Royal Family put out last June by the PCC. Lord McGregor had attempted unsuccessfully to contact her.
Ms Chapman said: 'I think it shows that Calcutt's proposals for statutory controls should be ridiculed. How can you accuse newspapers when at times the royals want to present their best side in their favourite papers?
'The Press Complaints Commission should continue. But there should be a few ordinary bods on it - people who actually buy and read newspapers, who understand that their contents are a package, a mixture; part investigation, part entertainment, part scandal.'
What about papers taking sides? 'Newspapers have just got to run stories. If Diana rang me, I'd run it. If Prince Charles rang me next day, I'd run that, too,' Ms Chapman said.
Professor Robert Pinker, from the London School of Economics, a member of the PCC, was also surprised about the degree of misinformation. He fully supported the statement at the time, working on the assumption that there had been no royal leaking. 'Later, we thought we'd perhaps overreacted.'
Had the commission been damaged? 'I don't think it has. What has happened in the last 48 hours has not damaged but added to the strength of the case (for self- regulation). But this experience will certainly make us more sceptical in future.'
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Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742. After all, it's the most single performed piece of classical music, year-on-year, sung, played, and heard by more people in the world than any other; and is there any other artwork that has earned more money for charity than Messiah over the last 300 years? I can't think of one.
And yet, as the film that Amanda Vickery and I present on BBC2 on Saturday sets out to show, Messiah's success was the opposite of a dead-cert. In fact, Messiah was a shot in the dark for the composer, for his performers, and his listeners. Messiah is an aberration in the context of Handel's previous oratorios, because its "drama" is an abstract spiritual progress rather than a blood-and-thunder Old Testament story. Handel didn't know whether the piece was a flop or a hit until he first heard it, at the Music Hall in Fishamble Street in Dublin on 13 April 1742. Handel seemed to be vindicated: that first audience was bowled over, stunned by the music's emotional directness and numinous power.
But that's not what happened when the piece came to London the following year, however. Caro Howell, the director of the Foundling Museum, tells the story here of how the performance on 1 May, 1750 at the Foundling Hospital in London – the context for our film – saved its reputation, and consecrated the tradition of Messiah as a musical good work. Handel's music, its clarion call to selflessness, resonated with the ideals of Thomas Coram, the Foundling Museum's founding visionary, the artist William Hogarth, and what Amanda calls the "cultural coalition" that catalysed the connection between the arts, philanthropy – and fashion.
Yet as well as that coming together of these multiple historical contexts, it's also the substance of Handel's music that makes the piece so enduring – but not for the reasons you might think. Messiah is actually a musical hybrid, a fusion of the many different dimensions that Handel had mastered: operatic vocal lines and expressive immediacy, churchly counterpoint, and barnstorming choral writing. The pianist and brilliant musical thinker David Owen Norris puts it beautifully in the film, talking about Messiah's combination of "grace, mystery, and monumentality". As you'll see, David's favourite moment of the whole piece is the bass solo, "Behold, I tell you a mystery", an existential upbeat before the aria, "The Trumpet Shall Sound". As David shows, in just a few bars Handel is able to create a dazzlingly subtle yet utterly immediate poetry from the way his harmonies move – or don't move – underneath Charles Jennens's words.
David also told me he thinks Handel inscribes himself into the fabric of Messiah's music, and then makes his own journey of faith stand for the spiritual journey of his performers and listeners. David pointed out how the affirmatory interval of a rising fourth is so often used by Handel in Messiah's most affecting and revelatory moments: it's essential to the bass line of the Hallelujah Chorus, and it's a central component of the melodic line of concluding Amen fugue. As David showed me, the same interval is often used when Handel is setting pronouns, words that help personify the piece, and that connect it with the lives and experiences of the audience: "For unto us a son is given", "All we like sheep", "I know that my Redeemer liveth", "He was despised", that miraculously moving number for alto that's my single favourite number in the oratorio – and many other examples. Now, that interval is a common convention in baroque music, but its use in these particular contexts as a connective device across a piece that lasts two-and-a-half hours is no coincidence, David thinks, and in terms of how we experience the piece, it's just one of the ways that Messiah's music goes so deeply and so quickly into our subconscious.
I'm sure that Handel wasn't analytically aware of this, or many other compositional subtleties that scholars now discuss in Messiah. He wrote the piece in just 24 days, and then a couple of days later started work on his next large-scale oratorio, Samson. But in general, it's the fact the music connects the world of the body, the mundane, the earthly, through its dance rhythms, its sensually operatic "songs" (as they're called in the original text rather than "arias": Messiah is set in communicative English, after all, rather than airy-fairy Italian) with the world of the spirit –the contemplation and "mystery" of the final Amen, or a number like "Behold the lamb of God" – that makes Messiah a lightning rod for our emotions, today just as in 1750.
The piece has also achieved one the central aims of Handel and Jennens, which was, quite simply, to make the world a better place. Handel wanted his music to inspire moral improvement in his listeners and Jennens wanted to make them more Christian. That may no longer be the case in a strictly religious sense, but the effect of all of those countless performances all over the globe for good causes – including Coram, the charity that is the legacy of the Foundling Hospital – is that Messiah really has transformed the world for those who are the beneficiaries of the money it has raised, and for the communities of audiences and amateur musicians who have come together to perform it and listen to it – thousands of whom will do exactly that this Easter. Messiah, in that sense, is the sound of our better selves.
In any case: I hope you enjoy the programme on Saturday, which is gilded with some fantastic performances from Paul McCreesh – who plays and conducts the part of Handel with uncanny verisimilitude, wig, wine, and all! – the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and soloists Lucy Crowe, Andrew Staples, and Iestyn Davies.


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The woman staff member was beaten and severely bruised and was treated in hospital.
Eight children, seven of them aged 14, were reported to be at the centre of the trouble and are all believed to be from the same school.
The 40 children in the mob - which included two boys - are believed to have marched to Old Kent Road from their school.
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The gang boarded the vehicle and attacked two pupils, attempting to drag them off the bus. The bus worker who intervened was said to be so traumatised by the attack in February that she could not work for a month.
Officers from the Met's Transport policing unit examined CCTV footage during an inquiry into the incident.
The assault comes amid fears of rising anti-social behaviour on London's buses.
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