Saturday, July 31, 2010

Take it as said! Sportsmail takes a see at Jose Mourinhos excellent quotes on his Chelsea lapse

You have to hand it to Jose Mourinho. Just hours after touching down back in London ahead of the Champions League second leg clash with Chelsea he was back on the war path.

In a dig at his former club"s lack of success since his departure Mourinho said: "Tomorrow, after the game, I will be the Special One - win or lose.

"I did more than enough to be here but the decision was made. I keep winning important things. They won an FA Cup."

Love him or hate him, there"s never a dull moment when Mourinho"s around and here"s a selection of Sportsmail"s favourite words of wisdom from Jose.

AT CHELSEA

Jose"s grand Premier League entrance (June, 2004) "We have top players and, sorry if I"m arrogant, we have a top manager. Please don"t call me arrogant, but I"m European champion and I think I"m a special one."

Jose Mourinho

The Special One: Mourinho won back-to-back League titles as Chelsea boss

On bus-driving opponents Tottenham (September, 2004)"As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal. I would have been frustrated if I had been a supporter who paid 50 to watch this game because Spurs came to defend. There was only one team looking to win, they only came not to concede - it"s not fair for the football we played."

A modest take on his influence (February, 2005) "We are on top at the moment but not because of the club"s financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work."

Wenger gets both barrels (October, 2005) "Wenger has a real problem with us and I think he is what you call in England a voyeur. He is someone who likes to watch other people. There are some guys who, when they are at home, have this big telescope to look into the homes of other people and see what is happening. Wenger must be one of them - and it is a sickness."

Wenger and Mourinho

Who you calling a voyeur? Wenger and Mourinhio did not always see eye-to-eye

Player crisis? (February, 2007) "It"s like having a blanket that is too small for the bed. You pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket is made of cashmere."

AT INTER MILAN

Move over, Sir Alex (March, 2009) "If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager I can"t. Special clubs need special managers so in theory it could work. "The England national team wanted me as coach and that is the biggest job in England, so I am sure when Sir Alex retires they will look at the best managers in the world and I certainly fall into that category."

Sir Alex Ferguson

Heir to the throne? Mourinho reckons he is the perfect candidate to replace Fergie

England, my England (December, 2009) "I want to come back to England. I"m not the kind of guy to keep his feelings hidden. I have always said the same I love it here, I love it here, I love it here."

Infamy, infamy ... they"ve all got it in for me (January 2010)

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Gordon is not a brag claims Mandelson as PM is indicted of abusing Downing Street staff

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Christine Pratt, chief executive of the National Bullying Helpline, said three or four calls had been made in recent years.

The row over Gordon Brown"s "volcanic temper" took an extraordinary turn tonight as the head of an anti-bullying charity revealed a number of Gordon Brown"s staff had contacted her organisation asking for advice.

Christine Pratt, chief executive of the National Bullying Helpline, said three or four calls had been made in recent years.

She added she would expect any employer in this situation not to "gointo denial, but to look into it, to follow due process".

Outrightdenial could "compound the stress of those who believe they are beingbullied", she added.

"We are not suggesting that Gordon Brownis a bully, what we are saying is staff in his office working directlywith him have issues, and have concerns, and have contacted ourhelpline."

Mrs Pratt"s extraordinary statement came just hours after Business Secretary Peter Mandelson scotched claims that Mr Brown had been abusive to his staff.

The charity chief described Mr Mandelson"s defence of the prime minister as a "nonsense."

Today, Lord Mandelson described the beleaguered premier as impatient but not a bully.

Lord Mandelson said that although Mr Brown was emotional anddemanding, he did not abuse staff and questioned whether the countrywanted a "shrinking violet" in charge.

Lord Mandelson told BBC1"s Andrew Marr Show: "I don"t think he so much bullies people as he is very demanding of people.

MrBrown was "a man who is quite emotional, is quite passionate in what bebelieves and what he is doing...who gets angry but chiefly withhimself, who doesn"t bully people", he went on.

"He isdemanding of himself, he is demanding of people around him, he knowswhat he wants to do, he does not like taking no for an answer fromanyone, he will go on and on until he has got a policy and an idea inthe best possible form which he can then roll out.

Lord MandelsonGordon Brown appears on Channel Four News

Lord Mandelson defended Brown"s "volcanic temper", describing him as impatient but not a bully

"There isa degree of impatience about the man but what would you like, some sortof shrinking violet at the helm of the Government when we are goingthrough such stormy waters."

His defence of the Prime Minster came amid explosive disclosures about Mr Browns wild and violent outbursts.

A new book claims that Britain"s top civil servant even had to order the Prime Minister to ;curb your volcanictemper after complaints that he was abusive to his Downing Streetstaff.

SirGus felt the need "to calm down frightened duty clerks, badly-treatedphone operators and other bruised staff" and tell them don"t take itpersonally".

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The Prime Minister was forced to go on television last night to deny he had physically assaulted his aides as a new book claimed:

Sir Gus ordered an official inquiry into allegations of bullying by Mr Brown.Paranoid Mr Brown grabbed an aide violently and shouted: ;Theyre out to get me!The raging PM thumped the rear of the front seat of his car so hard that it scared the bodyguard sitting in it; while an aide sitting next to Mr Brown thought the PM was going to smash him in the face.Mr Brown dragged a No10 secretary from her chair and took over at her keyboard.He manhandled a senior adviser who told him he was late for a meeting with VIPs, yelling: ;Why do I have to meet these ****ing people!Straw held secret talks about toppling Brown after Scotland by-election loss Vital: When Rachel Whetstone moved to California, husband Steve Hilton was allowed to work from the U.S.

Mr Cameron"s long-time friend Steve Hilton and wife Rachel Whetstone

There are no clear policies on either taxation or spending. Nor, worst of all, can the Conservatives nail Labour for its myriad and very obvious failures.

Almost incredibly, there is no campaign manager taking charge of what comes out of the Conservative campaign headquarters. I say incredibly because there is no shortage of senior figures advising the Tory leader.

Steve Hilton, a long-time friend of Cameron, is responsible for strategy. He is seen as so important that he was allowed to do his job from California when his wife Rachel Whetstone went to work at Google HQ.

George Osborne, who is the Election co-ordinator as well as the Shadow Chancellor, is a talented strategist in his own right, and Andy Coulson, the straight-talking former News Of The World editor, is the Partys media man.

George Bridges has been brought back by Osborne to serve as his campaign deputy. Bridges is a more tribal Conservative than many of those around Cameron.

Word has it that Osborne lured him back precisely because he wanted his more traditional instincts represented.

This structure, though, is top-heavy. Differences of opinion are inevitable but, as one insider puts it, the problem comes with ;lots of people having the authority to interfere but no one having the authority to decide.

Hilton, who is viewed as an iconoclast within the Party, believes the Conservatives should stick to just a few broad messages.

Osborne, in contrast, thinks they should be emphasising different things to different groups.

While Hiltons approach might seem ;touchy feely to traditionalists, Coulson represents a rather more straightforward, ;pub-ready version of Conservatism.

He is meant to be the man who understands what will rally ;Essex man to the Tories.These structural problems have been compounded by various errors.

On the first Monday of the year, Cameron found himself unable to remember what his policy on marriage was.

Then came the shift in the leaderships rhetoric about how much public spending it would cut.

The Cameron operation is a tight-knit circle but they need to remember that they arent running a leadership campaign but a Party.

They would be well advised to make more of a show of listening and consulting the Party and explaining to it why things have to change.

There are signs of things improving, though. The Tories successful offensive on Gordon Browns ;death-tax, forcing him to explain how he would pay for extravagant expenditure on care for the elderly, was an encouraging sign.

Cameron and Osborne and their staffs have now moved out of their Parliamentary offices to Conservative headquarters, signalling a move into Election mode.

In a stirring address to staff on Monday, Osborne told them that the next 80 days were the most important of his professional life and theirs.

A sense of camaraderie between the wider Party staff and the leadership - something that has been lacking - is now being fostered.

Clearly, there is work to do and Cameron needs to sound a more certain trumpet.

Without that, it will be hard to persuade Conservative MPs, let alone the voters, that the Tories are heading in the right direction.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tiger Woods: I couldnt stop my outrageous poise

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Tiger Woods spoke for the initial time last night about his lapse to the diversion at the Masters subsequent month and certified that he was shaken about the kind of acquire available him at Augusta National.

In dual apart five-minute radio interviews in the United States one with ESPN, the sports channel, the alternative with The Golf Channel Woods reliable that he was ready to fool around again after a four-month self-imposed outcast from the game, but still had a prolonged approach to go to correct a repute cracked by revelations of his sequence infidelity.

I attempted to stop and I couldnt stop, it was horrific, Woods said. It was outrageous behaviour. Asked what accepting he thought he would get at the Masters, Woods replied: I dont know, I dont know. Im a small shaken about that to be honest with you. It would be good to listen to a integrate claps here and there. What he will not get at Augusta, but would positively have got elsewhere, will be heckling from the galleries or the neglected courtesy of the publication press. Rest assured, the immature jackets will be saying to that.

Woods, who will not have played for 144 days when he goes to the 1st tee at Augusta on Apr 8, said: Im vehement to get behind and play. Im vehement to get to see the guys again. I unequivocally miss a lot of my friends out there. I miss competing. Seemingly lost was his toe-curling mea culpa at Sawgrass, Florida, hardly 4 weeks ago when he pragmatic that he competence not fool around again this year. I do plan to lapse to golf one day, I only dont know when that day will be, he had said.

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He had undergone 45 days of diagnosis at a Mississippi hospital specialising in sex obsession and, as if realising that the some-more asocial of observers competence courtesy his enterprise to fool around again had come a small as well soon, he added: I still have a lot some-more diagnosis to do and only since Im playing, doesnt meant Im [going to]] stop going to treatment. In most ways, the interviews unclothed the hallmark of Woodss legendary control. It was pronounced that any questions could be asked, but the answers were essentially a rehash of all he had pronounced at Sawgrass.

I harm a lot of people, not only my wife, he told Tom Rinaldi of ESPN.

My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a opposite chairman and my actions were not according to that. Thats because I had to apologise. I was so contemptible for what I had done. Of his time in the clinic, he said: It was unequivocally difficult to see at yourself in a light you never wish to see at yourself, thats flattering brutal.

Among his lowest points, Woods said, were revelation Elin, his wife, and Kultida, his mother, what he had been you do and how the story was about to break. I harm them the most, he said. Those are the dual people in my hold up who Im closest to and to contend the things that Ive done, truthfully to them [was] unequivocally painful.

He added: I was vital a hold up of a lie, I unequivocally was. And I was you do a lot of things, similar to I said, that harm a lot of people. And stripping afar rejection and definition you begin entrance to the law of who you unequivocally are and that can be unequivocally ugly.

But afterwards again, when you face it and you begin subduing it and you begin vital up to it, the strength that I feel now, he said. ... Ive never felt that sort of strength. It is unfit not to acknowledge the palm of Ari Fleischer former turn alloy to President George W. Bush and right afar charged with bringing Woods as uniformly behind in to the overlay as probable in all surrounding the universe No 1.

There is a little idea that Fleischer had a palm in scheming Woods for his open reparation at Sawgrass and afterwards suggested the player to hold behind on returning to the diversion until the Masters in Apr one championship where he is on trial to say carry out over proceedings.

And where Tiger is concerned, it is all about control. He has lost it at present, but is you do all in his energy to recover the top hand.

In his world, Woods is king. He speaks when he wishes to and, until now, does not answer questions in that he detects a challenge.

But how to minimise the gigantic repairs he had caused to his own repute after the unravelling of his in isolation hold up and to get him personification the diversion once more? First the open apology; afterwards the proclamation of his lapse to the game; and afterwards the initial interview.

And that headlines organization was not going to take up that offer? At Sawgrass, Woods spoke in front of a preference of family, friends and associates. No questions were to be asked and the American golf writers, to their credit, boycotted the call in to attend. Then last week, he voiced his comeback. After a prolonged and required time afar from the game, I feel similar to Im ready to begin my deteriorate at Augusta, he said.

And right afar this. couple of people were wakeful that his handlers had set up the interviews until the last notation . In truth, his probity was zero short of brutal.

Next stop, Augusta.

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Apparent self-murder stuns Toyota bureau floor

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A workman at one of Toyotas Japanese subsidiaries has assumingly committed self-murder by gassing himself in a Prius hybrid electric car whilst it sat scarcely finished on the bureau floor.

The man, elderly about 40, is accepted to have been one of Toyotas most short-term stipulate workers in use at the Toyota Auto Body plant in Kariya City.

Co-workers found him lying passed on the behind chair of the immature car wearing the companys customary blue overalls.

Plastered on one of the windows was a pointer notice co-workers how he had finished his life, by generating sufficient unwholesome hydrogen sulphide gas to fill the indisputable newcomer compartment.

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His selected process of genocide was shocking, even in a nation that has 30,000 suicides a year and has grown used to the tragedy of lives cut short.

Two years ago Japan was strike by a spate of suicides in that victims had constructed their own hydrogen sulphide utilizing domicile chemicals.

In the behind of the Prius, ambulance workers found a small cosmetic bottle in that the lethal bubbly beverage had been mixed.

Police contend that the man left a note close to the car that referred to that the genocide was a suicide.

Before a inhabitant crackdown by the police, dozens of Japanese self-murder websites offering intensity users recipes for producing the gas.

In multiform cases, people were killed vital in the same unit blocks as self-murder vicitms who had engulfed their homes in the gas.

A couple of websites supposing a Warning: Poisonous Gas pointer that could be simply printed out and pinned to the doorway of a home where the passenger had killed himself.

The Toyota self-murder appears to have taken place in the hour prior to the sunrise change began at the Fujimatsu plant.

In the past Toyota workers have described unfortunate operative conditions at a little of the companys plants in Japan.

Tadao Wakatsuki, authority of the All Toyota Labour Union, has indicted the association of on purpose personification down what he sees as an scarcely high turn of suicides and seizure on the bureau floor.

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Pakistans Army takes carry out of al-Qaeda cavern network on Afghan border

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Pakistani forces have taken carry out of a warren of caves that served until not prolonged ago as the haughtiness centre of the Taleban and al-Qaeda and easeful Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to Osama bin Laden.

It was the main heart of militancy where al-Qaeda operatives had changed freely, Major-General Tariq Khan, the Pakistan informal commander, pronounced as he gave reporters a debate of Damadola yesterday.

The village, nestling in between snow-capped peaks in the Bajaur segment along the Afghan border, has been fought over for sixteen months. It is the initial time that the Pakistani Army has set feet in the village, that had prolonged been dominated by the insurgents handling on the both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Al-Qaeda was there. They had assigned the ridges. There were 156 caves written as a defensive complex, pronounced General Khan, head of the Frontier Corps obliged for Pakistans counter-insurgency debate in the region. He pronounced that his forces had killed 75 unfamiliar and internal militants and privileged a section up to the Afghan border, and that the debate opposite the insurgents was in the last stage.

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The armed forces began operations in Bajaur in Aug 2008 and claimed feat in Feb last year, usually for the insurgents to trickle behind when the Governments concentration switched to Pakistani Taleban fighters in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan.

Journalists were shown caves strewn with blankets and pillows, left in promptness as the armed forces approached in January. The encampment has been mostly broken by the fighting.

A large sand devalue on a hilltop was once believed to be the hideout of al-Zawahiri, one of the worlds majority longed for terrorists, who was the theme of a $25 million (�18 million) bounty. He has been speckled here by the internal residents in the past, pronounced Colonel Nauman Saeed, an armed forces commander.

Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor, narrowly transient when missiles dismissed by a CIA worker struck a residence in Damadola in Jan 2006.

According to officials he and a little alternative al-Qaeda operatives had been in attendance a cooking but left only prior to the attack. The hull of the residence strike by the missiles were still present.

Pakistani officials and internal residents pronounced that al-Zawahiri had even tied together a internal girl. He would continually transport in between Bajaur and the Afghan range of Kunar, Colonel Saeed said.

While the troops has been display off the gains most Taleban fighters and their leaders together with the main informal commander, Faqir Mohammad, have transient the brush and competence try to lapse as they have finished before. I would give you a severe guess that about twenty-five per cent contingency have left opposite the border; an additional 10 or fifteen per cent competence have melted behind in to the areas of Swat, where they had come from, General Khan said. A estimable volume of them have been killed, but that is only an estimate.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Woman and kid murdered in Hampshire

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The bodies of a lady and a kid have been found at a residence nearby Southampton, sparking a attempted murder inquiry.

A relations detected the bodies at the home in Myrtle Avenue, Totton, at 9:05am today, Hampshire Police said.

The force has not pronounced if the victims were associated and has not nonetheless expelled any report about how they died.

Detectives are now perplexing to settle the resources that led to the deaths," a military orator said.

He appealed for witnesses who saw any one behaving suspiciously in the Myrtle Avenue area, or who had left a residence in an vibrated state.

Officers were still tracing the victims" next-of-kin, he added. A post mortem is approaching to take place tonight or tomorrow.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Garden of discount Ridgemont House in Devon falls off cliff

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A customer who paid �150,000 for a six-bedroom cliff-top residence suffered a skill pile-up 6 days later: a 5,000-tonne stone tumble in that piece of the grassed area collapsed on to a beach.

Ridgemont House sole for the discount cost last week owing to the unsafe on all sides unaware Oddicombe Beach, Devon.

It is right away usually 50ft from the 300ft cliff. Police searched the beach for intensity victims but no one was hurt. The residence owners temperament has not been disclosed.