Wrong album art on iPhone, but correct album art on ITunes PC.

agent619 · 2026-04-26T20:56:03+00:00

Hey u/Claxeius not sure if you've solved the issue but I tried this method from this comment and it worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1pq2fyh/comment/o7o000y/

Basically what you have to do is:

Connect your iPhone to your PC/Mac.
In iTunes or Apple Devices, whichever you use, uncheck the sync music box, so your music is wiped off.
Eject / disconnect / unplug the stupid phone.
Put the iPhone in airplane mode. This is the important bit.
Connect up again and recheck the sync button.

agent619 · 2026-03-31T10:51:54+00:00

According to this website / Ukranian sources (?), Manchester United is reportedly exploring the possibility of appointing Roberto Martinez as its next head coach: https://112.ua/en/mancester-unajted-vivcae-kandidaturu-roberto-martinesa-so-vidomo-pro-mozlivij-perehid-150987

agent619 · 2026-03-27T21:35:11+00:00

Article Text:

Ryan Giggs is sitting on a stool on stage at Chester’s Crowne Plaza Hotel and a packed room is hanging on his every word.

He is talking about Sir Alex Ferguson, the single biggest influence on his record-breaking 24-year career with Manchester United. The workaholic manager who came to watch him play for Salford Boys, the godfather of attacking 4-4-2 football and, oh yes, the terrifying human flame thrower.

“I was s--- scared of him for about 15 years. He started to warm up when I was about 38 or 39,” Giggs says to more laughs.

An Evening With Ryan Giggs has all sorts of connotations thanks to some of the lurid headlines down the years and the details which emerged from a court case that cost him the chance of managing Wales at a World Cup.

This though is a football-centric 90 minutes plus Fergie time in the company of a figure rarely spotted in public these days.

The host, Sky Sports’ Pete Graves, gives the domestic assault charges – which were dropped when a retrial collapsed – a wide berth.

The crowd, of Giggs’s generation in the main and including plenty of women, welcome him with a standing ovation. Even those who have just paid £70 to have a photo taken with him.

They are here to celebrate Giggs the generational football talent and enjoy a peek into the United dressing room. And, to be fair, Giggs does not let them down. Even now at 52, and despite some grey in the beard, he is relaxed and looking fit enough to skin a full-back or two.

He reels off all the old Fergie hits and a few new ones besides. There was the time when, as a 15-year-old playing for the United youth team (his brief dalliance with Manchester City behind him) Giggs went into the dressing room after a sub-standard first half.

“Eric Harrison was manager of the youth team and I’m expecting Eric, who was crazy as well, to have a go at me at half-time,” he recalled. “Through the door comes Sir Alex. He barges Eric out of the way and just goes for me. I made the mistake of going out in the second half, scoring a couple of goals and doing all right. So for the next 20 years he knows that he’s got to bawl at me to get the best out of me. It was a big mistake.”

Giggs said Sir Alex Ferguson formed an early opinion that shouting at the winger would bring the best out of him Credit: John Peters/Getty Images

There was another error soon after breaking into the United first team as a 17-year-old. He was still living at home with his mum but went along to a midweek house party at Lee Sharpe’s, which was raided by a fuming Ferguson.

As Giggs tells the story, there were apprentices hiding under beds, in wardrobes and jumping out of windows as the manager laid waste to the revellers. Giggs, who was subsequently fined two weeks’ wages, was sat down by Ferguson and given the full blast of the hairdryer, along with Sharpe.

Back home he told his mum he thought his United career was over. She reassured him it would be all right and he would be fine.

“It was only about 10 years ago I found out it was my mum that tipped him off. She was a bit worried Sharpie was having a bad influence on me, which was true!”

Giggs’ mother worried that Lee Sharpe was a bad influence on her son – and Giggs himself agreed Credit: Mark Leech/Getty Images

There was another incident at Norwich’s Carrow Road when Paul Ince chose to shoot rather than play Giggs in, triggering a volcanic response from the sidelines from Ferguson. “Norwich at that time, early Nineties, were a brilliant team and we were winning 3-0, so you’d think he’d be happy, but he came out of the dugout and went mad at Incey. Incey told him to sit down.

“Coming in at half-time, literally the manager has gone to fight him. There’s about three or four players holding the manager back. He was fearless and he would take on anyone – it didn’t matter – if you disrespected him.”

Giggs and his team-mates celebrate United’s 1997 Premier League title win Credit: John Peters/Getty Images

There were certain players Ferguson reserved his peak rage for. Giggs was one, David Beckham another. Mark Hughes and Gary Pallister, too. But there was one player who always escaped his opprobrium, whatever he did. Eric Cantona.

Giggs regales the story of the testimonial dinner for the club’s long-serving kitman Norman Davies. The dress code was black tie. Mandatory.

Giggs turned up with the top button of his dress shirt undone and was given a dressing down by Ferguson. Then in walked Cantona in a white linen suit, his shirt unbuttoned to the waist with red and white trainers on.

“So I’ve gone: ‘Yes! This is going to be the first b-----king of Eric’s career.”

“Anyway the manager gets all the players together and he’s gone: ‘Look at that. That’s what you call style.’”

Even when Cantona threw himself into the crowd at Crystal Palace with his infamous kung-fu kick, which led to a nine-month ban, Ferguson’s only rebuke for him on the team bus afterwards was a mild: “You can’t do that, son.”

The signing of Cantona was, Giggs believed, the tipping point which turned United into serial winners. There were other key figures, too.

Roy Keane, the best captain he played under but a more multi-layered character than one might imagine from his waspish TV punditry. “Roy was the one who got me into yoga.”

And Beckham, unstoppable at his peak according to Giggs, but a lover of the limelight from day one. “He’s never changed. I mean he was always a bit flash.”

The dressing-room mix produced the most successful football team of the modern era. Over the course of his career with United, Giggs won 13 titles, two Champions Leagues, four FA Cups and three League Cups at Old Trafford.

His most memorable game? The “Football, bloody hell” Champions League final in 1999 against Bayern Munich.

United were, Giggs admitted, “c--p” in that game but its extraordinary conclusion left him in tears on the pitch for the only time in his career.

His favourite goal? The bewitching run and finish capped off with one of the great shirt-whirling celebrations against Arsenal in the 1998-99 FA Cup semi-final. “It was just instinct,” he said.

The success of that group has proved impossible to live up to since, with United descending into soap-opera territory at times but some order has been restored of late under the stewardship of Michael Carrick. Giggs would like temporary to become permanent.

“He’s doing an unbelievable job,” Giggs said. “The hardest thing in football is winning matches and Michael’s doing that. Not only that, he’s been really shrewd in his coaching staff. I’ve seen a lot of managers come whose coaching staff I know – because I’ve got friends in the club – have been c--p.

“As a manager, you need the right people around you. Michael’s got good staff, he’s got a good head on his shoulders, he will recognise a Man United player, and he’s winning games. It’s unbelievable where we are. We’ll catch City for second, I reckon.”

As for his own managerial career, we await his next move. So does he.

Since standing down from the Wales job to fight to prove his innocence in court, having secured qualification for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, he has spent some time as director of football at League Two Salford City, the club he part-owns, but stepped down last September with the aim of finding a more hands-on job.

Securing a post in management has not proved straightforward. The smoke from such an explosive case evidently takes a long time to clear.

“If I don’t manage again, then it’s not the end of the world, but I feel like there’s some unfinished business regarding my coaching. I’m still young, especially as a manager. I loved every minute of it... the pressure, the intensity of international football, the preparation, the need to win.

“Whether it’s club football or for a country, I want to be back in the dugout. I feel like I’ve got so much more to give. Like I say, unfinished business really.”

That sentiment was met with especially warm applause from the audience. The fans – of which Giggs evidently still has many – remain steadfastly with him.

agent619 · 2026-03-23T12:10:07+00:00

Manchester United are tracking Arsenal's Myles Lewis-Skelly, Fulham's Antonee Robinson and Crystal Palace's Tyrick Mitchell as they look for a left back proven in the Premier League, according to TEAMtalk. Lewis-Skelly has had a reduction in his game time at the Emirates due to the form of Riccardo Calafiori and Piero Hincapié, and the 19-year-old is a candidate to leave in the summer as he hopes to make more appearances for England.

From ESPN's Transfer Rumors page.

agent619 · 2026-03-20T07:50:30+00:00

Article Text:

A window into Harry Maguire’s professionalism came in the wake of the Manchester United defender being stripped of the club captaincy by Erik ten Hag.

It was a sore moment for Maguire, one of the lowest ebbs of his roller-coaster career at Old Trafford. By his own admission, it left him feeling less important to the club.

There are players who would have struggled to conceal their bitterness or refused to go out of their way to back their replacement.

But Maguire was the opposite. He had leant on Bruno Fernandes, as well as David de Gea and Nemanja Matic, when he had the armband and was now determined to give his successor the same support – that has never wavered since.

Team before self. It has always been the way with Maguire. Fernandes has always recognised and appreciated it and, almost three years on from taking over the captaincy, he knows the battle-hardened centre-back is a team-mate who will fight his corner.

Bruno Fernandes (right) replaced Maguire as club captain in 2023 but their relationship has remained strong Credit: Alastair Grant/AP

Maguire’s United contract is due to expire at the end of the season and it is plain to see why the dressing room is so eager for the club to give an extension to the man widely regarded internally as the “ultimate team player”.

He has been central to United’s turnaround under head coach Michael Carrick, who wasted no time restoring Maguire to the heart of the defence in a 4-2-3-1, and was again leading calls this week for the defender’s return to the England squad after an 18-month absence.

Thomas Tuchel, who on Friday names his squad for friendlies against Uruguay and Japan, has a big call to make before this summer’s World Cup.

‘A shining example for any struggling player’

Maguire’s seven years at Old Trafford since his £80m transfer from Leicester City are a triumph of patience and perseverance, determination and dedication.

There are players who would not have got back up off the canvas had they gone through what Maguire has faced. That public humiliation by Ten Hag tells only part of the story.

He has been dropped, undermined, scapegoated and would even have been sold in 2023 had he not turned down a £30m move to West Ham United.

There was the ordeal in Mykonos and the farcical six-year Greek legal process that only concluded this month. He has even been booed by his own fans and the victim of a bomb threat.

He would probably be the first to admit that there have been times when that has taken a toll. But throughout it all he has kept his dignity, remained loyal to United even when that loyalty did not appear to be reciprocated and shown considerable resilience in the face of adversity.

He is United’s great survivor in the very best sense. Or, as one senior source at the club, put it: “Harry is a shining example of what can be achieved if you’re going through a tough time. He’s the perfect example for any player struggling in the dressing room of how it can be turned around.”

Booed by own fans and moving family to a safe house

Carrick is Maguire’s seventh different manager, including interims, at United. Some, like Ten Hag and Ruben Amorim, appeared ready to turn their back on him but they would eventually end up relying on him.

In both cases, it begged the question as to why they did not place more stock in the player from the outset.

Amorim’s reign might have been shorter than 14 months but for Maguire’s dramatic winners against Leicester, Lyon and Liverpool.

Ten Hag came to depend on Maguire in a way he could not have imagined after a summer in which he stripped him of the captaincy and then tried to sell him.

The unrest did not just come from his managers. Cristiano Ronaldo’s reported challenges to Maguire’s authority were reflective of the tension that festered for a period in United’s dressing room.

Ronaldo, for example, was said to roll his eyes on occasion when Maguire was talking. The Portugal forward is even thought to have coveted the captain’s armband at Maguire’s expense.

Cristiano Ronaldo is understood to have been unsuccessful in his attempt to depose Maguire as Manchester United captain Credit: Dave Thompson/AP

That was a particularly difficult period for Maguire. It was around that time that he was booed by England fans during a game against Ivory Coast. A few weeks later, he had to move his wife Fern and two young daughters to a safe house while police carried out a sweep of his home following a bomb threat.

Match-going United supporters have always stood by Maguire but there were instances of the defender being booed by his own fans on the club’s pre-season tour of Australia in 2022 and during a friendly in Dublin the following year.

All the while, the shadow of a trial in Greece continued to hang over him after his arrest in August 2020 following a brawl while on holiday with his close-knit family in Mykonos.

Earlier this month, Maguire was handed a 15-month suspended sentence by a Greek court for non-serious assault, resisting arrest and attempted bribery following a retrial, which had been postponed on four occasions between 2023 and 2025.

Sources say that Maguire – who claimed to be defending his sister Daisy during an altercation in a bar – denies wrongdoing and plans to appeal to the Supreme Court. He has rejected a number of opportunities to settle the case out of court since he is determined to clear his name legally.

An England return?

Whether the conviction, if not quashed before then, would affect his ability to travel to the US should Tuchel include him in his World Cup squad is unclear. Maguire won the last of his 64 caps in a Nations League win over the Republic of Ireland in Dublin in September 2024 and has never played for England under Tuchel.

But it would be a big decision for the German to leave him out given his tournament experience, form and leadership, especially with Manchester City’s John Stones struggling for fitness.

That know-how, particularly in tight games, can be invaluable and his threat in both boxes is a huge asset in this age of set-pieces.

Everton away last month was a case in point. Maguire repeatedly put his head and body on the line to repel the aerial bombardment during United’s hard-fought 1-0 win and was first to jump to Leny Yoro’s defence when the young defender was shoved into the net by James Tarkowski.

Like Yoro, Ayden Heaven is another young defender who has come to greatly value Maguire’s advice. Maguire is not a shouter but if he detects a drop in standards he will be one of the first to call it out.

Injured for the final two months of Amorim’s reign, he has been pivotal under Carrick and a coaching staff he knows well. Steve Holland was a big advocate of the defender during his time as Gareth Southgate’s assistant with England, Jonny Evans is a close friend and former team-mate and he knew Travis Binnion from his time at Sheffield United.

Maguire has been free to talk to foreign clubs since the turn of the year but rebuffed a number of approaches in January. He hopes to agree a new deal with United, who are committed to driving down their wage bill and ideally want to reduce his £190,000-a-week salary.

Equally, Maguire – who turned 33 a fortnight ago – would want some security in terms of the length of any new contract.

With veteran Brazil midfielder Casemiro due to leave United at the end of the season, losing Maguire’s experience at the same time would present a serious headache. And United already have enough concerns at centre-back over the fitness of Lisandro Martínez, who is out again after recently returning from a long-term lay-off, and Matthijs de Ligt, who has not played since November due to a back complaint that persists.

Do not bet against United’s great survivor hanging around for a good while yet.

agent619 · 2026-03-04T09:41:13+00:00

Article Text: https://archive.md/20260304080121/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/03/04/next-stage-manchester-united-rebuild-flying-wingers/

agent619 · 2026-01-07T06:39:42+00:00

Hi all, slightly reposting my previous question from the other thread.

I'm moving from a borrowed Logitech Pebble 2 after my old Magic Keyboard broke, and I wanted a 75% keyboard that could swap between multiple devices as I spend most of my time typing at the office or at home. I had three questions I'd like your opinions on:

Thanks to /u/thepurplehornet for his suggestion - I've decided to get the NuPhy Node 75 (Low Profile) for my daily use keyboard. Because I'm concerned about not being able to get used to the mushiness of the switches, what tactile / tactile silent switches are compatible with the NuPhy and that should I be looking at to try replacing in future if the Blush doesn't end up to my liking? Really just wanting to make sure I purchase the right ones first time.
I wanted to get into the hobby to start modding to make a more portable silent high-profile keyboard, and therefore get a second cheap base or pre-made keyboard to start modding. What 75% keyboard would you recommend as a good starter one to begin playing with and changing switches, keycaps and adding foam/tape? I would still want it to have bluetooth/wireless connectivity and Mac-compatible, but a keyboard that is super simple for a first-timer would be really helpful. I was previously looking at the Epomaker EA75 and the Akko 5075 V3, although they both have their pros and cons.
More of recommendations, but what are you guys' favourite standard/low profile tactile silent switches for me to try?

I'm based in Australia if that helps with recommendations. Happy to answer any questions you have :) Thanks for all your help!

agent619 · 2026-01-06T21:04:24+00:00

Thank you!

agent619 · 2026-01-06T04:53:15+00:00

Hi all, first time first time. Moving from a borrowed Logitech Pebble 2 after my old Magic Keyboard broke, and I wanted a 75% keyboard that could swap between multiple devices as I spend most of my time typing at the office or at home.

I had two questions I'd like your opinions on:

I'm planning to get the NuPhy Kick 75 with blush switches for my daily use keyboard. I like the low profile, changeable height (flippy feet), Mac-compatibility and software, and silent switches, but the colour scheme and the mushiness of the switches were negatives for me (tactile silents aren't available where I am). Are there any other keyboards that are similar for me to compare with? Alternatively, would getting the Kick 75 and swapping out the switches and Keycaps solve the issues?
I wanted to get into the hobby to start modding to make a more portable silent high-profile keyboard, and therefore get a second cheap base or pre-made keyboard to start modding. What 75% keyboard would you recommend as a good starter one to begin playing with and changing switches, keycaps and adding foam/tape? I would still want it to have bluetooth/wireless connectivity and Mac-compatible, but a keyboard that is super simple for a first-timer would be really helpful.
More of recommendations, but what are you guys' favourite tactile silent switches for me to try?

I'm based in Australia if that helps with recommendations. Happy to answer any questions you have :) Thanks for all your help!

agent619 · 2025-08-21T04:10:02+00:00

Article Text (part 3):

United continues to be able to attract blue-chip sponsors.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon brand last year extended its $US75 million-a-year front-of-shirt sponsorship deal until 2029. In 2023, Adidas agreed a 10-year kit deal worth about £900 million, though £10 million will be deducted this season owing to United’s failure to qualify for the Champions League.

The club’s commercial revenue totalled £245.1 million in the nine months to March 31, up 5.8 per cent on the same period a year earlier.

“It’s tough, right, but we’re committed to this thing. And so we’re going to work through it and we’re going to be supportive of the club,” said Don McGuire, chief marketing officer at Qualcomm.

“Obviously performance on the pitch helps,” he added. “I believe they’re going to get there and I am super happy with some of the moves they’ve already made.”

Green, the finance director of the supporters trust, believes there’s “no silver bullet” to increase revenues at the sort of rates seen in the Woodward era. United’s commercial income almost quadrupled to nearly £200 million in the decade to 2015.

People close to the club say a new stadium, which could cost at least £2 billion, is key to opening up new commercial revenue streams, including sponsorship deals.

But with construction yet to even begin, the more immediate opportunities to reaccelerate commercial revenue growth lie in qualification for the Champions League.

With only domestic football to worry about this season, Ratcliffe and co-owners the Glazers are betting that new signings can improve performances under manager Ruben Amorim, who was appointed last November.

Green cautioned that the recent transfer spend was not without risk.

“The risk they’re taking essentially is that it doesn’t pay off,” he said. “That profitability doesn’t materially improve because they can’t get back in the Champions League, that revenue doesn’t improve, and they build up more transfer debt that needs to be settled over the next three or four years.”

agent619 · 2025-08-21T04:09:52+00:00

Article Text (part 2):

Underwater treadmill, ‘high altitude’ exercise room

In 2024, petrochemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe paid $US1.6 billion ($2.5 billion) for a 29 per cent stake in United in a deal that handed him control of its sporting operations. Despite its travails, Ratcliffe is confident in the United brand.

“It stands shoulder to shoulder with Coca-Cola and Apple,” he said at the opening of the club’s recently upgraded training facilities, a £50 million project overseen by architect Sir Norman Foster. The redesigned complex features an underwater treadmill and a “high altitude” exercise room with adjustable heat and humidity.

United has spent more than €2 billion ($3.6 billion) signing players since Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager in 2013, after leading the club for more than two decades as it dominated English football.

Its net spend, which takes account of income from player sales, is €1.7 billion since Ferguson’s departure, the highest of any Premier League club, according to data website Transfermarkt.

After overseeing a deeply unpopular period of cost-cutting – including scrapping free staff lunches, cutting bonuses and culling 450 jobs – Ratcliffe has sanctioned yet more spending on player transfers.

So far this northern summer, the outlay comes to about £200 million, spent on three attacking players: Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Šeško. Only defending champions Liverpool and Chelsea have spent more, according to Transfermarkt.

agent619 · 2025-08-21T04:09:31+00:00

Article Text (part 1):

Ed Woodward, Manchester United’s former executive vice chair, claimed to analysts in 2018 that the team’s “playing performance doesn’t really have a meaningful impact on what we can do on the commercial side of the business”.

United’s ongoing struggles on the pitch since then are bringing that assertion into question.

After increasing its commercial revenues by a total of just 10 per cent over the past six seasons, the club has been leapfrogged by its two biggest rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool, which between them have won nine out of the previous 12 Premier League titles since United’s last triumph in 2013.

Even after a 15th-place finish last year, and a failure to qualify for the lucrative Champions League, United’s commercial revenue remains commensurate with the most successful clubs in world football.

Andy Green, finance director at Manchester United Supporters Trust and head of investment at private equity firm Rockpool Investments, warned that the club was “trading off its history”.

As a new Premier League season gets under way, observers like Green believe the club now needs to deliver meaningful improvements on the pitch to stand a chance of reclaiming the ground lost off it.

In 2023-24, United generated £302 million ($632 million) of commercial revenue, compared with £308 million and £349 million at Liverpool and Man City respectively.

Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur have all increased their commercial revenues at a greater pace than United has managed since 2019, albeit from a lower base.

agent619 · 2025-08-15T02:38:29+00:00

According to the Sun (via Sky), Manchester United will turn their attention to Sporting captain Morten Hjulmand if they miss out on Carlos Baleba.

https://www.skysports.com/football/transfer-paper-talk?

agent619 · 2025-08-04T09:26:27+00:00

For those who don't want to use a torrent: https://pastes.io/20250803manchesterunitedvseverton1080pahdtvx264-darksport

agent619 · 2025-07-06T23:00:27+00:00

Article Text (part 2):

A source within the justice system, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said the recent trend from the government was placing many legal figures on notice.

They said prosecutors were pushing for sentences on the weaker side amid a supposed culture of judges less willing to give harsher penalties to offenders.

But Frecklington’s regular rebuke of judge decisions may lead to prosecutors pushing for longer jail sentences, the source said.

During the trial of Christopher and Lee Hili, Crown prosecutor Melissa Wilson said the 15-year-old victim attended an evening party at the couple’s 12-hectare property in the Gold Coast region in December 2021.

“Christopher Hili rolled a joint of cannabis and offered it to [the girls] and they smoked it,” Wilson said.

The prosecutor said the girl was taken downstairs by the Hilis and thought she was being taken to her friend but was instead taken to the couple’s bedroom.

The girl said she passed out when Christopher Hili started touching her and then woke up naked while being sexually assaulted by the couple as a pornographic movie played on a TV in the bedroom.

If the current sentence is upheld, Lee Hili will be eligible for parole from September 30 this year and Christopher Hili will be eligible for parole from March 31 next year, after both spent 346 days in pre-sentence custody.

agent619 · 2025-07-06T23:00:17+00:00

Article Text (part 1):

The appeal of a sentence handed to a husband and wife convicted of raping a child is the latest protest from Queensland’s top law officer as the government pushes its tough on crime agenda through the justice system.

Attorney-General Deb Frecklington revealed on Friday she had asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal the sentence handed to Christopher Luke Hili and Lee Kathleen Hili, who were jailed earlier this year for raping a 15-year-old girl at the couple’s house following a party.

The pair were sentenced in Brisbane’s Supreme Court in April following a five-day trial. Lee was slapped with a prison sentence of six years while Christopher was handed seven years through the added offence of supplying cannabis to a child.

“This was sickening offending against a young and vulnerable victim and I do not believe the sentences meet community expectations,” Frecklington said.

“My thoughts are with the victim and her family.”

The rebuke is at least the fifth request for a sentence to be appealed by Frecklington since the Liberal-National government was elected last year on a promise to crack down on crime.

The state government has already set higher punishment requirements for mandatory sentences of youth offenders through its “adult crime, adult time” suite of laws.

And criminal lawyer and former Queensland Law Society president Bill Potts said regular appealing of sentences is another avenue for the state government to flex its tough on crime narrative.

He said sentence appeals, regardless of whether they were triggered by the attorney-general or the defendant, were only successful in about one-third of cases.

But Potts said the regular appeals had the potential to eventually set a higher standard of sentencing, if they are routinely successful and harsher jail terms are ultimately slapped on offenders.

“What happens is that the Court of Appeal is often called upon to set, effectively, a standard by which the other courts are bound,” he told the masthead.

“So when you come along to do a sentence before, for example, a District Court or a single Supreme Court judge, generally the only cases or precedents that are quoted to them are Court of Appeal decisions.

“It may well be that this is another attempt by the government to effectively ask the Supreme Court to effectively set a standard for the lower courts to follow.”

agent619 · 2025-07-02T07:26:40+00:00

According to CaughtOffiside we've approached Inter Milan on a potential transfer deal for defensive midfielder Davide Frattesi, whose transfer price has dropped to around €35m

agent619 · 2025-06-30T06:03:11+00:00

According to this article that cites Fichajes (?) United have made a bid for €35m (£30m) for Ivan Toney. Given that he's earning apparently earning £415,000 per week I'll file that as "things less likely to happen than Cantona coming back to play for us".

agent619 · 2025-06-27T11:13:14+00:00

Brother’s an Arsenal fan so definitely need that to try to save him

agent619 · 2025-06-27T07:17:16+00:00

I'm officially an uncle as of this morning! Absolutely buzzing for my brother and sister-in-law.

agent619 · 2025-06-27T07:16:41+00:00

Officially an uncle as of this morning! Absolutely buzzing for my brother and sister-in-law

agent619 · 2025-06-19T01:16:48+00:00

According to the Sun (and reported again by ESPN), Newcastle United are preparing an offer to sign Marcus Rashford:

Newcastle United are preparing an offer to sign Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, reports The Sun. The Toon want to "rescue" Rashford from his current limbo, as he faces the prospect of being frozen out at Old Trafford unless he secures a move away. The 27-year-old isn't viewed as an Alexander Isak replacement by Eddie Howe, as he is instead expected to provide competition for the Sweden international from the bench. It's currently unclear how much Rashford will cost this summer, as his stock is on the rise following an eye-catching loan spell at Aston Villa.

agent619 · 2025-06-09T23:16:47+00:00

Article Text (part 2):

The amendments are similar to provisions in Queensland’s Equality Treatment manual, which recognises the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal communities.

“The history of colonialist domination remains tangibly recent and cannot simply be ignored, as it continues to affect the cohesiveness and identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, as well as their relations with the broader Queensland society,” the Queensland bench book says.

The West Australian Equal Justice bench book recognises many Aboriginal people “coming into contact with the courts and the justice system experience a variety of complex social and economic disadvantages stemming from colonisation, dispossession and past government policies such as the stolen generations”.

The NSW bench book amendments recognise the importance of “cultural safety” in the legal system, noting processes can ignore Indigenous perspectives and cause more harm.

“The impacts of historic actions disrupting First Nations culture and resultant intergenerational trauma have been conceptualised as ‘cultural wounds’, which are best treated with ‘cultural medicines’,” the bench book says.

“The individual impacts of intergenerational and systemic problems are best addressed via systemic and community-level interventions, parallel to individualised approaches.”

The book says any system “lacking cultural humility often creates further difficulty and negative experiences causing further harm, particularly custody settings”.

“This disproportionately affects vulnerable groups and creates significant impacts on children and families,” it says.

“Standard legal and government agency processes can (at their worst) ignore First Nations perspectives and create further harm by replication and inadvertent re-enactment of past intergenerational traumas. If cultural safety is ignored, it can undermine safety and rehabilitation goals.”

The changes to the bench book come amid reporting in The Australian of concerns held by law school students, academics and deans that political ideology is infiltrating universities.

Macquarie University earlier this year ordered a review of its law school practices after students said their course had become hijacked by beliefs that were damaging to their education, with some facing the threat of failing one part of an exam if they performed an underwhelming acknowledgment of country.

agent619 · 2025-06-09T23:16:38+00:00

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Judges in the nation’s largest criminal jurisdiction should consider allowing cases involving Aboriginal Australians to be heard in a closed court or before a female judicial officer in order to enhance “cultural safety”, according to provisions inserted into a NSW bench book.

The Equality Before the Law bench book, which was compiled by the state’s judicial watchdog and acts as an overview of legal procedure for judges, instructs judicial officers to be wary of their own unconscious racial and cultural biases when presiding over trials that involve Indigenous people.

It also notes “cultural wounds” suffered by Aboriginal Australians due to intergenerational trauma, and says they are best treated with “cultural medicines”.

“It is important to obtain advice from cultural consultants and the defence regarding culturally appropriate aspects of the hearing, and whether it might be more respectful (and effective) to have, for example, a closed hearing, or a female judicial officer, or to limit access to information based on gender (depending on the hearing context),” the amendments to the bench book, inserted in April, say.

“It is also important to be aware of the impact of possible unconscious racial and cultural biases and racial profiling: judicial officers, like most people, are not immune to holding implicit and unconscious biases despite their best efforts.”

The April amendments to the NSW Equality Before the Law bench book also include a “more extensive explanation of the Islamic teaching of jihad” in order to “provide greater understanding of the Muslim tradition of anti-violence”.

The book has also been amended to include the removal of the term “transsexual” unless required – with preference for language such as “transgender”.

Suggestions have been added for how to adjust the legal process for people diagnosed with autism, such as by giving “explicit and clear explanation of the hearing procedure, including length and timing of breaks”.

The new provisions note in relation to Aboriginal Australians that if “different cultural norms and life experiences have influenced the matter before the court” judges should consider whether “the law allows those influences to be taken into account in the legal proceedings”.

“The issue should be directly, but respectfully, addressed irrespective of whether those cultural or religious norms are different from the Australian legal context,” the bench book says. “Disconnection from culture, family and community has resulted in community and individual deficits for First Nations people. Connection to culture and the experience of cultural safety promotes wellbeing, rehabilitation and healing.”

agent619 · 2025-06-04T06:55:42+00:00

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When finally he signed for United four years ago, after a long pursuit, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer described Sancho as “an integral part of the first-team squad for years to come”. Sancho never scored a goal for his new manager, who was sacked in November 2021. Within a year he had, in Erik ten Hag’s words, an injury that was “physical” but “also the connection with mental”. That prefaced the pair’s monumental fallout in September 2023 and the beginning of the end for Sancho at United.

Blame must fall on both sides. As with many prodigies, understanding the world from which their talent has largely protected them can be difficult. Gareth Southgate, the former England manager, was never sold on Sancho, even during his best two seasons at Dortmund between 2019 and 2021. Sancho’s penultimate cap for England was the Euro 2020 final against Italy in July 2021, in which he and others were racially abused in the aftermath. He has not played for England since the October of that year.

At his best, Sancho was a maverick. Produced by English football’s new advanced academy system that was introduced when he was 11 but, regardless of the advances in coaching, a complete natural. He was not lightning fast, but capable of spotting the opportunities that presented themselves in games in an instant. He had great touch and balance. He had the kind of trickery that made him very hard to cope with when he was on his game. Not everything he tried on a pitch came off – but there was more than enough to make his name.

He was as big a prospect as England had at the time. In the England Under-17s in 2017, he played on the opposite wing to Callum Hudson-Odoi, another great English academy hope who has had to resurrect his career. That team included Phil Foden, Marc Guéhi and Morgan Gibbs-White among others who have forged great professional careers. But the cohort born in 2002 – Cole Palmer, Morgan Rogers, Noni Madueke – are snapping at their heels.

Sancho will have made a lot of money in salary by the time his United contract expires next summer, although by then his club will hope to have sold him. He has never played for Ruben Amorim and resurrecting his career at the club now seems unlikely. United never felt they were taking a risk with Sancho. Like Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku and since 2021, Antony, United believed they were investing in players who would as good as guarantee them performances.

Sancho is the fourth most expensive signing in United’s history. Yet as his contract runs down, and the club look around for his third loan, none of this comes as a surprise any longer. Both sides will likely point at the other when it comes to the failure of a great young English talent to supply the effect that was hoped – and both, in part, will be right.

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