Yeah, this kid is ridiculously good.
Karamoko Dembele, just 13 years of age, made his debut for Celtic’s
U20 side on Monday and huge things are expected of the youngster. [ VIDEO: Premier League highlights ]
If you take a look at the video above you’ll understand why.
Many are saying he’s the “next Lionel Messi” and although we’ve heard that many times before (Bojan Krkic etc.) it’s hard to not get excited when watching this footage. Speaking about Dembele’s debut, Celtic’s
Head of Youth, Chris McCart, has warned against expecting too much too
soon from the youngster after he played against Hearts in a U20 game.
“We were all delighted to see Karamoko make his debut for
the Development Squad last night against Hearts in what proved to be an
entertaining game,” The fact that he was playing against other players
seven years his senior gives an indication of the quality this young boy
possesses and it was also fitting that he came on for Jack Aitchison,
the club’s youngest-ever goal scorer.
“What we need to remember, though, is that Karamoko is just
13-years-old. He was given a chance to play last night on merit, as was
Kieran, but it is very important that we continue their development at a
measured pace. Karamoko is still a young boy and has a lot of growing
to do, both physically and mentally. The coaches at our Under 13 and 14
levels have been fantastic in nurturing his potential but it is crucial
that we do not push him too far, too soon.”
We’ve heard about “starting them early” but this is just crazy…
Demebele has so much talent and you get the feeling Celtic may have
to fend off interest from plenty of other teams as the player they’ve
nurtured since 2013 was trending on Twitter in the UK.
Having personally seen the great work Celtic’s academy does firsthand
a few years back when doing my coaching badges in Scotland, Dembele is
in safe hands as countless academy
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the first presidential debate, on Monday. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
My first impression, after watching the opening chapter
of the Trump-Clinton debate trilogy Monday, was that really not much
would change as a result. Trump had been his rude, sputtering,
substance-free self; Clinton had proved herself again to be the diligent
studier who pretends to be amused when you know she isn’t.
Supporters of either candidate would be further persuaded, I figured, and everyone else would await round two.
By Tuesday morning, however, it was clear that the collective media had reached a different conclusion.
According to all the TV analysis, which now eerily resembles an NFL
playoff postgame show, Donald had self-destructed, Hillary had
humiliated him, and the dynamic of the race had suddenly shifted —
perhaps for good.
For
about the thousandth time this year, the headlines portrayed Trump as a
political Gulliver bound finally in ropes and about to crash to earth
once and for all.
Maybe, I thought.
Except
that then I sat in a train station in New York, the morning after, and
watched CNN as one of Clinton’s surrogates, the vice president of the
United States, rallied a crowd in Pennsylvania with his own brief indictment of Trump. And I decided I’d probably been right the first time.
Despite
Trump’s reckless and bullying campaign, Clinton still hasn’t managed to
put the race away once and for all. And if you watch Joe Biden’s riff,
which is well worth a minute and a half of your time, you might have a
window into why.
Speaking
to an audience of Drexel students, Biden immediately picked up on the
two moments during Monday’s debate that I too had thought, watching it
live in our Yahoo News studio, should have been the moments everyone
remembered.
First
Biden went after Trump for saying that having paid nothing in income
taxes made him “smart.” Drawing on a deep well of conviction, his voice
laced with disgust, Biden said Trump should tell that to the janitor in
the hall, or to his dad who worked 60 hours a week, or to the mothers
and fathers who were “breaking their necks” to send their kids in the
audience to school.
“I really mean it,” Biden said, sounding like he did. “It angers me!”
Then
he pounced on Trump for another astounding moment — the one when
Clinton accused him of profiting off the decimation of the housing
market, and Trump interrupted her to say, “That’s called business, by
the way.”
Biden
reminded the students that a lot of their parents had lost the equity
in their homes — equity that helped them send kids to college and plan
for retirement.
“That
equity was insurance,” Biden hissed. “That equity’s what gave them
peace of mind when they got into bed. And this is a guy who said, and
wants to be president, that it was good business to see the market fail!
“What in the hell is he talking about?”
Now,
compare this with Clinton’s real-time responses. I’m not being
uncharitable here, because Clinton had a very strong debate, and by any
technical standard of debating she won it running away.
But
when Trump cut in to declare himself smart for having evaded taxes,
Clinton took care to keep smiling and plunged ahead with her prepared
civics lesson. “So if he’s paid zero, that means zero for troops, zero
for vets, zero for schools or health,” she went on blandly.
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When
Trump blurted out, shockingly, that the definition of business in
America was to bet on a housing collapse — which, by the way, was very,
very bad for American business, if you haven’t heard — Clinton stayed
with her clinical points about how many people had lost their jobs and
how the Obama administration had brought us back from the abyss.
All
of which was fine — as I said, she prosecuted the case ably enough on
the merits. What was missing, though, was any kind of emotional
investment, any sense of being genuinely offended on behalf of the
people Trump insults.
You
get the feeling Biden wakes up in the morning shaking his head and
muttering to himself, infuriated by Trump’s blatant disregard for the
aspirations of worried Americans.
You
get the feeling Clinton wakes up and consults her briefing books,
concerned chiefly with avoiding anything off-key. She mentioned her
father a few times in the debate, but the lines seemed as well ironed as
the pantsuit.
Some of this is just personality, and some of it almost certainly has to do with the burdens of being a woman nominee.
The media is quick to see Clinton as shrill or hectoring; emotion of
any kind is more perilous for a woman, and no one should pretend
otherwise.
But
as Karl Rove used to say back in the day (and here he was right), you
beat your opponent not by attacking his weakness but by undermining his
strength. And emotion — ostensibly on behalf of white, working-class
Americans — is the only ballast that keeps allowing Trump to bob back up
to the surface.
What
was stunning about watching Trump Monday was his complete and
unapologetic lack of depth. Never have we seen a candidate make less
pretense of knowing anything about policy or history. When it comes to
actual governance, Trump, at this late date, is still just a guy in a
bar, tossing out platitudes he’s heard on TV.
And
yet he displayed the mastery of emotion that has gotten him this far. A
pure entertainer, he channels better than any candidate who ran this
year the cynicism of the white electorate, and not just those who are
staunchly conservative.
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Loss
of control, creeping chaos, contempt for the political class — these
are the emotions that have been building in the electorate for years
now, and Trump has brilliantly distilled and exploited them.
To
really put Trump away for good, you can’t cede the emotional ground to
him, preferring to stay at a cerebral remove. You have to compete for
it, as Biden would.
You
have to sever Trump’s emotional bond with his voters, or at least
strain it. You have to expose him as a fraud whose career belies all of
this apparent conviction about the American working class.
Imagine
if, when Trump made the boneheaded mistake of saying it was just
business to bet against the housing market, Clinton had responded with
something more like:
“No, Donald, that’s actually not business at all. That’s just the greedy, heartless speculation that real CEOs and real
patriots despise, because it destroyed American families while you got
rich and laughed. Which is why even your fellow business leaders don’t
respect you.”
That would have left Trump looking far worse than sputtering. It would have left him looking small and unworthy.
There
are a couple of more debates coming up, and I’d guess that Clinton
might win those too, on both the arguments and the atmospherics. But I’d
also guess that, without a more emotional assault on his case for the
presidency, Trump can remain viable, at least, straight through to
Election Day.
We should know by now that Trump isn’t going to just self-destruct. Lord knows he’s tried.
President Buhari removes aide who plagiarized Obama speech
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President Buhari removes aide who plagiarized Obama speech
Oil-rich
Nigeria has seen its fair share of bad news in recent months. The
largest economy in Africa has been hit with a fuel shortage, on top of
currency problems and terrorism. "A lot of things that can go wrong, are
going wrong at the same time," said London-based Nigerian accountant
Feyi Fawehinmi. While economically the country is a "complete mess",
Fawehinmi said the corruption situation in Nigeria is getting better
under President Buhari, who took office a year ago.
A lot of people aren’t seizing opportunities for success because they don’t believe they can succeed.
Even if they could do something that would make them successful, they
don’t believe they can do it. And that self-limiting belief is enough
to stop them from taking those critical first steps for success.
Here’s why: a lot of people are not aware that there’s greatness in
them. They don’t believe that they can unleash it. They don’t believe
that anyone would want the value that they have to offer. They don’t
believe that they’re worth very much.
The reason they don’t believe in their self worth is because they’ve
been programmed to believe that. They’ve been programmed to believe that
they’re not worth much. They’ve been programmed to believe that they
have to stay mediocre all their lives. They’ve been programmed to
believe that they can’t buy the big house or the Ferrari because someone
else said so. Once a person lives with a certain belief, they are going
to operate on those beliefs.
In other words, they are going to take action based on those beliefs that they have.
But the good news is:
Our actions can dramatically change if our beliefs dramatically change too.
All there is to change is beliefs.
Think about it.
Has there ever been a time when someone else (usually parents) told
you that in order to be successful, you have to go to school, get an
education, get a stable job and work hard for someone else. And maybe
one day you’ll be able to retire.
You probably believed what you were told and went to school like
everyone else, got a good education and landed got a job. But what you
don’t realise is that by doing that, you are more than likely to end up
broke by the time you’re 65.
So instead of continuously listening to the people who have got you
mediocre results today, choose to listen to a different type of person.
Listen to and learn from successful people who are producing better
results than you.
Listen to those who encourage you and tell you that you could do more
than what you ever thought was possible. Continue to listen to those
encouraging words even if you aren’t so sure if that was true. Because
remember, the human mind tends to believe the things we’ve been told. So
if you love encouraging words that people tell you, choose to believe
it. Get excited about it. Keep listening and let those positive words
re-program the quality of your beliefs. Over time, you’ll discover
yourself enhancing the quality of the actions you will take, and hence
the results you will achieve..
KIM
Kardashian is never one to shy away from flashing too much flesh and the
reality star showed off her incredible figure in a skimpy gold bikini
while on holiday in Miami.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star cooled off from the hot sun by taking a dip in the pool and made sure everyone got an eyeful in her barely-there two-piece.
She gave quite the view of her pert derriere as she sported Brazilian
style thong bikini bottoms that showed off her most-famous asset.
Kim flashed her pert derriere as she grabbed her daughter
The brunette beauty left little to the imagination as she relaxed by
the pool with her three-year-old daughter North and son Saint, nine
months.
In the new pictures, Kim, 35, showed off her tiny waist and gym-honed figure as she watched her two children splash in the pool.
Kim didn’t seem shy about flashing her famous bum in the tiny swimsuit as she hoisted North out of the pool.
In another picture, the reality star turned tech mogul, looked
dangerously close to having a wardrobe malfunction and flashing her
nipple as she wrapped a towel around her waist.
After reality star Kim Kardashian ditches her bra for a WEEK, former page 3 girl nips out for day in London
IN-KY-REDIBLE!
Kylie Jenner continues to give big sis Kim a run for her money as she poses in sheer lingerie
A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
Kanye West surprises Kim Kardashian with a second engagement ring
'That's karma for you'
Jennifer Aniston's joy on ex Brad Pitt's divorce 12 years after he left her for Angelina Jolie
PITT-ER PATTER
Actress accused of having affair with Brad Pitt is 'pregnant with second child'
THE KISS!
Brad passionately kisses Marion amid reports she’s ‘devastated’ to be dragged into divorce over affair claims
jolie JEALOUS
Angelina Jolie was 'jealous' of Marion Cotillard and 'refused to talk to her' on set of Brad's new film
'HE CROSSED A LINE'
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split came after 'one shocking
incident' - and Brad 'only found out about divorce ON THE DAY she filed'
'I can't do this any more'
How devastated Angelina Jolie told Brad Pitt she wanted to leave him
In his new track called Sauce, the musician boasts about having sex with members of the famous reality TV show brood.
In the track he quips: “I used to f**k bitches that Usher Raymond passed off.
“Then I f**ked three Kardashians hold that thought.”
He previously sung about bedding three Kardashian sisters
Never one not to ask awkward questions, opinionated chat show host
Wendy Williams grilled him about his exploits and asked him: “Have you slept with Khloe?”
Her question was met with silence from the chart star before Wendy
raised her eyebrows and highlighted how, at the time, The Game was mates
with Khloe’s now ex-husband Lamar Odom.
He gave a silent response after Wendy quizzed him about whether he slept with Khloe
Continuing her investigative mission she directly asked him if he had bedded mum-of-two Kim – who is now married to Kanye West.
Though he did mutter: “You know what? I’ll tell you this.
“Kanye is a really good friend of mine and they got really, really beautiful kids and I don’t want to disrespect their family.”
Host Wendy grilled him about the lyrics to his track Sauce
Yet he uttered a resounding “no” after Wendy said: “You got down with Khloe. Now, did you get down with Kourtney?”
Wendy didn’t let things lie and her digging paid off after he revealed his third conquest was Blac Chyna.
His comments prompted squeals of surprise from the crowd when he said: “No there was three. It gets a little tricky.
“Chyna ain’t married yet!”
The Game admitted Blac Chyna was involved
It is unclear when The Game’s supposed antics took place but he released the track earlier this year. Blac, real name Angela Renee White, is expecting reality star Rob Kardashian’s baby any time now.
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