The imposing iron gates standing between the West Derby streets and the Melwood training complex might have shifted some 500 yards or so off Melwood Avenue ??? and onto ?????? since the last time Liverpool contemplated a trip to a European Cup Final but outside the scenes are exactly the same.
Five or six kids who don't look old enough to remember a time before foreign managers at Anfield stand on tiptoes on the wall of the house opposite the entrance to the most famous training ground in English football. They've been here all day claims the steward manning the gates. Never mind the fact that their parents probably think they're in school, they're here, mobile phones poised at the ready, to snap Djibril Cisse leaving in his Hummer. Twenty
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He actually talking about media commitments in the run up to Liverpool's most important game in two decades but he's probably been thinking the same thing ever since he was appointed Liverpool boss on June 16 2004, just weeks after breaking down in tears during his farewell press conference at the Estadio Ciudad de Valencia. Find somewhere to live in a foreign country, learn a new language from virtually scratch, check out schools for his eldest daughter Claudia, convince the club's captain to reject Chelsea's advances, scour the transfer market for emergency reinforcements, plan for a season with England's most prolific striker, rip up plans for a season with England's most prolific striker on the eve of the opening day of the season and, somehow, try to work out some way of getting the best out of a squad of players built up over six players by the previous manager; so much to do, so little …show more content…
In fact, he's far too honest to even claim he ever had a soft spot from afar for the club he now manages. He's a Real Madrid man, always has been. The Kop, 'You'll Never Walk Alone', the Shankly statue, Hillsborough, European nights at Anfield; it's all new to him.
But maybe that's why it's been such fun for us Liverpool supporters having him in our dugout this season. As hard as he tries to win us over with his team's football on the pitch and his attitude off it ('He never used injuries as an excuse when no one would have blamed him if he did,' claimed Ian St John recently), we try even harder to impress him from the stands. We want him to feel special and we want him to feel we're special.
On both counts, the first season has been a resounding success if the traditional end of season lap of honour was anything to go by after the victory over Aston Villa confirmed the Reds missed out on fourth place by just three
‘A Fabricated Mexican’ is a novel by Ricky Rivera in which he chronicles his life as he grows from a child farm worker to a Ph.D. candidate. He takes us through his journey in his search for his personal identity. In the book we find that his journey has not been an easy one. This difficult journey is due to many factors, most importantly the people who have surrounded him during this journey.
Rodriguez would, for example, use words such as “unsettling” “cloistered” and “alienation,” to describe the beginning of his assimilation in the public English speaking world. While he would use “calm” “enchantingly” “consoling” and “intimacy” to describe Spanish. As Rodriguez is being pushed to assimilate and English is heard everywhere including his home he becomes “increasingly angry” only from being obliged from his parents and trying to participate in class he begins to feel a sense of belonging in public. Rodriguez’s diction was evident and continuous in his essay which abetted the audience to understand that the author wanted the audience to be addressed formally and be known that he wants to be taken seriously and able to connect to his background and why he made his
As Rodriguez is looking back at the rise of his “public identity”, he realizes that “the loss implies the gain” (Rodriguez 35). He believes that losing a part of who you (such as your “mother tongue” is permitted since
Throughout Richards early childhood development he quickly understood that in order to succeed in America he would have to learn to confidently speak in English. Richard is Hispanic American and although he was born in America, Spanish was the only language that he was exposed to as a young child. He grew up in a home where Spanish flowed freely, but he soon realized outside of his home the language that he primarily knew was foreign. His parents spoke fluent Spanish along with all of his relatives. The brief encounters he experienced of his parents speaking English were only in public places and the proficiency was very poor. Rodriguez’s home was as a safety net for him and his Spanish speaking family with they are his only real connections to the outside world. It wasn’t until Richards encounter with his teachers that he and his family was heavily impressed on the importance of developing a public language. After the encouragement of the visit home from a teacher as a family
My parents decided to immigrate to the United States when I was six years of age. As we established ourselves in the United States, my first language was only Spanish. Spanish was the language that I was taught at home, and it was the only language to be spoken at home. Rodriguez describes when he first entered his classroom where he was introduced to a formal English-speaking context, writing that, ?I remember to start with that day in Sacramento-a California now nearly thirty years past-when I first entered a classroom, able to understa...
Remember the days where the kids used to holler and run in the park, and swing in playgrounds on nice summer afternoons while the parents sat on benches. Maybe they had a soccer lesson after and played a basketball match with friends at YMCA. But today, kids run with sports gear to tournaments conducted by "elite" Little Leagues, while the parents who drove all over town to find the stadium settle down into the bleachers ready to observe every move their kid makes in the game. And of course, they share their complaints to other fellow parents about the coach, who is getting paid half of their paycheck. After a gruesome match on a field that is way too big for the kids, the parents provide some Greek Yogurt and ample of suggestions on how to
In dust-covered glass containers along the back wall, products once manufactured in Union Special were displayed (various models of sewing machines, to be specific), and above these on the wall hung five black and white portraits of the previous owners of the factory, which dated back to the 1800s. The room looked like it was furnished straight out of the Kennedy era. And I was here to play soccer? The large, wooden door to access the rest of the building was locked, and required a keycard to get past. I knew that this would be a waiting game. Luckily, only moments after I arrived and plopped myself onto one of the sofas, before I could return to worrying about my first practice in this unusual place, a factory worker leaving for the afternoon opened the door and I was able to catch it. I was now proceeding to where I’d face the players of Hampshire High
Almost every day we hear about someone attempting or committing suicide. Whether it is on the internet, television, newspaper, or even by word, suicide is a harsh reality that is overlooked and undermined. According to one online article, “Teen Suicide Statistics,”
So when the time comes for a politician to run in Washington companies are secretly sponsoring the ones that will work in their favor. Corporations wanted to make more money so companies would have branches of their company in tax havens. Tax havens are just countries that have little to no tax in countries. The most common
For this assignment, I chose to interview Ms. Stephanie Sandate. I chose her because I not only respect her as my immediate supervisor and as an educator, but I genuinely like her and enjoy working with her every day. Ms. Sandate was born in Texas, but has spent quite a bit of time in Mexico and grew up speaking Spanish. She has told stories of her summers in Mexico and staying with her Spanish speaking grandmother. She even pokes fun at me for the way I pronounce my last name and said her grandmother would slap her if she said “Caballero” the way I do.
The novel “Football Factory”, by John King, follows a group of Chelsea hooligans in England. Tommy is an almost 30 years old male, a Chelsea fan, and a football hooligan. He has no other relatives than his gr...
“Suicide: Facts at a Glance.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “N.p.” 2015. Web. 2 Oct. 2015 November 4,
When Jerry Welbach arrives in Mexico, he awaits to receive his rental car. He is given a Chrysler but Welbach insist on renting something a “little more Mexican”. The customer service agent
Now the eighth-leading cause of death overall in the U.S. and the third-leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years, suicide has become the subject of much recent focus. U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, for instance, recently announced his Call to Action to Prevent Suicide, 1999, an initiative intended to increase public awareness, promote intervention strategies, and enhance research. The media, too, has been paying very close attention to the subject of suicide, writing articles and books and running news stories. Suicide among our nation’s youth, a population very vulnerable to self-destructive emotions, has perhaps received the most discussion of late. Maybe this is because teenage suicide seems the most tragic—lives lost before they’ve even started. Yet, while all of this recent focus is good, it’s only the beginning. We cannot continue to lose so many lives unnecessarily.
The reasons why people choose suicide over resolving tangled problems are complex. However, one big cause of suicide is the feeling of helplessness that one feels after going through rough phases in life. Helplessness usually leads to depression that can further lead to suicide. Some may feel unloved and victimized in a way that triggers their thoughts of suicide. For some other helpless individuals, suicide seems to be the only option left that they should take in order to escape from what was going on. They may regard suicide as some sort of an “escapade”. In addition, suicide enables them to get relief from awful feelings like frustration and rejection. Besides, teenagers who committed suicide or planned to do so were most likely to be under pressure or stressed out due t...