Archives for February 2024

When Scott McTominay met Diogo Dalot’s cross with the meatiest of winning headers, Andre Onana resisted the temptation to dance. A short while before what is becoming a typically decisive intervention from McTominay, a smiling Douglas Luiz teased Onana with some sort of shoulder shimmy after finally turning a torrent of Aston Villa pressure into an equaliser. But as the supporters in the Holte End who had barracked him throughout a compelling second half found out at the final whistle, it was Onana who had the last laugh. There was no shortage of significant contributions to this highly unlikely Manchester United triumph. Dalot was impressive throughout, Harry Maguire’s renaissance has resumed after his injury break and, of course, McTominay produced the dramatic final blow. It also helped Erik ten Hag’s side that Ollie Watkins was unusually hesitant in the penalty area and he was not the only villain when it came to wastefulness in front of United’s goal. But, for all its customary eccentricity, there should be no denying the importance of Onana’s performance. After all, he has had enough stick this season. He is an entertaining watch, that is for sure – blending acrobatics with some unconvincing methods of clearing his lines – but there are distinct signs he is settling into one of football’s most scrutinised roles. Ten Hag’s unwavering faith in him might yet be proven to be well-placed. In front of him, Maguire was the vintage of a couple of years ago. His return to leadership form is one of the feel-good stories of United’s season, this performance reminding Ten Hag of his value in both penalty areas. HAVE YOUR SAY! Who was man of the match as Manchester United beat Aston Villa? Comment below. It might be an old-fashioned quality but his aerial strength is a key part of United’s defensive and offensive armoury. Maguire’s assist for the opener might have looked fairly basic but few players are capable of controlling the sort of header he put into the path of Rasmus Hojlund. While Watkins was culpable for keeping Hojlund onside, the goal was a reward for a bright United start, notable for the directness of Marcus Rashford, in particular. The setback did stir Emery’s side but they went into the break in arrears because of Onana’s indisputable agility, Watkins’ surprisingly poor finishing and Maguire’s physicality in his own danger zone. When Villa did get in behind Maguire and Raphael Varane – which was quite regularly, to be fair – Onana usually got in the way, not that he knew much about the save early in the second half when Watkins flicked a gilt-edged chance straight at the United keeper. And that fortunate escape pretty much summed up proceedings, United benefiting from Villa’s surprising lack of composure while always looking modestly threatening on the counter-attack. TNT Sports gives you access to games across the Premier League, Champions League, Europa League, Serie A and many more. You can also watch the biggest clashes in boxing, UFC, WWE and the get exclusive action from MLB all for one payment every month. You can watch TNT Sports through BT, EE, Sky, and Virgin Media. The sheer weight of Villa opportunities meant the Luiz equaliser – cleverly turned home from a few yards after United failed to deal adequately with yet another corner – was no surprise but there was always a suspicion Unai Emery’s team might be made to pay for their profligacy. And so it proved four minutes from the end of regulation time when Kobbie Mainoo cleverly found Dalot and his superb centre was given the emphatic finish it deserved by McTominay. Onana did not dance … but you would not have blamed him if he had. Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.

The United States just lost an F-35 as part of its campaign to reduce itself from the greatest superpower in human history to a pitiful punchline. Ah, the magic of leftism – only it can make a great country like America ridiculous. From an inability to find its fighters to an unwillingness to defend its borders or prosecute criminals – with the exception of conservatives framed for the crime of conservativing – our country has become the Three Stooges without the dignity.

The first question that arises from the mystery jet is not what happened – we can safely assume it was some manner of gross incompetence – but what the plane’s pronouns were. We had the spectacle of the Marine Corps high command dragging itself away from one of its drag shows to ask regular folks if they could pretty please give the jarheads a hand finding their wayward fighter. They couldn’t even spin this fiasco effectively and brag about how their not being able to detect the $100 million aircraft just goes to show how darn good our stealth tech is. No, instead it was just exactly what it sounded like. We can’t keep track of our jets. The only ones happy about it had to be the Navy, since this was a welcome respite from the mockery it earned smashing its destroyers into other boats. Our Army – with its colonels running sex kennels – used to recruit with slogans like “Be All You Can Be,” and now it would probably be better off with “We Suck Less Than That Other Service That Lost The Jet.”

Over on Capitol Hill, where the People’s House that you get sent to jail for peopling inside is located, we have the Republican Charlie Browns once again teeing up to kick the football held by the Democrat Lucys. Yeah, this time will be different! The GOP has only had the better part of a year to get ready for this debt ceiling thing and to plot out a course of action to get some concessions. But have they? Ha! Why win when you can lose?

And on the Senate side, our minority leader keeps freezing up like a Windows blue screen as everyone explains how it is perfectly normal for McConnell to stand there rebooting every time someone puts a mic in his mug. And, of course, there’s Chumley the Congressman insisting that the august institution conform to his desire to dress like a guy playing $2 blackjack hands at Circus Circus on a Monday morning.  

We have a president who sounds both like English is his second language and that he’s gotten into the cooking sherry. We have a vice president who, if not for fractured cliches and bizarre cackling, would not be speaking at all. Biden takes the short stairs to get up to the short bus, which is what Air Force One now is. Hey, at least they haven’t lost it. Yet.

Their administration just addressed high gas prices by banning domestic oil leases, perhaps part of an innovative strategy to make gas cheaper by making less of it. It just paid the Iranians $6 billion, which could never ever blowback on us. It has even managed to irritate a core Dem constituency – blue city scumbags – by throwing open the borders to every Third World transient who can pay off the cartel for a ticket north. And it has decided that the very best way to protect Our Democracy is to charge the alleged president’s number one political opponent with crimes that literally no one has ever charged anyone with before. The only good news is that he can’t turn the military on the normal people who are sick of this nonsense since, assuming they even find their planes, our new woke pilots can’t fly them because they are all dressed up like Ethel Merman.

We used to at least have some moral leverage with the rest of the planet, but that’s been squandered. It’s bad when you are being called “a banana republic” by literal banana republics. It’s pretty hard to explain to some potentate how the apparent hypocrisy of calling for democracy even as you lock up anyone on the other side attempting to participate in said democracy is not actually hypocrisy since Donald Trump is like Hitler, only a million times worse. Heck, just look at how mean those tweets are!

And the GOP primary is hardly a source of pride. We have Tim Scott bragging about how he has a hot girlfriend at another school. We have Mike Pence talking abut how we need to ban dancing no matter how much Kevin Bacon wants to boogie. And we have Chris Christie who’s just plain fat. What we need is a debate with Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis and maybe Nikki and/or Vivek, but instead we’ll have to waste time listening to Doofus Murgatroyd IV ramble on about his plan for redefining the paradigm for America because the Ronna set the debate criteria lower than the cut of Lauren Boebert’s “Beetlejuice the Musical” dress.

Oh yeah, that’s another atrocity. America now has “Beetlejuice the Musical.” 

Is it too much to ask for everything not suck? It was not that long ago that we had the greatest country on earth. The only reason we might still hold that title is because foreigners somehow manage to be even worse. But foreigners are not our problem, at least not until they get to Juarez and walk over the border. Americans are the problem. Americans did this to America. 

Here’s the sad reality. The country you grew up loving is no longer a potent powerhouse. It’s a pitiful punchline, and this joke isn’t funny anymore.

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Gossip are back with details of their first album in 11 years, ‘Real Power’, along with beautiful new single ‘Crazy Again’. Check it out below along with some exclusive insight from the band. The Beth Ditto-fronted indie icons have not released an album since 2012’s ‘A Joyful Noise‘. Now, the ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ trio will release their sixth album ‘Real Power’ in March 2024, produced again by Rick Rubin after he worked on the band’s 2009 album ‘Music For Men‘. Not only that, but it was Rubin who encouraged the band to reunite and start recording again after they celebrated the album’s 10th anniversary with a tour in 2019. “Getting to work with Rick again was a true gift!” the band exclusively told NME . “He doesn’t remotely care about outside opinions around what you could or should be making. He creates calm, positive, open spaces- emotional space and the actual physical vibe of his studio – that make you free to experiment. “We felt genuinely cared about and supported. We’re both such maniacs, he’s amazing at helping us focus the chaos. We were writing like crazy, there are probably 30-40 songs and bits of things that came out of it, just throwing everything against the wall and having the best time! It’s not only about music, Rick helps you connect with yourself and everything else comes out of that. It’s a deep jam. We trust him completely.” Their return is previewed by the launch single ‘Crazy Again’ – a simmering and subtle yet soulful dose of piano-tinged electro-pop that sees Ditto tenderly singing of “being in love and feeling so safe”. A video for the track will be released at 9am GMT today (Friday November 17). Directed by past collaborator Ssion (Perfume Genius, King Princess), the clip was shot in Kansas City and reminds fans of the band’s inimitable chemistry. ‘Real Power’ was recorded at Rubin’s home studio in Kauai in between the COVID pandemic and lockdown, and comes described by a press release as “an 11-track celebration of creative expression, and the power of chosen family in the aftermath of collective and personal trauma”. “When we began, so much about Gossip was about running away – that was always in the music,” said Ditto. “We survived. We came from nothing, and we got the fuck out of there. And to be here 20 years later and still making music together is just incredible.” Gossip release ‘Real Power’ on March 22. Check out the artwork and tracklist below. The tracklisting for ‘Real Power’ is: The tracklisting for ‘Real Power’ is:
1. ‘Act Of God’ 2. ‘Real Power’ 3. ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ 4. ‘Crazy Again’ 5. ‘Edge Of The Sun’ 6. ‘Give It Up For Love’ 7. ‘Turn The Card’ 8. ‘Tell Me Something’ 9. ‘Light It Up’ 10. ‘Tough’ 11. ‘Peace And Quiet’ Ditto released her debut solo album ‘Fake Sugar’ in 2017, and has also spent much of the past decade working across music and fashion and campaigning for feminist & LGBTQ+ rights.

A burglary crew was nabbed by police after the efforts of a victim who used a tracker in a designer purse to lead police to the suspects.

The Los Angeles Police Department said that the victim of a burglary saw the crew at his home through surveillance video and also through the sudden movement of the tracker in the purse.

He went to the location of the tracker and witnessed the crew working at another house. The car he saw there matched the description of the car he saw at his home.

“He had already seen surveillance footage from his house, and he saw the same vehicle parked in front of a house,” said LAPD Detective Timothy Kirkpatrick to KCAL-TV. “He saw them fleeing from a house with property put inside of the car and quickly driving away.”

He then contacted police and led them to the location of the tracker in Inglewood.

Police said that a police helicopter captured footage of the alleged burglars trying to break into a safe that they had stolen that same day. They arrested three suspects and discovered merchandise, firearms, and the stolen handbag in the home.

Investigators believe the burglary crew was involved in more than 20 thefts from homes in the Los Angeles area.

“The M.O. they were using, they were going along the side of the house into the rear yard and smashing one of the windows and going inside,” said Kirkpatrick.

“This is a significant arrest,” he added. “The victim was definitely important in this one, assisting us and helping direct us to the suspects and where they were.”

Here’s a local news report about the incident:

Hidden tracker leads to arrest of burglary crewwww.youtube.com

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