Benitez in full control of unlikely adventure
The News Review:
- Benitez in full control of unlikely adventure
- Sporting Life
- The Nationals’ Home Opener
- Major rival emerges for Fonterra
Benitez in full control of unlikely adventure
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 14, 2005
The subsequent Iberian influx raised the fear that Liverpool were merely mutating into a Spanish outpost after trying, and failing, to reinvent themselves as French. Now we see that they have become an authentically European outfit: a blend of Scouse spirit and Continental know-how. The home-grown element is by far the most important. What Jose Mourinho has done for Joe Cole, Benitez has achieved with Jamie Carragher, one of the season’s outstanding centre-halves and an inspiring model of self-improvement. The first step was to liberate this ox-hearted defender from the full-back position, where his size and natural authority were wasted. The next was to save him from the stereotype of hard-working local lad, under-appreciated by the crowd. Intelligence reports confirm that Carragher is now Benitez’s closest ally on the training ground: a future Liverpool captain if, as expected, Gerrard joins Chelsea this summer.
Sporting Life
The Age – Apr 14, 2005
“With good management, good coaching and withthe kid keeping it all together, we look forward to seeing himappear on the MCG or Subiaco. Others to impress in Ireland were another 16-year-old Aboriginalfrom Western Australia, Leroy Jetta, Scott Gumbleton, also fromPerth, and Bendigo’s Joel Selwood, brother of the twins Troy(Brisbane Lions) and Adam (West Coast), who began their AFL careersthis year. Indeed, one of the highlights of the Irish tour, fromWestern Australia’s perspective, anyway, is that 10 of the 30 boyswho toured are all home-grown WA boys, a sure sign that the statethat has produced only a handful of drafted players in the past fewyears might be about to turn things around. “It represents aterrific group – WA is basically back on track,” said Sheehan. Happy 50, champWith Hawthorn already zero-three and early favourite for thewooden spoon, what better timing for the proud club to record itsfirst win against the Brisbane Lions at the MCG. This weekend, yousee, is a very important one in the Hawks’ history – it will be the50th anniversary of the debut of Graham Arthur, one of its greatestplayers and the club’s first premiership captain. Now 68, “Mort”,as he has always been affectionately known, was recruited fromSandhurst and made his debut in round four, 1955, in the first of a232-game career stretching over 14 years.
The Nationals’ Home Opener
Washington Post – Apr 14, 2005
com moderators retain editorial control over Live Online discussions and choose the most relevant questions for guests and hosts; guests and hosts can decline to answer questions. _____________ washingtonpost. com: Thank you for joining us to talk about the Nationals on the day of the team’s first home game. Can you describe how you feel about the Nationals taking the field at RFK Stadium tonight? Will you be at the game? Mark Gauvreau Judge: I will – I got scalped tickets because my connections failed me because everyone in the city wants to go. It’s like the first day of school. It’s like the butterflies and just tremendous excitement. It really is like the first day of a good school, of a fun school…
can’t even keep a minor league team. But oh, how this area has grown since then. I am so excited about watching the Nats on TV and at RFK. It will also completely renovate the Anacostia riverside and turn it into a Georgetown-like area.
Major rival emerges for Fonterra
The Age – Apr 14, 2005
On completing his doctorate, Dr Penno quit as general manager ofextension services for the industry’s farm research company,Dexcel, and in November 2002 began working fulltime on Synlait Ltd,established in May 2000, and Synlait Investments, which wasregistered in June 2002. Other companies set up since then have included SynlaitDevelopments (February 2004), Synlait Milk (March 2005) and SynlaitFarms One (April 2005). Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden has previously said thatFonterra needs defensive mechanisms to mitigate competitive riskfrom home-grown rival processors. After former MP Wyatt Creech last year launched his new $25million Open Country cheese factory, Mr van der Heyden said: “Theyare knocking on the doors of our farmers that have the flattestmilk curves. and the farmers closest to the factories.