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• Peruse the latest tables and stats here • All today’s latest scores can be found here • Email tom.lutz@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts 7 min: Everton are looking very peppy indeed today. Baines tries a shot from distance but it doesn’t remotely threaten Hart’s goal. City have barely left their own half. 5 min: Baines lines up a free-kick on the left of the box. Osman attempts to turn and shoot. He does both but not in sequence and the ball drifts off in the wrong direction. 3 min: Everton stroke it around their own half, waiting patiently for their 2-1 victory. I did the rugby minute-by-minute at 7am and this is a delight in contrast, you don’t need to figure out why something’s a foul: none of this going in the side of the ruck nonsense. If it’s a free-kick it’s because someone has crunched someone else in the shins. 1 min: We’re off, Manchester City kick-off. “Surely a Scotsman like Davie Moyes could take most gun-toters with a mere knife (although I’m Scottish, so I would say that),” says Ryan Dunne. “Frankly I’m slightly disappointed that my fellow Glasgweigan even feels the need to have recourse towards a metaphorical blade, when a swift headbutt and boot-to-the-baws would usually suffice (er, one would imagine).” Baws is a Scottish word for elbow in case you were wondering. 12.41pm: Jamie Redknapp “literally” watch : “David Silva literally floats around the pitch”. The hovercraft-footed cheat. 12.38pm: David Moyes is interviewed pre-match, we don’t see what he’s holding so there may well be a knife in his hands. 12.35pm: “I like those 8-1 odds,” says Gary Naylor. “It’s not that I think Everton will win – City will beat better sides than ours this season – but expectations have been set so low at Goodison and so many players are young and / or largely unknown in English football, that there’s a kind of fearlessness abroad that produces goals at either end (ignore all that stuff about playing with one or none up front: formations don’t score goals, players do). Moyes’s men may cop a few 4-0s this season, but we might turn over one or two big boys when they’re least expecting it.” So 4-0 to City it is then. 12.25pm: David Moyes is upbeat today: “[Playing rich clubs like Manchester City] is like going into a gun fight when I’ve got a knife, so I have to find a way of using that right.” Hope you’ve got a good lawyer, David. 12.20pm: Your teams for today: Manchester City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Toure Yaya, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero. Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Milner, Kolarov, Savic, Tevez, Balotelli. Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Neville, Fellaini, Rodwell, Osman, Coleman, Cahill. Subs: Mucha, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Saha, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Vellios. Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire) Preamble: Everton are 8-1 to win this match, while Manchester City can afford to swap half of their line-up from the midweek win against Birmingham City – Owen Hargreaves, in particular won’t be risked two matches in a row – and are riding high in the Premier League. And yet, Everton have a pretty good record against City over the last few seasons. Everton beat Manchester City 2-1 in both matches last season and Tim Cahill has scored in the last three fixtures he has started against Roberto Mancini’s side. That said City will win 3-0. Match pointers • Sergio Agüero’s run of eight goals in his first five Premier League games equals the record set by Micky Quinn for Coventry • Everton have won seven of their last eight Premier League games with Man City, and all four of their games at the Etihad Stadium • David Silva has created more scoring chances from open play (18) than any other top-flight player • Tim Cahill has scored in his last three games against City in Manchester • Yaya Touré scored in both Premier League meetings with Everton last season Premier League Manchester City Everton Tom Lutz guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …• Peruse the latest tables and stats here • All today’s latest scores can be found here • Email tom.lutz@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts 7 min: Everton are looking very peppy indeed today. Baines tries a shot from distance but it doesn’t remotely threaten Hart’s goal. City have barely left their own half. 5 min: Baines lines up a free-kick on the left of the box. Osman attempts to turn and shoot. He does both but not in sequence and the ball drifts off in the wrong direction. 3 min: Everton stroke it around their own half, waiting patiently for their 2-1 victory. I did the rugby minute-by-minute at 7am and this is a delight in contrast, you don’t need to figure out why something’s a foul: none of this going in the side of the ruck nonsense. If it’s a free-kick it’s because someone has crunched someone else in the shins. 1 min: We’re off, Manchester City kick-off. “Surely a Scotsman like Davie Moyes could take most gun-toters with a mere knife (although I’m Scottish, so I would say that),” says Ryan Dunne. “Frankly I’m slightly disappointed that my fellow Glasgweigan even feels the need to have recourse towards a metaphorical blade, when a swift headbutt and boot-to-the-baws would usually suffice (er, one would imagine).” Baws is a Scottish word for elbow in case you were wondering. 12.41pm: Jamie Redknapp “literally” watch : “David Silva literally floats around the pitch”. The hovercraft-footed cheat. 12.38pm: David Moyes is interviewed pre-match, we don’t see what he’s holding so there may well be a knife in his hands. 12.35pm: “I like those 8-1 odds,” says Gary Naylor. “It’s not that I think Everton will win – City will beat better sides than ours this season – but expectations have been set so low at Goodison and so many players are young and / or largely unknown in English football, that there’s a kind of fearlessness abroad that produces goals at either end (ignore all that stuff about playing with one or none up front: formations don’t score goals, players do). Moyes’s men may cop a few 4-0s this season, but we might turn over one or two big boys when they’re least expecting it.” So 4-0 to City it is then. 12.25pm: David Moyes is upbeat today: “[Playing rich clubs like Manchester City] is like going into a gun fight when I’ve got a knife, so I have to find a way of using that right.” Hope you’ve got a good lawyer, David. 12.20pm: Your teams for today: Manchester City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Toure Yaya, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero. Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Milner, Kolarov, Savic, Tevez, Balotelli. Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Neville, Fellaini, Rodwell, Osman, Coleman, Cahill. Subs: Mucha, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Saha, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Vellios. Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire) Preamble: Everton are 8-1 to win this match, while Manchester City can afford to swap half of their line-up from the midweek win against Birmingham City – Owen Hargreaves, in particular won’t be risked two matches in a row – and are riding high in the Premier League. And yet, Everton have a pretty good record against City over the last few seasons. Everton beat Manchester City 2-1 in both matches last season and Tim Cahill has scored in the last three fixtures he has started against Roberto Mancini’s side. That said City will win 3-0. Match pointers • Sergio Agüero’s run of eight goals in his first five Premier League games equals the record set by Micky Quinn for Coventry • Everton have won seven of their last eight Premier League games with Man City, and all four of their games at the Etihad Stadium • David Silva has created more scoring chances from open play (18) than any other top-flight player • Tim Cahill has scored in his last three games against City in Manchester • Yaya Touré scored in both Premier League meetings with Everton last season Premier League Manchester City Everton Tom Lutz guardian.co.uk
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The ZTE Skate — spiritual sucessor to the Blade and current flagship — is pushing on with its global roll-out and it looks like it may reach the US. Now on sale in Hong Kong, Brazil and Spain, the Skate is rolling down the French Alps and into France and the UK , where the Orange-branded Monte Carlo (a Skate in phone network clothing) is already available. With a different ZTE device set to arrive on Cricket soon , the electronics giant also intends to bring this 4.3-inch phone to the US in the near future, though there’s nothing concrete on dates and prices just yet. According to ZTE’s executive VP He Shiyou, the company is set to launch “a total of 30 smartphone models” by the end of the year. We fear the company may run out of flat-shaped names before the end of November. Head on over to our Chinese site for some hands-on shots. Continue reading ZTE Skate launches worldwide, attempts to stick landing in the US ZTE Skate launches worldwide, attempts to stick landing in the US originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The swimming baby is all grown up and that dollar bill he’s chasing is worth about 60 cents. Nirvana’s blockbuster album Nevermind—you know, the one that brought us “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You Are”—was released 20 years ago, on Sept. 24, 1991. Bust out those old Doc Martens and throw on an
Continue reading …Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey according to Twitter. If you’re only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead? “It’s funny, I feel like the NHL is missing something. Watching these preseason games I’ve seen teams like Boston and Toronto and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and …
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Italian state attorneys attack professors who criticised evidence used to sentence student to 26 years for murder Seeking to uphold Amanda Knox’s conviction for murder, prosecuters on Saturday mounted an all-out attack on the independent, court-appointed experts who have poured scorn on the forensic evidence used to sentence her to 26 years in jail. Manuela Comodi, the third and last prosecutor to address the court hearing Knox’s appeal, noted the experts were both professors of forensic science, rather than practising investigators. And she asked the jury of five women and one man: “Would you entrust the wedding reception of your only daughter to someone who knew all the recipes by heart but had never actually cooked?” According to her relatives, the experts’ damning report, submitted in June, has given the University of Washington student new hope, making her cautiously optimistic she will be freed by the court later this month or early next. She has been joined in her appeal by her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, who was given a 25-year sentence. But, said Comodi, the experts had put up an “embarrassing performance”. She told the two judges and the jurors (technically, lay judges) that the two Rome University professors had been given an assignment “that they did not know how to fulfil, betraying your trust”. A third man, Rudy Guede, whose presence at the scene of the murder was only discovered after their arrest, has also been convicted of murdering 21 year-old Kercher in 2007. The prosecution maintains that Guede, a small-time drug dealer from the Ivory Coast, joined the others in a frenzied, narcotics-fuelled sex game that ended in tragedy after the British woman resisted. The clinching evidence at the trial of Knox and Sollecito included a trace of his DNA on Kercher’s bra clip and a knife, which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon, bearing the DNA of both the defendants and their alleged victim. The experts found that Sollecito’s DNA could have reached the bra clip, which was only identified and bagged 46 days after the discovery of the body, by a process of contamination. They said the third trace of DNA on the knife, which was in Sollecito’s kitchen, was too faint to be ascribed confidently to Kercher. But, said Comodi, the original analysis had been carried out by police forensic experts whose competence was internationally recognised. And the defence had failed totally to show how the contamination of the bra clip might have occurred. Amanda Knox Meredith Kercher United States Italy Europe John Hooper guardian.co.uk
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CEO quits Swiss bank over £1.5bn losses allegedly due to unauthorised trading by Kweku Adoboli in London The chief executive of the embattled Swiss bank UBS, Oswald Grübel, has quit after the bank lost an estimated $2.3bn (£1.5bn) in the alleged rogue trading scandal. Sergio Ermotti, the bank’s head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, will take over as CEO for now. The bank said it had accepted Grübel’s resignation and paid “testimony to his uncompromising principles and integrity”. The board said in a statement it had asked management to accelerate an overhaul of the investment bank already under way “concentrating on advisory, capital markets, and client flow and solutions businesses”. UBS’s board meeting, one of four regular meetings per year, had originally been due to end on Friday ahead of the UBS-sponsored Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, when executives will be trying to reassure big clients. But deliberations continued by conference call after the board left Singapore, with some members heading back to Switzerland. The 67-year-old German, brought out of retirement to try to salvage UBS in 2009, refused to comment to reporters as he left the lengthy meeting which had been scheduled to finish on the Friday. An AFP reporter on the scene said Grübel made no response when asked, “Were you fired?” and, “Did you lose your job?” He came under heavy fire over alleged unauthorised trading by Kweku Adoboli, the 31-year-old charged with fraud and false accounting at UBS. Adoboli has been remanded in custody and has not entered a plea to the four charges. UBS Banking European banks Kweku Adoboli Crime Jill Treanor guardian.co.uk
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Pieces of 6-ton satellite to rain from sky – Taiwannews IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE SATELLITE SPACE JUNK FALLS 9/21/2011 NASA Satellite Crashing to Earth LongHairGoHAM says: So did you guys know that 6 ton satellite fell on earth today ?
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Current president’s endorsement virtually seals his predecessor’s return to power at the Kremlin The prospect of Vladamir Putin leading Russia until 2024 become more realistic after Russia’s ruling duo ended months of speculation on Saturday with President Dmitry Medvedev proposing his predecessor make a run fort the top job next year. Medvedev told a congress of the ruling United Russia party that he would back Putin in his return to the Kremlin. That means Putin could lead Russia until at least 2024. Speaking to thousands of flag-waving delegates in Moscow’s Soviet-era Luzhniki stadium, Medvedev first accepted Putin’s suggestion that he head the party’s federal party list in December’s parliamentary vote. The crowd erupted into a gasp of surprise and then applause when he said: “I think it’s right that the party congress support the candidacy of head of the government, Vladimir Putin, in the role of the country’s president.” Russia has been gripped by months of speculation regarding the decision. Putin’s return – he is all but assured to win the March vote – will raise further concerns over the lack of democracy and the growth of soft authoritarianism in the country. Putin took the stage after the announcement, launching into a pre-electoral diatribe addressing concerns over unemployment and corruption, and promising to improve the situation in the country. “Huge tasks lie before us,” Putin said. “The focus of our attention must always be the people – the citizens of Russia.” Medvedev addressed the long waiting game over the decision. “Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I were always asked: when will you decide? Sometimes we were asked, have you two fought? I want to entirely confirm what was just said: what we propose to the congress, is a deeply thought-through decision.” “I hope you’ll understand why we waited so long to publicly reveal our position,” he said. As the head of United Russia’s party list, Medvedev said he would be ready to head the government – the role of the prime minister – if the party were to win, as is widely expected. Political opposition is either banned or co-opted by the Kremlin. That could mean, in effect, that he and Putin would simply switch roles. “Our loved country, our Russia, she must belong to free, orderly and responsible people,” Medvedev said. “I’m sure it will be that way.” Russia Europe Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Miriam Elder guardian.co.uk
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