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Guardiola’s friend and journalist Marti Perarnau spoke to the former City coach about his use of wide wingers during the 2016-17 season.As noted in Perarnau’s book, The Pep Revolution, Guardiola said: “It’s a difficult process. You can’t just talk to [the wingers] and expect everything to happen. “My first challenge is to convince [the wingers]. Just stay there on the wing, stay wide. Bide your time, be patient and your moment will come. “Then, when you do get your chance, think about it, how many opponents am I going to have to get past?”The answer? Just one.”We’ve come up with…

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Super League has confirmed that it has received an investment offer from the Australian Rugby League Commission.Discussions have been ongoing between the two parties since last year.In a brief statement, Rugby League commercial said Super League’s 14 clubs had been informed of the offer on Thursday and that details “remain confidential”.Chairman of National Rugby League (NRL) Peter V’landys told Sport last October that Super League was in danger of “a crash” if it did not find new ways to grow revenue.In April, NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo said concerns that a deal between the sport’s two leading competitions would lead…

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Other pager users were the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), which sent messages with details for crews such as addresses, patient ages, and medical information.Both services said the messages did not include patients’ names, while NWAS said pagers had now been fully withdrawn and for NIAS largely withdrawn.Health and social care in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter, and therefore the responsibility of the Department of Health NI, rather than the UK Department of Health.The has approached Department of Health NI for comment.A spokesperson for NIAS said it “will always recognise best practice across…

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After two seasons together at the bottom level, Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham were reunited – this time in the third tier – for a couple of seasons in the mid-1990s.And now, after more than three decades, they are together again.”Three Welsh teams in the Championship… it’s enormous for the country,” said Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson.”There’s a mini-league going on [in Wales].”Wrexham came out on top last season, finishing four places above Swansea in 11th.Bookmakers make Parkinson’s men favourites to finish as Wales’ top club once more, with the Red Dragons tipped to push for a play-off place, Swansea in the…

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In a letter to the communities minister, NACNI called for a “reasonable allowance” for councillors.Joe Boyle, secretary of the group, said current provisions “still fall short of an acceptable structure for the third tier of government in Northern Ireland”.”Recent ‘independent’ awards clearly demonstrate a significant disparity of what is accepted as independent for one sector, but not for another,” he added.The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor raised a range of issues including levels of fuel expenses, calls to introduce a severance scheme, and funding for security measures.He said there was a “gap between expectations of the role and…

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Manchester City midfielder Tijjani Reijnders is set to join Saudi Pro-League outfit Al-Qadsiah in a £52m deal.City have agreed a fee for the Dutch international, who cost them £46.5m when he joined from AC Milan last summer.Although Reijnders made a bright start to his City career, he struggled to make a significant impact in what turned out to be Pep Guardiola’s last season at the club, scoring seven goals in 47 appearances.The 28-year-old trained apart from City’s main squad on Thursday, ahead of a potential move to a side now managed by former Liverpool, Celtic and Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers.Reijnders’…

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Bolton Wanderers manager Steven Schumacher has confirmed Ruben Rodrigues could be out for up to six weeks with knee ligament damage.The Portuguese striker sustained the injury in the Trotters’ League Cup defeat at Sheffield Wednesday last Saturday.Schumacher told Radio Manchester the news was a “huge blow” with Rodrigues potentially missing as many as eight games.”He got a bang on his knee on Saturday and was uncomfortable. He did manage to carry on, but we’ve had him scanned and he has a low-grade strain in one of his ligaments in his knee,” said the Bolton boss. “The prognosis is he’ll probably…

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Hussein Zaaiter, 21 from West London was using a free software trial for his university work and says when he tried to cancel he faced several complications.”I tried online chat, email and even the phone at one point as they were constantly charging me,” he says. He says a payment of £16 left his account, then another of £32 before he froze his card. “They tried to charge me seven times,” he says.He contacted his bank to explain the situation in the hope of being reimbursed. “I felt like it was marketed as a free trial that was easy to…

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After getting off to a rapid start, Asher-Smith was unable to hold off Hunt and Adeleke in the final push, but in finishing third she claimed a ninth European medal – a tally only bettered by the 10 of Polish ex-sprinter Irena Szewinska.”Dina was not handing it to Amy. She was going to make her work hard,” former British 400m runner Allison Curbishley said on BBC Radio 5 Live.”Asher-Smith held on as hard as she could. Then she started to over-stride, and the hips dropped.”After finishing fifth in Monday’s 100m final, Asher-Smith returned for the 200m to continue her bid…

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