Thoughts on the weekend's action in the Barclays Premier League:
Roy Hodgson always was likely to face two problems at Liverpool: that his football was too boring for the fans, and that his training was too boring for the players. A certain stodginess leading to long-term grumbling was perhaps to be expected, but what nobody predicted was that Liverpool would be as bad as it has been so far this season, and that there would be immediate outrage.
The North West seaside town of Blackpool was once the No.1 holiday destination for working-class British families. In the 1960s it would attract 17 million of them a year, until cheap, all-inclusive holidays to Spain cut their business in half. They called it "The Las Vegas Of The North" because of its bright lights and reputation for bawdy thrills.
VBS: Blackpool was once a popular destination for British families, but all-inclusive trips to Spain impacted business.
Were you to track Theo Walcott's handling by the British press since 2006, when Arsene Wenger took him to Arsenal and Sven-Goran Eriksson took him to the World Cup, the chart would peak and trough like an EKG. The 21-year-old has been hailed as a prodigy, maligned as Sven's ludicrous plaything, had the nation's hopes heaped upon his shoulders after that breathtaking hat trick against Croatia in 2008, and been bemoaned for his failure to carry the weight.
Snow and freezing temperatures hit large parts of Britain Wednesday, forcing airports and railway lines to close down, and forecasters warned that more bad weather was on the way.
As the northern hemisphere slides inexorably towards autumn, Europeans, with their fading sun tans, are getting back to work or school suffering the "post holiday blues."
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A 100-year-old British man has walked free from court after slitting his wife's throat in what the judge said appeared to be an "act of love."
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