divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/16567?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Gallas+lets+rip+at+team-mates+for+lacking+couragech=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=Arsenal+FC+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Dominic+Fifield%2CMikey+Staffordc7=2008_11_21c8=1121625c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Arsenalc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FArsenal" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Arsenal captain, William Gallas, has launched an astonishing attack on his young team-mates, claiming they are "not brave enough in battle" and revealing he had been forced to step in to prevent players arguing during games. The France international also suggested one of his more experienced colleagues, who he refused to name, had proved a disruptive influence at the club on and off the pitch./ppThe outburst is particularly untimely with Arsenal, nine points off the top of the Premier League having lost their fourth game of the season against Aston Villa last Saturday, already rocked by confirmation that Theo Walcott will be absent for at least three months after the winger underwent surgery on his right shoulder yesterday. Gallas suggested he had grown tired of the drip-feed of criticism of his captaincy, initially sparked by his bizarre and petulant sit-down protest at Birmingham City in February, though his words will have done little for team harmony at the Emirates Stadium./pp"We have to understand that, to be champions, you have to play big matches every weekend and fight," said Gallas. "We are coming up against teams who are not scared to play football against us, who are not scared to take us on at our place and this is becoming dangerous for Arsenal. We are not brave enough in battle. I think we need to be soldiers. We have to be warriors. There are teams who can do it well against us and we have to be able to face up to these attacks. That is how they [Arsenal's young players] will forge their character and how they will get experience. Even though they've played a certain number of matches, they're still young and still learning."/ppThe 31-year-old, whose own form has been patchy not least against Villa, insisted he was speaking out because "there are things that can't be said and can't be tolerated". He revealed the team had fractured at half-time in the recent Premier League game with Tottenham Hotspur, with the score 1-1 at the time, though his most stinging criticism was levelled at an unnamed team-mate whose attitude had shocked him. "There was a problem at half-time [against Spurs]," he said. "The only thing that I could say at half-time was: 'Guys, we resolve these problems after the match, not at half-time.'/pp"When, as captain, some players come up to you and talk to you about a player ... complaining about him ... and then during the match you speak to this player and the player in question insults us. There comes a time where we can no longer comprehend how this can happen. I'm trying to defend myself a bit without giving names. Otherwise I'm taking it all [the blame]. It's very frustrating, but I'm 31 and the player concerned is six years younger than me." The players who fall into that bracket at the club include Robin van Persie, the Dutch forward and something of a free spirit as an attacking force, as well as Emmanuel Eboueacute; and Bacary Sagna. Yet Gallas' suggestion that the tete-a-tete had occurred during an attacking phase of play may be revealing./ppArsegrave;ne Wenger was made aware of the comments yesterday and, although Gallas is unlikely to be stripped of the captaincy, the Arsenal manager has not been impressed with the outburst after a difficult few days. Wenger's decision to retain his compatriot as skipper, rather than pass the armband to Cesc Fagrave;bregas, came as something of a surprise over the summer./ppThe centre-half's outburst appears born of frustration that Arsenal, well behind Chelsea and Liverpool in the league, may endure a fourth consecutive season without a trophy. "I have to win something this year," he said. "Arsenal has to win something. Another season without a trophy would be a kind of failure."/ppThe loss of Walcott represents a blow. Wenger said he does not hold the Football Association responsible for the training injury sustained on Tuesday at the Olympic stadium, with the club considering whether or not to seek compensation, via the FA's insurers. Thankfully, the 19-year-old's career has not been threatened by this set-back./pp"There is not concern about that," said the Arsenal manager. "Once the surgery is done and it is solid, there is no concern at all for the future of Theo Walcott. 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Before you reach for your Revolver, let us explain. The title of "Biggest Bastards on Earth" was bestowed on The Beatles by none other than John Lennon in an interview conducted months after the legendary band's 1969 breakup. It has since resurfaced in Philip Norman's massive biography John Lennon: The Life, out now from Ecco Books.

"Things are left out, about what bastards we were," Lennon explained in the interview. "You have to be a bastard to make it. That's a fact. And the Beatles were the biggest bastards on Earth."

To be sure, Norman's book takes a critical look at Lennon's influential if short time on our planet for over 850 pages, charting the trajectory of his ego and creativity as it escaped Liverpool for the world-at-large. And it is a given that few among us are true innocents. But do you really have to be a bastard to make it in music? And was the quartet really that bad?

From optimistic classics like "We Can Work It Out" to arresting compositions like "Day in the Life" and all the way the band's calls for social and economic justice, before and after its disintegration, I would argue that the Beatles did more than most to pull humankind's head out of its collective ass.

But I cede the floor on this issue to the readership. As Lennon sang in "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," I hope you have fun / The near and the dear one / The old and the young.

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See also:

• McCartney to Israel, Palestine: Give Peace a Chance
• Speaking of The Beatles' Auditory Cheesecake...
• Sad Anniversary: The Beatles Bid Adieu to TV
• John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole (Again)
• The Day The Beatles Fled Imelda Marcos
• Report: Beatles Eye Rock Band, Guitar Hero
• He Met The Walrus: Animated Lennon Interview
• Lost Beatles Tape Found, Readied For Auction
• Give Peace a Price Tag

Former Memphis police officer pleads not guilty to civil rights charges in the videotaped beating of transgender woman Duanna Johnson while she was in custody: "Johnson, a biological male who lived as a woman, was being booked on a prostitution charge when the incident happened. A videotape of the beating was broadcast on Memphis TV stations and online in June, leading to McRae's firing. His former partner, James Swain, 25, was also fired." Today is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance.

It's what being single does to a girl.

Guy Ritchie won't take a cent.

Two men plead not guilty to gay bashing murder of Liverpool teen Michael Causer.

Obama taps Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security secretary. Politico: "Napolitano is a border governor who will now be responsible for immigration policy and border security, which are part of Homeland Security’s myriad functions. Napolitano brings law and order experience from her stint as the Grand Canyon State’s first female attorney general. One of the nation’s most prominent female elected officials, she made frequent appearances on behalf of Barack Obama during the campaign. She was reelected to a second four-year term in 2006."

Brad Pitt comes face-to-Skype with a Bradaloonie.

The truth about Phyliss Burgess, the old lady who had her cross stomped at the Palm Springs 'No on 8' rally.

Detroit sports radio personality loses football bet, comes to work in drag.

An interview with Aaron Harvey, whose work was the inspiration for the now well-known Shepard Fairey "Defend Equality" image: "I landed on a design that was certainly not new, but was new this go around -- a raised fist of solidarity, with a twist: this fist also had a wedding band on it. The color scheme was also deliberate. The official "No on 8" campaign was using a green check in their campaign which I felt was a visual oxymoron. I knew red needed to be part of the design. When I showed it to friends and colleagues some of them said 'Oooh that's kind of angry, how are you going to persuade people sitting on the fence with that?' Well, for me, it wasn't about persuading the other side. It was about my side, and getting my side to realize there was something they needed to get up and defend!"

Pete Wentz on having his man part manscaping revealed to the world: "Honestly, I felt slightly overgrown in those pictures. If I had taken them for public consumption, I would have done it differently—groomed a little closer, better lighting."

Huckabee: Prop 8 did not ban same-sex marriage, it affirmed traditional marriage.

Campaign to move Sundance Film Festival out of Utah launches website.

New York's Triborough bridge renamed for Robert F. Kennedy.

Wentworth Miller to be out of work soon?

Time Out New York interviews activist Cleve Jones: "I think there are lots of Harveys out there, but the movement has changed. The charismatic individual leaders who were able to get things done by the sheer force of their personalities—we don’t see them anymore. In Harvey’s day, we didn’t have infrastructure. We just had individuals with big ideas and big mouths. When Harvey ran for office, we had to raise $30,000 to get him elected, and that was a challenge. Today there are hundreds of gay organizations around the country that routinely raise and spend millions a year. We didn’t have community centers, churches and youth groups, and of course, we didn’t have HIV/AIDS. I think people like Harvey and myself are really anachronisms. Probably the last leader of that style was Larry Kramer."

Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus on electing Republicans: "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys, [then those retailers] should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."

Le 4 novembre dernier, Liverpool recevait l'Atlético Madrid, pour le compte de la 4e journée de Ligue des Champions (1-1).

div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/a0/ca/0009caa0.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/a0/ca/0009caa0_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_641696"//a/div br/ div class="center"bTerence Davies - Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)/bbr/ 81 min | XviD 576 x 328 | 990 kb/s | 224 kb/s AC3 | 25 fps | 700 MB + 3% recovery recordbr/ iEnglish | Subtitles: Spanish and English .srt | Genre: Drama/i/divbr/ Drawn from his own family memories, Distant Voices, Still Lives is a strikingly intimate portrait of working class life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. Focusing on the real-life experiences of his mother, sisters and brother whose lives are thwarted by their brutal, sadistic father (a chilling performance by Pete Postlethwaite), the film shows us beauty and terror in equal measure. Davies uses the traditional family gatherings of births, marriages and deaths to paint a lyrical portrait of family life - of love, grief, and the highs and lows of being human, a 'poetry of the everyday' that is at once deeply autobiographical and universally resonant.

« Oratorios et Musiques Chorales dans le Monde Anglophone » Colloque organisé par l'équipe ERIBIA/ Centre LSA Vendredi 15 et samedi 16 mai 2009, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, MRSH, Salle des Thèses Comité d'organisation : Gilles Couderc et Marcin Stawiarsky La création de l'oratorio anglais, cette forme particulière de drame musical joué au concert, incombe essentiellement à Haendel qui combine des éléments empruntés au masque anglais, au motet ou à la cantate, au théâtre français classique, à l'opera seria et à l'oratorio profane italiens, et à l'oratorio protestant allemand, dans une oeuvre dramatique sur un sujet biblique où le choeur intervient massivement. Sa création quasiment accidentelle en 1732, alors que décline la popularité de l'opéra italien à Londres, découle de l'intervention de l'évêque de Londres interdisant à Haendel de reprendre son opéra Esther et de porter le texte sacré à la scène. Le succès de l'oeuvre encourage le compositeur dans cette voie. Ses oratorios nourrissent le répertoire des sociétés chorales britanniques, tant et si bien que le Festival Haendel de 1791 réunit des centaines de chanteurs pour fêter la musique du grand homme. L'organisation de festivals de musique, comme celui des Three Choirs des cathédrales de Gloucester, Hereford et Worcester, établi dès 1719, et la fondation de sociétés chorales, dans les villes, les villages comme les usines constituent un marché pour cette forme artistique démocratique et populaire. Le développement des chorales à des fins d'édification morale ou de paix sociale, grâce notamment à l'invention du Tonic Sol-fa par le pasteur congrégationaliste John Curwen (1816-1880), qui permet l'apprentissage rapide des notes sans savoir lire la musique, la baisse des prix de la musique imprimée et le développement des chemins de fer favorisent un engouement que traduit l'image d'une population britannique divisée en deux camps, ceux qui chantent et les autres. Dans les années 1850, le Crystal Palace devient l'arène propice aux exécutions d'oratorios de Haendel, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Gounod, Dvorak et de leur épigones britanniques, si bien que pour réussir tout musicien britannique respectable doit viser le marché de l'oratorio, ou sa version profane, la ballade dramatique ou la symphonie chorale, commandés par des festivals comme celui de Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool ou Norwich, phénomène qui suscite la verve de G. B. Shaw. La Renaissance de la musique britannique à la toute fin du 19e siècle, avec Parry et Stanford, puis Elgar, et plus tard Vaughan Williams et Holst, est tributaire de ce mouvement choral. S'il s'essouffle après 1918, avec l'émergence d'autres formes de loisir, comme le cinéma, et la professionnalisation croissante des choeurs, l'oratorio ou la [...]

Yossi Benayoun et Liverpool, l'aventure se termine.

Check out Tokio Hotel at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in Liverpool!

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img src="http://www.myfreesport.fr/commun/n120x90/ac/carton-rouge-pour-arbitre.jpg" alt="" border="" align="left" /Arbitre du match Liverpool-Atletico Madrid (1-1) en C1, Martin Hansson a reçu des menaces de mort. Certains supporters madrilènes lui reprochent d'avoir accordé un pénalty injustifié en faveur des Reds.br clear="left"/

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Martin Hansson, el árbitro sueco que dirigió hace unas semanas el polémico Liverpool-Atlético de Madrid de Liga de Campeones, confesó hoy al diario Expressen que ha recibido amenazas de muerte y que tuvo que cambiar de teléfono ante las llamadas y mensajes de aficionados furiosos. "Llamaban todo el tiempo y recibía muchos SMS. Estoy acostumbrado, pero esta vez fue demasiado, con un tono amenazador, fue muy desagradable. Estoy harto, así de simple", declaró al diario sueco Hansson, que pitó un penalti bastante dudoso por una presunta falta contra Gerrard en el descuento que permitió al Liverpool empatar el partido (1-1).

Jakub Blaszczykowski, le défenseur (ou milieu) droit du Borussia Dortmund, intéresserait toujours les Anglais de Liverpool.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/356/f/4939/s/2665e6d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Foot - B.Dortmund : Liverpool toujours sur « Kuba »link=http://www.mercato365.com/la-une/article_277159_B.Dortmund-Liverpool-toujours-sur-Kuba-.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Foot - B.Dortmund : Liverpool toujours sur « Kuba »link=http://www.mercato365.com/la-une/article_277159_B.Dortmund-Liverpool-toujours-sur-Kuba-.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192647243/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/40263277/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192647243/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/40263277/a2.img" border="0"//a

Jakub Blaszczykowski, le défenseur (ou milieu) droit du Borussia Dortmund, intéresserait toujours les Anglais de Liverpool.

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img src="http://media.sporever.fr/sport365/images/resized/block1/144x66_39292.gif" alt="C1 : L'arbitre de Liverpool-Atletico menacé" align="left" style="margin: 5px;" /Arbitre du match de Ligue des Champions Liverpool-Atletico Madrid le 4 novembre dernier, le Suisse Martin Hansson a été victime de menaces répétées après avoir accordé un penalty controversé pour les Reds à la dernière minute du match.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/356/f/4939/s/2665e6e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Foot - C1 : L'arbitre de Liverpool-Atletico menacélink=http://www.football365.fr/la-une/article_277158_C1-L-arbitre-de-Liverpool-Atletico-menace.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Foot - C1 : L'arbitre de Liverpool-Atletico menacélink=http://www.football365.fr/la-une/article_277158_C1-L-arbitre-de-Liverpool-Atletico-menace.shtml" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192647242/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/40263278/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192647242/u/89/f/4939/c/356/s/40263278/a2.img" border="0"//a

Arbitre du match de Ligue des Champions Liverpool-Atletico Madrid le 4 novembre dernier, le Suisse Martin Hansson a été victime de menaces répétées après avoir accordé un penalty controversé pour les Reds à la dernière minute du match.