Spain 0 - 2 Chile
Spain goes to home after two disappointing matches!
Chile reaches the second round of the world cup!
Australia 2 - 3 Holland
Holland dreams the final in Rio de Janeiro!
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MANCHESTER UNITED'S ACCIDENT IN 1958
This article is about the 1958 crash of the aircraft carrying the
The football team was returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) against Red Star Belgrade. The flight stopped to refuel in
An investigation by West German airport authorities originally blamed Thain, saying he did not de-ice the aircraft's wings, despite eyewitness statements to the contrary. It was later established that the crash was caused by slush on the runway, which slowed the plane too much to take-off. Thain was cleared in 1968, ten years after the incident.
Manchester United were trying to become the third club to win three successive English league titles; they were six points behind League leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers with 14 games to go. They also held the Charity Shield and had just advanced into their second successive European Cup semi-final. The team had not been beaten for 11 matches.
Aircraft
and crew
The aircraft was a six-year-old Airspeed Ambassador 2, built in 1952 and
delivered to BEA the same year.[citation needed]The co-pilot, Captain Kenneth Rayment, was a former RAF flight lieutenant and Second World War flying ace. After joining the RAF in 1940, he was promoted to sergeant in September 1941. He was commissioned as a war substantive pilot officer a year later, and promoted to war substantive flying officer in May 1943. He shot down five German fighters, one Italian plane and a V-1 flying bomb. He was awarded the DFC in July 1943, and promoted to flight lieutenant in September 1943. After leaving the RAF in 1945, he joined BOAC in
The pilot, Captain James Thain, was also a former RAF flight lieutenant. Also originally a sergeant (later a warrant officer), he was given an emergency commission in the RAF as an acting pilot officer on probation in April 1944, and promoted to pilot officer on probation in September. He was promoted to flight lieutenant in May 1948,and received a permanent commission in the same rank in 1952. He retired from the RAF to join BEA.
Crash
The Airspeed
Ambassador G-ALZU burning at Munich
Thain had flown the
"Elizabethan" class Airspeed Ambassador (registration G-ALZU) to
The Airspeed
Ambassador wreckage
Thain told the station engineer,
Bill Black, about the problem with the boost surging in the port engine, and
Black suggested that since opening the throttle more slowly had not worked, the
only option was to hold the plane overnight for retuning. Thain was anxious to
stay on schedule and suggested opening the throttle even more slowly would
suffice. This would mean that the plane would not achieve take-off velocity
until further down the runway, but with the runway almost A few of the players were not confident fliers, particularly Liam Whelan, who said, "This may be death, but I'm ready". Others, including Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman and Frank Swift, moved to the back of the plane, believing it safer. Once everyone was on board, Thain and Rayment got the plane moving again at 14:56. At 14:59, they reached the runway holding point, where they received clearance to line up ready for take-off. On the runway, they made final cockpit checks and at 15:02, they were told their take-off clearance would expire at 15:04. The pilots agreed to attempt take-off, but that they would watch the instruments for surging in the engines. At 15:03, they told the control tower of their decision.
American newsreel
footage reporting the crash
Rayment moved the throttle
forward slowly and released the brakes; the plane began to accelerate, and
radio officer Bill Rodgers radioed the control tower with the message
"Zulu Uniform rolling". Throwing up slush as it gathered speed, Thain
called out the plane's velocities in 10-knot increments. At 85 knots, the port
engine began to surge again, and he pulled back marginally on the port throttle
before pushing it forward again. Once the plane reached 117 knots (The plane skidded off the end of the runway, crashed into the fence surrounding the airport and across a road before its port wing was torn off as it caught a house, home to a family of six. The father and eldest daughter were away and the mother and the other three children escaped as the house caught fire. Part of the plane's tail was torn off before the left side of the cockpit hit a tree. The right side of the fuselage hit a wooden hut, inside which was a truck filled with tyres and fuel, which exploded. Twenty passengers died on board, and there were three subsequent deaths.
On seeing flames around the cockpit, Thain feared the aircraft would explode and told his crew to evacuate the area. The stewardesses, Rosemary Cheverton and Margaret Bellis, were the first to leave through a blown-out emergency window in the galley, followed by radio officer Bill Rodgers. Rayment was trapped in his seat by the crumpled fuselage and told Thain to go without him. Thain clambered out of the galley window. On reaching the ground, he saw flames growing under the starboard wing, which held 500 imperial gallons (2,300 L) of fuel. He shouted to his crew to get away and climbed back into the aircraft to retrieve two handheld fire extinguishers, stopping to tell Rayment he would be back when the fires had been dealt with.
Meanwhile, in the cabin, goalkeeper Harry Gregg was regaining consciousness, thinking that he was dead. He felt blood on his face and "didn't dare put [his] hand up. [He] thought the top of [his] head had been taken off, like a hard boiled egg."[ Just above him, light shone into the cabin, so Gregg kicked the hole wide enough for him to escape. He also managed to save some passengers.
WEMBLEY STADIUM
The original Wembley Stadium officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, standing on the site now occupied by the New Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007.
It was famous for hosting the annual FA Cup finals, five European Cup finals, the 1948 Summer Olympics, the 1966 World Cup Final, the final of Euro 96, Queen's Magic Tour, and the 1985 Live Aid concert. Of Wembley Stadium, Pelé said, "Wembley is the cathedral of football. It is the capital of football and it is the heart of football in recognition of its status as the world's best-known football stadium.
The twin towers were an icon for England and Wembley and their demolition in 2003 upset many members of the public Debris from the Old Wembley Stadium was used to make the award-winning Northala Fields in Northolt, Ealing.
The stadium's first turf was cut by King George V, and it was first opened to the public on 28 April 1923. First known as the British Empire Exhibition Stadium or simply Empire Stadium, it was built by Sir Robert McAlpine for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 (extended to 1925).
The stadium cost £750,000, and was constructed on the site of an earlier folly called Watkin's Tower. The architects were Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton and the Head Engineer Sir Owen Williams. It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition. The ground had been used for football as early as the 1880s
At the end of the exhibition, an entrepreneur Arthur Elvin (later to become Sir Arthur Elvin) started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap. The stadium had gone into liquidation, after it was pronounced "financially unviable Elvin offered to buy the stadium for £127,000, using a £12,000 downpayment and the balance plus interest payable over ten years.
After complications following the death of James White the original Stadium owner, Elvin bought Wembley Stadium from the new owners, (Wembley Company) at the original price, since they honoured Elvin's original deal. They then immediately bought it back from Elvin, leaving him with a healthy profit. Instead of cash he received shares, which gave him the largest stake in Wembley Stadium and he became chairman.
The electric scoreboard and the all encircling roof, made from aluminium and translucent glass, were added in 1963.
The stadium's distinctive Twin Towers became its trademark and nickname. Also well known were the thirty-nine steps needed to be climbed to reach the Royal box and collect a trophy (and winners'/losers' medals). Wembley was the first pitch to be referred to as "Hallowed Turf", with many stadia around the world borrowing this phrase. In 1934, the Empire Pool was built nearby. The 'Wembley Stadium Collection' is held by the National Football Museum. The stadium closed in October 2000, and was demolished in 2003 for redevelopment. The top of one of the twin towers was erected as a memorial in the park on the north side of Overton Close in the Saint Raphael's Estate
The original Wembley Stadium officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, standing on the site now occupied by the New Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007.
It was famous for hosting the annual FA Cup finals, five European Cup finals, the 1948 Summer Olympics, the 1966 World Cup Final, the final of Euro 96, Queen's Magic Tour, and the 1985 Live Aid concert. Of Wembley Stadium, Pelé said, "Wembley is the cathedral of football. It is the capital of football and it is the heart of football in recognition of its status as the world's best-known football stadium.
The twin towers were an icon for England and Wembley and their demolition in 2003 upset many members of the public Debris from the Old Wembley Stadium was used to make the award-winning Northala Fields in Northolt, Ealing.
The stadium's first turf was cut by King George V, and it was first opened to the public on 28 April 1923. First known as the British Empire Exhibition Stadium or simply Empire Stadium, it was built by Sir Robert McAlpine for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 (extended to 1925).
The stadium cost £750,000, and was constructed on the site of an earlier folly called Watkin's Tower. The architects were Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton and the Head Engineer Sir Owen Williams. It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition. The ground had been used for football as early as the 1880s
At the end of the exhibition, an entrepreneur Arthur Elvin (later to become Sir Arthur Elvin) started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap. The stadium had gone into liquidation, after it was pronounced "financially unviable Elvin offered to buy the stadium for £127,000, using a £12,000 downpayment and the balance plus interest payable over ten years.
After complications following the death of James White the original Stadium owner, Elvin bought Wembley Stadium from the new owners, (Wembley Company) at the original price, since they honoured Elvin's original deal. They then immediately bought it back from Elvin, leaving him with a healthy profit. Instead of cash he received shares, which gave him the largest stake in Wembley Stadium and he became chairman.
The electric scoreboard and the all encircling roof, made from aluminium and translucent glass, were added in 1963.
The stadium's distinctive Twin Towers became its trademark and nickname. Also well known were the thirty-nine steps needed to be climbed to reach the Royal box and collect a trophy (and winners'/losers' medals). Wembley was the first pitch to be referred to as "Hallowed Turf", with many stadia around the world borrowing this phrase. In 1934, the Empire Pool was built nearby. The 'Wembley Stadium Collection' is held by the National Football Museum. The stadium closed in October 2000, and was demolished in 2003 for redevelopment. The top of one of the twin towers was erected as a memorial in the park on the north side of Overton Close in the Saint Raphael's Estate
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| WEMBLEY STADIUM INSIDE |
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HOOLIGANISM
Early usage
The first use of the term is unknown, but the word first appeared in print in London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in the Lambeth area of London—the Hooligan Boys, and later—the O'Hooligan Boys.
In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew further attention to the word which was immediately popularised by the press. The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, "The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of 'Hooliganism' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London".
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1904 novel The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, "It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such". H.G. Wells wrote in his 1909 semi-autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay, "Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps, were packing wooden cases with papered-up bottles, amidst much straw and confusion".
According to Life magazine (30 July 1941), the comic strip artist and political cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper introduced a character called Happy Hooligan in 1900; "hapless Happy appeared regularly in U.S. newspapers for more than 30 years," a "naive, skinny, baboon-faced tramp who invariably wore a tomato can for a hat." Life brought this up by way of criticizing the Soviet U.N. delegate Yakov A. Malik for misusing the word. Malik had indignantly referred to anti-Soviet demonstrators in New York as "hoolgans." Happy Hooligan, Life reminded its readers, "became a national hero, not by making trouble, which Mr. Malik understands is the function of a hooligan, but by getting himself into it."
Modern usage
Later, as the meaning of the word shifted slightly, none of the possible alternatives had precisely the same undertones of a person, usually young, who belongs to an informal group and commits acts of vandalism or criminal damage, starts fights, and who causes disturbances but is not a thief.
More recently, the term hooligan has started to be used in a constructive sense, to describe people who are dissatisfied with the status quo and decide to challenge it through radically innovative efforts to either disrupt or re-invent the models that guide our lives, in collaboration with like-minded individuals across traditional boundaries.
An excellent example is the liberal/progressive, crowd-sourced political blog based in Asheville, North Carolina, which adopted the name "Scrutiny Hooligans" in 2004.
Violence in sports
The word hooliganism and hooligan began to be associated with violence in sports, in particular from the 1970s in the UK with football hooliganism. The phenomenon, however, long preceded the modern term; for example, one of the earliest known instances of crowd violence at a sporting event took place in ancient Constantinople. Two chariot racingfactions, the Blues and the Greens, were involved in the Nika riots which lasted around a week in 532 CE; nearly half the city was burned or destroyed in addition to tens of thousands of deaths.
HOOLIGANISM
It's the trailer of "Green street hooligans", good vision!
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PREMIER LEAGUE 2013/14
TEAMS IN
STANDINGS 2013/14| Pos. | Squadra | Pt | G | V | N | P | GF | GS | DR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | 1. |  Manchester City | 86 | 38 | 27 | 5 | 6 | 102 | 37 | +65 |
| 2. |  Liverpool | 84 | 38 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 101 | 50 | +51 |
| 3. |  Chelsea | 82 | 38 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 71 | 27 | +44 |
| 4. |  Arsenal | 79 | 38 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 68 | 41 | +27 |
 | 5. |  Everton | 72 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 61 | 39 | +22 |
| 6. |  Tottenham | 69 | 38 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 55 | 51 | +4 |
| 7. |  Manchester Utd | 64 | 38 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 64 | 43 | +21 | |
| 8. |  Southampton | 56 | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 54 | 46 | +8 | |
| 9. |  Stoke City | 50 | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 45 | 52 | -7 | |
| 10. | _bordato_Oro.svg){kind=small} Newcastle | 49 | 38 | 15 | 4 | 19 | 43 | 59 | -16 | |
| 11. |  Crystal Palace | 45 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 33 | 48 | -15 | |
| 12. |  Swansea City | 42 | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 54 | 54 | 0 | |
| 13. |  West Ham | 40 | 38 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 40 | 51 | -11 | |
| 14. |  Sunderland | 38 | 38 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 41 | 60 | -19 | |
| 15. | _con_leone_Giallo.svg){kind=small} Aston Villa | 38 | 38 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 39 | 61 | -22 | |
| 16. | .PNG){kind=small} Hull City | 37 | 38 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 38 | 53 | -15 |
| 17. |  West Bromwich | 36 | 38 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 43 | 59 | -16 | |
 | 18. |  Norwich City | 33 | 38 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 28 | 62 | -34 |
| 19. |  Fulham | 32 | 38 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 40 | 85 | -45 |
| 20. |  Cardiff City | 30 | 38 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 32 | 74 | -42 |
The winnner of premier league 2013/2014 is ...
MANCHESTER CITY
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