Football Daily | Canada, ‘heartfelt apologies’ and a spy story that has lit up Olympic football
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Canadians are very good at saying sorry. There is perhaps something, deep in the national psyche, of a Britishness there, and maybe also for the need to separate themselves from Americans, who are much more likely to adopt the John Wayne school of thought: “Never apologise, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.” Such is the rate at which Canadians are inclined to apologise that the province of Ontario even introduced the Apology Act in 2009, a law created as a measure to give lawyers a fair chance defending clients who were never guilty but apologised to the aggrieved all the same, stipulating that apologies do not necessarily constitute an admission of guilt.
Sheriff were about to play at Braga in the Europa League when my son called and told me what had happened. After the game, I went to my home town of Zaporizhzhia and started to defend my homeland. Yes, I was 56 at the time, but there were a lot of people like me. The average age in our unit was about 48. I was responsible for providing ammunition for the artillery in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Russians made progress and our goal was to stop them. When we completed our missions, we went backwards, and the infantry took our place. That is how it continued for three and a half months until June 2022” – Yuriy Vernydub speaks to Michael Yokhin about his remarkable double-life as manager of Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and leader of a squadron trying to defeat Russia in the Ukraine war.
Usually the tea timely email’s normally low standards are kept clear from the letters section, so I can only assume nobody could be bothered to put finger to keyboard, unless of course you’re trying to instil a high bar. A chance for the letters editor (using the term extremely loosely) to give some poor trier a moment of pre season glory goes begging, before the reality of a season of Noble Francis kicks in. So much for the underdog getting their five minutes of fame” –Kevin Worley.
Re: the picture accompanying the bit about Beto (Tuesday’s Quote of the Day). I saw the name Money on the back of the Sligo player’s shirt and figured football was at last stating the obvious. Until I looked a second time” – Martin Foster.
Nice photo of Bobby Moore at West Ham’s Chadwell Heath training ground (Tuesday’s Memory Lane – full email edition). That was about the time my all-girls secondary school played hockey on an adjoining pitch. Footballers were all old blokes then, and we used to see Geoff Hurst in Tesco” – Rochelle Libson.
Did Eddie Howe really say ‘I’d welcome Anthony back with three arms if I had them?’ Why stop at three? Why not go for the full insect or octopus greeting? Anyone who only gets a two-armed welcome now at Newcastle is going to feel like an outsider” – Dan J Levy.
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