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A GoFundMe page set up to start a private search for missing Cardiff forward Emiliano Sala has reached its €300,000 (£260,000) target, with two boats looking for the Argentine this weekend.

Sala, Cardiff's new €17m signing from Nantes, went missing on Monday when the Piper PA-46 Malibu plane he was travelling in disappeared over the English Channel and rescuers ended their three-day search for the forward and pilot David Ibbotson on Thursday.

Paris-based football agency Sport Cover, who list Sala as a client, set up the GoFundMe page, which has attracted donations from footballers including Nantes manager Vahid Halilhodzic, Manchester City's Ilkay Gundogan, Leicester City winger Demarai Gray, Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe and Adrien Rabiot, and Bayern Munich's Corentin Tolisso.

Although the search for Sala's plane has been officially called off, pleas from Argentinian football stars Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona and Sergio Aguero to keep looking have been made, while the Argentine government formally appealed to their French and British counterparts to restart it.

"President Mauricio Marci has instructed the foreign minister Jorge Faurie to make a formal request to the governments of Great Britain and France to ask that they maintain their search efforts," a statement from the Argentine presidency said.

In France, a petition to have the search resumed has over 85,000 signatures.
Cardiff City will pay tribute to Sala before Tuesday's Premier League clash at Arsenal, the Welsh club's chief executive Ken Choo said on Friday.

"We're going to plan a tribute on Tuesday at the Arsenal game for the fans to join in, and again at the home match against Bournemouth on Feb. 2," Choo told Sky Sports.
"We're still planning the details and we'll speak to the family as well. We'll announce details in the next day or two."
The Premier League confirmed there would be a moment of silence during all matches next week as a mark of respect for Sala and Ibbotson.

"I just want to say, the Premier League and Arsenal have been incredibly supportive of our club and this situation," Choo added.

even though I don't know how electoral bill will affect me, but I think jubril should sign it. or the only thing he signs is it the one that has to do with money?

during her holiday, she disturbs too much so I asked her to go and observe siesta.
this girl opened her mouth and asked me where's night that I will use and sleep?
I was so shocked. I just weak.

we're bringing the trophy home once more. next is semi final double header match against Raja Casablanca.

has anyone from abia receive invite? pls let me know.

As if it were possible to love him even more, stand by and wait for your admiration of N'Golo Kante to grow ten-fold.

The story goes that after playing a central role in Chelsea's 4-1 win over Cardiff City on Saturday, Kante was due to spend the rest of the weekend in Paris with his family.

Unfortunately, the France midfielder missed his Eurostar train and was therefore stranded in London as a result.

The devout Muslim used his mobile phone to search for a local mosque where he could partake in evening prayer.

It was at the mosque that Kante was recognised by a small group of football fans who, on discovering he had missed his train, invited the Blues star back to their house for dinner.


The gang enjoyed a nice curry, chatted, played a few games of FIFA and then settled down to watch BBC Premier League highlights show "Match of the Day," which rather bizarrely featured highlights of the man sitting next to them on the couch.

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Amazing. Totally surreal, but amazing nonetheless.

All hail Kante, a man so genuinely humble, polite and talented that he has quickly come to unite all football fans, regardless of club or national loyalties, behind him.

how will this origin give me 10 sure odd today?

you might want to check my signature googlelove, I can write better.

missing twelve football teenagers and their coach has been found alive.
recall that the teenagers and their coach has been missing in a cave in Thailand for 9days now.
the good news is that they have been found alive and efforts are underway on how to rescue them.
more details coming shortly.

wow that's romantic.

say no more.

we seriously need strong oppositions in our politics. nice move Dino

living with a toxic person is very depressing especially when you are soft hearted

Do you have a toxic person in your life?

Draining, non-supportive and difficult people are one of life’s greatest challenges. In this post, I want to talk about how you can spot, stop and deal with the toxic people who come into your life. You deserve to have people in your life who you enjoy spending time with, who support you and who you LOVE hanging out with.

#1: Conversational Narcissist
Have you ever been talking to someone who keeps interrupting you? Maybe I should revise that sentence: have you ever been
trying to talk to someone who won’t let you get a word in? Conversational narcissists LOVE to talk about themselves—or just hear themselves talk. They don’t ask you any questions, they don’t wait for your responses and they won’t shut up. In a relationship, these people will end up being completely self-centered and never be attentive to your needs.

#2: The Straight Jacket

The straight jacket is someone who wants to control everything and everyone around them. They want to be in charge of what you do, what you say and even what you think. You know the person I am talking about–they freak out when you disagree with them and won’t stop trying to convince you that they are right and you should do what they say. In a relationship, this person will give you no breathing room and will constantly nag you until you are in complete alignment with them. Be careful, these people will go after your emotional, conversational and mental freedom until you have nothing left. Get out while you can!

#3: Emotional Moocher

An emotional moocher is also known as a spiritual vampire because they tend to suck the positivity out of you or bleed you emotionally dry. These are the kinds of people who always have something sad, negative or pessimistic to say. In conversations and relationships, they can never see the positive and tend to bring everyone down with them. If you’re with someone and they only have bad things to say whenever you see them, watch out, it might not get better.

#4: Drama Magnet

Some toxic people are magnets for drama. Something is always wrong. Always. And of course, once a problem is solved, another one emerges. And they only want your empathy, sympathy and support–but not your advice! You offer help and solutions, but they never seem to want to fix anything. Instead they complain and complain. In a relationship, drama magnets are victims and thrive in a crisis because it makes them feel important. If someone is a beacon for adversity, watch out, you might one day become part of the drama.

#5: A JJ

My friends and I can spot a JJ from a mile away and I want to show you how to as well. A JJ is a jealous-judgmental person. Jealous people are incredibly toxic because they have so much internal self-hate that they can’t be happy for anyone around them. And typically, their jealousy comes out as judgment, criticism or gossip. According to them, everyone else is awful, uncool or lacking in some way. If someone starts to jealously gossip with you about other people, watch out, this might be a toxic person—and you never know what they say about you behind your back.

#6: The Fibber

I had a lot of liars in my life before I learned human lie detection . Liars, fibbers, exaggerators… it’s exhausting to have a toxic deceiver in your life. Whether they tell little falsehoods or major lies, it’s impossible to trust a liar in a relationship. Dishonesty drains us because we are constantly doubting their words. If your intuition is ringing alarm bells, then watch out, get out before you’re lied to.

#7: A Tank

A tank crushes everything in its wake. A human tank is always right, doesn’t take anyone else’s feelings or ideas into account and constantly puts themselves first. In a relationship, tanks are incredibly arrogant and see their personal opinions as facts. This is because they often think they are the smartest person in the room and so they see every conversation and person as a challenge that must be won over. They rarely see others as equals—and this can be challenging when trying to form a loving connection. If you feel your ideas are being run over, or you are not being respected, get out while you still can!

what's wrong in doing ur bandits stuff and allow humans to live? murderers live in the north.

where's the video nah

They have long memories in the Eternal City. In Rome, Liverpool are near the top of a long list of enemies; Jurgen Klopp's team are in for a hostile reception in the Italian capital.

The Merseyside club ruined what was supposed to be the greatest day in Roma's history. The Serie A club have only reached the European Cup final -- the predecessor of the Champions League -- once. In 1984, Roma advanced to the continent's most prestigious competition and the final was played in their own Stadio Olimpico. Liverpool, the other finalists, were meant to be witnesses to Roma's coronation but it turned out to be one of the worst nights in Giallorosso history.

The Italian champions were a good side: Bruno Conte and Francesco Graziani were key members of Italy's 1982 World Cup winning team; their two Brazilians, Falcao and Cerezo, gave the team a dash of South American class. Roma took no prisoners, either. Their captain, Agostino Di Bartolomei was a hard man on and off the pitch and was reported to carry a revolver in his bag.

This was Roma's time. They beat Dundee United in the semifinal, reversing a 2-0 first-leg deficit on a ferocious afternoon in the Stadio Olimpico. The Italian side won 3-0 and then jostled, abused and spat at Jim McLean, the Scottish club's manager. Roma were good enough to go through even after the defeat in Scotland but, just to be on the safe side, they bribed the referee, giving him £50,000.

They had little respect for Liverpool, despite the Anfield club's record of winning the European Cup three times in the previous seven years. Their dismissive attitude appeared justified. Joe Fagan took his team to Tel Aviv for a spell of warm weather training before the final; Italian journalists accompanied them.

A week before the showdown in the Stadio Olimpico, the Liverpool players went to a bar in the Israeli city, they played drinking games and things got out of hand. A fight broke out among the squad and Alan Kennedy ended up with a black eye and Ian Rush was given a bloody nose. Teammates were throwing punches at each other and rolling around the street. When the news reached the Italian media, it was assumed these drunk and debauched Liverpool players would be an easy touch.

They could not have been more wrong. Fagan's players were a rugged, experienced group who slept off their hangovers, cleared the air and set about winning the European Cup.

Rome was not a welcoming place for Liverpool and their fans. It seemed every window in the city was decorated with Roma flags; the team were allocated a rutted, untended pitch for training that was so dangerous they abandoned practice. On the pitch at the stadium, their reception was so hostile that some of the players wanted to get back to the dressing room as soon as possible.

"It was the most intimidating sight I've ever seen in my life," Hansen said. "It frightened me how much those fans wanted Roma to win the match."
Graeme Souness was having none of it. If Roma were tough, the Liverpool skipper was tougher. In the semifinal he broke the Dinamo Bucharest captain's jaw with a single punch during the first leg. Neither the referee nor the watching Kop saw the blow. In the second leg in Romania, the Scot had to withstand repeated attempts to injure him.
Souness, whose flamboyant presence earned him the nickname "Champagne Charlie" called the players together and walked straight down to the
Curva Sud , where the Roma Ultras gathered. He would not let the team show any fear. "Nothing scared Charlie," Steve Nicol said. "He looked at them straight in the eye."

Now it was Liverpool's turn to intimidate the Roma players. When the referee called the teams into the tunnel before kickoff, the Italian side remained in their dressing room to complete coach Nils Liedholm's teamtalk. Leaving the opponents waiting in the tunnel is a classic ploy to unnerve them. It was a mistake.

The Liverpool squad had adopted a Chris Rea song, "I Don't Know What It Is But I Love It" as their anthem, and they began singing it while they waited for their rivals to come out. Bruce Grobbelaar, the goalkeeper, began beating the song's rhythm on the Italian team's dressing room door.

"Apparently, when their players heard us the colour drained from their faces," Mark Lawrenson said. "We had psyched them out without knowing it." When Roma finally emerged, they were met by a team of wild-eyed, chanting maniacs. "The boys were singing their heads off," Kenny Dalglish said. "They must have thought we were insane." The tone for the game was set.

The match was attritional. Liverpool took the lead in the first half and Roma equalised before half-time. The atmosphere was frenetic: only 8,000 Liverpool supporters were in the 69,000 crowd and the locals kept up a frantic cacophony throughout the 90 minutes and extra time. There was no more scoring so it went to penalties.
The shootout became legendary. Nicol missed the first one for Liverpool but Grobbelaar's rubber-legged antics during Roma's kicks caused Conti and then Graziani to miss. The European Cup was coming back to Anfield and Rome erupted in rage.
In the stadium, the fans piled their banners and flags on the terraces and set them alight. Outside the stadium, they took out their fury on travelling fans and there were numerous stabbings. The effect of this brutalization had dreadful consequences: It changed some Liverpool supporters' attitudes towards Italian fans and helped create the antagonistic and hostile atmosphere in Brussels a year later, where 39 people died at the Heysel Stadium in the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus.

There was -- and still is -- lingering resentment in Rome, too. And dire ramifications. On the 10th anniversary of Roma's defeat, Di Bartolomei, the local boy who had come through the club's ranks to become captain and a tough-guy personification of the Ultras on the pitch, committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. It was a tragic postscript to what was meant to be the greatest day of Di Bartolomei's career.

The clubs met again, twice in quick succession, in the early 2000s in the Champions League and UEFA Cup. Liverpool took four points off their rivals in the second group stage of the 2001-02 Champions League and then knocked Roma out of the next season's UEFA Cup. The ties in the Italian capital were marked by more stabbings and violence. The Eternal City still bore a grudge.
Liverpool and their fans will have to tread carefully in Rome. The pain of 1984 has entered the folklore of Roma fans.

Chelsea legend Ray Wilkins has died in hospital aged 61 after suffering a heart attack and fall last week, his family have confirmed.
Wilkins was placed into an induced coma and remained in critical condition at St George's Hospital until he died on Wednesday morning.
"It is with great sadness that we announce that Raymond Colin Wilkins passed away this morning," a family statement read. "We'd like to thank St George's staff for the amazing work they've done to care for our beloved Ray.
"We'd also like to say thank you for the many goodwill messages we've received from Ray's friends, colleagues, and members of the public.
"We're asking for privacy at this difficult time."
Wilkins played for Chelsea, Manchester United, Milan, QPR and Rangers in a professional career that lasted 24 years and yielded 84 England caps. He also enjoyed two spells as assistant manager at Stamford Bridge, where he remained a regular presence on matchdays long after his dismissal in November 2010.
An accomplished midfielder on the pitch and a jovial character off it, Wilkins proved a popular figure wherever he went and news of his death prompted an outpouring of tributes from across the football world.
"Everybody associated with Chelsea Football Club is devastated to learn of the passing of our former player, captain and assistant coach, Ray Wilkins," the Premier League champions said on Twitter. "Rest in peace, Ray, you will be dreadfully missed."

Nigeria 0 Vs 0 Serbia

SuperSuave:
Abolishing the rule is harmful

so true, players will be so glad to push for January transfer knowing they will still play in the champions league.

UEFA announced on Tuesday it had decided to remove the "cup-tied" rule from all European competitions.

This means that, for the first time, a player could play for two different clubs in the group stage and the knockout rounds of the Champions League, or the Europa League, in the same season. Players could switch between competitions in the past, but not stay in the same one with a second team.

What prompted UEFA to scrap the 'cup-tied' rule?

It follows pressure from a number of high-profile clubs and players, most notably this season from Barcelona and Arsenal.
Barca signed Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool in January for a fee that could rise to €160 million, but as he had already played for the Premier League club in the group stage he was therefore ineligible for his new team in the Champions League until next season.
Arsenal fell foul of a little-known rule. They signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund, who had played for BVB in the Champions League. The Gunners were in the Europa League, but as Dortmund finished third in their UCL group and therefore dropped into the UEL, Aubameyang was ineligible for Arsenal. If both clubs are in the same competition a player cannot play for the second club.

Why was the "cup tied" rule in place?

The "cup-tied" rule is enforced in virtually every cup competition in the world. It was designed to prevent wealthy teams signing up good players from other clubs in the same competition to boost their own chances of success (and harm others) in later rounds.
UEFA didn't allow any player to play for a second club whatsoever until 2005-06, when it permitted players to move between competitions only in January. In 2012-13 it then removed any restrictions from players who had played in the qualifying rounds from being registered for another club in the group stage.
Now it has taken the final step and removed the "cup tied" rule completely.

What reason has UEFA given?

In explaining its decision to end the "cup tied" rule, UEFA said: "This is in line with the existing regulatory situation in the different domestic leagues, which does not impose restrictions on the eligibility for competitions of players registered for a new club during the winter transfer window."
However, domestic league competitions have, historically, never had a "cup tied" rule. So the UEFA explanation does not really directly correspond with its cup competition.

When does it come into force?

As of next season, so no change for Coutinho and Aubameyang this season.
How will this affect the January transfer window?
It could have a revolutionary effect. It now means that the richest clubs in Europe can target any player from any other club to bolster their resources for the knockout rounds. It could see far more high-profile, big money moves mid-season when they were previously few and far between.

So the big clubs are happy about this?

Without doubt. It removes any restriction on registering players for the Champions League and the Europa League.

How many new players will clubs be able to register in January?

The three are now all without restrictions. It used to be that only one could have played in the group stage of the other European competition, and only one could have played in the qualifying rounds (from a total of three new registrations).
Can clubs buy from other clubs still in the competition.
Yes, no restrictions.
So a player can now be a winner AND a runner-up in the same season.
Indeed. Let's take Philippe Coutinho as our example. He could have moved from Liverpool to Barcelona in January, with the two clubs then facing each other in the final. This means Coutinho would pick up both a winner's and a runner-up's medal. It may well happen.

Can a player win the UCL and the UEL in the same season?

Yes, but they already could do after the rule was relaxed to allow a player to move between competitions several seasons ago.

girl that was looking for escape route out spinster. and she got it 1st time of asking. congrats to her jare. . . so the man wan spoil runs for by asking her to terminate the pregnancy.

very commendable from the university.

ikpeazu is incompetent and should be voted out. no single project completed since 2015 he took over. infact the road leading to his own house has been under construction since he took over from office, not to mention aba-owerri road.
the only thing that has increased in Abia is the very high number of touts which he's using to extort money from the masses.

e come be now wey I dun serve finish. this life is hard sha.

I did not read the story to the end but I know It is not right, those okada men have no business operating in those areas. So if the tenant is unable to pay his rent, the landlord should be killed and the other car sold. That's my humble submission.

What a dumb driver.
You got 1.5m, sold a car and achieved ur aim of killing ur boss. What were you still doing around?
I wish you a very slow and painful death Mr. driver.

why not destroy it instead of sending it back? if it's foreign rice you people will know how to destroy it.