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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Eric Cantona: 21st Century Che Guevara

Monsieur Eric Cantona is making headlines ( and trending on twitter, mind you) after his public statement urging people to stop protesting on the streets by holding placards but a more radical revolution against the banking stratum.

In an interview with local newspaper Presse Océan, the former Man Utd star urged anti-bank protesters simply to withdraw their money from the banks rather than striking against them.

Cantona's words has made the public more aware of the situation and the public have already decided a date, 7th December, to withdraw all their money from the banks.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Ramos Almost Sparks Crisis In Spain Over Regional Languages



Spain and Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos has now caused a bit of a stir in Spain after a sarcastic quote may well add to the anti-Spanish sentiment among many Catalans.


Even those of you who don’t know much about Spanish history will be aware Basque separatism and no doubt also the strong Catalan identity which usually comes with diehard support of FC Barcelona. Many Spaniards particularly hate Catalans and view them as different people.


Andalusia, the birthplace of Ramos is not one of the areas that are very stern in its call for independence of even showing off their language Andalusia. Ramos is certainly one of them.


The journalist asked Gerald Pique to answer a question in Catalan, something the Barcelona player had no problem with.

When Pique asked whether he should translate his answer to Spanish, Sergio Ramos interrupted saying that his teammate should give his answer in 'Andalusian', since the journalist "had difficulties understanding Castilian".

Castilian is what the rest of the world call Spanish.

Right after the press conference, Ramos took a picture and posted it on his Twitter account with fellow teammate and Catalan, Gerard Pique. The Real Madrid fullback later told press he was only joking and “had no problem with Catalans or the Catalan language” which basically avoids any problems.


Friday, October 1, 2010

Ed Miliband Meet Sir Alex Ferguson at Carrington

Newly elected Labour leader Ed Miliband visited Sir Alex Ferguson- a loyal Labour party supporter, at Manchester United's training center in Carrington.
The new Labour Party leader was shown around Manchester United Head-Quarters and met the youth players at the Academy with United manager Ferguson
Fergie gave Ed some advice but when asked what it was Ed said "It's a secret."